To Kill a Mockingbird Study guide answers Chapters 1-3 1. Atticus Finch is a lawyer and the father of Jean Louise (Scout) and Jem Finch. Scout Finch is the narrator of the story. Jem is the brother of Jean Louise. Maycomb is the city and county where the story takes place. Calpurnia is the maid and nanny of the Finch kids. Dill is the kid that comes to Maycomb every summer and plays with the Finches. The Radley place it the house where the Radleys live. Stephanie Crawford knows everything about
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Chapter 1 In this chapter the Finch family is introduced by Scout. Simon Finch established a homestead‚ ‘Finch’s Landing’‚ on the banks of the Alabama River. Both of his sons ended up leaving the landing as‚ Atticus‚ studied law; the other had studied medicine. Their sister Alexandra stayed and took care of the landing with her husband. Atticus moves to Maycomb‚ Alabama where he raises his two children‚ Scout and Jem. These children have always been fascinated by the Radley house because of the
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SETTING To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in a made-up town called Maycomb County. Maycomb is a small town that is placed in southern Alabama and is isolated pretty well in the middle of nowhere. Not a lot of people move in and not a lot of people move out of town. The date in which To Kill a Mockingbird is somewhere in the early to middle 1930s. This is in the midst of the Great Depression and is nearly 70 years since the abolishment of slavery. PLOT Atticus Finch‚ along with the help of
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To Kill A Mockingbird‚ opens with a quaint look on of the hometown of the main protagonist‚ Scout‚ and his family and friends. Scout is a six year-old girl‚ she and her brother‚ Jem‚ live with her father‚ Atticus. Scout has two close friends‚ Calpurnia‚ being a cook‚ and a short naive boy named‚ Dill; of whom Jem and Scout met during one summer. Scout reveals through first person narrative of some social taboo’s in‚ Maycomb; Scout’s residing township: Doors or windows left closed or ajar
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To Kill a Mockingbird Questions Chapters 1-3 1. Dill‚ Jem‚ Simon Finch‚ Atticus‚ John Hale Finch‚ Calpurnia‚ Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose‚ Mr. Radley‚ Boo Radley‚ Mrs. Radley‚ Mr. Conner‚ Miss Stephanie Crawford‚ Nathan Radley‚ and Scout are introduced in the first chapter. 2. This book is set in the Great Depression (1929-1939). Harper Lee used the Scottsboro Case (1931) as the spark to write the trial sequences in the novel. 3. Scout narrates in the first person‚ telling what she saw
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1. In To Kill A MockingBird‚ Harper Lee describes the school setting and Southern culture to better understand the story and its plot. Lee describes deep divisions between the people in Maycomb‚ divisions that the everyone in the town is aware of. For example‚ when Scout’s first grade teacher‚ Miss Caroline‚ is new to Maycomb and does not know of these divisions‚ she is quickly showed them. She tells Burris Ewell after a “cootie” comes out of his hair‚ to go home and wash his hair‚ but is puzzled
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Chapter 1: * Ancestors came here by river * Each generation after the first of Simon lived and grew cotton with black slaves until the father Atticus decided to study law * Atticus invested his money in his brother john who studied law when it wasn’t worth growing cotton * Extremely hot weather is what the girl first remembers of the town * Lived on the main street in town Atticus‚ jem‚ the girl and the cook Calpurnia (coloured woman) * The girl’s mother died when she was 2
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So far I have read chapters one‚ two‚ and three in “To Kill A Mockingbird.” They have been quite interesting‚ and a lot has happened in these chapters. In this journal I will be predicting on if the kids will meet Boo Radley‚ and also evaluating on the Ewells. While I was reading the book I started to think that by the way they would talk about Boo Radley they would not be meeting him. There is an old story in the Maycomb town that Boo Radley was locked away for a good amount of time. The story
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SUMMARY: Tom Jones receives two letters in this chapter. The first one is from Lady Bellaston. She tells him she should despise him for his behavior at her house and for loving a country girl. She also warns him that she can hate as passionately as she can love. While Mr Jones was thinking how to reply to the letter‚ Lady Bellaston walks in with her dress in disarray. She asks if he has betrayed her‚ and he promises her on his knees that he has not. Suddenly Partridge announces Mrs. Honour’s arrival
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Haley Sheridan March 24‚ 2013 To Kill a Mockingbird Essay Essay 7 When an author divides a novel into two separate parts he or she does it purposely to show either a large dynamic change in a character or little to no change at all. Harper Lee‚ author of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ separates her novel into Part I and Part II. Part I is more of an overview that foreshadows what is to come later on; she lets the reader get to know the characters and the setting of the book
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