Plot
What happens when Jem goes back for his pants in the Radley yard?
He finds them sewn up.
The housekeeper for Atticus, Jem, and Scout
Calpurnia
"'It couldn't be worse, Jack. The only thing we've got is a black man's word against the Ewells''" (117).
Example: Racism causes injustice.
"'Good evening, Mrs. Dubose! You look like a picture this evening'" (133).
Simile
Let the storm rage on...
the cold never bothered me anyway
- "Let it Go," Frozen
Why are people insulting Atticus in front of Scout and Jem?
The court case; racism.
Atticus's sister
Alexandra
"'[I]f you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-'" (39).
Example: Do not judge others, as everyone has lived different lives.
"Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself" (6).
Allusion (FDR Speech)
Let's get down to business...
to defeat the Huns.
- "I'll Make a Man Out of You," Mulan
What happens to Scout during Miss Maudie's house fire?
Boo Radley wraps a blanket around her.
The black man Atticus is defending
Tom Robinson
"According to Miss Stephanie, Boo was sitting in the livingroom cutting some items from The Maycomb Tribune to paste in his scrapbook. His father entered the room. As Mr. Radley passed by, Boo drove the scissors into his parent's leg, pulled them out, Boo drove the scissors into his parent's leg, pulled them out, wiped them on his pants, and resumed his activities" (13).
Example: Gossip can damage other people's reputation.
"The old house was the same, droopy and sick..." (19)
Personification
"It was our wedding day
(it was our wedding day)
We were getting ready and..."
there wasn't a cloud in the sky
- "We Don't Talk About Bruno," Encanto
Why do the kids read to Mrs. Dubose?
1) Jem slashed her flowers.
2) She needed a distraction when working to break her morphine addiction.
The boy who refuses to take the quarter from Miss Caroline because his family does not take anything they cannot pay back
Walter Cunningham
"'Forgot to tell you the other day that besides playing the Jew's Harp, Atticus Finch was the deadest shot in Maycomb County in his time'" (129).
Example: People may surprise you.
"By the time Mrs. Cat called the drugstore for an order of chocolate malted mice the class was wriggling like a bucketful of catawba worms" (21-22).
Simile
Just a spoonful of sugar...
helps the medicine go down.
- "A Spoonful of Sugar," Mary Poppins
Name all of the things the kids find in the knothole of the Radleys' tree.
Gum, two pennies, spelling bee medal, pocket watch, knife, twine, soap dolls
The family going against Tom Robinson in court
The Ewells
"'Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird'" (119).
Example: Innocence does not deserved to be harmed.
"'You are too young to understand it...but sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of–oh, of your father'" (60).
Symbolism/Metaphor
When's it my turn? Wouldn't I love...
love to explore that shore up above?
- "Part of Your World," The Little Mermaid