Chapter 11

Jem and Scout learn more about their neighbor Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose.

Vocabulary All page numbers refer to the Warner Books Edition: December, 1982.

"...tormenting Boo Radley became passé...(p, 103)."

"...in a house with step front steps and a dog-trot hall (p. 103)."

"...her reaction was apoplectic (p. 104)."

"...and he went livid when Mrs. Dubose shot us this message (p. 104)."

"Jem...had decreed that we must run as far as the post office corner each evening to meet Atticus coming home from work (p. 104)."

"It was bedecked with sequins and tinsel...(p. 105)."

" 'Maude Atkinson told me you broke down her scuppernong arbor this morning...(p. 105).' "

" 'You should be in a dress and camisole, young lady...(p. 106).' "

"...we were followed up the street by a philippic on our family's moral degradation...(p. 106)."

"...but I took umbrage at Mrs. Dubose's assessment of the family' mental hygiene (p. 106)."

"...what made him break the bounds of 'You just be a gentleman, son,' and the phrase of self-conscious rectitude he had recently entered (p. 107)."

"...he had a naturally tranquil disposition...(p. 107)."

"What Jem did was something I'd do as a matter of course had I not been under Atticus's interdict...(p. 107)."

"He did not begin to calm down until he had cut the tops off every camellia bush Mrs. Dubose owned...(p. 107)."

"We skulked around the kitchen until Calpurnia threw us out (p. 107)."

"She was a less than satisfactory source of palliation...(p. 107)."

"...when his only son stood an excellent chance of being murdered with a Confederate Army relic (p. 108)."

" 'This case, Tom Robinson's case, is something that goes to the essence of a man's conscience...(p. 109).' "

"He set me on my feet, and I made a secret reconnaissance of Jem (109)."

"Perhaps she had given him a dose of calomel (p.109)."

"An oppressive odor met us when we crossed the threshold...(p. 110)."

"...on it were a glass with a teaspoon in it, a red ear syringe...(110)."

"I was expecting a tirade, but all she said was, 'You may commence reading, Jeremy. (111)' "

"Her bottom plate was not in...(p. 111)."

"...I could see her tongue undulate faintly (p. 111)."

"Occasionally it would say, 'Pt,' like some viscous substance coming to a boil (p. 111)."

"Mrs. Dubose would hound Jem for a while on her favorite subjects, her camillias and our father's nigger-loving propensities...(112)."

"...it wasn't so much what Francis said that had infuriated me...(p. 113)."

"Atticus said, 'Just before your escapade she called me to make her will (p. 115).' "

Allusions All page numbers refer to the Warner Books Edition: December, 1982.

"It was rumored that she kept a CSA pistol concealed among her numerous shawls and wraps (pp. 103-4)."

"I picked up a football magazine, found a picture of Dixie Howell...(p. 107)."

"...when his only son stood an excellent chance of being murdered with a Confederate Army relic (p. 108)."

"Jem, armed with Ivanhoe and full of superior knowledge...(p. 110)

"...when Sir Walter Scott became involved in lengthy descriptions of moats and castles...(p. 114)."

Idioms All page numbers refer to the Warner Books Edition: December, 1982.

"Jem had probably stood as much guff about Atticus lawing for niggers as had I...(p. 107)."

"He had a naturally tranquil disposition and a slow fuse (p. 107)."

" '...the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down...(p. 109).' "

" '...but we can't always have our 'druthers (p. 109).' "