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To Kill a Mockingbird Assignment #1

Allusions

by: Jacob Carlton

Period 1

  • Simon would have regarded with impotent fury the disturbance between the North and South..." (Ch. 1, p. 8) alluding to the dispute of the Civil War (1861-1865) between the North and South.
  • "Dill had seen Dracula, a revelation that moved Jem to eye him with the beginning of respect." (Ch. 1, p. 9) this is referring to the famous 1931 vampire movie, Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi.
  • "When Alabama seceded from the Union on January 11, 1861..." (Ch. 2, p. 21) also refers to the Civil War where Alabama seceded from the Union to join the Confederates which wanted slaves for labor.

Dill

  • "Dill Harris could tell the biggest ones I ever heard. Among other things, he had been up in a mail plane seventeen times, he had been to Nova Scotia, he had seen an elephant, and his granddaddy was Brigadier General Joe Wheeler and left him his sword." (Ch. 5, p. 63)
  • "'How’d you get here?' asked Jem." "He had taken thirteen dollars from his mother’s purse, caught the nine o’clock from Meridian and got off at Maycomb Junction. He had walked ten or eleven of the fourteen miles to Maycomb, off the highway in the scrub bushes lest the authorities be seeking him, and had ridden the remainder of the way clinging to the backboard of a cotton wagon." (Ch. 14, p. 187)

Aunt Alexandra

  • "Aunt Alexandra was fanatical on the subject of my attire. I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches; when I said I coud do nothing in a dress, she said I wasn't supposed to be doing things that required pants." (Ch. 9, p. 108)
  • “Jem’s growing up now and you are too,” she said to me. “We decided that it would be best for you to have some feminine influence. It won’t be many years, Jean Louise, before you become interested in clothes and boys–" (Ch. 13, p. 170-71)

Jem

  • "Jem’s head at times was transparent: he had thought that up to make me understand he wasn’t afraid of Radleys in any shape or form, to contrast his own fearless heroism with my cowardice." (Ch. 4, p. 51)
  • "I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with." (Ch. 4, p. 54)
  • "Uncle Jack was a prince of a fellow not to let me down" METAPHOR
  • "I maintain that the Ewells started it all..." FORESHADOWING
  • "Miss Maudie stared down at me , her lips moving silently. Suddenly she put her hands to her head and whooped." ONOMATOPOEIA
  • "Professional people were poor." ALLITERATION
  • "'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." SYMBOLISM

Literary Devices

  • "Some tinfoil was sticking in a knot-hole, winking at me in the afternoon sun." PERSONIFCATION
  • "...when our knot-hole stopped us again." PERSONIFICATION
  • "The tire bumped on gravel, skeetered across the road, crashed into a barrier and popped me like a cork onto pavement." SIMILE
  • "She was a widow, a chameleon lady who worked in her flower beds." METAPHOR
  • He said it began in the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us an idea of making Boo Radley come out." FORESHADOWING

Atticus

  • "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." (Ch. 3, p. 39)
  • "You aren't really a nigger-lover, then, are you?" "I certainly am. I do my best to love everybody... I'm hard put, sometimes—baby, it's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you." (Ch. 11, p. 144)

Characters

Scout

  • "Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing." (Ch. 1,p. 23)
  • "'You can just take that back, boy!' This order, given by me to Cecil Jacobs, was the beginning of a rather thin time for Jem and me. My fists were clenched and I was ready to let fly. Atticus had promised me he would wear me out if he ever heard of me fighting any more; I was far too old and too big for such childish things, and the sooner I learned to hold in, the better off everybody would be. I soon forgot." (Ch. 9, p. 99)

Events

  • Scout questions Atticus about defending Tom Robinson, but Atticus tells her that, in a way, that he won't be proud of himself and won't be able to represent the state legislature.
  • Atticus explains that being called a "nigger-lover" is like being called "snot-nose." It's an ignorant and derogatory term.
  • Calpurnia brought the children to her church and Lula felt they had no right being there.
  • Atticus tells Jem to be a gentleman after being chastised by Mrs. Dubose.
  • Jem keeps telling Scout that she is becoming more like a girl, even though she doesnt want to be one.
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