To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter 1-8

In chapter five of "To Kill A Mocking Bird", the children vision Boo Radley as a frightening character. Miss Maudie claims that Boo Radley's biological name is Arthur, and he was claimed to be a "foot washing Baptist" and doesn't leave his house. "His name's Arthur and he's still alive"(Lee 43). "You know old Mr. Radley was a foot-washing Baptist"(Lee 44). "Foot-washers believe that anything that's pleasure is a sin"(Lee 44). The evidence proves how "Boo" Radley or "Arthur" Radley was a foot-washer and never left his house. Atticus also views "Boo Radley" a little differently. Atticus just informs the children to stop bugging Boo and to let him live his life the way he wants to. "I'm going to tell you something and only one time: stop tormenting that man"(Lee 49). "What Mr. Radley did was his own business. If he wanted to come out, he would. If he wanted to stay inside his own house he had the right to stay inside from the attentions of inquisitive children,..."(Lee 49). Evidence explains exactly how Atticus wants the children to leave him alone and

Throughout most novels, characters encounter obstacles or events that once faced change their lives for the better or worse. In this book, that obstacle is racism. This is evident in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird when ... ____________________. Due to... ____________________. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Dolphus Raymond, Tom Robinson and Bob Ewell each encounter racism in different ways; however, they all suffer as a result.

The intriguing novel, To Kill A Mockingbird is written by the prestigious author Harper Lee. Lee has utilised the lifestyle and attitudes towards ‘African-Americans" in the 1930's to create a novel which presents the reader with Lee's attitudes and values. The dominant reading of the novel is focused on the issues of racial prejudice, but there are also a number of other alternative and oppositional readings. Examples of this are the Marxist and feminist readings which can be applied to the text.

In 'To Kill a Mockingbird' many morals about the themes in the novel are portrayed through different issues and events. The major themes are appearance vs. reality courage, maturity and prejudice. Each of these themes has an event in the novel that help the reader understand its message.

1) What do we learn about Atticus Finch, his children and the town of Maycomb in the first chapter?

On Sunday, when Atticus has to leave town, Cal takes Jem and Scout to church. They enter the church, sit down, and listen to the Reverend Skyes speak. He talks about how they will all pray for Tom Robinson and his family while he is at court. Scout asks where the hymn books are, and Cal hushes her. When they sing the hymns Zeebo, Cal’s oldest son, goes up to the front of the church. Since the church doesn’t have any hymn books Zeebo has to memorize them and sing a verse to the crowd, which they repeat back to him. Near the end of church the Reverend says that they do not have enough money to give to Tom Robinson’s family. So he closes the church doors and makes the crowd give up ten more dollars to help.

Dill returns to Meridan for the school year, and Jean begins to think about starting first grade. Her first day of school is not what she thought first grade would be like. Her teacher, Miss Caroline Fisher is a new teacher, and is new to Maycomb. Miss Caroline offers Walter, a poor boy, lunch money, but Walter declines because his family cannot pay her back. Jean is punished because she tells Miss Caroline this instead of Walter.

Huck and Tom decided that they needed to plan out, on how to save Jim. Tom talks about how rescuing Jim is too easy, since his uncle trusts everyone on his farm. He tells Huck that there is more honor in having more difficulties, so he wants to add them himself. Huck is surprised to hear this and questions Tom. Tom then talks about what else they will need on their escape. He wants to do everything the harder way. After talking, Tom decides that Jim should cut off his leg to escape, because that how people in the book did it. Huck refuses to listen to his ideas. Tom also wants to give Jim a shirt, and tell him to make a pencil, and write on a journal on the fabric. He advises that jim used his own blood as ink. Huck still refuses to let Jim do any of what he is saying. The two

Atticus Hill cherished and fostered his role as the bad boy in the family. He always dressed in all black, rode a Harley, and had long, shaggy black hair. But now that all his brothers had found their Mr. Right he thought maybe, at age thirty-nine, it was time to look around for a partner. He thought the drummer at the gay bar was sexy, so headed off there to check him out.

We will read chapter 10 in To Kill a Mockingbird. The setting of the story is the 1930’s in rural Alabama where prejudice of skin color is alive and well. Atticus Finch is the protagonist in the the story and he has two young curious children named Jem and Scout. jem is a Boy Scout is a girl. When Atticus is appointed by the local judge to defend a black man accused of raping a white women most of townspeople expect only a token defense. However Atticus believes in giving the black man Tom Robison a fair trial and struggles to see justice done. A separate plot exists in the story as well it is how the children come to accept a mentally ill neighbor.

Imagery of the town (6) - town appears nothing fancy, old & small community, heat of the south reinforced

Radley passed away and he decides to visit the Radleys to apologize for the loss they are experiencing. Afterwards, Jem and Scout ask Atticus if he noticed the flesh of Boo which the answer was no. Jem and Scout had a day off from school due to the snowy weather. There is a fire late at night in the house of Miss Maudie. Atticus gets Scout up to inform him of the fire.

-Summary for Ch. 11-15 (AT LEAST FOUR SENTENCES): In chapter 11, warns the kids to be nice to the old lady that always yells at them to because she is old and sick. Jem starts yells at the lady when she says Atticus is no better that the “niggers and trash he works for”. Jem took Scout's baton and destroyed all of Mrs. Dubose’s camellia bushes. As a punishment, Jem has to go to her house for a month and read to her.

The author starts the story with the summer when Scout and Jem meet Dill, a neighbor who stays in Maycomb for summer holidays. They are intrigued by the local rumors about a man named Boo Radley, a man who lives in their neighborhood

Dill is a boy who visits Maycomb every summer to play with Jem and Scout also is Miss Rachael’s nephew. The Radley place is a house across the street that Jem and Scout find suspicious and weird. Stephanie Crawford is the neighborhood girl who likes to gossip and knows everybody’s family history. Boo is a boy who lives in the Radley house who never comes outside. Miss Caroline Fisher is Scouts first grade teacher.