TKM: CHAPTER 1 ANALYSIS

Questions to the Chapter:


1. What do you learn in this chapter about Maycomb, Atticus Finch and his family?
2. Describe Calpurnia as Scout depicts her in Chapter 1.
3. What does Dill dare Jem to do?
4. The townspeople of Maycomb have some fears and superstitions about the Radley place. Describe these fears and superstitions.
5. How important is bravery to Jem?
6. What do you notice about the narrative voice and viewpoint of the story?


Answers:


1. Maycomb, was an poor, old town, in the grips of the Great Depression. Atticus Finch, was Scout and Jem’s father, he was a lawyer in Maycomb descended from an old local family.  
2. Scout said that she was all angles and bones, she had some big flat hands, and she was always ordering her out of the kitchen.
3. Dill dares Jem to run and touch Radley's house that children thought it was enchanted.
4. Children said that Arthur "Boo" Radley was a phantom 6 feet tall that eats cats and dogs.
5. It is very important to him because he is older than Scout and as an older brother he doesn't want to show weakness.
6. The view point in the novel is from Scout's. She is an adult when she is looking back on the memories of her childhood. She is telling the story in 3rd person and since she is older, has a more mature view of what she did when she was younger.