The Car Roof
Watch Your HeadJean Louise must have a goose egg on her noggin—she remarks on bumping her head, or almost doing so, three times during the novel. Come on, JL. Do you need a crash helmet?The first...
Coffee
Maycomb Runs on DunkinThere are two types of coffee in Maycomb. 1. There's coffee with a little c, i.e., the delicious, delicious caffeinated beverage that Jean Louise consumes as if it were water....
Falsies
Booby TrapOkay, everyone. Let's get the laughs out now.Scout wears a pair of fake boobs, known as "falsies," to a dance in one of her teenage flashbacks. The falsies are like the chicken cutlets of...
Color Blindness
BlindnessAt the end of Chapter 10, Jean Louise realizes something pretty crazy-symbolic: All her life she had been with a visual defect which had gone unnoticed and neglected by herself and by thos...