To kill a mocking bird
To Kill a Mockingbird Chapter 1 Scout (Jean Louise) Finch narrates the story, beginning with a brief family history. Simon Finch, a fur-trapping apothecary journeyed from England to Alabama, establishing the family which made its living from cotton on Simon"s homestead, Finch"s Landing. The Civil War left the family only its land, which was the source of family incomes until the twentieth century when Atticus Finch (Scout"s father) and his brother Jack left the land for careers in law and medicine. Atticus settled in Maycomb, the county seat of Maycomb County, with a reasonably successful law practice about twenty miles from Finch"s Landing, where his sister Alexandra Scout describes Maycomb as a lethargic, hot, colorless, narrow- minded town where she lives with her father, brother Jem (four years older) and the family cook, Calpurnia. Scout"s mother had When she was five, Scout and Jem found a new friend, Dill Harris ("Goin" on seven"), next door in Miss Rachel Haverford"s collard patch. Dill was Miss Rachel"s nephew from Meridian, Mississippi,
Jem Again we see a contrast in the attitude of the two children. Uncle Jack had not listened to her side of the story. He is also an upright man who is trying to raise his children properly. "Maycomb"s usual disease," as Atticus calls it, begins to show itself. For example, Scout could not eat the gum because anything found on the Radley place might be poison. Chapter 8 Usually Maycomb had hot summers and mild winters. Comment These two chapters can be considered together for they contain the story of Scout"s first experience away from her narrow world at home. Because of this unexpected cold weather, everyone had fires going at home. They write a note which they intend to put into the tree. The two of them would sit on Miss Maudie"s porch and talk. When snow fell one night, Scout thought it was the end of the world. One of the stories about him was that he had stabbed his father with a pair of scissors, so the children began to act this out every day. When they conclude that it is probably Boo Radley who is putting them there, they do the logical thing. He ran up, touched the house, and ran back.
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Miss Caroline,
Burris Ewell,
Miss Maudie,
Atticus Finch,
Jem Dill,
Miss Maudies,
Tree Scout,
Miss Lee,
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miss caroline,
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miss maudie,
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atticus finch,
scout jem dill,
negro tom robinson,
grade bad worse,
gum found radley,
afraid nathan boo,
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