The Only Use of
literate
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
- I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste.
p. 19.3literate = able to read
Definition:
able to read and write