Part One Of To Kill A Mockingbird

Part One of To Kill a Mockingbird

Scout F______, whose real name is ______lives with her brother, Jem, and their widowed father, ______, in the sleepy A______town of Maycomb. Maycomb is suffering through the Great Depression, but Atticus is a prominent ______and the F______family is reasonably well off in comparison to the rest of society. One summer, Jem and Scout befriend a boy named ______, who has come to live in their neighborhood for the summer, and the trio acts out stories together. Eventually, Dill becomes fascinated with the spooky house on their street called the ______. This spooky house shows glimpses of the American G______genre. The house is owned by Mr. N______R______whose brother, ______(nicknamed B______, has lived there for years without venturing outside. This is because B______committed a terrible crime which was ______.

Scout goes to school for the first time that fall and detests it. Her teacher is named ______and she comes from ______. Scout can already ______and her teacher disapproves of this.

Scout and Jem find gifts apparently left for them in a knothole of a tree on the R______property. Dill returns the following summer, and he, Scout, and Jem begin to act out the story of Boo Radley. Atticus puts a stop to their antics, urging the children to try to see life from another person’s p______before making judgments. But, on Dill’s last night in Maycomb for the summer, the three sneak onto the R______property, where Nathan Radley shoots at them. Jem loses his ______in the ensuing escape. When he returns for them, he finds them mended and hung over the fence. The next winter, Jem and Scout find more presents in the tree, presumably left by the mysterious ______. N______R______eventually plugs the knothole with cement. Shortly thereafter, a f ______breaks out in M____ M______house, and during the fire someone slips a blanket on Scout’s shoulders as she watches the blaze. Convinced that B______did it, Jem tells Atticus about the mended pants and the presents.

To the anger of Maycomb’s r______white community, Atticus agrees to defend a ______man named T____ R______who has been accused of raping a______woman. Because of Atticus’s decision, Jem and Scout are subjected to abuse from other children, even when they celebrate C______at the family compound on Finch’s Landing. Questions on Part One.

How does Scout describe Maycomb in Chapter one? What are your impressions of Maycomb and its people? Read chapter 8 to help you answer this question.

What is the tone of the first part of the novel? Tone in this case means the mood/feeling of the novel. You might want to consider the age/maturity of Scout, details given about Maycomb, details given about other characters, and the events of the first part of the novel. If you have read into part two, can you comment on the differences between part one and part two? Why do you think we need all the information given in part one?