Chapter 13

Aunt Alexandra comes to stay with Atticus and the children.

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

"I realized that this was not a tactful question (p. 130)."

"...I once heard her tell Atticus that I was sluggish (p. 130)."

"...Aunt Alexandra was positively irritable on the Lord's Day (p. 130)."

"Miss Maudie Atkinson baked a Lane cake so loaded with shinny it made me tight...(p. 131)."

"...she would exercise her royal prerogative...(p. 131)."

" 'It just goes to show you, all the Penfield women are flighty (p. 132).' "

" 'Would you say the Finches have an Incestuous Streak (p. 132)?' "

"...but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was (p. 132)."

"...Winston Swamp, a place totally devoid of interest (p. 133)."

"...because Sinkfield reduced his guests to myopic drunkenness one evening...(p. 133)."

"There was indeed a caste system in Maycomb...(p. 133)."

"...I revived half-remembered tales of changelings and mandrake roots that Jem had spun long ago (p. 134)."

"He sat on the side of Jem's bed, looked at us soberly, then he grinned (p. 135)."

"His curtness stung me (p. 136)."

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

"...she did not permit Calpurnia to make the delicacies required to sustain the Society through long reports on Rice Christians...(p. 131)."

"Although Maycomb was ignored during the War Between the States, Reconstruction rule and economic ruin forced the town to grow (p. 133)."

"...if Mrs. Grace Merriweather sips gin out of Lydia E. Pinkham bottles it's nothing unusual...(p. 134)."

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

"...she traveled in state (p. 129)."