TKAM chapter 15

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Chapter 15 The mob (good VS bad)

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1. Why do Heck Tate, Link Deas, and others come to the Finches’ house? What
do they discuss with Atticus? What do they hope to avoid?

2.

What does Scout mean when she says that “Do you really think so?” is Atticus’s “dangerous question”? 

Look at  Pg. 160 - and page 167

Whose the question aimed at in chapter 15? How do you imagine his tone of voice sounds when he asks it?

3. Why do you think Jem comes to the door to tell Atticus the phone is ringing, when he could have answered it himself? Why do the men “jump a little”? Does Jem understand the conversation the men are having? Why is he scared for Atticus?

3. Why do you think Jem comes to the door to tell Atticus the phone is ringing, when he could have answered it himself? 

Why do the men “jump a little”? 

Does Jem understand the conversation the men are having? 

Why do you think he is scared for Atticus?

4. When a group of men, led by Mr. Cunningham, shows up at the Maycomb jailhouse the night before the Tom Robinson trial, what have they come to do? 

page 167

Why is Atticus there waiting?

How do you think the men’s ideas about justice differ from Atticus’s?

How does Scout “speech” influence Mr. Cunningham and his decisions for that night? She unconsciously points out a moral to the men – that it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird. Who is the mockingbird?

7. What is a mob? What is mob mentality? Is the group of men that Atticus confronts at the jailhouse a mob?

Vocabulary

detractors p.165 = slanderer

succinct p.167 = briefly and clearly expressed.

aggregation p.169 =The formation of a number of things into a cluster

encumbered p. 171= hinder, obstruct, restrict