Dialectical Journal For To Kill A Mockingbird

I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and I am on page 36. This book is about the Finch family, which consists of the main character Scout, her older brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus. Every summer, their friend Dill visits Jem and Scout. The family’s cook, Calpurnia, spends time watching the children. The story takes place during the Great Depression, in a small town in Maycomb, Alabama. So far, the children are fascinated with their recluse neighbor, Boo Radley. They are trying to make him come out of his house. In this journal, I am predicting and evaluating.

This was it, a week before halloween, and I’m going to a haunted house with my friends.

A bunch of characters in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird affect other characters. Each character is affected differently. Scout affects a bunch of characters. On page 46, Scout brings out the good in Dill. What I mean by this is that Scout and Dill are really close friends and Dill says he is going to marry Scout. This also affects Scout. Dill says he is going to marry Scout makes her feels joyful. On that page it says “He had asked me earlier in the summer to marry him, then he promptly forgot about it. He staked me out, marked as his property, said I was the only girl he would ever love,then he neglected me.” Dill started to neglect Scout by hanging out with Jem more yes that upset

1)From the rusty window of the second floor, my eyes could easily spot her lying in the lush, green grass. Her small body stretches like a snake. The sun’s rays gently touch her bright yellow-orange fur. Her expression is as calm as the one of a sleeping baby. Once the sun starts to annoy her, she walks into the shadows of the walls and continues her sleeping beauty routine.

When Attic us was walking down the aisle past the crowds of people Reverend Sykes tells Scout to stand up because of her father walking by as the Negroes were doing all around her and on another balcony. (PG. 283)

Everyone else was gettin’ their lunches but I didn’t have none. That teacher Miss Caroline was gonna give me a few cents to go downtown and get somethin’ but I got nothin’ to pay her back. I politely shook my head. I’d never take anythin’ I couldn’t pay back. A girl in the classroom walked towards me. “Walter can’t talk, Miss Caroline. And he’s a Cunningham. They won’t take anythin’ they can’t give back,” “Scout. Who are you to tell me what other people are thinking? If he wants to tell me somethin’ than I’ll hear it from him.” I was afraid. I didn’t know what Miss Caroline was gonna do to me or to the girl. Miss Caroline had pulled the girl with her. I could tell the girl was in great fear.

I, Chapter 24, am obviously the most significant. The others were hardly competition, however, 19 did give me quite the run for my money. I won because I show the message behind the story most clearly. Racism is undeniably present in this town, unfortunately, and my job was to show just how prevalent it is. I believe that I did quite the fine job in passages like this one, “‘Tom’s dead’ Aunt Alexandra put her hands to her mouth. ‘They shot him,’ said Atticus” (Lee 239). Because of the town’s racism, Tom would have never been given a fair chance, therefore, he gave up and was then shot 17 times. If that doesn’t show the town’s usual disease, this passage does, “The handful of people in this town who say that fair play is not marked White Only;

I lifted my cup of coffee and took a sip of it. My eyes concentrated on the newspaper but in my head, I was thinking of what happened yesterday night. As I looked up to see the clock, my eyes went to Jem’s eyes. His hands were wrapped around his cup of coffee, still untouched. I smiled and remembered what happened.

For my page I am going to review some topics of this novel that I loved, and for others that I didn’t, I will give some of my own ideas. I loved when the good guys stood up for themselves. Good guys tend to be more passive because that is what the most correct thing to do is, but when good guys like Atticus, Mr. Diaz, and Reverend Sykes stood up for people with somewhat of aggression it gives you that nice tingly feeling that I love to have when I’m reading a story. Good guys are never getting full out revenge on a horrible person because they don’t have it in them but what they always do is way better because that horrible person is made to feel horrible about himself. That is all I really loved about the story other than the other

I chose this passage because I believe that it explains the title of the book well. The “mockingbird” in this book symbolizes innocence, purity, and peace. Atticus tells Jem and Scout that “it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” Both Boo Radley and Tom Robinson are the mockingbirds. Tom is an innocent man who was accused of a crime which he is not guilty of, and Boo Radley was also accused of a crime where he is innocent. The mockingbird can be translated into innocent man, and the quote would be changed to “it’s a sin to kill [an] innocent man.”

To kill A Mockingbird is a classic novel by Harper Lee, the story is told by an older version of the young girl scout in the novel. The book is about discrimination and prejudice towards certain people. The saying went “it is a sin to kill a mockingbird” because they have done nothing wrong. There were two characters in the book that I think can be considered “mockingbirds”. These characters where Tom Robinson and Boo Radley.

    Throughout time authors have used symbolism to express a greater meaning of things, This allows readers to connect the real world to what they are reading in an abstract way.like philosophers using the dove to represent peace and fire to represent ferocity; in To Kill A Mockingbird  , Harper Lee uses symbolism to make a point about maturity in particular when Miss Maudie gives Jem cake, when scout tries to learn innocence and when scout tries to learn how to see a situation from someone else's perspective.

1) Choose one complex character from the novel. Using quotations from the text as supporting evidence, examine and explain the devices used by the author to create this complex character. Then, describe how this character has contributed to the development of the plot in Chapters 7-11.

In To Kill A Mockingbird racism is present at the Tom Robinson trial. Tom Robinson is a hard working african-american man. He lost part of his left arm in a cotton gin when he was a boy. Since that arm was unusable the jury and everyone in the courtroom knew that the evidence and information about the injuries and rape, caused to the young Mayella Ewell, could not have been done by Mr. Robinson. The

I am reading, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In the chapters 16 through 20 few events happens. At the beginning of the chapters the trail starts and Mayella testifies by saying that Tom ran up behind her and took advantage of her. Then Tom tells his side of the story by saying that she invited him in and tried to kiss him. Mr. Ewell saw them and started to yell at Mayella so he ran off. In this journal, I will be predicting the verdict of the case.