To Kill A Mocking Bird Chapter By Chapter Questions and Answers Graded A+
1. Who is the narrator of the novel? What type of narration is used? - The narrator of the novel is Scout and first person point of view is the n
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To Kill A Mocking Bird Chapter By Chapter Questions and Answers Graded A+
1. Who is the narrator of the novel? What type of narration is used? - The narrator of the novel is Scout and first person point of view is the narration during the novel.
2. The narrator begins her story by giving the reader background information. What does the narrator reveal about her family history in the first several pages? - The family history is dirty, slow, boring, and tired (gloomy) while there's nothing to buy and no money to buy it with.
3. The novel is set in Maycomb, Alabama, in the 1930's, during the Great Depression. What indicates that most of the towns people are poor? - Her relative Simon Finch found land, grew cotton, and continued to live on the land until Atticus Finch came along, which indicates that the towns people are poor.
4. How does Scout describe the way she and her brother feel about their father? - Scout says he reads to them and respects them, though he treats them with "courteous detachment" meaning he was polite to them but a little distant.
5. What happened to Scout and Jem's mother? - She died early of a heart attack.
6. Who is Calpurnia? How does Scout describe her? Identify a simile that she uses in her description.
(simile is compares 2 things that are alike in some way. To identify a simile it uses "like" or "as".) - Calpurnia is the house maid and was all angles and bones, slim, near sighted, and African American. On simile was, "her hand was as wide as a bed slat and twice as hard."
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