Chapter+11

=**To Kill a Mockingbird Chapter 11:**= By: Brenda and Relja

Summary of chapter 11:
In this chapter scout and Jem are introduced to a new character in the book called Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose short for Mrs. Dubose. To get to town Scout and Jem had to pass her house. Mrs. Dubose was disrespectful, cruel and mean to them. Everyday Mrs. Dubose would always shout at them when they pass by her house. Atticus is a man with manners and always wants his kids to do the same. Atticus warns Jem to be highly polite and act like a gentleman to her, after all Mrs. Dubose is quite fragile and old. One day Mrs. Dubose called Atticus a ʻnigger loverʼ. “Nigger-lover is one of those terms that donʼt mean anything-like shot-nose. Itʼs hard to explain ignorant, trashy people use it when they think somebodyʼs favoring negroes over and above themselves.” (Pg.108) This term made Jem furious which caused him to destroy Mrs. Duboseʼs ﬂowers. Jemʼs punishment was to read to Mrs. Dubose for a month every afternoon to make up for what he did. Scout accompanies him every day. For a month Jem and Scout has to put up with Mrs. Duboseʼs ﬁts and abuse which leads them to dislike her even more. They soon notice that every session taken place each day gets longer by the minute. Mrs. Dubose gets weaker and fragile everyday until Atticus ﬁnds out that Mrs. Dubose was a morphine addict, which meant she had some kind of cancer which led her dying slowly. After the one month of reading, Atticus checks on Mrs. Dubose and is heartbroken to ﬁnd out that she passed away. As it turns out Mrs. Dubose already knew that her day was coming, but she had perseverance which is why Atticus described her as “the most bravest person I ever knew” (Pg.112). The chapter ends with Atticus handing Jem a present which was given from Mrs. Dubose. It was a candy box that held a “white, waxy perfect Camellia.”(Pg.111).

Setting:
-The setting takes place in Maycomb County mostly near Mrs. Duboseʼs house.



Character Proﬁle:
-In this Chapter the Major Characters would probably be Mrs. Dubose, Scout, Jem and Atticus. The minor characters are Jessie and Calpurnia. Some other characters came up during the dialogue of the characters but weren't actually in the chapter.

- Mrs. Dubose is an old lady who happens to be very mean, cruel, disrespectful and judgmental to Scout and Jem or so they think. - “Where are you two going out at this time of day?” (Pg. 100) This means that Mrs. Dubose was always curious and sometimes can be quite nosey. - Scout described Mrs. Dubose when she went into her house and saw her on the bed. “ She was horrible. Her face was the color of a dirty pillow case, and the corners of her mouth glistened with wet, which inched like a glacier down the deep grooves enclosing her chin. Old age liver spots dotted her cheeks, and her pale eyes had black pinpoint pupils. Her hands were knobby, and the cuticles were grown up over her ﬁngernails.” Scout said. (Pg. 106) - “According to her views she died beholden to nothing and to nobody. She was the bravest person I knew” Atticus said this. This showed to a side that nobody could really tell from Mrs. Dubose, no matter how sick she was she still kept going and didn’t give up, this shows that she was strong and had perseverance. - “When Jem came to a word he didn't know. he skipped it, but Mrs. Dubose would catch him and make him spell it out.” This quote represents how she always wants things done her way no highway option which is probably one of the reasons why Jem and Scout don’t like her as much. - “It was rumored among the town that she kept a Confederate pistol hidden under those shawls, but no one knew for certain” The quote means that people might think she’s crazy and is very dangerous and nobody wants to mess with her.
 * Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose (A.K.A Mrs. Dubose):**

- Jem is more or likely a dynamic character as he is growing older and as he’s growing he ﬁnds it hard to deal with cruelty of people and has a hard time controlling his temper which is why Atticus is always there to remind him of his actions. In this chapter he loses control of his anger and crushes all of Mrs. Dubose’s Camellia bushes using Scout’s baton. - “He did not begin to calm down until he had cut the tops off every camilla bush Mrs. Dubose owned, until the ground was littered with green buds and leaves. He bent my baton against his knee, snapped it into town and threw it out.” (Pg. 103). Jem is kind of sensitive and doesn’t let things go that easily especially the mean things Mrs. Dubose says.
 * Jeremy Atticus Finch (A.K.A Jem):**

- Atticus is as always a man who cares and concerns over his kids, he hasn’t changed much. - “When the three of us came to her house, Atticus would sweep oh his hat, wave gallantly to her and say ‘good evening Mrs. Dubose! You look like a picture this evening.” This shows how respectful Atticus is of an old and fragile lady. - Atticus is one of those people that even i someone says something bad about him he tries to think of it as a positive thing and turns it around an example would be after Jem told Atticus that Mrs. Dubose called him a ‘Nigger-lover’ “ I’m hard to put, sometimes- baby, it’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor the person is, it doesn’t hurt you.”
 * Atticus Finch:**

- Scout didn’t really like her as well. “Jem and I hated her. If she was on the porch when we passed, we would be raked by her wrathful gaze.”(Pg.99). She think Mrs. Dubose is horrible and gives a description of her in the bottom of (Pg.106). - Mrs. Dubose always criticized her which left Scout a little afraid of her. - Scout learnt a new thing from her father as they had time to talk about Tom Robinson and the case. Scout asked how he could be right if everyone else thought he was wrong, he told her that "'The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.'" This symbolizes again Atticus’s kind heart.
 * Jean-Louise Finch (A.K.A Scout):**

- Calpurnia is as usual a caring cook who looks out for Scout and Jem and is always trying to get the two out of trouble.
 * Calpurnia:**

Jessie’s only mentioned a couple times in the chapter but she is Mrs. Dubose’s helper/assistant who helps her take her pills and helps her around the house.
 * Jessie:**

Pictorial Bank for chapter 11:


“a Twirling Baton” A short stick or staff or something resembling one, in particular. “ Jem bought his steam engine and we went by Elmore’s for my baton.” (Pg. 102)

“Camellia bush” is, is a genus of ﬂowering plants in the family Theaceae. “He did not begin to calm down until he had cut the tops off every camilla bush Mrs. Dubose owned.” (Pg.103)



A ‘Miniature Steam Engine’ “Jem thought he has enough to buy a miniature steam engine for himself and a twirling baton for me” (Pg.100)



‘Scuppernong Arbor’ are a type of grape native to the South, particularly abundant in North Carolina. “Jem, who hadn’t been near Miss Maudie’s scuppernong arbor since last summer, and who knew Miss Maudie wouldn’t tell Atticus if he had, issued a general denial.” (Pg.100)



‘O.K Cafe’ ‘The O.K Cafe was a dim organization on the north side of the square’ (Pg.101)



‘Coal Oil Lamp’ is “An oppressive odor met us when we crossed the threshold, and odor I had met many times in rain- rotted gray houses where there are coal-oil lamps, water dippers and unbleached domestic sheets.”(pg.106)



‘Ivanhoe’ is the book that Jem has to read for Mrs. Dubose as his punishment for destroying her Camellia Bushes. “I didn’t look any more than I had to. Jem reopened Ivanhoe and began reading.” (Pg.107)



‘Quilt’ is a warm bed covering made of padding enclosed between layers of fabric and kept in place by lines of stitching. “She lay on her back, with the quilts up to her chin.” (Pg.107)



“Morphine pills” these are pills that are used for highly sick people and is a drug that can be very addicting once in use. “Mrs. Dubose was a morphine addict” said Atticus.” (Pg.111)

=Vocabulary words in Chapter 11:=

Melancholy- A deep, pensive, and long-lasting sadness. Apoplectic- Overcome with anger; extremely indignant. Baton- A short stick or staff or something resembling one, in particular. Asylum- The protection granted by a nation to someone who has left their native country as a political refugee. Contradict- Deny the truth of (a statement), esp. by asserting the opposite. Umbrage- Offense or annoyance Camisole- A woman's loose-ﬁtting undergarment for the upper body, typically held up by shoulder straps and having decorative trimming. Inaudible- Unable to be heard. Palliation- easing the severity of a pain or a disease without removing the cause. Confederate-Joined by an agreement or treaty. Abide-Accept or act in accordance with (a rule, decision, or recommendation) Reconnaissance- Military observation of a region to locate an enemy or ascertain strategic features: "low-level reconnaissance".