Who am I?
My arm was caught in a cotton gin
Tom Robinson
“Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
Atticus
Who wrote the novel?
Harper Lee
indirect reference to another work/text that the audience would be familiar with
shoutout
I tried to kill Scout and Jem. Who am I?
Bob Ewell
I have a chiffarobe and I broke a Southern social code that I tried to cover up
Mayella Ewell
Naw, Jem, I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
Scout
Atticus hopes Jem and Scout can get through the trial without catching "Maycomb’s usual disease" which is ...
When and where is the novel set
Maycomb, AL in the Great Depression
I broke my arm. Who am I?
Jem
I asked Atticus to defend Tom Robinson
Judge Taylor
Don’t matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house’s yo’ comp’ny, and don’t you let me catch you remarkin’ on their ways like you was so high and mighty!
Calpurnia
What is Bob Ewells motivation in the novel
Revenge
Genre is organized by what 3 elements?
Style, form, theme
I love to gossip. Who am I?
Miss Stephanie
To protect Boo Radley, I lied about physical evidence I found
Heck Tate
“Yes, sir, I understand...Mr. Tate was right...it’d be sort of like shootin’ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?”
Scout
How does Mayella respond to Atticus' polite manner toward her?
She is offended; she thinks he is making of her
Who were the Scottsboro Boys?
group of 7 African American men who were wrongly convicted of rape by two prostitutes while riding the rails; not given a fair trial
novel is inspired by this real life trial
Coming of age novels are also known as
Bildungsroman (formation novel)
I gave Jem a white camellia in a box
Ms. DuBose
sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of—oh, of your father."
Miss Maudie
Why was Boo shut away in his home according to Miss Rachael?
He committed a crime as a teen
Describe the relationship between Jim Crow and Plessy vs. Ferguson?
Jim Crow segregation laws were made possible by the Plessy v. Ferguson decision
Name some of the common themes explored in Southern Gothic novels
freakishness, violence, imprisonment, supernatural, the grotesque