Allusions from Chapters 7 and 8

Egyptian Wall Art

● "...he went through a breif Egyptian Period that baffled me--he tried to walk flat a great deal, sticking one arm in front of him and one in back of him, putting one foot behind the other.  He declared Egyptians walked that way,"  (p. 79).

Egyptian wall art was very 2-Dimensional and flat looking.  In Jem's class, they must have looked at Egyptian art.  If they didn't, he would have no ideas or assumptions on how real Egyptians actually walked.

● "'Hasn't snowed in Maycomb since Appomattox,'" (p. 87).

Appomattox is a town in Virginia.  The area is most well know for being the site of Confederate General Rovert E. Lee's "forfeit" to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, hypothetically ending the civil war.  This took place on April 9, 1865.  This makes Maycomb County snow-less for 70 years, more or less.

Rosetta Stone

● "'I'll have the finest yards in Alabama.  Those Bellingraths'll look plain puny when I get started!'" (p. 97).


Walter and Bessie Bellingrath opened up their gardens to the public in 1932.  The garden is known for it's exquisite flowers, especially their springtime azaelas.  I'm inferring that Miss Maudie has used her jealousy to fuel her competitive side to say this, even if it is only a joke.  

● "I did not wonder where Mr. Avery gathered his meteorological statistics: they came straight from the Rosetta Stone," (p. 87).

The Rosetta Stone was one of history's first forms of written communication.  Scout thinks that Mr. Avery gets all of his information from there because there were two instances when Mr. Avery referred to it before Scout came to this conclusion.