To Kill a Mockingbird Theme/Symbol Review PDF

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD: Theme/Symbol/Character Review Symbols: (What happens to these items and what do they represent? -Tim Johnson (the Mad Dog)/Shooting the Mad Dog They kill the dog because they are afraid it has rabies; it probably doesn’t. It represents Tom’s death to “protect” the town;...

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD: Theme/Symbol/Character Review Symbols: (What happens to these items and what do they represent? -Tim Johnson (the Mad Dog)/Shooting the Mad Dog They kill the dog because they are afraid it has rabies; it probably doesn’t. It represents Tom’s death to “protect” the town; he wasn’t guilty It also shows the “blind” nature of racism (Atticus dropped his glasses) -Flowers: Mayella’s Red Geraniums/Mrs. Dubose’s Camellia Flowers/Ms. Maudie’s Flowers Mayella was just trying to make her life prettier, Ms. Dubose gave a flower to Jem, Ms. Maudie loved flowers despite Baptists Represents the good within people who are seen as bad. -Snowman (how it is made, why it’s called a “morphodite”, how it is destroyed) Snowman crafted it out of mud, then put snow on it, then made it a man and then a woman We are all the same on the inside/ all humans -Mockingbird (and similar references like the Roly Poly, the Grey Ghost, etc.) Represents hurting something/someone who is only doing something good -Ham Costume (what does it mean to call someone a “ham”?, what does the costume do for Scout?) A “ham” is a playful, outgoing child.= childhood innocence Scout’s innocence protects her from evil -The Knothole/Specific items Boo gives the children (pocket watch, soap dolls, etc.)/ Cement Broken pocket watch- time stood still for Boo, town didn’t want to progress Soap dolls= Boo trying to keep the children safe/clean/innocent Cement- Town is stuck in its ways -Broken Arms (Tom Robinson’s and Jem’s) Jem’s was temporary and healed Tom’s was permanent and cost him his life Tom’s race was a “disability”- it held him back from living and being equal Names: (What do they represent/why are they appropriate for the characters?) -Finch- Songbirds - they help the town, they sacrifice for other people’s fear of publicly being non-racist -Atticus (look up “Attica” in Greece) - Attica in Greece was known for its courts/justice system Atticus represents upholding justice -Scout (what does a Scout do?) -Observes and is curious; she’s the narrator -Dill (think of the herb) Blooms in the summer (Dill comes to town) Spice/herb/flavor (Dill spices up their lives) -Arthur “Boo” Radley (look up King Arthur) King Arthur was a heroic knight/king (Boo saved children) Fairness and the round table (everyone is equal/Boo is not prejudiced) -Calpurnia (look up Julius Caesar’s wife) Caesar’s wife adopted his children from previous wives, and took care of them after Caesar’s death -Cares for the Finch children as if they were her own -Bob Ewell (Consider that the letters “w” and “v” in old English were sometimes interchangeable) -Evil Important Minor Characters: Why are each of these characters important to the story? What do they do/represent? -Miss Caroline- Scout’s teacher/ not jumping to assumptions -Miss Gates- -Walter Cunningham (Jr.)- His family didn’t take handouts/poor but principled -Mr. Dolphus Raymond- He pretended to be drunk so he didn’t have to admit his relationships with Black people -Mrs. Dubose- She overcame morphine, still racist and unwilling to change -Mr. Link Deas- He stood up for Tom in court- publicly supporting equality -Mr. Underwood- Newspaper dude- protects Atticus at the jails and writes a story about Tom expressing sympathy -Miss Grace Merriweather- She supposedly cares about African tribal people, but she’s viciously racist in town. Hypocritical and not really “Christian” Miss Gates- Hated Hitler but was also racist- Hypocrisy Themes: Consider FOUR of the following THEMATIC SUBJECTS (COURAGE, GENDER, CHILDHOOD, RACE, PREJUDICE, EMPATHY.) For each one, write a THEMATIC STATEMENT, which is the observation Harper Lee makes about human behavior. Avoid talking about the NOVEL itself, and instead focus on what the novel seems to SAY about these subjects in general. Example for JUSTICE: While the US justice system is supposed to be fair to all people and ensure that everyone gets what they deserve, this is often not the case for People of Color due to the biases and prejudices in society. Symbolism of the paragraph in the first chapter which begins “Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town…” (page 6) In this paragraph, a lot of the issues/themes, etc. that are brought up in the novel are “hidden” in the phrases of this paragraph. Find at least four phrases and explain how they relate to the rest of the novel. “Maycomb was a tired old town”- The town is old and stubborn, old fashioned (racist) “A black dog suffered on a summer’s day”- Represents Tom Robinson- “took the heat” and suffered because of the town’s racism “Courthouse sagged in the square”- Courthouse represents justice, justice isn’t being upheld in the town “Ladies bathed before noon… and by nightfall were like teacakes of sweat and baby powder”- Women try to seem “good”/smell good/have a good reputation, but they can’t wipe off their racism “Men’s stiff collars wilted by nine AM”- People didn’t have courage/backbone to stand up for Tom “In rainy weather streets turned to red slop”- the town collapses under pressure Literary Terms: Diction Connotation Allusion Allegory Theme Symbol Mood Tone Foreshadowing POV: 1st, 2nd, 3rd person Omniscient/Limited narrator Protagonist/ Antagonist IRONY: Verbal Irony Dramatic Irony Situational Irony FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: Simile Metaphor Personification Imagery Hyperbole SOUND DEVICES: Alliteration Onomatopoeia ARGUMENTATION: Ethos Pathos Logos Claim Reasons and Evidence Counterargument Concession Qualifiers Rebuttal Call to action Vocab: assuage predilection taciturn amiable benign malignant ingenuous Peeved Temerity Impassive Cynical Fatalistic Wry Furtive Other: Properly introduced/embedded quotations Parts of a MEAL paragraph To Kill a Mockingbird (plot, characters, themes, symbols) The Allegory of the Den (general plot, symbols) Point, Line, Plane Collinear Coplanar Segment Ray Opposite Rays Postulate Midpoint Angle Segment Bisector Angle Bisector Congruent Types of Angles: Acute, Obtuse, Right, Straight Segment and Angle Addition Adjacent angles Vertical Angles/ Vertical Angle Theorem Complementary Angles Supplementary Angles Linear Pair/Linear Pair Postulate Midpoint formula Distance formula Conditional Statement Counterexample Reflexive property Transitive property Symmetric Property Theorem Proof Unit 2: Parallel and Perpendicular Lines Parallel lines Slope of parallel lines and perpendicular lines Skew lines Parallel planes Transversal Alternate interior angles (and theorem) Alternate exterior angles (and theorem) Same side interior angles (and postulate) Corresponding angles (and theorem) Converses of above 4 Triangle angle sum Exterior angle Remote interior angles Triangle exterior angle theorem Honors Geometry: Vocabulary List Any/All notations are also important to know! Unit 3: Triangle Congruence Congruence Isosceles Equilateral Equiangular Scalene SSS, SAS, ASA, AAS, HL, CPCTC Unit 4: Relationships in Triangles Midsegment Triangle Midsegment Theorem Equidistant Perpendicular Bisector of a triangle Circumcenter and location specifics Circumscribed Angle Bisector of a triangle Incenter and location specifics Inscribed Concurrent Point of Concurrency Altitude of a Triangle Orthocenter and location specifics Median of a triangle Centroid and location specifics Triangle inequality Theorem Relationships between largest side and largest angles for triangles Hinge Theorem Unit 5: Polygons and Quadrilaterals Polygon Interior Angle Sum Single interior angle of a polygon formula Polygon exterior angle theorem Single exterior angle of a polygon formula Triangle, Quadrilateral, Pentagon, Hexagon, Heptagon, Octagon, Nonagon, Decagon, Dodecagon Kite and properties Trapezoid and properties Trapezoid midsegment theorem Parallelogram and properties Rhombus and properties Rectangle and properties Square and properties Coordinate problems! quiz me one at a time on these topics. repeat questions i got wrong. do not add anything to the list. ask follow up questions if im not specific enough