Across
- 3. this type of treatment that Atticus extended to Mayella was interepreted by her as being offensive for some reason. Perhaps she thought he was being sarcastic – or perhaps she never experienced this before in her own home!
- 5. the offensive way in which the racist lawyer Mr. Gilmer addresses Tom Robinson in the courtroom
- 7. The way in which the black community honors Atticus after the trial
- 10. Dolphus Raymond drink coke out of this to make townsfolk think he is an alcoholic and rather strange
- 11. the fancy term for a persuasive, sequential argument that serves an editorial paper well (in addition to convincing arguments in courts of law
- 13. Perhaps the best “genre” label for Harper Lee’s book “To Kill a Mockingbird”; Some call this a “novel of education”
- 14. Scout somehow diffused this with her childhood innocence on the courthouse lawn – and perhaps by “putting faces” on the otherwise anonymous characters gathered there
- 16. Atticus in his closing remarks says that there are a lot of inequities in life and society, but that the court system should be the “Great ___________”
- 19. The job that Dill says he’s going to get – something he says quite cynically and sarcastically after witnessing the horrible decision of the jurors
- 20. What Bob Ewell does to Atticus – a severe, offensive (and gross!) act of hatred
- 23. After all the evidence is in it appears that whoever beat Mayella, it was someone who was this….
Down
- 1. The name of one particular juror who potentially wanted to acquit Tom – the one that was the cause for a longer-than-expected deliberation.
- 2. Atticus acknowledges sympathy for this sad condition in the Ewell home, but he says it should never be an extend so far as to allow an innocent man to go to jail (or his death!)
- 4. the length of the jury deliberation that surprised some people
- 6. The code of the south that probably explained why the blacks all had to sit in the balcony of the courthouse
- 8. The name given to the segregation laws in the south
- 9. What is found under Bob Ewell’s rib cage
- 10. The strange man who is standing in Jem’s bedroom – probably the “country man” that helped rescue him and carry him to the house
- 12. What seems to be the defining characteristic of the true culprit in the case of Miss Mayella
- 15. Who refuses to drag Boo Radely to court for what happened the night of the Halloween Pageant?
- 17. the reason Tom Robinson would never get a second trial or an appeal of some sort
- 18. To kill a helpless bird or anything that doesn’t do anything but add beauty to the world is considered this by Heck Tate
- 21. what Scout tends to be both in and out of costume
- 22. In a state of confusion and shock, Atticus seems to think that this person killed Bob Ewell