2. Harper Lee In To Kill a Mockingbird, she brought to life a small Southern town and its Depression-era inhabitants Born on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama, to Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Finch Lee, Harper grew up during the Depression. Her sister and her father, the model for Atticus Finch, practiced law there. While the plot of To Kill a Mockingbird reflects her own childhood in Alabama, her development of the novel grew from her law school training with its emphasis on logical thinking.

3. The Scottsboro Incident Nine young black men were accused of raping two white women near Scottsboro, Alabama, and a series of lengthy trials saw a number of them sentenced to long prison terms. Later, it was revealed that these women were lying. This story was the seed for the book that Lee began to write in the 1950s, after obtaining a law degree and moving to New York to become a writer. To Kill a Mockingbird was completed in 1957, and published, with revisions, in 1960, just before the peak of the civil rights movement.

6. To Kill A Mockingbird Narrator: Scout Finch Point of View: Scout’s Protagonist: Scout Finch Antagonist: several characters and forces act antagonistically throughout the novel, including Bob Ewell, Scout’s teachers at school, and the racial prejudice of much of Maycomb’s white community Setting (time): 1933-1935 Setting (place): The fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama

7. Tone & Mood Childlike Humorous Nostalgic Innocent As the novel progresses, increasingly dark, foreboding, and critical of society To Kill a Mockingbird

8. Symbolism The title of this novel has very little connection to the plot, but it carries a great deal of symbolic weight in the book. In this story of innocence destroyed by evil, the “mockingbird” comes to represent the idea of innocence. Thus to kill a mocking bird is to destroy innocence. To Kill a Mockingbird

9. Meet Scout Jean Louise “Scout” Finch Narrator and protagonist of story Lives w/ father, brother and black cook in Maycomb A tomboy, with a strong intelligence, a combative streak, and a basic faith in the goodness of the people in her community

10. Meet Atticus Scout’s father, a lawyer in Maycomb, and a descendent of an old local family Widower w/ a dry sense of humor, he has raised his children alone and instilled in them his own strong sense of morality and justice Committed to equality between races, he agrees to defend a black man charged with raping a white woman

11. Meet Jem Scout’s brother, he is her constant playmate at the beginning of the story Remains a close protector and companion to Scout throughout the novel His ideals are shaken badly by evil and injustice he perceives during the trial of Tom Robinson

12. Meet Dill Charles Baker Harris Summer neighbor Is diminutive, confident boy with an active imagination He is the leader in their games of make-believe He becomes fascinated with Boo Radley

13. Meet Boo Radley Arthur “Boo” Radley A recluse who never sets foot outside his house Dominates the imagination of the Finch children He befriends them from a distance with presents and acts of kindness, but appears in the flesh only once, to save their lives

14. Meet Tom Robinson The black sharecropper accused of rape

15. Meet Calpurnia The family’s black cook She is a stern disciplinarian and the children’s bridge between the white world and her own black community

16. Meet Bob Ewell A drunken, permanently unemployed member of Maycomb’s poorest family Accuses Tom Robinson of raping his daughter

17. Meet Mayella Ewell Bob Ewell’s abused, lonely, unhappy daughter She makes advances to Tom Robinson and then says he raped her to cover her shame

20. Chapter 1 Vocabulary Assuaged (3) Taciturn (5) Dictum (4) Repertoire (10) Malevolent (10) Vapid (10) Flivver (12) Predilection (11) Nocturnal (10) Nebulous (14) Stealthy (10) Foray (18) Assuaged: calmed Taciturn: often silent Dictum: authoritative statement Repertoire: list of plays that performers are prepared to perform Malevolent: spiteful; desiring to harm others Vapid: not lively; without spirit Flivver: a small, cheap automobile Predilection: in favor of something Nocturnal: occurring at night Nebulous: unclear Stealthy: sneaky Foray: sudden attack; quick raid

21. Chapter 2 Vocabulary Condescended (20) Indigenous (21) Entailment (27) Compelled (23) Vexations (27) Sojourn (29) Condescended: an air of superiority; patronizing attitude Indigenous: native to a particular region Entailment: restriction of property by limiting inheritance Compelled: driven; forced Vexations: annoyances; irritations Sojourn: dwell in a place temporarily

22. Chapter 3 Vocabulary Cootie (34) Contemptuous (36) Contentious (36) Fractious (38) Concessions (41) Amiable (39) Fraught (37) Cootie: slang for head louse (lice) Contemptuous: scornful; despising Contentious: belligerent; hostile; ready to fight Fractious: troublesome; quarrelsome Concessions: something yielded or given into without quarrel Amiable: friendly; agreeable Fraught: filled with (danger, fear, etc…)

23. Chapter 4 Vocabulary Auspicious (43) Arbitrated (49) Mortifying (50) Gothic (52) Auspicious: propitious; favorable Arbitrated: decided; determined Mortifying: shameful; embarrassing Gothic: medieval; relating to a gloomy setting

24. Chapter 5 Vocabulary Tacit (56) Asinine (65) Placidly (62) Aloof (55) Pestilence (56) Edification (65) Tacit: unspoken; silently understood; silent; quiet Asinine: stupid; lacking sound judgement Placidly: calmly Aloof: distant in interest or feeling Pestilence: infectious disease Edification: intellectual or moral enlightenment

25. Chapter 6 Vocabulary Ramshackle (70) Desolate (76) Ramshackle: ready to collapse Desolate: devoid of inhabitants or visitors; barren; empty

26. Chapter 7 Vocabulary Ascertaining (81) Ascertaining: make certain; discovering

27. Chapter 8 Vocabulary Unfathomable (85) Aberrations (85) Perpetrated (90) Caricatures (90) Cordial (97) Perplexity (97) Unfathomable: unable to be understood Aberrations: straying from the normal way; deviations Perpetrated: committed; carried out Caricatures: exaggeration of part of features of someone or some- thing for comic effect Cordial: warm and friendly Perplexity: confused; bewildered

28. Chapter 9 Vocabulary Compensation (103) Ingenuous (103) Analogous (103) Guilessness (106) Ambrosia (109) Obstreperous (113) Remorseful (115) Compensation: pay or make up for something Ingenuous: straight-forward, honest, frank Analogous: similar, comparable Guilessness: innocence; lacking craftiness Ambrosia: dessert made of fruit, nuts, coconut… Obstreperous: uncontrollably noisy; unruly Remorseful: painful feeling of sorrow for wrong-doing

29. Chapter 10 Vocabulary Feeble (118) Inconspicuous (119) Peril (121) Vehemently (127) Articulate (129) Feeble: frail; weak Inconspicuous: to not attract attention Peril: danger Vehemently: passionately Articulate: able to speak

30. Chapter 11 Vocabulary Passe (132) Melancholy (132) Passe: behind the times, old- fashioned Melancholy: depression of spirits; dejection; sadness

31. Chapter 12 Vocabulary Altercation (153) Ecclesiastical (159) Austere (162) Altercation: noisy or angry dispute; quarrel Ecclesiastical: relating to church Austere: stern and forbidding in appearance and manner

32. Chapter 13 Vocabulary Tactful (170) Prerogative (172) Obliquely (173) Tactful: to be able to say the right thing to a person without being offensive Prerogative: exclusive or special right, power, or privilege Obliquely: indirectly; deviously

33. Chapter 14 Vocabulary Infallible (187) Infallible: incapable of error; sure

34. Chapter 15 Vocabulary Venerable (200) Succinct (202) Acquiescence (203) Sullen (204) Venerable: respected or admired Succinct: spoken in a few words; concise Acquiescence: acceptance or agreement without protest Sullen: gloomy, dismal, resentfully silent

35. Chapter 15 Vocabulary Venerable (200) Succinct (202) Acquiescence (203) Sullen (204) Venerable: respected or admired Succinct: spoken in a few words; concise Acquiescence: acceptance or agreement without protest Sullen: gloomy, dismal, resentfully silent

36. Chapter 16 Vocabulary Akimbo (212) Subpoena (213) Affluent (214) Inhabitants (220) Connivance (221) Akimbo: having a hand on your hips Subpoena: document ordering a person to appear in court Affluent: rich, wealthy Inhabitants: residents Connivance: knowledge of and consent to wrong-doing

37. Chapter 17 Vocabulary Scrutiny (222) Corroborating (227) Acrimonious (229) Haughty (234) Ambidextrous (238) Scrutiny: careful inspection Corroborating: supporting with evidence or authority Acrimonious: biting in feeling, language, manner; rancorous; bitter Haughty: too proud; arrogant Ambidextrous: using both hands with equal ease

38. Chapter 19 Vocabulary Ex cathedra (262) Impudent (265) Ex cathedra: by virtue of one’s office or position Impudent: insolent; cocky boldness disregarding others

39. Chapter 20 Vocabulary Temerity (273) Integrity (274) Temerity: foolishness Integrity: honesty

40. Chapter 21 Vocabulary Aquit (277) Aquit: pronounce not guilty

41. Chapter 22 Vocabulary Cynical (287) Cynical: critical and distrustful of human nature and motives

42. Chapter 23 Vocabulary Credibility (292) Wryly (292) Furtive (293) Adamant (294) Credibility: believability; plausibility Wryly: ironically humorous Furtive: secretive; surreptitious Adamant: unyielding; inflexible

43. Chapter 24 Vocabulary Impertinence (308) Devout (308) Bovine (311) Hypocrites (313) Martyred (317) Impertinence: rudeness Devout: deeply religious Bovine: relating to cattle Hypocrites: people who pretend or seem to hold a belief but do not Martyred: sacrificed for the sake of principle

44. Chapter 26 Vocabulary Recluse (324) Recluse: person who withdraws from the world to live alone

45. Chapter 28 Vocabulary Irascible (342) Allegedly (344) Squandered (344) Pinioned (351) Irascible: hot tempered Allegedly: supposedly existing Squandered: spend wastefully Pinioned: restrained by binding the arms

46. Chapter 30 Vocabulary Eluded (365) Eluded: escaped from

47. Chapter 30 Vocabulary Eluded (365) Eluded: escaped from

48. Chapter 31 Vocabulary Apprehensive (374) Shrewd (375) Apprehensive: fearful; filled with anxiety Shrewd: keen insight; sharp

49. Chapter 1 Study Guide 1. Maycomb, Alabama. 1933-1935 2. A. Jem: 10 year old son B. Scout: 6 year old daughter; narrator; protagonist C. Atticus: father; lawyer; middle-aged D. Calpurnia: black housekeeper; cook; cares for children 3. Scout; 6 years old 4. The summer that Dill came to Maycomb

50. Chapter 1 Study Guide 5. Told in past tense; flashback technique; author’s style. “When he was nearly 13…” (3) “When enough years had gone by” (3); “Maycomb was a tired old town when I knew it…” (6); “People moved slowly then…” (6) 6. Dill’s real name is Charles Baker Harris. He is a 7 year old from Mississippi, who spends the summers with Aunt Rachel in Maycomb 7. Dill’s idea is to make Boo Radley come out of his house (plot for part 1)

51. Chapter 1 Study Guide 8. Mr. Radley “imprisoned” Boo in the house after getting into trouble with the police when he was 15 years old. Now he is 33 years old. 9. The change was that Mr. Nathan Radley, Boo’s brother, returned to Maycomb and took his father’s place. 10. Jem finally accepts Dill’s dare to run up to the Radley’s front door and touch it.

52. Chapters 2-3 Study Guide 1. He orders Scout to leave him alone at school, not to tag along behind him 2. Atticus is not to teach her to read and write 3. Mrs. Caroline strikes Scout’s hand with a ruler and makes her stand in a corner until noon. 4. He tells Atticus he hasn’t been able to pass because he had to stay out of school to help his father on the farm. 5. Calpurnia tells Scout that anybody, including Walter, who sets foot in the house is company.

53. Chapters 2-3 Study Guide 6. Scout describes Burris as “the filthiest human she had ever seen.” Charles Little describes him as “a mean one…liable to start something.” 7. Scout dreads the possibility of spending nine months refraining from reading and writing and considers running away. 8. She will attend school, but they will continue to read at night. 9. Atticus advises Scout to consider things from the other person’s point of view. “Climb into his skin and walk around in it.”

54. Chapters 2-3 Study Guide 10. The Ewells are a poor family that lives next to the town dump. The father drinks, the mother is dead. The town looks the other way when the father hunts out of season because the kids need food. Authorities don’t make the kids go to school.

55. Chapter 4 Study Guide 1. The “Boo Radley” game which evolves through the summer into a small play. The children act out scenes from the Radley life according to neighbor- hood gossip. 2. A. Chewing gum (tin foil) B. Indian head pennies C. Velvet box 3. “Mrs. Dubose lived two doors up the street from us; neighborhood opinion was unanimous that Mrs. Dubose was the meanest old woman who ever lived.”

56. Chapter 4 Study Guide 4. A. Indian head pennies – strong magic; good luck B. Hot steams – somebody who can’t get to heaven and wanders around 5. “in a pig’s ear” 6. A. She heard laughing in the house when she rolled up to it in a tire B. Atticus’s arrival 7. Laughing

57. Chapter 5 Study Guide 1. Dill professes his love for her; then he neglects her, spending his time following Jem around. 2. Miss Maudie is a single widow, middle-aged neighbor. She is an old family friend with whom the children enjoy visiting. She makes great cakes. She spends time outside. She does not fit the stereotype of the southern woman. 3. Boo Radley’s father; The father’s sense of right and wrong was so rigid that it led him to punish Boo in a cruel and excessive fashion.

58. Chapter 5 Study Guide 4. They see him as shy, timid man who simply wishes to stay inside the house. Miss Maudie blames Arthur’s father for his seclusion. Views children with amused toleration. 5. “I know he’s alive because I haven’t seen him carried out yet.” 6. They will put the note at the end of a fishing pole and stick it through the shutters at the Radley house. 7. He orders them to “stop tormenting” Boo Radley and to stop playing that “asinine” game or making fun and anybody.

59. Chapter 5 Study Guide 1. B- Atticus addressing the three children 2. A- Atticus realizes he has forgotten a file he needs 3. D- The letter has become tattered and dirty 4. C- People should allow others to live as they wish 5. C- defensive 6. D- adhering to the norms of social courtesy

60. Chapter 6 Study Guide 1. They see shadows on the porch 2. Lost them in a strip poker game. 3. Jem begins to have a conscience and wants to be responsible; sign he is maturing 4. He hasn’t been whipped by Atticus in a long time and wants to keep it that way 5. “We shouldna’ done that, Scout.” 6. He is maturing. 7. Maturing; coming of age

61. Chapter 7 Study Guide 1. Second grade is worse than first grade; it is grim. 2. The pants were mended and folded over the fence. 3. The figures were replicas of themselves. 4. Twine, soap carvings, a pocket watch and knife, old spelling medal, whole package of chewing gum, 5. He tells them that the tree is sick and dying. 6. He is upset that the contact with Boo has been stopped, blocked. He feels sorry for himself and Boo. He is becoming aware of the needless cruelty exhibited by some adults.

62. Chapter 8 Study Guide 1. He constructs the snowman of mud and then covers it with snow. 2. He doesn’t have to worry about what will become of Jem since he’ll always have an idea. 3. Jem has “perpetrated a near libel” by making caricatures of the neighbors. 4. There is a chance that the fire from Maudie’s house will spread. 5. Boo Radley 6. He states, “Looks like all of Maycomb was out tonight.”

63. Chapter 8 Study Guide 7. She says her “stomach turned to water” and she “nearly threw up.” 8. They do not want to get Boo in trouble for coming out of the house. 9. She hated that “old cow barn” and would build a little house. 10. Apparently Maudie isn’t tied to material things. She is a caring person since she was more concerned about damage to her neighbor’s homes. She is optimistic and able to see the “bright side” of her personal disaster. 11. Boo is fond and protective of the children; understands what children like and need; he seems gentle and shy.

64. Chapter 9 Study Guide 1. Hold her head up high and keep her fists down, to fight with her head for a change. 2. It will become a black man’s word against a white woman’s word, and there is no question at all who the jury will say is lying- even if the facts prove otherwise. Evidence doesn’t matter. 3. Describes her as “Mount Everest,” she was “cold and there” 4. With the trial coming up, it is likely that the children will hear “unkind things” said about their father.

65. Chapter 9 Study Guide 5. If Atticus discovered she had picked up words at school, he wouldn’t make her go anymore. 6. Francis 7. The disease Atticus is referring to is the narrow- mindedness and prejudice of Maycomb

66. Chapter 10 Study Guide 1. Mockingbirds She explains that it is a sin to kill a Mockingbird because Mockingbirds don’t do anything except “sing their hearts out for us,” “they don’t eat from people’s gardens and don’t nest in corn cribs.” Mockingbird = innocence 2. Tim Johnson is a dog who is rabid. Atticus shoots him with a single shot between the eyes. 3. Marksmanship

67. Chapter 10 Study Guide 4. She explains that Atticus, who is “civilized in his heart” probably realized his marksmanship talent gave him an unfair advantage over living things and he decided he wouldn’t shoot unless he had to. 5. Atticus is a modest person; Jem understands this and feels it wouldn’t be right to brag. If Atticus had been proud he would have told him.

68. Chapter 11 Study Guide 1. She is old, “vicious,” crippled (wheelchair), cranky, a morphine addict, and courageous. 2. The children are treated so meanly by Mrs. Dubose; Scout thinks Atticus is brave because he stops to visit with her and wishes her a good day. 3. He takes the baton and knows the top of her flowers. His anger has been building up over the past two weeks about her comments about Atticus. 4. He must read aloud to her. The time is extended in order to help her break her morphine addiction.

69. Chapter 11 Study Guide 5. Mrs. Dubose had stopped having her “fits.” 6. “It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyways and see it through to the end no matter what.” 7. Your own conscience must tell you what is right or wrong, and it does not matter how many others agree or disagree with you. 8. Both have the courage of their convictions; both are discreet about it.

70. Chapter 12 Study Guide 1. Serving in the legislature 2. Helen Robinson 3. First Purchase Church 4. A. Jem’s maturing B. Dill is not coming that summer 5. They don’t have enough hymnals, and most people in church can’t read. 6. Lula 7. Cal was speaking with an African American dialect 8. The church was paid for from the first earnings of freed slaves 9. Aunt Alexandra

71. Chapter 13 Study Guide 1. She orders Cal around and treats her as if she is a servant 2. She visits b/c she needs to be a feminine influence for Scout. 3. She believed in “gentle breeding” and that “streaks” ran through families. 4. Satire = ridiculing; make fun of

72. Chapter 14 Study Guide 1. “Carnal knowledge of a female by force and without consent.” 2. “You mind Jem whenever he can make you. Fair enough?” 3. “She is a faithful member of this family and you’ll simply have to accept things are the way they are.” 4. His mother remarries and he feels neglected; they don’t pay any attention to him. 5. Jem tells Atticus that Dill was there. (Jem is maturing) 6. Question: Why doesn’t Boo Radley run off? Response: Maybe he doesn’t have anywhere to run off to. No where to go.

73. Chapter 15 Study Guide 1. Tense; someone hurting Atticus 2. Atticus takes the car instead of walking. 3. They find him in front of the jail. He is sitting in a chair reading the newspaper. 4. To lynch Tom Robinson 5. By innocently asking Mr. Cunningham about Walter. 6. He and his double-barreled shot gun were leaning out his windows. 7. Place a trail of lemon drops from the back door to the front yard and he’d follow it, like an ant.

74. Chapter 16 Study Guide 1. Mobs are made up of people and that people have “blind spots” about some things, like race. 2. They don’t belong anywhere Negroes don’t want them because their half-white and white folks won’t have them b/c they are colored. 3. It is morbid to watch someone on trial for his life as if it were a “Roman carnival.” 4. He prefers the company of black people. He also drinks from a bottle with a paper bag around it. 5. She learns that Atticus was appointed to defend Tom Robinson. 6. The children sit w/ Reverend Sykes and the Negroes in the balcony.

75. Chapter 17 Study Guide 1. Sheriff Heck Tate 2. Did anyone call a doctor to see about Mayella’s injuries? 3. He leads him to remember that Mayella’s black eye was the one on the right side of her face. 4. They live next to the dump, no running water, small house, smashed cans used to repair roof. Only bright aspect is the few potted red geraniums. 5. He acts crude and informal. He call the attorney “cap’n.” Judge Taylor put a quick end to his casual comments.

76. Chapter 17 Study Guide 6. He claims that he heard his daughter screaming, so he ran to the house to find Tom Robinson raping Mayella. 7. To show that he if left-handed and could have beaten up Mayella since most of her injuries were on the right side of her face.

77. Chapter 18 Study Guide 1. 19 2. Because he calls her “Miss Mayella” and “Ma’am” 3. To point out how lonely her life is. 4. The his left arm is 12 inches shorter than his right and it is withered and of no use. He is crippled. 5. When Tom was young he caught it in Mr. Raymond’s cotton gin. 6. Her reaction is one of puzzlement and then she accuses Atticus of making fun of her again. 7. Her father, Bob Ewell

78. Chapter 19 Study Guide 1. She premeditated this plan. She saved 7 nickels and send them to town to get ice cream. 2. She grabbed him around the legs; then she hugged him; then she kissed him on the side of the face and told him to kiss her back. 3. He ran b/c he was scared and if Atticus was black like him, he’d be scared, too. 4. He makes the mistake of saying that he felt sorry for Mayella. 5. He tells Scout that Mr. Gilmer’s treatment of Tom, the way he called him “boy” and sneered at him, made him sick.

79. Chapter 20 Study Guide 1. It gives the people a reason for his behavior. They allow him to act the way he does b/c they think he is drunk. 2. The courts 3. Dill is still young and cries “about the simple hell people give other people- without even thinking.” 4. He makes a point that in all races there are both good people and bad people.

80. Chapter 21 Study Guide 1. That Jem and Scout are missing. 2. He has never seen a jury take the word of a black man over a white man. (FORESHADOWING) 3. He thinks the jury will decide the verdict on the evidence, not on their prejudices. 4. The jury is out for 3 1/2 hours and the verdict is guilty. 5. None of them look at Tom Robinson. (FORESHADOWING) 6. To stand up b/c her father was passing by (shows respect)

81. Chapter 22 Study Guide 1. They bring food to his house b/c he had done his best to defend Tom Robinson. Atticus gets emotional- tears in his eyes. 2. He believes that the children should not be sheltered from the “ugliness” of the world. The ugliness is the prejudice and miscarriage of justice that has been exhibited by the south and Maycomb citizens. 3. She is acknowledging that Jem is growing up. She no longer considers him a child like Scout and Dill.

82. Chapter 22 Study Guide 4. Miss Maudie says, “We’re making a step – it’s just a baby step, but it’s a step.” Making progress ‘bout changing people’s minds. 5. He had always felt warm and safe in Maycomb because he thought all the people were good people. He no longer feels the same. 6. He spit in Atticus’s face and told him he’d get him if it took the rest of his life. (FORESHADOWING)

83. Chapter 23 Study Guide 1. Mr. Cunningham 2. Not seriously – Bob Ewell had to do something to get revenge. 3. Electric chair; death 4. It is an invitation for someone to shoot you. Gun = false courage 5. It’s to protect the “frail ladies” from cases like Tom Robinson’s and they would ask too many questions. 6. The injustices dealt to the blacks.

84. Chapter 23 Study Guide 7. (1) ordinary folks (2) Cunningham’s in the woods (3) Ewells at the dump (4) Negroes 8. He concludes that Boo doesn’t come out b/c he doesn’t want deal with or be apart of how people treat each other in society.

85. Chapter 24 Study Guide 1. The Mrunas are an African Tribe and J. Grimes Everett is a missionary. 2. They must be kept in their place. 3. They are concerned about people halfway around the world, yet have no sympathy for those in the same town. 4. Wear more dresses 5. She says the Northerners are “hypocrites” that they sat the Negroes free but wouldn’t sit at the table with them. 6. He was shot 17 times trying to escape.

86. Chapter 25 Study Guide 1. His reluctance to kill anything that does no harm, including caterpillars. 2. He compares Tom’s unnecessary and tragic death to the slaying of mockingbirds. 3. “One down and about two more to go.” This statement could be seen as a threat to Judge Taylor and Atticus.

87. Chapter 26 Study Guide 1. Remorseful and hopes she can make it up to him. 2. Adolf Hitler. She has heard Miss Gates speak hatefully of Negroes. “How can you hate Hitler and then turn around and be ugly to folks at home?” 3. 3 rd ; 7 th 4. He is trying to forget the ugly side of humanity that he saw at the courthouse.

88. Chapter 27 Study Guide 1. He is lazy. He blames Atticus. 2. He saw a shadow, heard a noise, a prowler. Someone is trying to break in. 3. The Ewell’s were “chunking things” at her. Harassing Helen. 4. Judge Taylor made a fool of him on the stand. 5. There was an organized pageant this year since kids pulled a prank on two local spinsters. 6. She is a ham; it is made out of chicken wire and covered with cloth.

89. Chapter 28 Study Guide 1. Cecil Jacobs jumps out and scares them. 2. Jem was becoming almost as good as Atticus at making her feel right when things went wrong; making her feel better. 3. It is Cecil Jacobs. 4. The chicken wire prevented the knife from stabbing her body. 5. A. Someone knocks Jem down and breaks his arm B. Same person tries to stab Scout. C. Someone else picks Jem up and carries him home

90. Chapter 28 Study Guide 6. Bob Ewell is dead from a kitchen knife stuck up under his ribs. 7. The man who brought Jem home, Boo Radley

91. Chapters 29-31 Study Guide 1. He heard Jem yelling. 2. “mean as hell”; the kind of man “you have to shoot before you say bids to them” and “not worth the bullet it takes to shoot them” 3. Boo Radley 4. Jem 5. It was an accident. 6. Invade his privacy; bringing him gifts in gratitude, to put this man in the limelight would be a sin. It would serve no purpose to subject Boo to public scrutiny. He had not maliciously killed Bob Ewell; he killed him to defend the children’s lives

92. Chapters 29-31 Study Guide 7. “It would be like killing a mockingbird” 8. The never gave Boo anything in return. 9. *courage and also prejudice *injustice and value of individual rights *to learn to control her temper *look at things from other people’s views *life, people…