Group+1+Literary+Elements+Chapters+12-17

__Vocabulary- Zach__
__ Chapter 12 __

**Alien** -not natural; strange

**Appalling**

- shocking; horrifying

**Austere** -stern and severe

**Boded** -continued

__ Chapter 15 __

**Futility** **-**feeling of being ineffective; uselessness, hopelessness

**Impassive** **-**showing no emotion

**Stifle** -hold back; suppress

**Succinct** - clear and brief

__ Chapter 16 __

**elucidate** - explain

**Fey** -strange; eccentric

**Sundry** -various

__ Chapter 17 __ **Acrimonious** -sarcastic; bitter; nasty

**Amiably** -good-naturedly

**Infinite** -endless

**Quelling** -quieting; calming

**sullen**

**-in this case, gloomy and threatening**

Discussion Director- Brooke
1. In these chapters how does Jem change? He stops being Scouts play friend He basically grew up 2. Who is Lula? Black lady that goes to church with Calpurnia 3. Who is Zeebo? Calpurnia’s oldest son, one of only four people in their church that can read 4. Who is Reverend Sykes? Why is he important? He is the priest at Calpurnia’s church, He isn’t afraid to name names when it comes to sinners in his church 5. Scout finds Calpurnia's church to be similar to her own, except for a few differences No sign of a piano, organ, hymnbooks, church __programs__ 6. What is different about Calpurnia when she is at church? Why does she act this way? She talks like them and not white people talk, because it’s how she is suppose act when there. 7. Explain the __special__ collection taken at church, why is this important? It’s important because Tom’s wife needs the __money__ to support the kids since she doesn’t have __a job__. 8. Why does Aunt Alexandra "come to visit?" She thought that Attics wasn’t doing a good enough __job__ with the kids. 9. "Aunt Alexandra fitted into the world of Maycomb like a hand in a glove, but never into the world of Jem and me." Explain what this means. She fit into the town but not in with the kids because they thought and took everything differently. 10. In chapter 13, Scout says, // "I never understood her preoccupation with heredity. Somewhere, I had __received__ the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the __best__ they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was." // ** What does this quote tell us about Scout's understanding of people, but more importantly what does this quote tell us about Aunt Alexandra? ** It tells us that she doesn’t understand people very well and that aunt Alexandra expresses everything through opinion. 11. In chapter 17, one of the potentially most important facts in the case is revealed. // "Mr. Ewell wrote on the back of the envelope and looked up complacently to see Judge Taylor looking at him as if he were some fragrant gardenia in full bloom on the witness stand, to see Mr. Gilmer half-sitting, half standing at his table. The jury was watching him, one man leaning over with his hands over the railing. // // 'What's so intrestin'?' he asked. //  // 'You're left handed Mr. Ewell,' said Judge Taylor." // ** Why might this be one of the most important facts in the case? ** Because he isn’t left handed he is right handed 12. What was Tom Robinson accused of? Rape