Chapter 1-9 Review
 Sets the tone
• Memories of the events leading to Jem’s broken arm
 Scout’s point of view
• Child’s perspective
• Scout depicts her world as a place of absolutes.
• Sense of establishment
 Small Southern town
 Family history
 Suspicious of outsiders
 Dill
 Social rules and conventions
• Where a person comes from, his ancestry, is
important
 Maycomb
functions
community and how it
• Meet classmates
• Scout is different from other children
• Atticus is not like the authority figures at school
 Treats his children like individuals
 Talks to them as adults
• “Maycomb’s ways”
• Accepting of others’ shortcomings
 “You never really understand a person…”
• Art of compromise
 Introduces Scout to the idea of a white lie
 Scout’s
Educations
• “As for me, I knew nothing except what I
gathered from Time magazine and reading
everything I could lay my hands on at home.”
• Outside school
Prejudice
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Knothole
“One sprig of nut grass can ruin a whole yard.”
Blacks and whites
Rich and poor
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Bravery
• Boo Radley game
• The concept of bravery is very important to Jem
 Dare
 Delivery of a note to Boo
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Trust
• Scout’s world is a safe place
• Fears of her own imagination
• What appears safe isn’t always
 Miss Maudie vs Miss Stephanie
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Truth
• Discerning truth and recognizing fiction
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Femininity
• Women’s roles in Maycomb society
• “…marked me as property…”
• “I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl it’s
mortifyin’.”
 2nd summer with Dill
• Peep in Boo’s window
• Shotgun
• Jem looses his pants
 Prejudice
• Boo Radley
• Scout’s “girlish” behavior
• “Mr. Radley shot at a Negro in his collard patch.”
 Blurred truth
• Dill’s stories
• Jem’s pants
• Cementing in the knothole
 Jem’s bravery (three times)
• Jem would rather lose his life than disappoint his father
 Snow
in Maycomb
• “The world’s endin’, Atticus! Please do something—!”
• Snowman
 Muddy then covered in snow
 An analogy how blacks are treated in Maycomb, not on
their own merits but on their relationships to whites
 Not admired until it is “turned” white
• Bird
 “Just as the birds know where to go when it rains, I knew
when there was trouble in our street.”
 Bird imagery is a symbol for sensing, and then doing, the
right thing.
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Fire
• Symbolic of the upcoming conflicts that Scout and community will
face.
• The heat of the fire contrasts sharply with the intense cold, providing
an allusion to the sharply defined sides in the upcoming trial.
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Innocence
• Children don’t care if Atticus defends a black man, but they do mind
the comments others make about Atticus
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Justice
• Atticus doesn’t have a chance to win the Robinson case.
• Morally correct thing to do (Finch’s owned slaves)
• Guns for Christmas
 Children killing birds but Atticus will not teach them to shoot
 The jury will convict Tom Robinson, but Atticus will give him a courageous
defense.
• “…you never stopped to gimme a chance to tell you my side of it…”

Gender Roles
• Scout swearing
• Francis learning to cook
 Jean
Louise “Scout” Finch
 Jeremy Atticus “Jem” Finch
 Atticus Finch
 Calpurnia
 Charles Baker “Dill” Harris
 Arthur “Boo” Radley
 Miss Maudie Atkinson
 Miss Stephanie Crawford
 Miss Rachael Haverford
 Aunt Alexandra
 Mr. Nathan Radley
 Walter Cunningham
 Miss Caroline Fisher
 Ewell