To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird author, Harper Lee, receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from George W Bush in 2007. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Chapters 1-2 Annotation Focus Point of view Shifts between formal/informal diction Allusions – find at least two Character Development: Scout Jem Dill Atticus Calpurnia Boo Radley

Chapters 3-5 Character Development: Miss Caroline Cunninghams Ewells Miss Maudie

Chapters 6-8 Changing perception of Boo Radley Character Development: Jem – maturing Miss Maudie

Allusion to Rosetta Stone The Rosetta Stone is an ancient Egyptian granodiorite stele inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis in 196 BC on behalf of King Ptolemy V. The decree appears in three scripts: the upper text is Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the middle portion Demotic script, and the lowest Ancient Greek. Because it presents essentially the same text in all three scripts (with some minor differences between them), it provided the key to the modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs. Rosetta Stone was a key to understanding ancient languages. This This Rosetta Stone is an allusion to that Rosetta Stone.

Chapters 9-10 Lessons the children learn from adult behavior Character Development: Atticus

Chapter 11-13 Bravery/courage Role of women Class system Prejudice – race, gender, class Character Development: Calpurnia Aunt Alexandra

Chapters 14-20 Justice v. injustice Jem’s growing maturity - contrast with Scout and Dill Character Development: Bob Ewell Mayella Ewell Tom Robinson

Chapters 21-27 Tone – awaiting the verdict Prejudice in all forms (race, gender, class) Scout’s maturation in context of Boo Radley Mockingbird motif Foreshadowing Character Development: Jem Miss Maudie Scout

Chapters 28-31 Point of view Tone Mockingbird motif Loss of innocence/growing up Character development: Atticus Boo Radley

Type II Journal – Characterization Chapters 1-8 Scout Calpurnia Jem Boo Radley Dill Miss Caroline Atticus Miss Maudie