TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Part II

1. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRDPart II Chapter 12

2. Characters Mentioned • Eunice Ann Simpson was once tied to a chair by Scout’s Sunday school class. They left her in the furnace room. They were playing Shadrach (Daniel and the furnace). • Lula – asked Calpurnia aggressively why she brought the white children to a black church • Helen Robinson – wife of Tom Robinson. They have three little children. Nobody wants to give her work because of what her husband is accused of. • Link Deas – A Cotton farmer. • Zeebo: - Calpurnia’s son. Works for municipality. One of four who can read. Superendentant of Music in the church.

3. Characters Mentioned • Alec – had to shut the doors for the collection to be completed. • Carlow Richardson – didn’t give enough collection. • Sister Annette Reeves – missionary society would gather at her house. • Miss Buford – Miss Maudi’s aunt. Taught Calpurnia to read.

4. Jem • Jem was 12 • Difficult to live with, inconsistant, moody, big appetite • Jem told Scout to start acting like a girl. • Jem could do as he pleased. • He acquired a maddening air of wisdom. • Went to church with Calpurnia • Threw his and Calpurnia’s dime into the collection plate

5. Reverend Sykes • Short, stocky man. • Knows his congregation well. • Confronts the people in his sermons when they have been sinning. • Calls Atticus a friend of their church. • Looks after Tom Robinson’s widow.

6. Calpurnia • Had to look after the children. • Decided to take the children with her to church. • Calpurnia bathed the children vigorously for their visit to church. • They were dressed neatly, she said her children would not appear uncared for. • Protected the children against Lula. • Gave them money for church. • Explained linin’ to them.

7. Scout • Was lonely without Dill • Spend most of her time with Calpurnia in the kitchen. • Went to church with Calpurnia. • Is curious why Calpurnia used two different dialects.

8. Dill • Dill wrote a letter to Scout. • He had a new father and Dill would spend the summer in Meridian building a fishing boat with his new father. • There was a picture of his new father, younger than Atticus but with a pleasant face. • He would love Scout forever and marry her when he had enough money.

9. New Phrases • Blackstone’s Commentaries - It is a law book that was written by Sir William Blackstone. The book is 100 years old, so the English would be very difficult. RIGHTS are however liable to another subdivison ; being either, first, those which concern, and are annexed to the persons of men, and are then called jura personarum or the rights of persons ; or they are, secondly, such as a man may acquire over external objects, or things unconnected with his person, which are stiled jura rerum or the rights of things.

10. New Phrases • Octagen soap – The ingredient soap is made off. • Castile – soda soap, hard, white unperfumed soap. • M.E – Methodist Episcopal • Ligthting rods guarding graves – prevents the grave from being hit by lightning, it may wake up the dead. • Hearts of Love hairdressing –

11. New Phrases • Asafoetida – a strong smelling plant • Hoyt’s Cologne – A strong perfume used.

12. New Phrases • Brown’s Mule - tobacco

13. New Phrases • Habiliments – clothing or items of clothing • Petticoat – women’s undergarment. • Cold biscuit • Mardi Gras – Great feast or carnival. • Rotogravure of Hunt’s “The Light of the World”

14. New Phrases • Ecclesiastical impedimenta Obstructions of Of the church • Garish Garden of Gethsemane

15. New Phrases • Navy Voile

16. New Phrases • Linin’ (Lining) : One person reads a line from a hymn and the congregation then sings that line.

17. 1. What meaning of the cartoon in the Montgomery Advertiser doesn't Scout understand? Why does Harper Lee keep inserting these incidents where Scout misses the full meaning of an event she witnesses or a remark she hears? • She does not understand that it is a compliment to Atticus. • It is to show that Scout is still a child. • She wants the reader to see how children interpret things. • The reader can use his/her own judgement in correcting Scout.

18. 2. What purpose is served by the scene between Cal and Lula at First Purchase? List several possibilities. • Although whites have racist views towards the negroes, some negroes feel the same way about the whites. • There are different types of Negroes. • Lula is jealous of Calpurnia’s position with the Finches.

19. 3. Why does Cal speak differently at First Purchase? The narrator concludes that Cal "lives a double life"; is such a life justified? Defend your answer. • Yes. • When Calpurnia is with the Finch family she must do and behave like the Finch family. • With her own people Calpurnia can behave like herself. • No • Calpurnia should have the right to be herself wherever she goes.