Chapter 14: The incident with Atticus and the Kids was enough to make Aunt Alexandra shut up about the Finch Family Pride, just in time for Scout to get some hints that the townspeople are obsessed with the Finch Family Shame. After hearing a comment around town, Scout asks Atticus what rape is.Atticus tells her it is a "carnal knowledge of a female by force and without consent”. Scout doesn't understand the definition and asks Atticus why Calpurnia wouldn't explain it to her, leading to story about how Calpurnia took Scout and Jem to her church. Aunt Alexandra doesn’t like this idea, and tells Scout “no” when Scout asks Atticus if she can visit Calpurnia. Scout talks back to her aunt and then after hides in the bathroom,to later return to overhear her aunt and father arguing …show more content…
Jem tries to act mature by telling Scout not to get on her aunt's nerves, but little sis doesn't want her brother telling her what to do, naturally this ends in a fist-fight until they make up when they overhear Aunt Alexandra speaking badly yet again about how they live. On the way to bed, Scout steps on something. Snake? Nope. It's Dill. And he's very hungry. Dill tells a story about how he escaped from his evil new father and a crazy journey to Maycomb. Scout brings him half a pan of cornbread and a glass of milk. Jem breaks the no-tattling rule of childhood to tell Atticus about Dill which shows his maturity. After Scout has been asleep for a while, she wakes up to find Dill in her in bed. They just talk about families and how he felt like his mom and her new boyfriend weren't paying him any attention and didn't want him around. Scout explains how her problem is that her family pays her too much attention, but realizes that she would hate it if even more if she didn't feel like they needed her. Dill says that he and Scout should get themselves a baby and tells her a story about where babies come
Dill is another character that is innocent and unaware of the corruption in the world, just like Scout. However, he knows a bit more of the world and its corruption than Scout. He understands very little of how everything works. Because of Dill’s personality this song can relate towards him because it is either do or die. For example, when Dill suggested to sneak around Boo Radley’s home.
What does Jem tell Scout she should do when dealing with Aunt Alexandra and how does she react to this suggestion?
-Summary for Ch. 11-15 (AT LEAST FOUR SENTENCES): In chapter fourteen, their Aunt comes to live with them. Since their Aunt started to live with them, things at their house has changed a lot. One night, Jem tells Scout to behave and he starts to be mean and they get in a fight.
In chapter 11 Walter didn’t want to work at the garment center. Walter had wanted to be a lawyer at the age nine. Walter would simply memorize a passage and recited it. A coach had asked Walter to come for track his junior year. In chapter 12 Walter missed three weeks of school. Walter lusted three weeks before he stopped going to school again. In chapter 10 the idea of what it meant to be poor changed in the late sixties. Most of Walter life had been divided between school, reading, and ball playing. The second burden of that summer came in the form of Walter grandfather. William Dean was a tall, ramrod-straight man with mannerisms that seemed more appropriate for the nineteenth century than for 1951. After the civil war the former
The most important scene in To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, is at the end of chapter six and the beginning of chapter seven.Jem and Dill obey Atticus until Dill’s last day in Maycomb for the summer. He and Jem plan to sneak over to the Radley house and look in through a loose shutter, with Scout accompanying them. Suddenly they see a shadow of a man and flee, hearing a shotgun go off behind them. They escape under the fence by the schoolyard, but Jem’s pants get caught on the fence and he has to kick them off in order to get free. Harper Lee adds this scene to the story to add to our understanding of Boo Radley’s character.
I read chapter 1-3 of the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. These chapters are about meeting some of the main characters and learning the lifestyle of Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression. During the reading it introduces the characters Boo Radley and the Ewells. In this Journal I predict why the kids won’t meet Boo Radley and evaluate the Ewells.
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.
The ambition of oneself to pursue justice and righteousness may result in prosecution. In the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, and movie "A Time to Kill" by Joel Schumacher, each demonstrate one’s open-mindedness and forward thinking leads to penalization through protagonists Atticus Finch and Jake Brigance. Both egalitarians take the position as an attorney for an African American and are prosecuted in the process.
The novel To Kill A Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee is a very interesting novel. This book is mainly about this little hyper, curious, very energetic, girl name Scout Finch. Throughout the novel she was narrating her own story. In the novel it allowed us to see the path Scout went through back then when racism was a huge problem, coming to age, and living in a cruel world. Even though she had many event thrown at her she still stays as energetic as she is. These are some questions that were important to her in chapter 7 to 10.
Throughout chapters 3 and 4, a boy named Burris Ewells insulted his teachers and left school. Convincing Scout wanting to leave school? Scout plays with Jem and Dill becoming Ms. Radley. Reacting the scene, when Mr. Radley, got stabbed with scissors by Boo. Atticus stops the play. Scout remembers she heard a laughter after the incident.
In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, author Harper Lee illustrates the experiences of a lawyer's young daughter named Scout who discovers the racist society that exists within her hometown of Maycomb, Alabama. An excerpt from Chapter 15 describes how Scout’s naiveté stops a mob of white men from lynching Tom Robinson, a black man who had been wrongfully accused of rape. Lee utilizes perspective and conflict to express how children’s innocence can shine a light on a dark situation.
She goes through the crowd of furnished men and stands next to her dad. Jem and Dill go along with her before the correctional facility entryway as Scout starts her guiltless discussion with one of the angry men. Her gracious ways and youthful suspicions constrained the gatecrashers to feel embarrassed about their plotted thought on aggravating Mr. Robinson. Scout's brave activities and splendid personality influenced the crowd to get out and allow Tom to sit
"Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird" (pg. 119.) Miss Maudie spoke the previous quote with deep thought going into each and every word. She wasn't just trying to teach Scout a lesson, but she wanted there to be a powerful meaning behind it. Miss Maudie's main purpose was to stress that you shouldn't kill something that is doing no harm. Everyday "mockingbirds" are killed, broke down, and mistreated by society.
To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee, 1960), an insightful and gripping novel composed by Harper Lee in 1960. Originating in Alabama South America, based during The Great Depression. This didactic novel highlights the controversy of racism, dominant discourses and social inequality through the storyline of young ‘Scout’ who has grown up with these prominent social issues in her everyday life. Scout finds herself having to find a new perspective as her father takes on the risky case of defending a wrongly accused African American man of rape.
The story, in the eyes of two innocent children Scout and her brother Jem, of the discrimination and hypocrisy throughout the town. Maycomb County, Alabama, faces an African American’s injustice while the children learn valuable lessons from their father, Atticus and their housemaid Calpurnia, during the Great Depression. All the while, we are learning from it. To Kill a Mockingbird teaches us the lessons of morale, justice and equality.