To Kill a Mockingbird

1. To Kill a Mockingbird Chapter 13

2. Characters mentioned • Maudie Atkinson baked Alexandra a Lane cake.. • Miss Stephanie Crawford had long visits with Aunt Alexandra. • Miss Rachel had Aunty over for coffee in the afternoons. • Mr Nathan Radley came up the front yard to say he was glad to see her.

3. Characters mentioned • Young Sam Merriweather: committed suicide.

4. Sinkfield • The History of where Maycomb comes from. • Governor William Wyatt Bibb wanted to make the capital of Maycomb county in the centre of the county. • If he did this Sinkfield’s inn would lose business. • Sinkfield made the surveyors drunk and Maycomb was proclaimed next to the Inn.

5. Maycomb • Existed because of government. • The town remained the same size for 100’s of years because it was far from the river. • The same families married each other. • All the people looked faintly alike. • Each family had a streak (specific characteristic)

6. Aunt Alexandra • Owns a bright green square Buick • They decided she should come and stay with them. • Her missionary society refreshments added to her reputation as a hostess. • She joined and became Secretary of the Maycomb Amanuensis Club

7. Aunt Alexandra • She had riverboat, boarding-school manners. • She upheld all morals. • She was an incurable gossip. • She did not doubt herself. • She was never bored. • If given the chance she would arrange, advise, caution, and warn.

8. Aunt Alexandra • She always pointed out the shortcomings of other tribal groups to the greater glory of our own. • Said every family in Maycomb had a streak. • She was preoccupied with heredity • The longer a family squatted on a piece of land the finer the family was.

9. Aunt Alexandra • She expected Scout to speak to the ladies visiting the house. • Wanted Atticus to tell the children they were Finches and better than other people.

10. Scout • Could think of nothing to say to Aunt Alexandra. • Lied when she said she was glad Aunt Alexandra was living with them. • Thought fine folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had. • Cried when Atticus said he wanted them to think of who they were.

11. Atticus • Returned from Montgomery. • Atticus said Alexandra was doing them all a favour. • Wanted to respect Alexandra and talk to the children but when the children became upset he decided to do things the way he always had.

12. Calpurnia • Calpurnia was not permitted to make the refreshments for the Missionary Society’s meetings.

13. Cousin Joshua St. Clair • A cousin of the Finches. • He wrote Meditations of Joshua S. St Clair • Aunt Alexandra was proud of him. • Atticus said Joshua tried to kill the president. • It cost the family 500 pounds to get him off.

14. Jem • Jem was amused by what Alexandra said about other people in Maycomb. • Said the Ewells had to be fine because they squatted on the same plot behind the dump for three generations.

15. New phrases • Lane cake: layered cake • Amenuensis – someone who writes what someone else dictates. • Heredity- inheriting characteristics.

16. New phrases • Rice Christian – poor people in India and China become Christians because the missionaries give them food. • Governor William Wyatt Bibb- established the capital city of Alabama

17. New phrases • Creek Nation – Native Americans that lived in Alabama

18. New phrases • Caste system: Social class determined by rules. The class and rank or position of somebody in a society