To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 7-8

To Kill a MockingbirdChapters 7-8 Define COURAGE

“Jem took a deep breath. ‘When I went back, they were folded across the fence…like they were expectin’ me…And somethin--…they’d been sewed up…All crooked. It’s almost like--’” ( ).

“Can’t anybody tell what I’m gonna do lest they know me, can they Scout?” ( ).

“They were almost perfect miniatures of two children. The boy had on shorts, and a shock of soapy hair fell to his eyebrows. I looked up at Jem. A point of straight brown hair kicked downwards from his part. I had never noticed it before” ( ).

Draw a picture of the tree with everything that had been left in the knot-hole.

“ ‘Atticus, if it’s alright with you, I’d rather have this [watch] instead. Maybe I can fix it” ( ).

“Someone had filled our knot-hole with cement” ( ).

“When we went in the house, I saw he had been crying; his face was dirty in the right places, but I thought it odd that I had not heard him” ( ).

“We had two weeks of the coldest weather since 1885…Mr. Avery said it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents, smoked cigarettes and made war on each other, the seasons would change: Jem and I were burdened with the guilt of contributing to the aberrations of nature, thereby causing unhappiness to our neighbors and discomfort to ourselves” ( ).

“Just as the birds know where to go when it rains, I knew when there was trouble on our street” ( ).

“I saw Atticus carrying Miss Maudie’s heavy oak rocking chair, and thought it sensible of him to save what she valued most” ( ).

“Don’t worry, Scout, it ain’t time to worry yet,…Looka yonder…See there, he’s not worried yet” ( ).

“I looked down and found myself clutching a brown woolen blanket I was wearing around my shoulders, squaw-fashion…I turned to Jem for an answer but he was more bewildered than I. He said he didn’t know how it got there, we did exactly as Atticus had told us…Jem stopped.

Define epiphany.

“he’s crazy, I reckon, like they say, but Atticus, I swear…he ain’t ever harmed us, he ain’t ever hurt us, he coulda cut my throat from ear to ear that night but he tried to mend my pants instead…he ain’t ever hurt us, Atticus—” ( ).

“ ‘Someday, maybe, Scout can thank him for covering her up.” ‘Thank who?’ ‘Boo Radley…’ My stomach turned to water and I nearly threw up” ( ).

The Face of Courage • Miss Maudie’s courage? • Atticus’s courage? • Boo’s courage?

To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 7-8