Chapter 12
Why did Scout say Jem was being difficult to live with
He was being moody and inconsistent. He's “becoming a man”
Why did Aunt Alexandra stay with the children for awhile?
To give them feminine influence
What did Aunt Alexandra not allow Scout to do
She didn't let Scout go to Calpurnia's house
Who arrived at Atticus's house a week after Dill came?
A group of men lead by the sheriff
Who didn’t attend the trial and why
Miss Maudie refuses to go, saying that watching someone on trial for his life is like attending a Roman carnival
Why did Calpurnia bring Jem and Scout to church
Because the last time they went they were left there by themselves and locked a girl in the furnace room to burn
How do we know that Aunt Alexandra is planning to stay in Maycomb and is not planning on leaving anytime soon?
She joined and became secretary of many different clubs, and she became very close to the people in Maycomb.
What did scout find under her bed?
Dill was under the bed
What happens when Jem tells Atticus about Dill
“rose and broke the remaining code of our childhood” by telling Atticus
Where does Jem, Scout and Dill sit, during the trial, and why.
They sat where the black people sit, because they arrived late.
Why was Lula so offended that Calpurnia brought her and her kids to church
Because She brought white people to the black church and black people aren't allowed in a white church
Why did Scout lie about being happy that Aunt Alexandra is staying?
Because… “one must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can’t do anything about it
Why did Dill run away from home?
His parents did not pay enough attention to him
Why is it not bad that jem is considered a “traitor”
It marks Jems maturation toward adulthood
Why did the kids have to sneak into the trial ?
Atticus didn’t want them to attend
Because She brought white people to the black church and black people aren't allowed in a white church
It was bought with the first earnings of freed slaves
What’s Aunt Alexandra’s definition of a “fine folk” and who does Jem thinks fits that definition?
‘...that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was” Jem thinks the Ewells are a fine family.
Who does Scout tell about where Dill is?
Dill’s aunt, Miss Rachel
Why did the men show up and make the children leave?
To talk about the trial
Why did Atticus says that Mr. Cunningham is still his friend to Scout?
Atticus says that Mr. Cunningham is a good man..”he just has his blind spots along with the rest of us.”
Why did they sing in the church?
They can’t read and write and also they don’t have money for it.
Why was Aunt alexandra embarrassed by scout at the missionary society meeting?
When Scout came into the room she was covered in mud and she doesn't know who her relatives are
How did Dill get to Scout and Jems house?
By train then covered the rest by foot
What does Walter realize
He’s a family man
What did the white women Mr. Dolphus’s was engaged to kill herself?
They say that she killed herself because she found out that Dr. Dolphus was cheating on her with a