All 6 Uses of
appeal
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
- Jem shuddered. "Like somebody was readin' my mind… like somebody could tell what I was gonna do. Can't anybody tell what I'm gonna do lest they know me, can they, Scout?"
Jem's question was an appeal. I reassured him: "Can't anybody tell what you're gonna do lest they live in the house with you, and even I can't tell sometimes."
p. 78..5 (definition 1)appeal = request
- I think we'll have a reasonable chance on appeal, though.
p. 117..3 (definition 1)appeal = request that a decision be overturned
- That should appeal to your imagination.
p. 140..9 (definition 2) *appeal = be attractive or desirable
- There'll be an appeal, you can count on that.
p. 285..8 (definition 1)appeal = request that a decision be overturned
- Dill was of the opinion that an appeal to Atticus's better nature might work:
p. 292..2 (definition 1)appeal = request
- "If he loses his appeal," I asked one evening, "what'll happen to him?"
p. 293..7 (definition 1) *appeal = request that a decision be overturned
Definitions:
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(1) (appeal as in: appealed for help) a request or the act of asking -- sometimes specifically for help or that a decision be overturned
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(2) (appeal as in: appeals to youthful tastes) attractiveness or desirability; or to be attractive or desirable