TKAM: Chapter 1-3 Focus

Things to discuss:

 Describe the Cunninghams
 What impression do we get of school: narrow minded, humiliating.

• Scout rebels against this because she is too innocent to recognize that you have to play the system.  She is the mockingbird teaching the others to sing?

 How Scout is portrayed as a child

• “I’d go off and drown myself ….then they’d be sorry."

 Why does Walter pour syrup on everything and why does Atticus get angry at
Scout for noticing?

• Walter does not get enough nourishment at home.

 Describe the Ewells
 What sort of man is Atticus?

• Fiercely non-racist and a true democrat – law is the king, civil liberties must always be respected.