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To Kill a Mocking Bird
Caroline Boudreaux
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Chapter 1
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A. PRIDE IN ANCESTORY AND TRADTION "Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of the Hastings" page 1-2. B. PRIDE IN CONFORMITY, AND DISTRUST OF THOSE WHO ARE “DIFFERENT”- "Boo wasn't crazy, he was high-strung at times. It was all right to shut him up, Mr. Radley conceded, but insisted that Boo not be charged with anything: he was not a criminal. The sheriff hadn't had the heart to pay in jail alongside the Negroes, so Boo was locked in the court-house basement."-page 14 C. RACIAL INTOLERANCE- "The Radleys, welcome anywhere in town, kept to themselves, a predilection unforgivable in Maycomb. They did not go to church, Maycomb's principle recreation, but worshiped at home...I never knew how old Mr. Radley made his living-but Jem said he "brought cotton", a polite term for nothing."-page 11. D. AWARENESS OF DIFFERENCE IN SOCIAL CLASSES- “I never knew how old Mr. Radley made his living-Jem said he ‘bought cotton’, a polite term for doing nothing-but Mr. Radley and his wife had lived there with theie two sons as long as anybody could remember.” E. NARROW SPAN OF INTEREST, AND INDEED ALMOST NO INTERST IN THE OUTSIDE WORLD, THAT IS OUTSIDE OF MAYCOMB- “There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb.”
2. The story takes place in 1935; "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow." We later find out that her brother is four years older than her and Scout’s birthday is April 26, 1926. So you can conclude That Scout was nine years old when the story takes place in 1935.
3. We know that Boo Radley is Scout’s next door neighbor. We also know that she is secluded from the world. Also, that Boo was unjustly charged with murder which led him to be

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