Allusions in To Kill A Mockingbird
Chapter 1
"I said if he wanted to take a broad view of the thing, it had really begun with Andrew Jackson (p.8)."
"Mindful of John Wesley's strictures...(p. 8)"
Simon would have regarded with impotent fury the disturbance between the North and the South...(p. 8)."
"MaycombCounty had recently been told that it hadnothing to fear but fear itself (p. 10)."
"Thus we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin...(p. 12)"
Chapter 2
"When Alabama secededfrom the Union on January 11, 1861, WinstonCounty seceded from Alabama...(p. 21)."
" 'He read in a book where I was a Bullfinch instead of a Finch (p. 22).' "
"...thediaries of Lorenzo Dow...(p. 22)."
" 'It's the Dewey Decimal System (p. 23)."
Chapter 4
"...we were so busy playing Chapter XXV, Book II of One Man's Family...(p. 44)."
Chapter 5
Miss Maudie's face likened such an occurrence unto an Old Testament pestilence (p. 47)."
Chapter 8
Mr. Avery said it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents...the seasons would change (p. 68)."
" 'Hasn't snowed in Maycomb since Appomattox (p. 69).' "
Those Bellingraths'lllook plain puny when I get started (p. 77).' "
Chapter 9
"The Missouri Compromise was what licked us...(p. 81)."
" '...now in 1864, when Stonewall Jackson came around by -I beg your pardon, young folks. Ol' Blue Lightwas in heaven then, God rest his saintly brow...(p. 81).' "
" 'No, I told her about Lord Melbourne (p. 92).' "
Chapter 11
"It was rumored that she kept a CSA pistol concealed among her numerous shawls and wraps (pp. 103-4)."
"I picked up a football magazine, found a picture of Dixie Howell...(p. 107)."
"...when his only son stood an excellent chance of being murdered with a Confederate Armyrelic (p. 108)."
"Jem, armed with Ivanhoe and full of superior knowledge...(p. 110)
"...when Sir Walter Scott became involved in lengthy descriptions of moats and castles...(p. 114)."
Chapter 12
"...Eunice Ann saying she didn't want to play Shadrach any more...(p. 119)."
"...she stuck my head in the basin and washed it with Octagon soap and castile (p. 120)."
"...Hearts of Love hairdressing mingled with asafoetida, snuff, Hoyt's Cologne, Brown's Mule, peppermint, and lilac talcum (p. 121)."
"...a rotogravure print of Hunt's The Light of the World(p. 122)."
"At each seat was a cheap cardboard fan bearing a garish Garden of Gethsemane...(p. 122)."
" 'Blackstone's Commentaries(p. 128).' "
Chapter 13
"...if Mrs. Grace Merriweather sips gin out of Lydia E. Pinkham bottles it's nothing unusual...(p. 134)."
Chapter 15
"...the Maycomb jail was a miniature Gothic joke one cell wide and two cells high, complete with tiny battlements and flying buttressess (p. 152)."
"...we were under the shelter of the Jitney Jungle door (p. 153)."
Chapter 16
"...whose father in a fey fit of humor christened Braxton Bragg...(p. 158)."
"...Mr. Tensaw Jones voted the straight Prohibition ticket...(p. 161)."
" 'Look at all those folks -- you'd think William Jennings Bryan was speakin' (p. 162).' "
"From the other side, however, Greek revival columns clashed with a big nineteenth-century clock...(p. 165)."
Chapter 20
" 'Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal, a phrase that the Yankee and the distaff side of the Executive branch in Washington are fond of hurling at us (p. 207).' "
" '...there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, and a stupid man the equal of anEinstein...(p. 208).' "
Chapter 25
Maycomb had lost no time in getting Mr. Ewell's views on Tom's demise and passing them along through that English Channel of gossip, Miss Stephanie Crawford (p. 244)."
Chapter 26
"...being aholy-roller...(p. 247).
"Little Chuck Little...was halfway through an Uncle Natchell Story when Miss Gates stopped him...(p. 247)."
"The only time I ever saw Atticus scowl was when Elmer Davis would give us the latest on Hitler (p. 248)."