Sec 2E Project Work

Done By: Jing Xiong

Chapter 5

Acid tongue in her head: Acid are very bitter in taste. Someone with a acid tongue is reffered to as someone who tends to speak bitterly or sharply.

Get Miss.Maudie’s goat: To get one’s goat is to make a person disgusted or angry.

Chapter 7

Walked on eggs: To walk on eggs is to walk very carefully.

Chapter 9

As sure as eggs: Something that is as sure as eggs is a sure thing; its bound to happen; just as chickens are sure to lay eggs.

Bowed to the inevitable: An event or occurrance that is inevitable is one that cannot be stopped from occurring. To bow to the inevitable is to realize this fact and resist fighting it. Atticus realizes that, sooner or later, Scout and Jem would be given guns and be thought how to shoot, so he doesn’t try to fight it.

Drew a bead on him: To draw a bed on someone is to aim at or focus on that person.

On tenterhooks: To be on tenterhooks is to be filled with suspense or anxiety.

Set my teeth permanently on edge: To set one’s teeth on edge is to annoy or make them feel nervous the way in which Aunt Alexandra tends to annoy Scout.

Chapter 10

Break camp: Pack up; move on. In Scout’s case Atticus is telling her to put her gun away and quit her game.

Tooth and nail: To fight someone tooth and nail is to fight that person as fiercely as possible. (Literally with teeth and fingernails if necessary.)

Tribal curse: A family curse or, more aptly, an affliction shared by members of a family. Apparently, many members of the Finch family have had problems with their left eyes.

I thought that this picture represents the setting of To kill a Mockingbird as it fits into the description given in pg5 of the book.
In the 3rd paragraph of pg5 of the book- “Maycomb was an old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks, the court-house sagged in the square. Somehow, it was hotter then; a black dog suffered on a summer’s day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square.”
I felt that the picture shows the old town of Maycomb. The picture shows a setting of a quiet house in a hot town. It also show alot of dry grass.

I chose this picture for the setting in chapter one for ”To kill the mockingbird” is because it is very much like the scene in the novel and the people in the picture looks like neighbours chatting away and having tea.

I choose this picture because in the passage, it says that they live in the main residential street in town.The sentence is “we lived on the main residential street in town…” (pg 6 ,line 9). This picture is actually a picture of a court-house and the reason i choose this picture is because it is stated in the passage that Atticus’s office is inside the court-house.The sentence is ” Atticus’s office is in the court-house….”. (pg 4, line 37).

I feel that this picture is the setting of the scene in chapter one because there are fence and balcony which they have their afternoon tea outside and the fence to seperate houses that Dill is standing between it.

I feel that when olden days, the houses have balcony and they always sit outside with neighbours or friends to have tea. This house look exactly as what the olden days houses have and their house distance is very close. They can just go to their neighbour house if they want.

The theme of To Kill a Mockingbird is about human beings of racism happened at America. As a result, prejustice is referring to people such as Tom Robinson and Boo Radley. They are innocent but white people accused them and make them turned into evil people. Atticus thinks that everybody is equal but beause of racism, everything turned unfair throught out the whole story. Espically when Meyella Ewell have no evidence to prove that Tom Robinson raped her, she shows sympathy, and she won the court at last. This is because of racism. Atticus teaches Jem and Scout about racism when he bring his kid to the court. They will know that white people always have the authority to win and other colour people always have the lower authority. In this story, mocking bird represents innocence people because mocking bird sing for us until they die. Thus, to kill a mocking bird is a thing that they kill innocence. Example, they killed Tom Robinson in the end of the story. He is innocent but he died. Throughout the book, Jem, Tom Robinson and Boo Radley is the mocking birds because they have been accused of people’s thinking or hurt by people’s action. For example, Jem was injured because of Bob Ewell. Jem was innocent. Jem’s father, Atticus helped black man in the court so Bob Ewell was not happy with him and wanted to kill his children. Tom Robinson was being accused by raping the white girl but he didnt. Boo Radley in everybody mind is fierce because he seldom appeared outside much. He always hide inside his house. But actually he is a kind person that love children. He always give Jem and Scout things secretly by putting things in the hut of the tree.

1a.) Why did Jem pushed the tyre that Scout was in with all his might down the sidewalk?
1b.) Why does the author want to show this scene?
2a.) What do you think of them acting as the Radleys?
2b.) “Someone inside the house was laughing.” Who was the person? What was the purpose of this line. Does everything that the author write before this was actually to show the sequence of events?

Chapter 10- Vocabs

Manliness (pg 98, line 3)- Qualities that are considered to be a man

Peril (pg 101, line 22)- being in danger

Sheriff (pg 104, line 20)- The chief law-enforcement official of a county or similar governmental unit

Foliage (pg105, line 24)- so many leaves together as if it is a tree

Vehemently (pg 106, line 11)- Extremely forceful, vigorous, or energetic

Articulate (pg 108, line 15)- To speak fluently