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To Kill a Mockingbird. Chapters 5-8. Chapter Five Questions. Describe Miss Maudie Atkinson. How typical is she of Maycomb women? What do the children think of her? Compare and contrast what Miss Maudie tells the children about Boo with their preconceived notions.
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To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 5-8
Chapter Five Questions • Describe Miss Maudie Atkinson. How typical is she of Maycomb women? What do the children think of her? • Compare and contrast what Miss Maudie tells the children about Boo with their preconceived notions. • Why does Dill tell “stories”? • Why does Atticus not want the children to play the Boo Radley game?
Chapter Six Questions • Why does Scout disapprove of Jem and Dill’s plan to look in the Radley windows? • What does Nathan Radley know about the intruders in the garden? • Why does Miss Stephanie refer to a “negro” over whose head Mr. Radley has fired? • Why does Dill’s explanation of Jem’s state of dress almost land him in trouble?
Chapter Seven Questions • When Jem gets his trousers back, what is strange? • How is Jem more understanding of Boo Radley than Scout? • Does Jem fear the gifts in the tree? Why or why not? • Why are the children prevented from sending a letter to the person who leaves the gifts? Who do you think this person is?
Chapter Eight Questions • Why does Scout quiz Atticus about his visit to the Radley house? How much does Atticus tell her? • What is the “near libel” that Jem puts in the front yard? How do Maudie and Atticus react to it? • Why does Atticus save Miss Maudie’s oak rocker? • What does Jem realize about the blanket around Scout? • What does Atticus mean when he tells Jem not to allow his discovery to inspire him to further glory?
Quotations • 1. “ You are too young to understand it, but sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of --oh, of your father.” • 2. “ See what you’ve done? Hasn’t snowed in Maycomb since Appomattox. It’s bad children like you makes the seasons change.” • 3. “ Son, I can’t tell what you’re going to be--an engineer, a lawyer, or a portrait painter. You’ve perpetrated a near libel here in the front yard. We’ve got to disguise this fellow.” • 4. “ Scout, I’m tellin’ you for the last time, shut your trap or go home--I declare to the Lord you’re getting’ more like a girl every day!”
The Novel as a genre • Genre, when applied to literature, means type or format. There are several literary genres: short story, poetry, drama, and of course, the novel. • The word novel means “NEW”. When novels began, it was the newest literary genre. Short stories are newer forms. • The novel is a long narrative in prose.
The Novel as a genre • Predecessors of the novel include PICARESQUES, which were loosely connected narrative adventure stories • Examples of PICARESQUES include Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales” and Cervantes’ “Don Quixote”. • To Kill a Mockingbird is a BILDUNGSROMAN, a story wherein a young person matures.
