Characters, Style & Language

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Characters, Style & Language

This Lesson:

Repeat Characters

Style & Language

Continue with the movie

'Scout' 

Jean Louise Finch  

6  years old when the book starts

Daughter of Atticus Finch

Sister to Jem

Mother died

Tomboy, fisty girl

Jem Finch

10-13 years old 

Brother of Scout 

Son of Atticus 

Big Brother 

Atticus Finch

Dad to Jem and Scout

around 50 years of age

Lawyer

Kind, honest, patient, smart

Cal (Calpurnia)

The Finch's cook and general help

Second mother to Scout

Mother to Zeebo

loyal, kind, sometimes very bossy

Charles Baker Harris (Dill) 

One year older than Scout

Stays with his aunt Rachel in the summer

Father is ...? 

Mother can't really take care of him

Small for his age

Arthur (Boo) Radley

Neighbour to Scout, Jem and Atticus 

Mysterious and reclusive person with A Past

Tom Robinson

Field worker

Married with children

Accused of raping a white woman

Atticus is his lawyer

Style & Language

Divided into 2 parts

Style & Language

Divided into 2 parts

Chapter 1 t/m 11

Chapter 12 t/m 31

Style & Language

Divided into 2 parts

Chapter 1 t/m 11

Information about the family - quite innocent about the main characters.

Chapter 12 t/m 31

About the trail and racial prejudice in the South + the (Tom Robinson) trial.

Style & Language

• Modern American English 
• Informal Language (Scout)
• Child vs. Adult
• Whites vs. Blacks & Social Class

"nigger", "darky", "Negro", "colored folk"

‘suh’ for ‘sir’ 

chillun’ for ‘children’

HOMEWORK

Tomorrow

Read Chapter 17 t/m 20 in learnbeat and finish the exercises.

Friday

Continue with the movie

Monday

Read Chapter 28 t/m 31 in learnbeat and finish the exercises.

Film: 59:30