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

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.

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.

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

When adolescents like Holden cannot find an “adolescence zone” in the real world, they would conjure one in imagination. A pivotal moment of the novel is in the midsection, which resonates with the meaning of the novels title. When his sister Phoebe asks what would make him happy, Holden describes to her an imagined picture, which is worth quoting at length:

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

When reading To Kill To A Mockingbird many charterers walked in someone else's shoes which is a big theme of the book. Scout was one of these charters she walked in Boo Radley’s shoes. At the end of the book, she walked Arthur home and she sees the whole book from his perspective. She sees two children running down the sidewalk and in the winter two kids shivering in the cold. In the book, Scout also walked in Walter Jr.’s shoes. Calpurnia talked to Scout after Walter was eating a different way than they do and Scout pointed that out and embarrassed Walter. She started to see through his perceptive. She realized that they eat that way because they were raised like that and that it is not his fault. Atticus was another charter that had

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.

This single quote is the most meaningful passage in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD and in turn has a major impact to the content of the novel and to the emotions of the reader.

They had been in training for six months under Akemi's demanding tutelage, Gertrude and Chandi had made great progress, Josie however lagged behind the other two. When the day's lessons were done, Akemi sent the other two away and had Josie stay behind. Josie was filled with dread, she was afraid that Akemi, who had been patient with her up until now, was going to send her away.

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.

The sun peeked through the trees and she notices a dark figure lingering at the very corner of her eyes. The dark figure zips into her body until it is less than a puddle beneath her feet. Everywhere she looks the dark figure remains, impersonating her every move, her every breath, her every leap. The dim shapeshifting figure, digs at her flesh, trying to crawl in and possess her.