Entry 6?

Chpater 14:

Summary:

Jem and Scout become the victim of whispers and glares, all because of the trail. Later Scout asks Je what rapes means and the subject of Calpurnia's Sunday church trip comes up. Aunt Alexandria tells Scout she cannot go back to that church and tells Atticus to fired Calpurnia for they no longer have any use for her. Atticus refuses.That night, Jem tells Scout not to antagonize Alexandra. Scout gets angry at being lectured and attacks Jem. Atticus breaks up the fight and sends them to bed. Scout discovers something under her bed. She calls Jem in and they discover Dill hiding there. Dill ran away from home because his parents never paid much attention to him. Jem tells Atticus of this and Atticus tells Jem to get some food for Dill. After this, Jem talks to Scout to make things up.

Literary Device- THEME

Jem and Scout were amazed because the last time it snowed was in 1885. Jem made a snowman that looked like Mr. Avery by taking some snow from Miss Maudie's yard. Miss Maudie loved that Jem was taking the snow because it killed her plants. Jem made the snowman out of earth first(black), and then covered it up with snow(white) . Anyone passing by would think that it was made entirely of snow, but Jem and Scout knew that there wasn't enough snow to make a real one so big. It represented how the neighborhood didn't accept black people, and how whites were used to cover up all the "flaws" of black people, even though the blacks held them all together and was the base of their lives.

Entry 6

Chapter 11:

Jem and Scout are older now(8 & 12), which meant something in life would have to change. This change was walking into town, they use to just walk without any problems, now they get insulted by a "friendly" old lady named Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose, who insluts their father of his case and starts making assumptions. Jem finally snaps one day and takes the baton he bought for Scout and smashes all her flowers. Atticus comes home and yells at Jem to march back over their and apologize. Which he does and receives a punishment from her to read to her for 2 hours everyday for a month. Dubose died a few days after a month and leaves a camelia for Jem, which he crys. Jem learns that She was a morphine addict who wanted to die not because of the drug but becuse of something else.

Characters:
Mrs. Dubose
Jessie

Allusion:
Dixie Howell: Millard "Dixie" Howell was a popular University of Alabama football player during the 1930's.
Ivanhoe: a novel written in 1819 by Sir Walter Scott set in the Middle Ages during the time of the Crusades.

Entry 5

Scout comes to an conclusion: because Atticus is old, he's no longer fun. Miss Maudie and Calpurnia disagrees with this and says he can do all the right many things. Tim Johnson(Mad Dog) fumbles into their yard, Scout and Jem tell Calpurnia who determines he's mad. She calls the sheriff and Atticus, they both come to the house and the sheriff won't shoot him because he might miss, in result he hands the gun to Atticus. In limited time, Atticus shoots and hits his target- Tim Johnson, earning the nickname One-Shot Finch. This brings up the story Miss Maudie tells to the kids- that Atticus was onc ethe deadlist shot around in Maycomb, everyone thought it was a gift of god, God's right hand or something like that. That's why he barely used it- only when needed.


Symbol:
mockingbird:

Mad Dog: racism- how people react- Tim Johnson: foreshadow to the court case

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Characters:
Tim Johnson(Mad Dog)
Sheriff Heck

Entry 4

Scout is trying a new way to get Atticus to drop her out of school, cursing. She thinks if she picks up the slang "adult" terms that her father will realize that she can't possible go to an environment like that! But nonetheless Atticus picks up on it and doesn't fall for it. Scout learns during school recess her father is defending a colored person in court and is constantly picked on about it by Cecil Jacob, She doesn't fight him, instead lays down her guns and walks away; walking away from a fight for the first time in her life. During Christmas vacation Uncle Jack has a talk with her about her choice of language. During the fest at the Finch Landing Scout beats up her second cousin. She runs away but is caught by Uncle Jack and spanked. When returning home she locks herself in her room. Later, Jack and Scout talked about what happened and Jack came to the understanding of Scout's; he even starts to feel guilty of it all. 

Allusions: 
General Hood: Lieutenant-General John B. Hood, a Confederate officer.

Let the cup pass from you: on the night before his crucifixion, Jesus prayed to the Lord: "Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will but your be done [Luke 22:42]." By asking the Lord to "take this cup from me" he was praying that he might avoid his hate. Uncle Jack's comment to Atticus calls upon this reference because he understands that his brother was not looking forward to his fate: having to defend Tom Robinson.

Lord Melbourne: (1779 - 1848). Queen Victoria's first Prime Minister, Melbourne also had the reputation for being something of a ladies' man.

Missouri Everest: the highest known mountain in the world, (29,028 feet), Everest is part of the Himalayas, on the border of Nepal and Tibet.

Ol' Blue Light: a reference to Stonewall Jackson

Stonewall Jackson: a Confederate lieutenant-general.

Characters: 
Uncle Jack 
Francis
Aunt Alexandria

Entry 3

Chapter 7 & 8: (part of plot: Exposition)

Jem found his pants sewn and folded right on the fence at the Radley's place, hence he freaked out. Scout was told by Jem second grade will get better with time. When walking home Jem and Scout see a ball of twine in a knot-hole. Soon after more treasures appear in the knot-hole Jem and Scout take veryone of them. One day Jem and Scout gave a letter to the hole but found it was filled with cement by Mr. Nathan Radley. His excuse the tree was sick but its healthy.

Allusion: Egyptians walked that way- Jem's assumptions as to how Egyptians would have walked is probably based on pictures of Egyptian art.

Characters: Mr. Nathan Radley

Mrs. Radley died that spring, I don't recall anybody noticing but it wasn't different with her life gone. Atticus told Jem and Scout she died of natural causes which upset the kids dearly, as they were hoping that Mr. Arthur Radley would slip I guess. The following day the strangest thing happened, it snowed. The first snow in Maycomb County since 1885, Scout freaked out and starting screaming ludacris phrases, like the world was ending. Because of this school was canceled and the kids played in the snow and built a snowman, as Ms. Maudie called it a Absolute Morphodite. Later or early morning 1 AM, a fire started at Ms. Maudie's her house wasn't saved others were thankfully but we later learned that this fire started 60 miles off from Clark's Ferry. Jem and Scout were asked to stay in one spot so they did and they went home with Atticus soon after only then did they notice the wool blanket on their shoulders, that Atticus told them, only then did Jem spill all their secrets. And Atticus didn't fuss but said that Boo Radley put the blankets on their shoulders. On the other hand Ms. Maudie was happy about her house being built dont, complaining for years of how she would do it herself if she didn't get put in jail.

Alluison: Appomattox- a former village in central Virginia. On April 9, 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House, ending the Civil War.

Bellingraths: Miss Maudie is referring to Walter and Bessie Bellingrath who, in 1932, opened their large, beautiful gardens to the public. The Bellingrath Gardens are located in Mobile, Alabama.


Rosetta Stone: Discovered in Egypt in 1799, the Rosetta Stone is a large block of basalt inscribed with a report of a decree passed in 196 BC. Written in three languages, the stone gave historians many clues as to the meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs.

Characters:  Mr. Avery

Entry 2

Chapter 5:

Dill and Jem start spending more time together, we learn that Dill even proposed to Scout saying she was the only one for him, they exclude Scout from their conversations and at most times because of this Scout and Miss Maudie create a deep friendship bond. Somehow Jem and Dill come up with this clever idea of sticking a note to a fishing pole and placing it on Arthur's window. Scout got caught up in it guarding one side of the street and Dill ringing a bell if someone comes on a different street. Atticus shows up and others the kids and tells them NOT to do that again. Jem finally ends the chapter by saying he once wanted to become a lawyer but not anymore.

Allusion: second Battle of the Marne was a battle in World War I

Old Testament pestilence: Pestilence refers to a condition or disease that causes massive damage or death. One example of pestilence in the Old Testament of the Bible is a plague of locusts, such as the one described in Exodus 10.

Characters:

Miss Maudie

Chapter 6: 

After the note incident, Dill and Jem try to get into Arthur Radley's yard. Jem slips, lossing his pants, Mr. Radley sees them, and fires his gun in the air to make them scatter. Atticus notices Jem missing his pants and asks how he lost them, Jem replies that Dill won the over in strip poker; Atticus tells him to go get them and goes home.  Much later Jem tries to go to Radley's place and get his pants back and goes ignoring Scouts advice to NOT go over.  

Allusion: Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubois: Lafayette was a French general who served in the American revolution and the French Revolution

Characters:

Mr. Radley