CHAPTER AND SUMMARY
SCENE (What happens in this scene?)
e.g. Scene 1, Scout is playing outside when a farmer
front yard comes to the house to pay her father
opening scene with goods rather than money. Jem
refuses to come down from the
treehouse until Atticus promises to play
football for the Methodist’s. Jem and
Scout meet Dill for the first time and tell
him about their neighbour – ‘the
meanest man’.
CHARACTER MOTIVATIONS
(What more do we learn
about the characters?)
Atticus is a generous lawyer –
he doesn’t want to embarrass
the farmer about his payment.
Jem is a boys boy – likes guns
and football and scaring his
new friend ‘Dill’.
Dill is a little odd. He’s well
dressed and clean which
suggests wealth.
THEMES AND ISSUES
RAISED
The issue of the Wall Street
Crash [the Great
Depression]. Everyone is
poor.
QUOTATIONS AND FILM [leave blank]
TECHNIQUES
Suspenseful music began
playing when ‘the meanest
man’ walked past.
“There’s no hurry, for there’s
nowhere to go, and nothing
to buy… and no money to
buy it with. Although
Maycomb Country had
recently been told that it had
nothing to fear but fear
itself.”