Unit 6: Selection Vocabulary 2

He waited in amiable silence, and I sought to reinforce my position: “You never went to school and you do all right, so I’ll just stay home too. You can teach me like Granddaddy taught you ‘n’ Uncle Jack.”

When he completed his examination of the wisteria vine he strolled back to me.

“Hey, Mr. Cunningham. How’s your entailment getting along?”
Mr. Walter Cunningham’s legal affairs were well known to me; Atticus had once described them at length.

Mr. Cunningham displayed no interest in his son, so I tackled his entailment once more in a last-ditch effort to make him feel at home.

They also say that when all of Africa is not choking under a drought, Hasodzi lies in a very fertile lowland in a district known for its good soil.

And that, I think, is a very serious problem because it is always difficult to decide whether to keep quiet and not say any of the things that come into my head, or say them and get laughed at. Not that it is easy to get any grownup to listen to you, even when you decide to take the risk and say something serious to them.

What I am sure of is that when I came out of the land of sweet, soft silence into the world of noise and comprehension, the first topic I met was my legs.

At the parade, on the first afternoon, its sheen caught the rays of the sun and shone brighter than anybody else’s uniform.

When we arrived in our village, she entered our compound to show the cup to my mother before going to give it back to the headmaster.

She had the grace of control to appear warm in the coldest weather, and on the Arkansas summer days it seemed she had a private breeze which swirled around, cooling her.

When she chose to smile on me, I always wanted to thank her. The action was so graceful and inclusively benign.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.

I memorized the part about the human voice infusing words. It seemed so valid and poetic.

The essence escapes but its aura remains.