QWhat is an "entailmant", which Scout refers to when she says to Mr. Cunningham on the police station steps, "entailments are bad"?
AAn entailment is a situation where the owner of property has limited power over his own property. The technical legal definition is "to abridge, settle, or limit succession to real property; an estate whose succession is limited to certain people rather than being passed to all heirs." In real property, a fee tail is the conveyance of land subject to certain limitations or restrictions, namely, that it may only descend to certain specified heirs. In the case of the film, Scout is referring to what Mr. Cunningham owes Atticus for doing some legal work. At the beginning of the movie he brings to their back porch a bag of hickory nuts as part payment for this work. He says to tell Attitcus it's part payment on his entailment. So, in the jail house scene, Scout is just asking how it's getting along in payment.
QWhat was wrong with Boo Radley?
ANeighbor Arthur 'Boo' Radley's (Robert Duvall) situation was not explored, either in the movie or the book. Some viewers say that Boo is mentally impaired or at least thought so by his family and base that idea on the fact that he stabbed a family member with a pair of scissors. Others point out that the scissors incident was just a rumor and that Arthur Radley was perfectly normal as a kid, just got in with a bad crowd, got arrested, and his extremely religious parents vowed to never let him leave the house again.
QWhat is 'To Kill a Mockingbird' about?
ATold through the adult eyes of Jean Louise 'Scout' Finch (voice of Kim Stanley), six-year old tomboy Scout (Mary Badham) relates the story of her father, widowed lawyer Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) and his attempts to defend Tom Robinson (Brock Peters), a young black man accused of raping and beating white Mayella Ewell (Collin Wilcox Paxton) in Maycomb, Alabama, a racially divided town in the 1930s.
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