Both Uses of
immune
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
- Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from the time they were able to walk, were immune to imaginative literature.
p. 18.9 *immune = resistant (not influenced or affected by)
- I was fairly sure Boo Radley was inside that house, but I couldn't prove it, and felt it best to keep my mouth shut or I would be accused of believing in Hot Steams, phenomena I was immune to in the daytime.
p. 43.7immune = not susceptible (not affected by)
Definition:
not in danger of being affected by something -- especially a disease
or:
relating to disease resistance
or:
relating to disease resistance