Chapter 18

Questions:
1. What do you think really happened?
2. What do you think would happen if Mayella said the truth?
3. Why does Atticus is always repeating the same question?
4. Discuss how Mayella is trying to persuade Atticus into believing her.

Literary Luminary:
Page 182 paragraph 2. The reason why I chose this paragraph is because it made me realize that Mayell was not treated as a lady and that she was used to being talked to like this.
Page 185 paragraph 1. When she is trying to figure out something and she was taking such a long time for it made me think that she was lying about this whole issue.
Page 188 paragraph 2. I chose this passage because she had a serious break down and that mayby she was trying to hide somthing.
Page 189 paragraph 1. I think it was good of Scout to accept Judge Taylor and reconize that he is a good Jugde regardless his behavior.

Summary:
In this chapter people are still questioned. But now it was Mayella’s turn to be questioned about what happened to her. Atticus is now questioning her about who did it. Then Tom Robinson was told by Atticus to stand up so Mayella could see him. Then everyone in the courthouse sees that his left hand is shorter that his right arm. Scout then sees that there is no way he could have done that to Mayella.

Picture:
The scene in the court house with Atticus and Mayella Ewell was very interesting indeed. The way it was played out from Mayella's part was like a drama to me. First of all Mayella is presumably 19 and she acts like a frightened child with no sense at all. She was reluctant to confront Atticus at first so she says that she's scared of Atticus and then she crys. Later on she complains that Atticus is mocking her by calling her "Miss" and that he's trying to trick her like he did her father. Then when ever Atticus corners her and she stops in mid-sentence or doesn't respond she cries or retreats in silence and the Judge lets her for a little while. And then at the very end when she almost admits something about her dad she becomes furious and says mean things to the whole court and then bursts into tears.

Chapter 17

Questions:
1. Explain how Atticus is trying to get to Mr. Ewell and Mr. Tate.
2. Discuss how far people would go to arrest a AA.
3. Look at page 178, last paragraph, discuss how Scout is thinking.
4. Imagine you are in this court and you are Atticus, in what way would you protect Tom?

Literary Luminary:
Page 170 paragraph 3. This paragraph made me think of how the Ewells and the black people wasn't different their environment was pretty much the same.
Page 175 quote "No I mean her physical condition. Did you not think the nature of her warranted meducal attention?" I picked it because i think that Atticus was the first person to pay atenton to this information.
Page 177 paragraph 1. This passage was interesting for me to read because when i read that she said it was a bad idea to ask questions they already knew the answer to, it made me wonder if Atticus was going to to do so.
Page 178 last paragraph. I chose this passage because i agree with Atticus that it might have been Mr. Ewell that hurt Mayella and it just something to thing about.

Summaries:
In the chapter Atticus is asking questions on who rapped Mayella. He first questioned the sheriff since he was one of the first people who saw Mayella after she was raped. Atticus was just trying to prove that Tom Robinson was not the one who raped her. Mayella was beaten really hard, her right eye was bruised. Then Mayella’s father, Bob Ewell was questioned by Atticus, because Atticus thought that Mr. Ewell could have hurt his daughter. Then Atticus realized that there is way he could have hurt her. But then Scout thinks Tom Robinson could have still beaten her because he is a big man.

Chapter 16

Questions:
1. What images come to your mind when you think of those Khlan's?
2. Discuss how people are talking about Atticus. Do you this is correct?
3. Try to explain how Atticus feels in this chapter.
4. Who do you think is finally right in this chapter?
5. Scout heard the conversation about her father, think what was going through her mind at this moment?
Literary Luminary:
Page 157 quote, "So it took and eight-year to bring 'em to their senses didn't it?" This was a great example of the voice that true innocence has.
Page 159 quote, "He that cometh in vanity departeth in darkness!" This really shows that some people were really realigious and that almost everything was a sin.
Page 160 paragraph 4. I chose this passage becasue I liked how they described the setting and made it really clear.
Page 164 paragraph 3. This passage was a good example of how based on color people were treated differently. In this paragraph I think it was more that they wanted them to take their seats or that they knerw they had too.

Picture:
When Scout, Jem and Dill needed a seat so Reverend Sykes takes them up to the balconey and four black people got up and gave them their seats. After I had read this part I started to think where I had heard of this before. And then Rosa Parks came to my mind. The situation may not have been the same but a bit similar. Rosa Parks(a black American) was on a bus ride to somewhere and then all of a sudden she had to give up her seat and get off the bus to a white person. She had paid for the bus ride and was not yet at her destination and so she refused. She was arrested for resisting.
But I wonder whether those four black people had to get up as if it was compulsary.

Chapter 15

Questions:
1. Did you have an idea of what was going on with Atticus?
2. Why did Jem absolutly want to know where Atticus was?
3. Discuss what happened in this chapter. What shocked you?
4. Who is angry at Atticus? Why?
5. Why do you think Atticus took the car, a light, a chair and he sat in front of the jail?

Literary Luminary:
Page 145 paragraph 1. I chose this passage becuase its anpther part of the Maycomb Code and its interesting.
Page 148 paragraph 2. This paragraph was interesting because when I read this it made me think of how sometimes we act peaceful but were really not.

Page 148-149 paragraph 1. This passage was showing me that Atticus is a healthy man and that he is considered of things and that he likes to walk but when he takes a car then somethings not right.
Page 155 paragraph 3. I picked this paragraph because I liked the way how they eneded the chapter.

Picture:
In this chapter Jem, Scout and Dill go out at night to Atticus's office in the courthouse. They barge in expecting the group of men the came to Atticus earlier that day but instead Scout, Jem and Dill were surrounded by a group of strangers(to them). And Atticus was quite firm to ward them. This event reminds me when I had a day off and I went to my mum's work place. I was given a tour of UNESCO but when I wanted to return to my mums office it was filled with people that I had never seen before. Like Scout was in this chapter I felt the same way. Embarassed and akward. The men all stared at her and I got stared at and I wondered what's the matter. I was younger and I didn' understand what was going on, I thought that they were having a chat not a meeting.

Chapter 14

Questions:
1. Discuss how Scout expresses her feelings?
2. Does this chapter remind you of any real-life experiences?
3. What surprised you in this chapter?
4. What did you think would happen when you read the first page of chapter 14?

Literary Luminary:
Page 136 paragraph 2. This passage was also making me sort of nervous how she is walking aroung wondering what the adults are talking about.
Page 137 paragraph 2. I liked this because of how Aunt Alexandra was angry and that she didn't get her way this time because she is always trying to take control.
Page 141 paragraph 1. I picked this paragraph because it says that Jem has officially broken their childhood rules and told Atticus about about Dill.
Page 114 paragraph 1. This passage caught my attentions because i like the way the author wrote it.

Summary:

Scout heard someone say rape so she had remembered that she had never asked Atticus. Then she told Atticus that Jem and she went to church with Calpurnia. Scout also asked Atticus if she can visit Calpurnia, but Alexandra said no before Atticus replied. Scout then told Calpurnia that she wasn’t asking her, she was asking Atticus and she got in trouble. So then she went and came back to the living room, and heard her aunt talking about Calpurnia, but Atticus said that he can’t do anything because they are used to her. Then when she slept she felt something on the floor so she thought it was a snake. But when Jem checked it was Dill.

Picture:

Scout has had enough of Jem's dominating attitude and strikes back. In this image you can see the victim pouncing on the bully which is ironic. Scout isn't really being bullied but she is retaliating at Jem who is in fact the older kid and Scout manages to punch him and they wrestle for a while. Jem tries to show superiority over Scout by making her feel inferior for example Jem tells Scout to act like a girl when a while before he said the opposite, Jem tells her that she can't even remeber small things because she's too young. In both situations the victim is striking back at the "bully" and it is rather humurous.

Chapter 13

Questions:
1. Related to this chapter, discuss who is or are the victims?
2. Why did the aunt wanted to learn Scout about her family?
3. Discuss why does Atticus let Alexandra live with them?
4. What do you think about the idea of treating kids as they are treated by Alexandra? Would you do like her? Why or why not?

Literary Luminary:
Page 128 paragraph 4. I chose this paragraph because I found that part funny.
Page 129 paragraph 2. This passage is saying that Aunt Alexandra is slowly moving into her their lives.
Page 131 paragraph 3. This paragraph has a detailed expaination of how Mayconb works its sort of like part of their Maycomb Code.
Page 132 paragraph 1. I chose this passage because I liked the way how Aunt Alexandra is trying so hard to impress people with Scout and then she get embarrased by her.

Summary:

In this chapter Scout and Jem’s aunt had to stay with them. She told Atticus to tell his kids that they are Finches and they have to behave like it, and Atticus did it but wasn’t comfortable. He then told them to ignore what he had said.

Picture:
I chose this picture because it portrays Aunt Alexandra's arrival to Atticus's house. When Aunt Alexandra settles in she argues with Atticus about how he raises his kids and how she wants Scout to be more lady-like. She also complains to Atticus about letting Scout and Jem go to Calpurnia's home until he came for them. So from my reasoning Aunt Alexandra was making some kind of an imbalance in Atticus's household because she was complaining too much.

Chapter 12

Literary Luminary:
Page 116 paragraph 1. I chose this passage because it reminded me that Francis said that Dill doesn't really live in Meridian so it makes me think more and more about it.
Page 118 paragraph 1. I chose this paragraph because it made me think about how segregated it was that what black would use as a church is where the white people would gamble.
Page 118 paragraph 3. I chose this paragraph because I liked the way how she described the room and how it smelled and looked
Page 119 paragraph 2. This paragraph showed me it was segregated with both sides having an opinion but since Scout father was helping Tom Robinson they were welcomed by the other church members.

Picture:
When Calpurnia goes to a negro church with Jem and Scout. But the trio is confronted by a rather mean, unwelcoming woman called Lula, who is a black woman. She says that Jem and Scout don't belong because they are white. But never the less Calpurnia stands her ground and says that they all beleive in the same god.
This image shows a huge dog, that represents Lula, towering over a smaller dog(Calpurnia)
and two cats(Jem and Scout). The big dog is confronting them because they are of different species. But the smaller dog looks up at the bigger dog without fear. This image reminds of the church scene.

Chapter 11

Literary Luminary:
Page 102 paragraph 4. I picked this passage because the thought of Jem being the hot-headed one is weird.
Page 103 paragraph 2. I chose this as a lead on from the passage I picked before. Jem never seemed bothered by what people would say and now he's beating up his on sister because of it.
Page 107 paragraph 2. This tells me that Mrs. Dubose is really old and almost helpless.
Page 112 last paragraph. I was surprised when Jem threw the box away and I just couldn't tell wether he was sad, dissapointed or angry.

Picture:
Mrs Dubose dies in this chapter(though I find it kind of sad because I thought that she would have lived longer) after two months. She was very ill and was going through terrible pain and would die soon so her doctor had prescibed to her morphine as a pain killer. She grew addicted to it but wanted to stop using it before she died. This caused her to have fits because her body needed the drug since she was addicted to it.
This image looks like the person has died of drug overdose but I picture it as Mrs Dubose having already let go of her drugs(morphine) just before she passed away.

Chapter 10

Questions:
1. What do you think the main idea is in this chapter?
2. Look at the beginning of the chapter and the end, explain the author's writing.
3. Why doesn't Atticus want to tell the kids his "secret"?
4. Why did the author write that story about the dog?
5. How do you think Scout feel about his father that don't do anything?

Literary Luminary:
Page 90 paragraph 2. I chose this paragraph because it had the moral of the book in quotes, Atticus had said to Scout that it was a sin to kill a mocking bird because they don't do anything except make beautiful sounds.
Page 94 paragraph 6. I liked the way the author described the setting and how she captured the mood.
Page 97 paragraph 3. Miss Stephanie is already the gossiper of the town when she implies that Atticus probally shot an innocent dog, it makes me wonder did she just say that because he was defending African Americans and she was against it or because she really meant it and that she was trying to make him look like a bad person.
Page 99 last paragraph. When Jem says that he is a gentleman like Atticus is he just trying to reassure her or is it his way of showing his pride?

Picture:
In chapter 10 Jem and Scout, especially, think that Atticus is old and not very useful when it comes to physical activities. Scout notices that he is very different from the common dad. He doesn't smoke, drink or go hunting but instead he sits at home and reads.
When a rabid dog is lumbering the streets in Scout's neighbourhood Atticus saves the day by shooting and killing it in one shot before the beast could harm anyone. Both Scout and Jem were surprised. Scout wanted to show-off when she got to school about "One-Shot Finch" the best marksman of Maycomb but Jem dissapproved of it. He said that if Atticus wanted anybody to know he would have told them in the first place. I find this similar to the superman conscept. He has talents unlike others but he doesn't use it whenever or to attract attention but only when the need is required. For example to fight crime. Atticus is in a very similar situation.
"People in their right minds never take pride in their talents"(98). Quote from Miss Maudie

Chapter 9

Questions:
1. How would you feel if someone who forced you to do something that you didn't want to do?
2. Why is Scout angry when Francis says "Nigger-lover"? Explain her reaction.
3. What is the relation between Scout and her family?
4. Explain Uncle Jack's reaction after what Scout said to him?
5. What is Scout point of view to Francis?

Literary Luminary:
Page 75 paragraph 1. I chose this paragraph because I actually found it kind of amusing how she's still trying to avoid school
Page 85 paragraph 2. This passage showed that Scout was angry and that this is how she felt because no one would listen to her.
Page 87 paragraph 1. I picked this passage because It sort of tells that Uncle Jack is trying to avoids things instead of interpreting them in a different way.
Page 89 paragraph 1. This paragraph is saying that Scout can trust Uncle Jack but also she wonders how Atticus could have seen her. It made me think if he knew all along but just not say anything because he wanted her to know.

Picture: At school Scout is teased and mocked because her dad, Atticus, defended a black person. She almost gets into a fight in school but she restrains herself for Atticus's sake. He told her that it was childish to fight with fists and she should fight with her head instead.
Because of this she is called a coward for backing down from a fight. In this picture an orange figure(Scout) is distant and standing alone from a group of blue figures(Cecil Jacobs, Francis and everyone else who beleives Atticus is a disgrace at Scout's school). A picture like this was the first thing that caught my mind when I thought of this event and it is hard to just brush away insults on someone you have the highest degree of respect for. And at the same time that person wants you not to retaliate at all. I think that this is really sad and hopeless and it is similar to bullying but just that it was acceptable to these kids and pretty much everyone apart from the Finchs.