Both Uses of
nocturnal
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
- Once the town was terrorized by a series of morbid nocturnal events: people's chickens and household pets were found mutilated; although the culprit was Crazy Addie, who eventually drowned himself in Barker's Eddy, people still looked at the Radley Place, unwilling to discard their initial suspicions.
p. 9.7 *nocturnal = nighttime
- The Daughters' Staircase was in the ground-floor bedroom of their parents, so Simon always knew the hours of his daughters' nocturnal comings and goings.
p. 91.8
Definition:
active during the night; or relating to night