Questions tagged [to-kill-a-mockingbird]
For questions about To Kill A Mockingbird, the book by Harper Lee. Use this tag with the [harper-lee] tag.
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Why do Atticus Finch's children call him "Atticus" instead of "Dad"? [duplicate]
As a Chinese person, I find it hard to understand that Atticus Finch's children call him "Atticus" instead of "Dad" and Atticus felt no disrespect.
I googled it and found someone ...
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What does this excerpt from "To Kill a Mockingbird" about Atticus shooting the dog mean?
From chapter 10 of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee:
Mr. Tate jumped off the porch and ran to the Radley Place. He stopped in front of the dog, squatted, turned around and tapped his finger on his ...
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Meaning of "Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe" in To Kill A Mockingbird
I fail to understand the following sentence:
Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.
"Out of what I ...
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Meaning of "fist-sized clean space on his face" in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'
From chapter 3 of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee:
The boy stood up. He was the filthiest human I had ever seen. His neck was dark gray, the backs of his hands were rusty, and his fingernails ...
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Meaning of 'Yawl write, hear?'
I am currently reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In chapter 6 there is a sentence by Dill. Before leaving, he says
'Yawl write, hear?
What does this sentence mean? Does it mean that they ...
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How does Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird represent the notion of self-conflict?
I hope to get an answer, if I want to write about this topic. How does Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird represent the notion of self-conflict? I am looking for an answer based on psychoanalytic ...
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What is "Miss Maudie's goat" in "To Kill a Mockingbird"?
From chapter 5 of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee:
We saw Uncle Jack every Christmas, and every Christmas he yelled across the street for Miss Maudie to come marry him. Miss Maudie would yell ...
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Why did Dr Buford stay poor (and Jack rich) in "To Kill A Mockingbird"?
From chapter 5 of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee:
Miss Maudie had known Uncle Jack Finch, Atticus’s brother, since they were children. Nearly the same age, they had grown up together at Finch’...
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What is meant by ‘innocent of the adjustments’ here?
I could only look around me: Atticus and my Uncle, who went to school at home, knew everything - at least, what one didn’t the other did. Furthermore, I couldn’t help noticing that my father had ...
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What does the metaphor used here mean?
The remainder of my school days were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed,they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were ...
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Explain "field size" and "bushel of potatoes" in ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’
From chapter 3 of To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee:
[Walter Cunningham] ‘Reason I can’t pass the first grade, Mr Finch, is I’ve had to stay over ever’ spring an’ help Papa with the choppin’, but ...
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What does "entailment" mean in "To Kill a Mockingbird"?
From chapter 2 of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee:
Jem’s nose wrinkled. ‘Are we as poor as the Cunninghams?’
‘Not exactly. The Cunninghams are country folks, farmers, and the crash hit them ...
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What did Scout mean when she said "It takes a woman to do that kind of work"?
In the book To Kill a Mockingbird in the chapter in which aunt Alexandra has come to stay with Jem & Scout at Maycomb county, she has a private chat with Atticus about Scout and Jem not knowing ...
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In To Kill a Mockingbird, what does "let the dead bury the dead" mean?
In the ending chapter of "To Kill a Mockingbird", Atticus and Mr Heck Tate (the Sheriff) are deciding who is responsible for the death of Mr Ewell. Atticus thinks Jem killed Mr Ewell but Heck knows it ...
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Did Harper Lee intend Go set a Watchman to be published?
Despite sharing many of the same characters, the books Go set a Watchman and To Kill a mockingbird portray the same characters in very different ways. I am also made suspicious of how old Harper Lee ...
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