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Rue, a twelve-year-old from District 11, asked her ally Katniss Everdeen to sing to her as she lay dying. In addition to building strength, involvement in the district's industry also gave tributes knowledge of edible and medicinal plants. Sometime before the 10th Hunger Games, Reaper Ash killed a Peacekeeper in District 11, though he was never caught. In the first ten years of the Hunger Games, District 11 tributes were considered 'contenders' in the competition, presumably due to strength built up by hard physical labor. Little is known of the district's role in the First Rebellion, but when District 11 rebelled against the Capitol, the loss of its crops would have contributed to starvation conditions in the city while it was under siege.

1.2.1.1 Aftermath of the 74th Hunger Games.

This story illustrates the long history of Finch's supporting black people in certain ways despite the fact that they once owned slaves. Taught to read by Atticus's relatives on Finch Landing, Calpurnia has passed her skills onto her own family.

Chapter 12 to kill a mockingbird how to#

When asked about linin', Calpurnia reveals that she is one of the very few black people who knows how to read.

Jem and Scout find the services quite similar to those of their own church with the exception of one thing, 'linin'.' To sing the hymns, the people, most of whom cannot read, 'line' the words by repeating them after one person first reads them. Fortunately, though, the rest of the congregation rally around the group and escort them into the church. They first face Lula, a black churchgoer who does not want white people in her church. Calpurnia takes the children to her church one Sunday morning. She was the bravest person I ever knew' (121).Ĭhapter 12: Jem and Scout learn some important lessons in Chapter Twelve. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. I wanted you to see something about her-I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. Atticus states, 'son, I told you that if you hadn't lost your head I'd have made you go read to her. She did break her habit before she died and Atticus wanted to witness this process. She vowed that she would leave this world 'beholden to nothing and nobody' (120). Dubose, Atticus explains, was a morphine addict and knew she was dying. Dubose dies and Atticus reveals to Jem why he made Jem read to her in the first place. Finally, Jem completes his sanction and life returns to normal. Everyday for a month the children follow the same pattern while the time until the alarm sounds steadily increases. Dubose's nursemaid enters the room to give Mrs. Dubose drifts off until an alarm goes off and Mrs. Dubose's room they find her lying in her bed, 'her face the color of a dirty pillowcase' (115).

Dubose's house and the two encounter an interesting scene. Scout accompanies Jem on his first trip to Mrs.

Dubose everyday after school for a month. That evening the children hear Atticus enter the house and they know they're in deep trouble.Ītticus disciplines Jem for killing the camellias by requiring him to read to Mrs. As usual, Atticus has already heard about Jem's behavior before he returns home from work. Dubose's yard and tramples her prized camellias. The children bristle with anger as they run off to town. She growls, 'Your father's no better than the niggers and trash he works for!' (110). Dubose makes a loud and disparaging remark about Atticus 'lawing for niggers' (110). One afternoon, as Jem and Scout pass Mrs. Dubose snaps at Jem and Scout from her seat on the front porch as they pass. Chapter 11: Throughout the book, Scout mentions an old, mean neighbor, Mrs.