How To Kill A Mockingbird Dialectical Journal

1. Truth: “As Mr. Radley passed by, Boo drove the scissors into his parent’s leg, pulled them out, wiped them on his pants, and resumed his activities.” (Ch.1 p.13)

3. My whole family knew a philippic from my grandmother was brewing as soon as her breath started to shorten.

“It takes a village to raise a child”, is an African Proverb. In other words, it can take more than just a child’s nuclear family to make her grow into who she will be as an adult. This lens is true because even though parents and siblings have a major effect on a child, and how they turn out later on in life, society and a child’s surrounding are what really shapes, and makes them who they are. What a child sees when he or she is new to the world, and doesn’t know everything, effects their behavior, and outlook on their life ahead. This lens is illustrated in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by

20. The new treasures the children found in the knot-hole was a ball of gray twine, dolls made out of soap, a pack of new chewing gum, a tarnished medal, and a pocket watch on a chain with an aluminum knife. Scout thinks it’s Miss Maudie leaving the treasures.

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

This story is told in the first person point of view. The author chose the story to be first person to build a connection with the reader, and to tell stories from their own perspective, since they are more reliable than being told by someone else. First person also allows the reader to create a relationship with the protagonist and get to to know the character by the choices he made and the life experiences he had.

In this passage of the book, Holden is thinking scientifically. This supports the fact that he is smart after all, even though he his failing most of his classes. Often times, a teenager wants something so bad, they come up with crazy and somewhat stupid ideas and plans to help them obtain that something. Maybe this is because he does not want to try or maybe he wants to fit in with others who would not accept him if he was smart. In this metaphor, he is comparing himself the ducks in Central Park when the lagoon freezes over. What Holden is really saying is the fact that he would not know where to go if he stays living in a place full of phonies and rude people. The ducks cannot swim in ice and he will not stay in a school full of fakes.

“Another reason, the simplest, the ugliest, was that this hitherto peaceful congregation of neighbors and old friends had suddenly to endure the unique experience of disturbing each other; understandably, they believed that the murderer was among themselves.” (88)

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

Plot overview: The novel is set in the 1950s. Holden Caulfield is the narrator and the protagonist in the novel. Throughout the novel Holden is not specific about the location but makes it clear that he is either in a sanatorium or mental hospital undergoing treatment. The novel is between the school term in the fall and Christmas time.

Jem didn’t even attempt to sneak past Atticus, knowing that at this hour Atticus would be sound asleep. Jem and I made it to the front door, Jem unlocked the door. A loud squeak was mustered by the door. A loud snore was mustered by Atticus not a second later. After sighing in relief,

As the first chapter of a crazy summer and childhood is set, Scout describes her town and sets a vivid image for the reader. This image describes Maycomb as “… an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square…” (Lee 5). This not only paints a picture for the town and provides a setting for the conflict of Tom Robinson’s case, but also gives the reader insight on the main character, or narrators, feelings about the town.

The baby holding my hand tight looked up me with big brown eyes. His black skin shone in the afternoon sun and the lips were partly opened, just waiting to ask a question. “Mommy, weren’t we going to see uncle Jem today?” The eyes full of thoughts glared, with the mind full of wonder. This makes me stop by, and remind the days in which I looked at certain house with the exact same eyes.