Chapter 2

The first day of school does not go well for Scout.

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

"Jem condescended to take me to school the first day...(p. 20)."

"She had bright auburn hair, pink cheeks, and wore crimson fingernail polish (p. 20)."

The class murmured apprehensively, should she prove to harbor her share of the peculiarities indigenous to that region (p. 21)."

"When Alabama seceded from the Union on January 11, 1861, Winston County seceded from Alabama...(p. 21)."

"...they wore cunning little clothes...(p. 21)."

"...the class was wriggling like a bucketful of catawba worms (p. 21)."

"...were immune to imaginative literature (p. 21)."

"I never deliberately learned to read, but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers(p. 22)."

"...Jem cut me from the covey of first-graders in the schoolyard (p. 22)."

"Walter Cunningham's face told everybody in the first grade he had hookworms (p. 24)."

" '...no church baskets and no scrip stamps (p. 25).' "

"After a dreary conversation in our livingroom one night about his entailment...(p. 25)"

"With Christmas came a crate of smilax and holly (p. 25)."

"Entailment was only a part of Mr. Cunningham's vexations (p. 25)."

" 'If I could have explained these things to Miss Caroline, I would have saved myself some inconvenience and Miss Caroline subsequent mortification...' " (p. 26)

"My sojourn in the corner was a short one (p. 26)."

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

"When Alabama seceded from the Union on January 11, 1861, Winston County seceded from Alabama...(p. 21)."

"...reading was just something that just to came me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around...(p. 22)."

" 'He read in a book where I was a Bullfinch instead of a Finch (p. 22).' "

"...the diaries of Lorenzo Dow...(p. 22)."

" 'It's the Dewey Decimal System (p. 23)."

" 'Here's a quarter,' she said to Walter. 'Go and eat downtown today (p. 24).' "

" 'Not exactly. The Cunninghams are country folks, farmers, and the crash hit them hardest (p. 25).' "