To Kill a Mockingbird

1. To Kill a Mockingbird Chapter 14

2. Characters mentioned • Miss Rachel Haverford’s excuse for drinking whiskey every morning is for finding a rattle snake coiled in her bedroom closet.

3. Comments made by Country People • There’s his chillun • Yonder’s some Finches • They c’n go loose and rape up the countryside for all of ’em who run this county care

4. Aunt Alexandra • Stopped talking about the Finch family • Said Scout could not visit Calpurnia • Want’sCalpurnia to leave the house.

5. Jem • Allergic to Scout’s presence in public • Listens to argument between Atticus and Aunt Alexandra • Ask Scout not to upset Aunt Alexandra. • Says the Tom Robinson case is worrying Atticus. • Says Scout can’t hold something for long in her mind because she is a child.

6. Jem • Jem threatens to spank Scout • Jem immediately tells Atticus about Dill.

7. scout • Asks Atticus what rape is. • Tells Atticus they went to church with Calpurnia and asks if it’s ok to visit Calpurnia. • Tells Aunt Alexandra she didn’t ask her.

8. scout • Scout misunderstands Jem’s request. • Scout attacks Jem. • Scout thinks there’s a snake under her bed but its Dill • Wonders why Boo Radley never ran away?

9. atticus • Rape is carnal knowledge of a female by force without consent (law term) • Orders Scout to apologize to Aunt Alexandra • Scout will do as Calpurnia, Aunt Alexandra and Atticus say.

10. atticus • Says Calpurnia will not leave the house. • Atticus sends the children to bed. • Atticus says Scout must mind Jem if he can make her. • Atticus tells Miss Rachel who phones Dill’s parents.

11. calpurnia • She is harder on the children than a mother. • She never lets them get away with anything. • She doesn’t indulge the children. • The children love Calpurnia

12. dill • Is found under Scout’s bed. • He is hungry and dirty. • Left Meridian without telling his mother and father. • Dill can stay for the rest of the summer.

13. dill • Dill first tells a lie of why he ran away. • Truth: he ran away because his parents weren’t interested in him. They were there but never talked to him. • Dill wanted him and Scout to get a baby.