To Kill A Mockingbird - Rosetta Stone

  In Chapter 8 of To Kill A Mockingbird, it stated that "Mr. Avery said it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents, smoked cigarettes and made war on each other, the seasons would change".

  The Rosetta Stone is a black granite Ancient Egyptian stone bearing three inscriptions found at Rosetta, Egypt. It carries the a royal decree that established the "divine cult" of Egypt's new ruler, King Ptolemy V. It is is a late example of a class of donation stelae, which depicts the reigning monarch granting a tax exemption to the resident priesthood.

  In the context of To Kill A Mockingbird, Mr. Avery stated that it is because of the wrongdoing of children that led to the change of weather, and claimed that it was written on the Rosetta Stone. I think that the "divine cult"in the context of To Kill A Mockingbird would be the white population, and the "tax exemption" would be the social, political and economic Superior that white people have over black people in the South, as in the South, the "resident priesthood", the people holding power, are the whites.