2. The plot introduced in the first paragraph was that Jem broke his elbow when he was almost thirteen. The story has a first person point of view, with narration by Scout. She tells what she saw, heard, and felt at the time, as well as interjecting her retrospective considerations on what happened. This has charmed millions of readers because of the juxtaposition of her young and naïve self as opposed to her now experienced and cynical personality. The story has a …show more content…
"Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings." (pg 3)
b. "Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself" (pg 6)
c. "nothing to buy and no money to buy it with…” (pg 5)
d. "Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town... There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy, and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County." (pg 5)
e. “The Radley Place was inhabited by an unknown entity the mere description of whom was enough to make us behave for days on end…” (pg 6)
7. Miss Caroline, Scout’s new teacher, is upset that Atticus has already taught her how to read, and tells her to stop doing it. This makes her fear losing her reading time, and makes this statement. This relates to life in general because people never realize the value of things until they are threatened to be, or are, taken away.
8. The students in Scout’s class have worked in the fields ever since they were born, supposedly, and almost all had failed the grade and were repeating it