Maycomb's usual disease is racism and prejudice. Atticus coined the phrase, and he hopes that Jem and Scout will come to him with their questions and follow his lead. Then when day when he was 33 years old, Boo Radley stabbed his father in the leg with scissors. He was arrested, sent to jail, and once again released to the Radley's custody—and never seen again. Boo Radley's story is a tragic one. Aunt Alexandra is the formidable sister of Atticus Finch.
Scout and Aunt Alexandra butt heads after she moves into the Finch house in the town of Maycomb. Aunt Alexandra does her best to convert Scout from her boyish ways and enforces ladylike behavior and attire.
Calpurnia, who is older that Atticus, tells Scout that she made her son learn to read even though there was no school for him to go to because of his skin color.
She taught him to read the same way that she learned to read —from the Bible. Jem is nine years old at the beginning of the novel. Within a few pages of the beginning of Chapter One, Scout begins to reveal details that occured when she was "almost six and Jem was nearly ten. When the novel first begins, Jem is ten years old.
Raymond tells the children that he pretends to be a drunk to provide the other white people with an explanation for his lifestyle, when, in fact, he simply prefers black people to whites. When Dill and Scout return to the courtroom, Atticus is making his closing remarks. It's not exactly clear why Aunt Alexandra suddenly decides to come and live with Atticus and his family in Maycomb.
She leaves her husband behind at Finch's Landing, and tells Scout that she plans "to stay with you for a while. Scout's first crime was that she could already read. Scout said it was Calpurnia's fault that she could write.
This also caused trouble for her at school. Miss Caroline asked Scout to tell her father to stop teaching her. Atticus's brother, John Hale Finch, seems to the children to be everything Atticus is not. The kids call him Uncle Jack , and he is the life of the party, much like you might expect a single younger brother to be. He is a doctor, and he is also a lot of fun.
He is the one who gives Jem and Scout what Atticus will not. Scout and Jem's surprise helps readers understand this unfairness at a deeper level. Remarkably, Calpurnia doesn't lament the African-American position in Maycomb society or try to explain prejudice to the children. Instead, she simply answers their questions, and lets them figure out the rest. When Scout asks to visit Calpurnia at her house, Calpurnia doesn't go into a dissertation about how white children generally don't spend time in black people's homes, she just smiles and says, "'We'd be glad to have you.
Ironically, Aunt Alexandra holds many of Maycomb's prejudices against blacks. She has an African-American chauffeur, and says "'Put my bag in the front bedroom, Calpurnia'" before she even says hello. The fact that Jem insists on taking the bag shows both maturity and lack of prejudice on his part. Still, Aunt Alexandra's various prejudices cause Scout to comment "There was indeed a caste system in Maycomb, but to my mind it worked this way: the older citizens, the present generation of people who had lived side by side for years and years, were utterly predictable to one another.
Aunt Alexandra claims that the main reason she's come to live with them is to provide "some feminine influence" for Scout. Of course, Scout considers Calpurnia to be a sufficient feminine influence. Aunt Alexandra would be quick to say that the finest black woman can't ever be a proper role model for a white child. In these chapters, Scout confronts the issue of femininity through others in her household, as well:.
Jem and Atticus: In a major and unexpected shift, Jem stops chastising Scout for acting like a girl, and instead says, "'It's time you started bein' a girl and acting right! Later, Atticus further confuses the children by deeming that they need to start "'behaving like the little lady and gentleman that you are.
He then tries to make light of the whole situation to cheer the children up. Curiously, Scout recognizes that "Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work. Calpurnia: With much more gentle tactics than Aunt Alexandra, Calpurnia shows Scout a great deal about femininity. Scout absorbs Calpurnia's lessons willingly because Calpurnia doesn't try to force any standards on her.
Scout simply starts joining her in the kitchen as Jem enters adolescence and she remarks "by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.
Lee shows the juxtaposition between Calpurnia and Aunt Alexandra by the fact that Alexandra won't let Calpurnia cook for her lady friends. Ironically, though, at Calpurnia's church, Scout is "confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine. A tall and slender man of almost forty-three years of age, Sheriff Tate is a lifelong resident of Maycomb county.
What did Cal rub Walters nose? Scout rubbed Walter Cunningham's nose in the dirt because she blames him for getting in trouble on her first day at school. When Scout's teacher, Miss Caroline, offers to give Walter lunch money because he doesn't have any, Scout explains that he won't be able to pay her back, and that he won't take the money.
How do you kill a mocking? Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman.
What is the climax of To Kill a Mockingbird? The climax of a story is the decisive moment when all of the conflicts are finalized. Atticus thinks Jem killed Mr. Ewell, but Sheriff Tate says it was Boo Radley. How did Bob Ewell die? Bob Ewell died from a knife wound. The cause of death given by Heck Tate was that Bob Ewell fell on his knife.
At first, Atticus thought that Jem had stabbed Bob Ewell. Tate informed him that it was Boo Radley who killed Bob Ewell. How old is Atticus Finch? Jem and Scout, Atticus's children, are. Who are the Cunninghams? The Cunningham Family. The Cunninghams are one of the poorest family's in Maycomb. They don't accept anything from people, if they can't return it. They are a very poor family and we learn about the Cunninghams through mainly Walter Cunnigham.
How does Reverend Sykes help the?
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