To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter Breakdown

• History/background
• See Atticus is different
• Description of Maycomb
• Dill
• Jem touches the Radley House (dare)

• School

• Walter Cunningham (beat up and come to dinner)
• Brief intro to the Ewells (Burris Ewell)
• Scout tries to convince Atticus she doesn't need to go to school-they come to a compromise
  
• Calpurnia in mother role (IRONY)

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-"     "Sir?-"  "-until you climb into his skin and walk around in it"

• Tree gifts
• Summer and DIll
• Tire Game (Scout thinks she hears laughter)
• Boo Radley game starts

• Back off Radley game
• Scout neglected by boys "girl"
• Dill asks Scout to marry him when they're older
• Miss Maudie tells Scout more about the Radley's
• Attempt to get note to Boo Radley
  • Fishing pole through shutter
  • Atticus finds out during attempt...he's not pleased
• Game revealed to adults

• Try to see Boo
  • Go under the wire fence at the back of the Radley plot
• Mr Nathan Radley shoots at them (thinks it was a black man)
• Jem loses his trousers on wire fence during escape
  • Strippoker with matches is the excuse
• Jem goes to retrieve pants when everyone's in bed

• School-2nd grade
• Jem reveales his pants were mended when he went to get them
• Soap figures in the knot hole
• Hole gets filled with cement
  • Mr Nathan tells children the tree is dying
  • Jem asks Atticus who tells hime the tree looks fine but Mr Nathan knows more about his own trees
  • Innoncence is ruined when the children find they have been lied to

• Mr Radley dies
• Snow in Maycomb
  • Snowman (see symbolism)
    
    • Shows everyone is the same (mud(black) inside and white(snow) outside)
    • unaccetable till white (wider context)
    • coexistance of good and evil
• Miss Maudie's house on fire
• Blanket from Boo

• Find out about Tom Robinson case
• Atticus' self respect (know won't win but takes case anyway)
• Uncle Jack
• Aunt Alexandra
• Cousin Frances
• Scout must learn how to control her temper

"Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win"

• Tim Johnson shooting
• Children want to shoot their air rifles they got for Christmas- "Shoot all the bluejays you want [but remember] it's a sin to kill a mockingbird"
• Jem learns a valuable lesson
  
• Miss Maudie explains about Atticus aka "ol'one shot"

• Mrs Dubose
  • Jem destroys her camelias
  • Jem has to read to her (gets longer each time)
  • She dies and we find out she was a morphine addict
  • Jem recieves a camelia in a box

"[the word niggerlover is something] ignorant, brashing people use[...] when they think somebody's favouring Negroes over and above themselves"

"I wanted you to see what real courage is,instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gunin his hand[...]"

• Jem growing up
• Atticus is away
• Children go with Cal to First Purchase church
• Aunt Alexandra comes to live with them

"I don't want anybody sayin' I don't look after my children"-Calpurnia

• Aunt Alexandra tries to install family pride
  • thinks 'streaks' in families are real

• Scout finds out whatrape is
• Aunt Alexandra not pleased with children going to First Purchase
• Atticus wont's let Alexandra fire Cal (ironic that they can't function without her-they're forward thinking as they rely on a ***** and treat her like family)
• Dill runs away from Meridian to Maycomb

• Lynch mob
• Learning lessons
• Growing up

• Atticus shown as forward thinking
• People going to courthouse for the trial
• Find out about Mr Dolphus Raymond
• Find out Atticus was appointed to the case
• Children go to the Black balcony to watch trial
• Trial starts

• Heck Tate testifys
• Bob Ewell testifys

• Mayella Ewell testifys

• Tom Robinson testifys
• Mr Link Deas interupts
• Scout and Dill leaves courtroom-made Dill feel sick about how Tom was treated by Gilmer

• Meet Mr Dolphus Raymond
• Atticus sums up case for jury
• Calpurnia goes to front of courthouse to talk to Atticus

• Cal gives Atticus note from Alexandra-children are missing
• Judge Taylor tells Atticus that they're in the ***** baclony and have been from the start
• Atticus sends children home for dinner (they could come back)
• Wait for verdict 
• Guilty verdict
  
• As Atticus leaves, *****es stand up in silence to honour him

• Finch family upset
• Negroes send Finches gifts of food as thanks
• Step in the right direction-jury had to think about the verdict
• Mr Bob Ewell spits in Atticus' face and tells him he has it in for him

• Atticus jokes about Bob's attack on him
• Appeal for Tom-nothing can happen to him yet
  
• Scout wants to be friends with Walter Cunningham-Alexandra="NO"
  
• Jem growing up-chest hair and new advice (don't let Aunt Alexandra annoy Scout instead if vice versa)
• Understanding of Boo Radley-doesn't come out because he doesn't want to

"In our courts when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always wins"

"I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks"

• Missionary circle
• Find out Tom's been shot

• Find out how Atticus told Helen Robinson about Tom's death
• Maycomb Tribune article -said Tom was doomed from the moment Mayella screamed
• Mr Ewell said one down, two to go (acording to Miss Stephanie)

• Atticus still re-elected as slate legislature
• Current events assigment in school
  • Hitler and democracy

"How can you hate Hitler so bad an' then turn around and be ugly about folks right at home[?]"

• Bob Ewell get job with WPA-gets fired
  • Blames Atticus for everything
• Mr Link Deas gives Helen Robinson a job
  • She has to aoid Ewell place as they harass her
    • Link walks her home 1 day-tells Bob to stop harassing her
  • Bob follows her to work next day
    • Link tells him off/threatens him
• Flashback to last haloween (Mrs Tutti and Mrs Frutti)
• Prepare for pageant

• Pageant
• Children attacked
• Jem's arm broken badly (links back to intro)
  • Dr Reynolds comes
• Bob Ewell stabbed to death during attack
  • Mr Tate comes to Finches to tell them

• Scout tells adults what happened
• Ham costume saves Scout's life
• Find out Arthur Radley (Boo) saved them

• Scout told to call Boo Mr Arthur
• Atticus thinks Jem killed Bob
  • Tate thinks that's ridiculous and insists he fell on the knife
    • Point is Boo killed Bob but Tate doesn't want to put Boo in the light (mockingbird)

"Well, it'd be sort of like shootin' a mockingbird, wouldn't it?"

• Scout takes Boo to Jem's bed to see him
• She learns his 'language' of body movements
• She walks Boo home but makes it look like he's escorting her to make it look better
• She sees the neighbourhood with fresh eyes as she turns to leave
  • She sees Boo's view
    • She can finally 'walk around in his skin' and understand him