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

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:

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

This word is quite important to this set of chapters. As said above, Nathan Radley filled in a knot-hole with cement, severing the children’s ties with Arthur Radley. This particularly hurt Scout, who began to cry, as they would not be able to get his gifts or communicate. Jem is able to calm Scout down after this, but later on in the day is seen crying. Perhaps Jem knows something about the knot-hole that Scout doesn’t because he is older, or maybe this is a forewarning to Nathan targeting them. Scout also said in the book that she didn’t hear him crying, so Nathan could have called him over and threatened him. In similarity, in chapter 5, Scout pesters Jem into not making fun of the Radley’s life. She was strong like cement when it hardens.

Summary: This book is told by a 6 year old girl that lives in Maycomb. The other two main characters in the story are, Jem, who is her older brother, and Dill, and Miss Rachel Haverford’s is his aunt.and a guy named boo is a bad guy that has a well respected family.and all of the kids were talk about boo.And the radleys that are a weird family that boo is a part of.the kids don't like the radleys so they dared jem to go hit the house and run back.

I chose this passage because I believe that it explains the title of the book well. The “mockingbird” in this book symbolizes innocence, purity, and peace. Atticus tells Jem and Scout that “it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” Both Boo Radley and Tom Robinson are the mockingbirds. Tom is an innocent man who was accused of a crime which he is not guilty of, and Boo Radley was also accused of a crime where he is innocent. The mockingbird can be translated into innocent man, and the quote would be changed to “it’s a sin to kill [an] innocent man.”