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To Kill a Mockingbird

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To Kill a Mockingbird

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What's with the title?
'I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird' (p.99)

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What's with the title?
'"Your father's right', she said. 'Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird' (p.99).

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Racial inequality & injustice
  • Divided into two parts:
    Boo Radley fascination & Racial inequality. 
  • Feelings are exposed during the trial
  • Guilty because of his skin colour

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Social Class
  • Colour of their skim
  • occupation
  • financial status
  • education

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Loss of innocence & coming of age
  • From naive to better understanding

"There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible."

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What makes a hero?
  • Different forms of courage
  • Atticus is 'feeble' according to Scout
  • The rabid dog
  • Atticus taking the case


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Gender Roles
  • Scout being a tomboy
  • Realises that she needs to get more feminine
  • Calpurnia & Miss Maudie


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How do we approach the 'n" word as we read To Kill A Mockingbird in class?
we do not say the word even when we are reading the text
We may say the word when we are reading it from the book

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Summary
  • To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee. Written in 1960, it is set in the mid-1930s in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama.

  • Narrated by Scout Finch, a six-year-old tomboy who lives with her lawyer father Atticus and her ten-year-old brother Jem.

  • Scout, Jem and their friend Dill try to make their reclusive neighbour Boo Radley leave his house. Boo has not been seen in Maycomb since he was a teenager.

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Summary
  • Many residents of Maycomb are racists

  • Atticus is asked to defend Tom Robinson, a black man wrongly accused of raping a white woman, though everyone knows he has little hope of winning.
  • The reader sees the trial develop through the childlike eyes of Scout, as gradually both she and her brother learn some valuable life lessons from their father about tolerance, empathy and understanding.

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Setting
  • Maycomb, Georgia
  • The Great Depression - 1933-1935
  • Jim Crow laws
  • Racial tension
  • Published in 1960 at the height of the Civil Rights Movement

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Historical Background
Great Depression

  • Stockmarket crash 1929
  • Lots of families plunged into poverty

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Historical background
Slavery was abolished in 1864, towards the end of the American Civil War, but Southerners still believe in white supremacy.

Segregation exists.

Blacks may not sit in the same sections as whites. They have separate facilities as well, known as Jim Crow laws.

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Jim Crow laws

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Maycomb was fictional and based on Monroeville, Alabama where the author grew up

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Social Inequality / social status 

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What's with the title?
'I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird' (p.99)

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What's with the title?
'"Your father's right', she said. 'Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird' (p.99).

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Main Characters
Jean Louise - Scout-  Finch  
6  years old when the book starts
Daughter of Atticus Finch
Sister to Jem
Mother died
Tomboy, fisty girl

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Jem Finch
10-13 years old 
Brother of Scout 
Son of Atticus 
Big Brother 


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Atticus Finch
Dad to Jem and Scout
around 50 years of age
Lawyer
Kind, honest, patient, smart

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Cal (Calpurnia)
The Finch's cook and general help
Second mother to Scout
Mother to Zeebo
loyal, kind, sometimes very bossy


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Charles Baker Harris (Dill) 
One year older than Scout
Stays with his aunt Rachel in the summer
Father is ...? 
Mother can't really take care of him
Small for his age


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Arthur (Boo) Radley
Neighbour to Scout, Jem and Atticus 

Mysterious and reclusive person with A Past


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Tom Robinson
Field worker
Married with children
Accused of raping a white woman
Atticus is his lawyer

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* note
This chapter does contain the "n" word,. 
 We have discussed this word and that it is bigoted language. 

bigoted =  unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion  in particular prejudiced against or antagonistic towards a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group.

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Chapter 1-2-3
To prepare for the TEST on To Kill a Mockingbird, it is crucial that you keep up  with all the reading. After you have read a chapter, try to answer the questions in the booklet.

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