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To Kill a Mockingbird

Chapter 8

  • After long years, Maycomb County experience winter with snow.
  • The morning Scout awoke to the snow, she panicked and feared that it was a sign that the world was coming to an end.
  • Scout and Jem decided to make snowman but since there was not enough snow, they went over to Miss Maudie's to get some more.
  • Atticus asked them to disguise it before Mr. Avery sees it and gets offended
  • That night, Miss Maudies's house was on fire and Atticus had woken up the children.
  • Scout ended up getting a blanket over her by Boo Radley.

Snowman - symbolizes racism because the snowman was made up of mud on the inside and snow on the outside. Jem and Scout covered the mud with snow after the foundation of snowman was built so that the outside would appear as expected, white.

Miss Maudie's Burning House - symbolizes unity because all of her neighbors gathered together to try to put the fire and save some of her furniture. It also represents kindness because the Finch's welcomed her to their home after her house burned down.

Blanket - symbolizes misjudgment. Since everybody in Maycomb thinks Boo is a bad person, the blanket represents how he was misjudged by everybody. When Scout stood outside in the cold, Boo put a blanket over her to help keep her warm. Therefore, he's not the person everybody think he is, as he is thoughtful and kind.

Discussion Questions

1. Mr Avery blames the winter weather on children who disobeys their parents, smoke cigarettes and those who get into fights. Do you think Mr. Avery's referring to Jem and Scout with this?

2. Where do you think Jem got the idea of using soil to help build their snowman?

3. Why do you think they covered the soil part of the snowman with snow? Do you think this symbolizes something?

4. How did they managed to make the snowman look like Mr. Avery? Was it intentional?

5. Why do you think Atticus asked Jem and Scout to stand outside the Radley house?

6. How do you think Boo managed to put a blanket over Scout without getting noticed or caught?

7. How do you think Scout feels about the blanket?

8. Do you think Atticus will do something about the blanket?

Symbols

Themes

Quotes

Don't believe everything that you hear.

- Everybody assumes that Boo Radley is a bad person as he is rumored to have hurt his father and eats children. But the night of the fire when Scout and Jem stood outside of his house watching Miss Maudie's house burns down, he put a blanket over Scout to help keep her warm. Therefore, the rumors said about him were false because he was nice and kind enough to put a blanket over Scout.

"Jem had a notion that Atticus thought that our activities that night last summer were not solely confined to strip poker. Jem had no firm basis for his ideas he said it was merely a twitch." (64)

- Jem had realized that Atticus had an idea that they weren't only playing strip poker that night but they had been up to something else that involved the Radley house.

"I looked down and found myself clutching a brown woolen blanket was wearing around my shoulder squaw-fashioned. 'Atticus I don't know sir...I-' I turned to Jem for an answer, but Jem was even more bewildered that I am he said he didn't know how it got there. We did exactly as Atticus had told us, we stood down by the Radley gate away from everybody, we didn't move an inch-Jem stopped." (71)

-The night of the fire, it was cold outside from the snofall during the day, Jem tried to keep Scoutwarm but it didn't work. When they went home Atticus noticed a blanket around Scout but they don't know how or who put it there.

Questions

Summary

1. Why does Scout thinks that the world is ending? On what does Mr. Avery blame this weather?

- Scout thinks the world is ending because it began snowing in Maycomb which hasn't happened in her lifetime. Mr. Avery blames the winter weather on the children who disobeys their parents, smoke cigarettes and get into fights, subliminally referring to Jem and Scout.

2. Why do the kids get in trouble for their snowman?

- The kids got in trouble for their snowman because Atticus thinks they're making caricatures of their neighbors, which is very disrespectful. Especially, because the snowman looks exactly like Mr. Avery.

3. What happens to Scout the night of the fire? Who witnesses it?

- On the night of the fire, Scout and Jem were awoken by Atticus and told to go in front of the Radley house, to check which way the wind was blowing and also to keep out of the way. Since it was cold and all that Scout had was the robe, she was freezing cold. At first nobody noticed that Scout had a blanket over her until Atticus questioned it. They all came to a realization that it was Boo Radley who quietly put the blanket over Scout's shoulders. Jem realized that if he had turned around he would have seen Boo Radley,

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