“‘Do you really think so?’ This was the second time I heard Atticus ask that question in two days, and it meant somebody’s man would get jumped. This was too good to miss. I broke away from Jem and ran as fast as I could to Atticus.”

Book: pg. 172
PDF: pg. 153

“I sought once more for a familiar face, and at the center of the semicircle I found one.

‘Hey, Mr. Cunningham.’

The man did not hear me, it seemed.

‘Hey, Mr. Cunningham. How’s your
entailment gettin’ along?”

Book: pg. 173-4
PDF: pg. 155

‘“Entailments are bad,’ I was advising him, when I slowly awoke to the fact that I was addressing the entire aggregation. The men were all looking at me, some had their mouths half- open. Atticus had stopped poking at Jem: they were standing together beside Dill. Their attention amounted to fascination. Atticus’s mouth, even, was half-open, an attitude he had once described as uncouth. Our eyes met and he shut it.”

Book: pg. 174
PDF: pg. 155-6

“I looked around and up at Mr. Cunningham, whose face was equally impassive. Then he did a peculiar thing. He squatted down and took me by both shoulders.

‘I’ll tell him you said hey, little lady,’ he said.

Then he straightened up and waved a big paw. ‘Let’s clear out,’ he called. ‘Let’s get going, boys.”

Book: pg. 175
PDF: pg. 156


Scout’s
Perspective
(What does Scout think is going on?)
Reader’s
Perspective
(What does the reader understand about what is going on?)