Chapter 16

Tom Robinson's trial begins.

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

"Local opinion held Mr. Underwood to be an intense, profane little man, whose father in a fey fit of humor christened Braxton Bragg...(p. 158)."

"I was beginning to notice a subtle change in my father these days...(p. 159)."

" 'First day Walter comes back to school'll be his last,' I affirmed (p. 160)."

" 'Yonder's some Mennonites,' Jem said to Dill (p. 161)."

"She was now standing arms akimbo...(p. 161)."

"...Miss Maudie's command of Scripture was formidable (p. 161)."

" 'Better be careful he doesn't hand you a subpoena (p. 162)."

"We asked Miss Maudie to elucidate...(p. 162)."

"There were few women and children among them, which seemed to dispel the holiday mood (p. 164)."

"...one passed sundry sunless county cubbyholes...(p. 165)."

"This was a group of white-shirted, khaki-trousered, suspendered old men...(p. 165)."

"The circuit solicitor and another man...(p. 167)."

"Judge Taylor looked like most judges I had ever seen: amiable, white-hair, slightly ruddy-faced...(p. 167)."

"After nine hours of listening to the eccentricities of Old Sarum's inhabitants...(p. 167)."

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

"...whose father in a fey fit of humor christened Braxton Bragg...(p. 158)."

"...Mr. Tensaw Jones voted the straight Prohibition ticket...(p. 161)."

" 'Look at all those folks -- you'd think William Jennings Bryan was speakin' (p. 162).' "

" '...but for all he knows we mighta come straight out of Ethiopia durin' the Old Testament (p. 164).' "

"From the other side, however, Greek revival columns clashed with a big nineteenth-century clock...(p. 165)."

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

" 'Mr. Cunningham's basically a good man,' he said, 'he just has blind spots along with the rest of us (p. 159).' "