To Kill a Mockingbird Notes( By Mark F.)

To Kill a Mockingbird Notes( By Mark F.)

1. Chapters 1-2

   • narrator
     • The story is told by Jean Louise Finch, a little girl who goes by the nickname Scout.
       • Scout begins by recounting her family's history before going into detail about how her older brother, Jem, broke his arm.
   • Leaving
     • Dill leaves Maycomb to return to the town of Meridian
   • Dill
     • Dill is enamored with Boo and tries to persuade the Finch children to assist him in luring this Maycomb phantom outside.
   • Walter Cunningham
     • He is a boy in Scout’s class. He hasn't brought any food with him so Miss Caroline hands him a quarter and tells him he can pay her back the next day. Walter comes from a huge and impoverished family.
   • School
     • Scout, on the other hand, is getting ready to start school for the first time
       • an event she has been looking forward to for a long time.

2. Chapters 5-6

   • Friendship
     • Scout begins to feel left out of Jem and Dill's friendship as they get closer. As a result, she begins to spend a significant amount of time with one of their neighbors.
   • Miss Maudie Atkinson
     • She is a widow with a passion for gardening and cake baking who was Atticus' brother's childhood friend
   • Ice cream
     • Jem and Dill intend to send Boo a note inviting him to join them for ice cream.
   • Sneaking
     • the kids plan to sneak over to the Radley Place and peek in through a loose shutter.
       • The hear a shotgun go off
   • Neighborhood
     • When the kids get home, they run into a group of adults from the neighborhood.
       • They are there because Mr. Nathan Radley shot at “a Negro” in his yard

3. Chapters 7-8

   • Pants
     • Jem informs Scout that the pants were miraculously patched and put neatly over the fence after school started for the year.
       • Stuff like this keep happening over the days
   • School
     • Scout is just as unhappy in second grade as she was in first, but Jem assures her that things will improve as she progresses.
   • Snow
     • Maycomb experiences its first true winter in years.
       • Jem and Scout attempt to transport as much snow as possible from Miss Maudie's yard to their own. They make a little figure out of mud and cover it with snow because there isn't enough snow to make a proper snowman.
   • Mr. Avery
     • an unpleasant man who lives down the street.

4. Chapters 9-10

   • Fight
     • Scout nearly causes a fight with a classmate called Cecil Jacobs at school
       • after Cecil declares that Atticus defends black people using an awful racial epithet.
   • Case
     • Atticus has been asked to defend Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a white woman.
       • It is a case he cannot hope to win, but Atticus tells Scout that he must argue it to uphold his sense of justice and self-respect.
   • Chrismas
     • Atticus' brother, Jack, comes to stay with Atticus for a week during the Christmas holidays.
   • Fathers
     • Scout claims that Atticus is older than most of the other Maycomb fathers.

5. Chapters 3-4

   • Dirt
     • Scout smears mud on Walter's nose for getting her into trouble during lunch.
   • Burris Ewell
     • Burris Ewell is the young man, and he belongs to the poor Ewell clan.
       • Miss Caroline is scared when a little bug crawls out of his hair at school.
   • Tinfoil
     • Scout visits the Radley Place after school one day and notices some tinfoil hanging out of a knothole in one of the Radleys' oak trees.
   • Summer
     • Dill returns to Maycomb after the school year finishes. He, Scout, and Jem pick off where they left off with their games.
       • They start by rolling each other inside an old tire.

6. Chapters 11-12

   • Bushes
     • Jem grabs Scout's baton and decimates Mrs. Dubose's camellia bushes.
       • Jem's punishment is to read to her every day for a month.
   • Died
     • Mrs. Dubose dies just over a month after Jem's penance is completed.
       • Jem learns from Atticus that she was addicted to morphine and that the reading was part of her successful effort to overcome her addiction.
   • Demand
     • Jem has reached the age of twelve and begins to demand that Scout "stop bothering him" and "act more like a girl."
       • Scout becomes agitated and eagerly anticipates Dill's arrival in the summer which doesn't happen
   • Church
     • Calpurnia decides to take the children to her church on sunday

7. Chapters 13-14

   • Spend time
     • Aunt Alexandra argues that she should spend some time with the kids to provide them with a "feminine influence."
   • Debate
     • Alexandra is incredibly proud of the Finches and spends a lot of time debating the differences between the Maycomb families.
   • whispers
     • When Jem and Scout arrive to town, they are the subject of murmurs and stares because of Tom Robinson's approaching trial and Atticus' role as his defense lawyer.
   • get rid of
     • Aunt Alexandra tries to convince Atticus to get rid of Calpurnia
       • saying that they no longer need her.

8. Chapter 15-16

   • A Group
     • A group of men led by the sheriff, Heck Tate, arrive at Atticus' house in the evening a week after Dill's arrival.
   • Relocated
     • Tom Robinson is being relocated to the Maycomb jail as his trial approaches
   • Arguing
     • Jem tells Scout that Alexandra and Atticus have been arguing about the trial
   • Cars
     • four cars drive into Maycomb and park near the jail.
       • When a group of men emerges, one of them orders Atticus to move away from the jailhouse door, he refuses
   • Trial
     • The trial will commence the next day. The town is flooded with visitors from all across the county.
   • Lunch
     • The vast crowd camps in the town square to eat lunch

9. Chapter 17-18

   • prosecutor
     • Mr. Gilmer, the prosecutor, interrogates Heck Tate.
   • Children
     • Bob Ewell and his children live in a tin-roofed home with a garbage-filled yard behind the local dump
       • Nobody knows how many kids Ewell has.
   • Trial
     • The trial is still going on, and the entire town is watching it.
       • Mayella is the next witness to take the stand.
   • Testimony
     • Mayella's testimony is then scrutinized by Atticus, who wonders why she didn't give a stronger defense.

10. Chapter 19-20

    • Trial
      • Tom said that he drove past the Ewell house every day on his way to work and that Mayella frequently requested him to help her with housework.
    • Trial
      • Tom's white boss, Link Deas, gets up and states that in his eight years of employment, he has never had any problems with Tom.
    • Cry
      • Dill begins to cry, and Scout takes him out of the courtroom.
    • Paper sack
      • Mr. Dolphus Raymond admits to drinking from a paper sack.
        • He offers Dill a drink in a paper bag and commiserates with him.
    • Conclution
      • Atticus is giving his concluding statements when Dill and Scout return to the courtroom.
        • He's gone over all of the evidence and is now making a personal plea to the jurors.

11. Chapter 25-26

    • Bug
      • Scout discovers a roly-poly bug while on the back patio with Jem.
        • When Jem warns her not to, she is about to bash it with her hand.
    • Writing
      • Mr. Underwood writes a lengthy editorial denouncing Tom's killing as a homicide committed against an innocent man.
    • New year
      • As school begins, Jem and Scout return to passing by the Radley Place on a daily basis.
        • They are no longer afraid of the house as they got older
    • Class
      • Miss Gates gives a lesson to the class about the evils of Hitler's anti-Semitism and the merits of equality and democracy.

12. Chapters 21-22

    • Missing
      • Calpurnia gives Atticus a message informing him that his children have not returned from school since lunchtime.
    • Courthouse
      • As Atticus walks out of the courtroom, everyone in the "colored" balcony rises in a respectful gesture.
    • Cry
      • Jem sobs that night, screaming against the verdict's injustice.
    • Gossiping
      • Crawford is gossiping with Mr. Avery and Miss Maudie, and she tries to question Jem and Scout about the trial. Miss

13. Chapter 23-24

    • Threats
      • Except for Atticus, Bob Ewell's threats are concerning.
        • Atticus tells Jem and Scout that Ewell needed vengeance because he made him look like a fool.
    • Debate
      • Jem and Atticus debate the morality of putting men to death for rape.
        • The discussion then shifts to jury trials and how all twelve men could have found Tom guilty.
    • Tea party
      • Aunt Alexandra hosts a tea party for her missionary circle. Scout, dressed up, assists Calpurnia in bringing in the tea.
    • Shot
      • Tom Robinson attempted to escape and was shot seventeen times.

14. 27-28

    • Job
      • Bob Ewell takes a job with the WPA, a Depression-era job program, but loses it after a few days.
        • He blames Atticus for “getting” his job
    • Home Alone
      • Judge Taylor is alone at home when he hears someone lurking around;
        • when he investigates, he discovers his screen door open and a shadow slithering away.
    • Halloween
      • That Halloween, the town sponsors a party and play at the school
    • Dark
      • On the way to school, it gets dark, and Cecil Jacobs leaps out, startling Jem and Scout.
    • Sounds
      • Jem hears things behind him and Scout on his way home. They assume it's Cecil Jacobs trying to scare them again, but they get no response when they scream out to him.
    • Harmed
      • Atticus dials Heck Tate's number and informs him that his children have been harmed.

15. 31- done

    • Home
      • Scout walks Boo home after taking him upstairs to say goodnight to Jem.
        • He enters his home, and she does not see him again.

16. 29-30

    • Knife
      • Heck Tate shows Scout her outfit, which has a scratch on it where a knife sliced and was stopped by the wire, as Scout tells everyone what she heard and witnessed.
    • Man
      • He is pale, with torn clothes and a thin, pinched face and colorless eyes. She realizes that it is Boo Radley.
        • It was Boo Radley
    • Dead
      • Heck insists on calling the death an accident

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