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To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter Notes
To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter Notes
MOCKINGBIRD
By Harper Lee
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
Satire of Education
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
Atticus Character
CHAPTER 9 (cont.)
Aunt Alexandra
Concerned w/ appearances
Wants Scout to be a lady
Has influenced cousin Francis
Characteristics of passivity, obedience, and good breeding
Atticus
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 10 (cont.)
Ol One-shot
CHAPTER 11
Mrs. Dubose
CHAPTER 11 (cont.)
CHAPTER 12
Blackstones Commentaries
CHAPTER 13
CHAPTER 14
CHAPTER 15
Contrast Between Two Groups of Men
Tradition for men to stand in anothers
front yard for death or politics
Group led by Heck Tate there for a
little of both
Warn Atticus of Old Sarum bunch
thinking of lynching Tom Robinson
Express fear for Atticus and his family
Crowd disperses in laughter
CHAPTER 15 (cont.)
Contrast Between Two Groups of Men
Mob at the jail smells of pigpens and
stale whiskey
Serious in their intent to lynch Tom
Robinson
Tension is pierced by Scouts
innocent talk
CHAPTER 15 (cont.)
CHAPTER 17
CHAPTER 17 (cont.)
CHAPTER 17 (cont.)
CHAPTER 17 (cont.)
CHAPTER 18
Mayellas Testimony
Depicts a deprived background
Her day is extraordinary and almost
animalistic survival
Lives in isolation, no contact with
other people and other life-styles
Tries to keep her story straight, but
falters
Suggests that her father beat her, not
Tom Robinson
Tom rises and it becomes apparent
that his left arm is 12 inches shorter
that his right and is useless
CHAPTER 19
Toms Testimony
He was kind to Mayella and often
did chores for her because he
felt sorry for her
Resisted Mayellas advances to
kiss him by running away
Declares he would never strike a
white woman
Establishes that Bob Ewell saw
Mayella make advances to kiss
him and had threatened to kill her
CHAPTER 19 (cont.)
CHAPTER 20
Dolphus Raymond
Considered to be the town drunk
Married to a black woman
Has mixed children
Entrusts Dill and Scout with his
deepest secret that he doesnt drink
Believes that if people believe he is
under the influence of whiskey, then
they are more comfortable with their
prejudice of him and his lifestyle
CHAPTER 20 (cont.)
CHAPTER 20 (cont.)
CHAPTER 21
CHAPTER 22
CHAPTER 23
Atticus Explanation of Bob Ewells Threat
Wants revenge because the Ewells never
had much credibility and whatever they
had left, Atticus stripped him of it in
court
Atticus walks in Bob Ewells shoes
Bob Ewell will seek revenge where he
can easily get it
If spitting in Atticus face spares Mayella
a beating, then it is worth it
CHAPTER 23 (cont.)
Atticus Explains the Result of the Trial
Attributes the verdict to where the
trial was held
Tom was convicted because he was
Black
Prejudice cannot be screened when
selecting jurors
CHAPTER 24
Irony in Missionary Circles Conversation
The women are capable of compassion
as long as it is long distance and they
dont get their hands dirty
Concerned with an African tribe, but
they dont see how they perpetuate
prejudice and poverty in their own town
Are hypocrites who view themselves as
Good Christians
CHAPTER 24 (cont.)
CHAPTER 25
Mockingbird Symbolism
Mr. B. B. Underwoods editorial in his
newspaper is about Tom Robinsons
death
Says Tom was as harmless as a
mockingbird
Says Toms death was like the
senseless slaughter of songbirds by
heartless hunters
CHAPTER 27
CHAPTER 27(cont.)
CHAPTER 28
CHAPTER 28 (cont.)
CHAPTER 29
CHAPTER 30
CHAPTER 30 (cont.)
CHAPTER 31