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To Kill a Mockingbird
Chapter 11
Exposition
Exposition
In the beginning of the chapter, Jem and Scout were faced with the stuggle of having to pass by Mrs Dubose who consistantly insulted them."Jem and I hated her. If she was on the porch when we passed, we would be raked by her wrathful gaze, subjected to ruthless interrogation regarding our behavior, and given a melancholy prediction on what we would amount to when we grew up." -page 114
Characters:
Characters:
-Jem Finch
-Scout Finch
-Atticus Finch
-Mrs Henry Lafayette Dubose
Jem reading to Mrs Dubose with Scout
Rising Actions
Rising Action
Rising Action #1
Rising Action 1
Every time Jem and Scout would pass by she would make offensive comments about Atticus. "'Not only a Finch waiting on tables but one in the courthouse lawing for niggers!'...'Your father's no better than the niggers and trash he works for'"
Rising Action #2
Rising Action 2
Finally, Jem was pushed to the edge and he ended up lashing out in Mrs Dubose's garden. As his punishment he had to read to Mrs Dubose every afternoon. "He did not begin to calm own until he had cut the top of every camellia bush Mrs Dubose owned, until the ground was littered with green buds and leaves...'She wants me to come every afternoon after school and Saturdays and read to her out loud for two hours. Atticus, do I have to?'"
Rising Action #3
Rising Action 3
Once Jem started reading to her, they discovered that Mrs Dubose is a morphine addict and that she gets into these relentless fits. "Old-age liver spots dotted her cheeks, and her pale eyes had black pinpoint pupils.. Somethign happened to her. From time to time she would open her mouth wide, and I could see her tongue undulate faintly."
Climax
Climax
After the time Jem spent reading to Mrs Dubose, Atticus tells him some sorrowful news. "'Jem when you're as sick as shewas, it's all right to take anything to make it easier, but it wasn't all right for her. She said she meant to break herself of it before she died, and that's what she did.'
'Did she die free?' asked Jem.
'As the mountain air,' said Atticus.
Resolution
In the end, Jem recieves a present from Mrs Dubose which was her way of saying that she forgives him. "Jem opened the box. Inside, surrounded by wads of damp cotton was a white, waxy, perfect camellia."
Resolution
Jem finds out that she was a drug addict who has freed herself before she passed
Jem & Scout pass Mrs Dubose's house
Jem snapped and destroyed her garden
Plot
Mrs Dubose makes Jem read to her everyday
She constantly keeps pestering and insulting them
Jem
photographs:
Scout