TKAM Notes Vocabulary Eccentric adj deviating from the recognized or customary character practice etc Malevolent adj Having or exhibiting ill will wishing harm to others Indigenous adj originating in a particular region or country ID: 764789
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TKAM: Notes
Vocabulary Eccentric (adj): deviating from the recognized or customary character, practice, etc Malevolent (adj): Having or exhibiting ill will; wishing harm to others Indigenous (adj): originating in a particular region or country Persevere (v): to persist in anything undertaken; maintain a purpose in spite of difficulty, obstacles, or discouragement Tyranny (n): arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power; abuse of authority
Vocabulary 6) Unanimous (adj): of one mind; in complete agreement; agreed 7) Chameleon (n): a changeable, fickle, or inconsistent person 8) Tormenting (v): to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain 9) Teetered (v): to move unsteadily 10) Malignant (adj): to cause harm, suffering, or distress deliberately
To kill a Mockingbird It is in this setting that the novel To Kill a Mockingbird takes place. In a small town, in the deep South, in the early 1930s
Harper Lee (1926-) To add to the complexity of the story, Harper Lee wrote it during a time of even greater social turbulence in the United States. In the 1950s the winds of change began to blow and Black Americans were no longer willing to be treated as lesser human beings.
To Kill a Mockingbird In the Fall of 1960, in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement, To Kill a Mockingbird was published. It shot to the top of the New York Times best seller list. A country was finally ready to listen to the story of segregation and open their minds to the possibility of an America where Whites and Blacks could live together as equals.
To Kill a Mockingbird is written in modern American English, and the style is basically informal, since the narrator is a child. The author, however, does not try to keep within the limits of a child's vocabulary or powers of expression. A wide range of language is used in the novel, and in studying it the first step should be to identify the various levels of style used. This is easy, since the variations in language correspond to the divisions in social class . The African-American dialect differs from the white; the rich whites speak more grammatically than the poor whites; highly educated characters like Atticus and his brother Jack speak more elegantly than town officials like Heck Tate. Style and Language
Style and Language Cont… After listing the varieties of language to be found in the novel you should analyze the author's purpose in using them. First, differences in social class and educational status are revealed by differing use of language. Secondly, individual character is often revealed by distinctive style of speech (as in the cases of Atticus and Bob Ewell). Thirdly, attitudes to moral issues can often be detected by analysis of language, even when the characters speaking belong to the same social class and might therefore be expected to use identical words. You could, for instance, check the terms used by different rich white individuals to refer to the African-American - some say "nigger", some say "darky", some say "Negro", some say "colored persons" - and take the word they choose as an indication of their racial attitude. A minor example of the same type of variation in usage is to be found in the name used by various characters for the narrator. Friends call her Scout; enemies call her Jean Louise.
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