Friday, August 29, 2014

How does Scout characterize the First Purchase cemetery?

This can be found in Chapter 12.  Scout sees the cemetery when Atticus has to go to Montgomery.  He leaves Scout and Jem with Calpurnia.  They go with her to her church, the First Purchase African ME Church.


Overall, Scout describes the cemetery as a "happy cemetery."  I think that she says this because it has so many different kinds of things that show that it is much-visited.  The graves of babies have burned down candles in front of them.  The newer graves were outlined in colored glass taken from broken soda bottles.

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