Transcript To Kill a Mockingbird

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.
Young
Sam
Merriweather:
committed suicide.
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.
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)
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Calpurnia
was not permitted
to make the refreshments for
the Missionary Society’s
meetings.
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.
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.
Lane
cake: layered
cake
Amenuensis –
someone who writes
what someone else
dictates.
Heredity- inheriting
characteristics.
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
Creek
Nation –
Native
Americans that
lived in Alabama
Caste
system: Social class
determined by rules. The class
and rank or position of
somebody in a society