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Chapter 1 :
Family Finch :

Jem :
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Big brother of the narrator (4 years older)
13 years old
plays football
broke his arm, which left him with a strange angle arm
Southerner
Born out of one year of his parents’ marriage

Atticus:
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Father of narrator and Jem
Southerner
Went to Montgomery to read law
Has a sister (Alexandra) who stayed on the family’s land after the death of his parents
Has a younger brother
Went to Maycomb to work in an office in the court-house
Doesn’t like criminal law

Relationship with his kids: he reads them stories, plays with them, treated them with
courteous detachment à good relationship
John Hale Finch:
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10 years younger than Atticus
Went to Boston to study medicine

Calpurnia:
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Probably black
The family’s cook
Lives with the family
Body: thin,
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Near-sighted
Has been with them since Jem was born

Mother:
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Died when the narrator was two
Came from the Graham family, from Montgomery
Narrator doesn’t miss her
She was 15 years younger than Atticus
Died from a heart-attack

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Mr Radley:
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Thin, leathery
Colorless eyes
Charp cheekbones, thin upper lip, full lower lip
His elder son lived in Pensacola (called Nathan)
He was the father of Arthur, the troublemaker
Probably white

Maycomb:
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Old town
Atticus knows everyone there
Pretty poor region, the latest crash got them in trouble

Chapter 2 :

Plot :
o Return of Dill to Meridian in early September
o Narrator starting school a week after he leaves
First Day:
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Description of the teacher: p
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Chapter 3 :
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Scout hits Walter C
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21 & 25)
n Blue eyes
n Wears overalls
n Can’t pass the first grade, because he has to help his father in the fields every
summer
n Poor
Scout’s rude to Walter and the Cook reprimands her
She tries not to be confronted to Walter again, she’s ashamed
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Scout sees something in a tree as she walks by
She founds chewing-gum in the tree, in the “forbidden” zone
Jem finds out and makes her spit it out
They find two pennies in the same tree later on, they are Indian-heads, are supposed to
bring good luck
Dill arrives, tells them how his travel was (p
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Jem wants them to play “Boo Radley” to prove them he is not afraid of him (p
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a note
Dill’s talking about his presumed father
Atticus (he forgot some folders at home) arrives while Jem is trying to put the note in
Radley’s house

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End of the summer à Dill is leaving
Dill wants them to go to the Radley’s
Dill calls Scout Angel May
Explains reasons to do the expedition on page 57
Radley’s propriety:
à has a fence around a large garden, a backyard and a narrow wooden house (p
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Scout feels that sometimes Jem and her don’t understand each other’s logic anymore
He comes back, he is moody, she knows something happened but Jem says nothing

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School starts, 2 grade for Scout, she doesn’t like it but there’s one positive thing : She has to go home at
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Jem is in sixth grade
They live in South Alabama

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80-81)

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Scout fought again with someone (p
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Scout (has bangs, likes to wear overalls) stopped fighting for three weeks à until Christmas
They all go to the Finch’s land for Christmas:
à positive things about going there: they meet their uncle Jack (is a head shorter than Atticus, smells like
Alcohol, has a fat yellow cat named Rose Aymler, has a sharp nose and chin) and there’s the tree
à negative things: Aunt Alexandra (really religious, is a great cook, doesn’t like Scout), her Husband,
called Uncle Jimmy, and their grandson, Francis (8 years old, is mean to Scout and is boring)
Henry, the son of Aunt Alexandra, left the house pretty young, got married and Francis is his kid
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Francis “insults” Atticus while talking with Scout
Unfair: Aunt A
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comfort Francis
Uncle Jack hits Scout to punish her
Scout once back home tells him what really happened
The lawsuit against the black man Atticus defends is started by the Ewells
Scout listens to Jack and Atticus’ discussion and gets caught, because Atticus knew she was there and
wanted her to hear what he was saying

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- wears glasses (almost sees nothing with his left-eye, family shit)
- Scout is ashamed of her father at first and asks people what makes his father special (p
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Mockingbird: oiseau de la famille des moqueurs
Miss Maudie told the kids these birds do nothing wrong, they sing beautifully, and they are harmless
Scout tries to find out what she could be proud of about her father: asks Miss Maudie first, then Calpurnia
Old Tim Johnson (a dog) walks in the streets and is called mad by Calpurnia
So Atticus shot the dog à one-shot : Scout is finally proud of him

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Nomore tormenting Boo Radley
Mrs Henry Lafayette Dubose :
à lives alone with a Negro girl in constant attendance, she is called Jessie
à Really old and sick (is in a wheel-chair)
à Was a morphine addict
à Hates and is hated by Jem and Scout
à Raises her voice at anybody
à is called vicious by the kids
Day after Jem turned 12, they went to the town: Wants to:
à buy a steam engine for himself
à buy a twirling baton for Scout
Mrs Dubose insults them and their father
Jem is so mad he cuts off the top of every camellia bush in Mrs D
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Jem has to help her grow back her flowers, after he cleaned it up
He also has to read to her for a month every afternoon for two hours
Description of the house D
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Description of Dubose’s face (p
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130-131
v Lula is a Negro and wants to know why white people are in THIS church, but most
of the people there want to welcome them warmly
v Reverend Sykes presents the Finch kids and everybody already knows their father
v We learn a little bit more about Tom Robinson:
à He has a wife named Helen
à He goes to this church
à He is in jail
à He has three children
v Scout is introduced to a kind of gospel
v The Reverender tries to collect ten dollars to help Tom’s family, and Scout learns
by Calpurnia that Old Mr Bob Ewell accused Tom of raping his girl
v Black people do lining (singing in echos) because most of them cannot read
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She then
taught Zeebo, taught out of Blackstone’s Commentaries
v Aunt Alexandra was waiting for them on the porch

Chapter 13 :
v Aunt Alexandra already starts to give everybody orders
v Atticus and Alex decided it was time for her to stay at their place for a while, they
said they wanted a feminine influence for the kiddos (=but is that the real reason?)
v Atticus came back too, from Montgoméry
v Alexandra categorizes every family
v Alex invited Maycomb’s ladies at their place
v Alex asked Scout to speak with her cousin Lily Brooke, Scout didn’t even know that
Lily was their cousin
v Alex came with a book their cousin Joshua wrote, and Jem asked if it was the one
who got locked up à less prestigious already
v Story of Joshua: p
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Scout talks bad to her aunt, Atticus gets angry, she apologizes, says she has to go to
the bathroom, and when she comes back, she hears Atticus asking why she
couldn’t go to Calpurnia’s church
Jem and Scout fight because she finds him arrogant
AS Scout is sent in her room, she walks on something, thinks it is a snake and asks
Jem to go and see
Jem says it isn’t a snake, that it is a human being, and Dill comes out
Dill didn’t really tell the truth about how he came there
Jem called Atticus to tell him about Dill, and Atticus is super nice about it
Dill ran away from home, and wants to sleep with Scout
Scout learns that the lawyer told Dill they would build the boat but they never
actually did

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