To Kill a Mockingbird - Timeline
A brief outline of the passage of time (1933-1935) within the novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
- Created by: MMCH
- Created on: 11-04-13 21:58
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- To Kill a Mockingbird Timeline
- The summer holidays end, Jem and Scout become friends with Dill.
- Summer
- Jem, Scout and Dill invent and play games about Boo Radley
- Summer
- Autumn
- Boo Radley leaves chewing gum in the knothole of the Radley's oak tree
- 1933
- To Kill a Mockingbird Timeline
- Christmas
- Snow before Christmas - mud snowman - black and white = symbolism
- Miss Maudie's house burns down - positive outlook
- Francis taunts Scout at Finch Landing and calls her a "******-lover".
- Christmas
- Snow before Christmas - mud snowman - black and white = symbolism
- Miss Maudie's house burns down - positive outlook
- Christmas
- 1934
- Starts to dispell the children's bogeyman myth in the reader's mind
- Boo Radley leaves chewing gum in the knothole of the Radley's oak tree
- Later winter, February
- 1934
- 1934
- Tim Johnson, the rabid dog, is killed by "One-Shot Finch" for the good of the community
- Later winter, February
- Later winter, February
- Atticus agrees to defend Tom Robinson - we have been prepped in Chapter 1 with Atticus' astutue observation and understanding of justice and the law
- 1935
- Late winter, after New Year, Jem wrecks Mrs Dubose's camellias
- Spring Mrs Dubose dies
- 1935
- Late winter, after New Year, Jem wrecks Mrs Dubose's camellias
- 1935
- End of summer
- Scout starts second grade
- November - Tom Robinson arrested
- Summer
- The trial of Tom Robinson
- Later summer, Tom Robinson is shot trying to escape from prison
- At the jailhouse - Atticus, Jem and Scout stop Cunningham's lynchmob
- Summer
- The trial of Tom Robinson
- Later summer, Tom Robinson is shot trying to escape from prison
- Summer
- After the trial, gifts of food are left out on Atticus' porch
- Dolphus Raymond has a talk with the children
- Ocotber
- Ewell loses his job
- Halloween, Ewell attacks the children on their way home from the pageant
- 'Boo' Arthur Radley rescues the children from a would be murderous attack
- Mid October, cowardly Ewell stalks Tom's widow, Helen
- Ocotber
- Ewell loses his job
- Ocotber
- Scout prepares for the pageant at the school - ham costume
- Ewell tries to break into Judge Taylor's home
- 'Boo' Arthur Radley rescues the children from a would be murderous attack
- Sherrif Heck Tate, states that Ewell fell on his own knife thereby saving Arthur's life and Atticus' conscience
- Ewell is found dead with a "kitchen knife stuck up under his ribs."
- Ewell is found dead with a "kitchen knife stuck up under his ribs."
- Ewell is found dead with a "kitchen knife stuck up under his ribs."
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