Chapter 12

With Atticus out of town, Calpurnia takes Jem and Scout to her church. They also learn more information about Tom Robinson.

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

"He was difficult to live with, inconsistent, moody (p. 117)."

"His appetite was appalling...(p. 117)."

" 'Reckon he's got a tapeworm (p. 117)?' "

"Overnight, it seemed, Jem had acquired an alien set of values...(p. 117)."

"The beginning of that summer boded well... (p. 118)."

"...he was diligently writing on a slate while some frivolous-looking girls yelled, 'Yoo-hoo!' at him (p. 119).' "

"...that morning it was covered with our Sunday habiliments (p. 120)."

"...Hearts of Love hairdressing mingled with asafoetida, snuff, Hoyt's Cologne, Brown's Mule, peppermint, and lilac talcum (p. 121)."

"Calpurnia walked between Jem and me, responding to the greetings of her brightly clad neighbors (p. 121)."

"She spoke quietly, contemptuously (p. 121)."

"...but the roses on her hat trembled indignantly (p. 121)."

" 'Don't pay no 'tention to Lula, she's contentious because Reverend Sykes threatened to church her (p. 122).' "

"...the church's only decoration except a rotogravure print...(p. 122)."

"...the familiar ecclesiastical impedimenta we saw every Sunday (p. 122)."

"At each seat was a cheap cardboard fan bearing a garish Garden of Gethsemane...(p. 122)."

"It was dim inside, with a damp coolness slowly dispelled by the gathering congregation (p. 122)."

"His sermon was a forthright denunciation of sin, an austere declaration of the motto on the wall behind him...(p. 124)."

"Calpurnia, in her navy voile dress...(p. 126)."

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

"...there were sit-down strikes in Birmingham; bread lines in the cities grew longer...(p. 118)."

"...Eunice Ann saying she didn't want to play Shadrach any more...(p. 119)."

"...she stuck my head in the basin and washed it with Octagon soap and castile (p. 120)."

"...Hearts of Love hairdressing mingled with asafoetida, snuff, Hoyt's Cologne, Brown's Mule, peppermint, and lilac talcum (p. 121)."

"...a rotogravure print of Hunt's The Light of the World (p. 122)."

"At each seat was a cheap cardboard fan bearing a garish Garden of Gethsemane...(p. 122)."

"Bootleggers caused enough trouble in the Quarter...(p. 124)."

" 'Blackstone's Commentaries (p. 128).' "

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

"The Governor was eager to scrape a few barnacles off the ship of state...(p. 118)."