Mugg's Response To The Congressman

Discuss the irony of the following statement and the situation which it describes on pg. 153. “…there fooled what I later realized was a sickeningly comic aspect of an unfunny situation: the men talked in near-whispers.”

At school, Walter does not bring lunch, and because of this, when Miss Caroline asks her students to take out their lunches, he cannot take any out. The teacher then asks, “Did you forget your lunch this morning?” He hesitates, then says he did and Caroline offers him a quarter which he kindly refuses: “Nome thank you ma’am,’ he drawled softly.” He was respectful towards his teacher even though he is poor and cannot afford lunch. Burris comes in hosting a cootie in his dirty hair. Already messy, he disrespects his teacher when she tells him to go home and clean up before coming back by saying, “Report and be damned to ye! Ain’t no snot-nosed slut of a schoolteacher ever born c’n make me do nothin‘! You ain’t makin’ me go nowhere, missus. You just remember that, you ain’t makin‘ me go nowhere!” Before leaving, “He waited until he was sure she was crying, then he shuffled out of the building.” Coming from a family with no mother and a father constantly drunk, Burris has picked up disrespect towards his elders, such as Miss

‘Well do your parents at least know what happened? I mean, am I allowed to know that?’ Because I feel a flash of anger that he won’t tell me something as important as this. ‘Skeeter, I told you I hate talking…’ But then he grits his teeth, lowers his voice. ‘Dad only knows part of it. Mother knows the real story, so do Patricia’s parents. And or course her.’ He throws back the rest of his drink” (244). In this passage, Skeeter is talking to her boyfriend about meeting his parents. He recently came out of a hard relationship with a girl who cheated on him; his parents had really liked this girl. You can see the desperate nature of Skeeter and the annoyance Stuart feels. There is nothing incredibly important about this paragraph, other than the fact it is a great example of the syntax Stockett uses. In some books, the emotion of the character comes after the dialogue, which makes it really confusing and hard to read. Stockett words things in a way where you can tell the emotion of the character while reading the dialogue. This makes the sentences really fluid and easy to read. The whole book has many examples of

The story begins in a courthouse filled with people who spite his father, due to his unlawful crimes. In an effort to prove Abner's guilt, the court asks Sarty to testify against his own blood. Because Abner withhold affection , Sarty feels the need to prove to his father he can be a trustworthy son. Sarty feel that he is required to lie. Sarty says, “He aims for me to lie. And I will have to do hit.” In this moment Sarty feels slight remorse for his dishonesty, but that is quickly overridden by his father. Abner shows no gratitude toward Sarty. Sarty overhears another boy disrespecting his father. With no hesitations he launches for the kid. As the fight continues Sarty hopes that his father is noticing his

In a small town in Alabama, called Maycomb, during the Great Depression, a rape trial is underway. Atticus Finch, a Maycomb lawyer, tries to persuade the jury and other townspeople in the courthouse that Tom Robinson, who was falsely accused of raping Mayella Ewell. In this trial, Atticus speaks directly to the jury to protect Tom and prove to the rest of the town that Tom was falsely accused by Bob Ewell. During the trial of Tom Robinson, Atticus appeals more to pathos in order to prove his point that Tom was innocent by also asking hypophoric questions and relying on anaphoric sentences to reinforce his confident tone.

Just outside the court room, after his father has been dismissed of all the charges, Sarty hears some boys calling his father a barn burner. Sarty quickly slips into a rage and begins a fight with these boys until he is knocked down by them and is taken away from the fight. This is when the importance of blood kin to Sarty becomes very clear. Sarty felt as though he was not just protecting his father's name and honor but also his own and that of his sisters and mother. The reader discovers Sarty knows of his father's guilt which is illustrated in the story by the following few lines "Forever he thought. Maybe he's done satisfied now, now that he has"(Faulkner 163) Sarty cannot complete this thought because it would bring forward the idea that not only is his father a barn burner but also that he has "already arranged to make a crop on another farm before he" (Faulkner 163) once again the reader gets cut off before his thought is completed which is simply that his father has been planning the burnings even to the extent of having a new farm to travel to before the land owner has ever crossed him. It is because of his love for his kin that Sarty is willing to shed his own blood in a fight with these boys even to defend a man that he knows is guilty of everything they have accused him of.

The struggle for Sarty is that he wants desperately to believe in his father’s innocence. But he also knows that the Justice of the Peace’s verdict was not right. He knows what his father has done and he is immensely grateful that he was not forced to testify against him. At this point Sarty is still fighting with himself to remain loyal to his father. He even attacks a “boy half again his size” (Faulkner 6) for calling out “Barn Burner” (Faulkner 6) as they leave the hearing.

- He offered me to take the blame, but I know that did not kill Jill and that man. I could not. I loved Jill - contritely said the man and shut by the hands face. - I saw how he killed her and was unable to help ... no one believes me, and ye believe not. So why come? Convince me that I is guilty? - Tom shouted loudly and dramatically jumped out of bed, his face was purple, his eyes were bloodshot, the veins on his neck swelled and began to throb. - And all because you find it easier to shift the blame on me, than to find the

Miss.strangeworth was very rude to the kids and adults in the neighborhood. On page 4 the narrator gives examples on what the letters said “DIDN'T YOU EVER SEEN AN IDIOT CHILD BEFORE? SOME PEOPLE JUST SHOULDN'T HAVE CHILDREN SHOUlD THEY?” The narrator shows how serious miss strangeworth was about writing the letters to her citizens and how much it means and how real it is to her.

The chapter begins with a story about Rat Kiley’s friend Curt Lemon’s death and that he will be writing to Lemon’s sister about her brother and all of the things he has gone through at war before his death. The tone behind the letter is nothing but disturbing and inappropriate from Lemon’s sister’s viewpoint. There is

Grose. Ambiguity of goodness and immorality characterizes the individuals that surround her, but Mrs. Grose is not corrupted. Mrs. Grose is the governess’ ally and confidante as the novel progresses. “My hand was on my friend's arm, but she failed for the moment, confronted with such an account of the matter, to respond to my pressure” (232). The governess speaks to her with alarm, but Mrs. Grose remains steady and levelheaded in the face of malevolence. Mrs. Grose has been the housekeeper at Bly for years upon years and her goodness has never been diminished by the influence of cruelty. “But she was a magnificent monument to the blessing of a want of imagination, and if she could see in our little charges nothing but their beauty and amiability, their happiness and cleverness, she had no direct communication with the sources of my trouble” (202). All she can see in the children is their positive qualities, a sign that she has not fallen under the influence or witnessed any of Bly’s immorality. Mrs. Grose is a symbol of kindness in spite of

The suspense in this story is the death of the narrator’s daughter, Gracie. That is why she becomes the reason to remember how family ties are important. The central character of the story is the narrator. The conflict of the story is that the narrator’s brother, Sonny, is in jail for taking and selling heroin (Baldwin, 489). The narrator displays his brother Sonny, who is also antagonist of the

Those words seemed to open the gate to her confessions. She explained that when Tom Robinson left, her father came running in after her after going into town to drink his sense off. He punched her, and as she fell unto the ground he took advantage of her.

In this novel, portrayed from a child’s point of view, the author slowly depicts how these deceitful, immoral judgements of others are just unavoidable. To start off, many erroneous views were formed against the oddballs. One of the most severe was of Arthur Radley or, as most Maycomb town

Another particular important Victorian teaching was low crime-tolerance. Once more, a man by the name of Mr. Peter Quint was explained to be ‘too friendly’ towards one the two children. Peter Quint, implied many times to be an inappropriate man by the house’s caretaker Mrs. Grose, was also implied to have an inappropriate tongue. It is later found out to be the reason why Miles, was expelled from school. This fact isn’t highlighted by James’ in the actual novel, but rather a fact the reader comes to figure out gradually despite the governess’s obliviousness. Not to mention, the small fact Miles was also implicated to be victim to some sexual harassment and possibly even molestation by Quint. The governess’s lack of remorse, Mrs. Grose’s lack of involvement in the crimes she knew were committed by the dead folk the crazy governess claimed to have seen, and even the master of the house and his children, all appearing to be