Chapter 24

As Scout suffers through one of her Aunt's missionary circle affairs, Atticus returns home with the news that Tom Robinson has been killed.

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

"She carried a tray of charlotte (p. 230)."

"...I heard Mrs. Grace Merriweather giving a report in the livingroom on the squalid lives of the Mrunas...(p. 231)."

"...they were crawling with yaws and earworms...(p. 231)."

"Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension...(p. 232)

"...decided that I meant no impertinence...(p. 233)."

"For certainly Mrs. Merriweather was the most devout lady in Maycomb (p. 233)."

" 'Out there in J. Grimes Everett's land there's nothing but sin and squalor (p. 234).' "

" 'Nothing, Jean Louise,' she said in stately largo...(p. 234)."

" 'Gertrude, I tell you there's nothing more distracting than a sulky darky (p. 234).' "

"...Atticus would let me pump its bellows...(p. 235)."

"...the soft bovine sounds of ladies munching their dainties."

"When Miss Maudie was angry her brevity was icy (p. 236)."

" ' Hypocrites, Mrs. Perkins, born hypocrites...(p. 236).' "

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

" 'People up there set 'em free...(p. 237).' "

" 'I think that woman, that Mrs. Roosevelt's lost her mind-just plain lost her mind coming down to Birmingham and tryin' to sit with 'em...(p. 237).' "

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

"Today Aunt Alexandra and her missionary circle were fighting the good fight all over the house (p. 231)."

"They put women out in huts when their time came...(p. 231)."

" 'We can educate 'em till we're blue in the face...(p. 235).' "

" 'It's never entered that wool of hers...(p. 235).' "