To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee

Awesome Read! 

In To Kill A Mockingbird, Lee discusses a lot of issues - gender disparity, class distinction, race division, capital punishment, rape, The Great Depression, and ethics and morality - as viewed from the perspective of the young girl, Scout. TKAM is one of the best fictional novels I have ever read.

To spice things up, I gave my own titles to each chapter in the book.

Part I	Part II
Chapter 1 - Radley Opening	Chapter 12 - Cal Church
Chapter 2 - Morning Sickness	Chapter 13 - Finch Pride
Chapter 3 - Afternoon Show	Chapter 14 - Dill Flee
Chapter 4 - Vacation Drama	Chapter 15 - Cunningham Encounter
Chapter 5 - Tweet Radley	Chapter 16 - The Courthouse
Chapter 6 - Peep Talk	Chapter 17 - Tate-Bob Witness
Chapter 7 - Thank Cement	Chapter 18 - Mayella Witness
Chapter 8 - Tundra Blaze	Chapter 19 - Tom Witness
Chapter 9 - Landing Tussle	Chapter 20 - Closing Remarks
Chapter 10 - Dead Shot	Chapter 21 - The Verdict
Chapter 11 - Dubose Deadly	Chapter 22 - Tears of Injustice
	Chapter 23 - Gender-Class-Race Divide
	Chapter 24 - Missionary Tea Hypocrisy
	Chapter 25 - Maycomb Tribune
	Chapter 26 - Grace Double Standards
	Chapter 27 - Back to Normal
	Chapter 28 - Bob Attack
	Chapter 29 - Boo Save
	Chapter 30 - Alternate Story
	Chapter 31 - All is Well

English Grammar Punctuation

Notes from Eats, Shoots& Leaves (Lynne Truss)

 

Traditionally punctuation made it easier to read text aloud or to signal a pause. This was especially useful for actors on stage. In modern usage, punctuation serves additional functions such as indicate emphasis, for syntactic reasons or to avoid ambiguity.

Every publication house follows different style guides for punctuation. Additionally, the British usage differ from the American one (e.g. usage of punctuation within quotation marks).

Apostrophe: possessive marker (e.g. Jack's, boy's, boys'), to indicate omission (e.g. summer of '69), indicate time or quantity (e.g. two month's notice), plurals of letters and words (e.g. f's, do's and don't's); no need to use for plurals or abbreviations (e.g. MPs and MLAs) or dates (e.g. 1980s)

Comma: for lists (e.g. Tom, Dick and Harry), for joining complete sentences, bracketing commas (instead of em-dash or parenthesis);

Semicolon and Colon: to indicate pause and emphasis

Exclamation mark, italics, quotation marks (single and double), brackets (round, square, curly, angle)

How to choose between single and double quotation mark?
How to choose among round bracket, em-dash and comma?

Hyphen: to combine words (e.g. pre-train), when a noun phrase acts as an adjective (e.g. state-of-the-art model), to split unfinished words at the end of a line, to avoid ambiguity (e.g. re-formed vs. reformed)

 

Punctuation Marks

• Full stop 
  

  Alice met Bob.
• Comma
  

  Alice gave Bob a pen, paper, and a pencil. 

  Alice, a student, met Bob.
• Semicolon
  

  Alice gave Bob a paper; Bob took it reluctantly.
• Colon
  

  Alice gave Bob a few items: a pen, a paper, and a pencil.
• Question mark
  

  Did Alice meet Bob?
• Exclamation mark
  

  Hurray, we won! Yipee!
• Quotes
  

  ``Come,’' Alice told Bob.
• Apostrophe denotes contraction and possession.
  

  it’s, Alice's, p’s, 7’s, 1990s, MPs
• Hyphen
  

  Does your organization have a by-law?
• Dash denotes comment
  

  Alice will not come - I hope so.
• Parentheses denotes supplementary information.
  

  Alice (a student) met Bob.

English Grammar Punctuation

 

Character	Code Point	Name	Purpose
‐	u2010	Hyphen	To represent compound terms
—	u2014	Em dash	In place of commas, parentheses (use em dash sparingly and instead use the alternatives)
–	u2013	En dash	To denote ranges
−	u2212	Minus	To represent subtraction
-	u002D	Hyphen-minus	ASCII hyphen