To Kill A Mockingbird Summary

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

The book "To Kill a Mockingbird" is a story of life in an Alabama town in the 30's. The narrator, Jean Louise Finch, or Scout, is writing of a time when she was young, and the book is in part the record of a childhood, believed to be Harper Lee’s, the author of the book..

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.

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.

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.

On August 9, 2014,a young man by the name of Michael Brown was shot and killed by a police officer. It is little known why the shooting occurred, but the boy was unarmed.This could be one of many cases of modern day racism and segregation. In 1930, “even after the abolishment of slavery in 1865, blacks were still almost powerless(BBC 2)”.Blacks were heavily segregated and had almost no rights.Many cases of segregation in the 1930s caused a lot of current day racial tension in the united states.

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.

“Hansel was ten and his sister, Gretel, was eleven when their stepmother decided to get rid of them. They didn’t catch on at first, because Hagmom (their secret name for her) had always hated them. So leaving them behind at the supermarket or forgetting to pick them up after school was no big deal.

During the knothole scenes, which are in chapter 7 and 8. Scout and Jem begin to find items left in a tree outside of the Radley's house. However, they never discover who left the items there. Because of this I believe the scene is showing that there are good people in the world who will never be known.

The five aspects of QUEST are the quester, a place to go, a stated reason to go there, challenges and trials, and the real reason to go. The quester: a young woman, unhappy in her marriage and her life, not too old to learn, and not assertive where men are concerned. A place to go: Southern California from her home near San Francisco. A stated reason to go there: she has been made executor of the will of her former lover, a wealthy and eccentric businessman and stamp collector. Challenges and trials: the heroine meets strange, scary, and dangerous people. She goes on a nightlong excursion through the world of the outcasts and the dispossessed of San Francisco. The real reason to go: she must find out who she can rely on.

Summary #1 In this paragraph of the story, the author is writing to his child and explaining to him when it was that he realized in what type of world he was living in. In the letter to his child, he explains to him that they live in a world where a lot of bad things are either not punished or they are awarded. Where it is becoming a norm to hear that people of color are being killed for no reason and that the criminal is not being punished. He also tells his son what his grandparents used to tell him: ¨that this is your country, that this is your world, that this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.¨

In the story, To Kill A Mocking Bird, written by Harper Lee, originates in a small fictional town in Alabama called Maycomb. The main character, Scout, is a 6 year old girl who goes on many adventures which include going to school with her brother, to investigating the Radley’s after school. The time of her adventures takes place in the Great Depression, where Scout’s family was wealthier than most. Unlike most children, Scout has a few advantages. These include her ability to read and write, and her curiosity. Her adventures begin when she finds out about Boo Radley.

-Summary for Ch. 11-15 (AT LEAST FOUR SENTENCES): Jem learns a lesson. He learns that things aren't always as they appear. When he gets mad at Mrs. Dubose and destroys her flowers, he then has to read to her as punishment. She later dies.

The game played by Jem, Dill, and Scout in chapter 4 of To Kill a Mockingbird suggests that the ignorance of adults and peers easily rubs off on children because of their curiosity and innocence. Scout explains the Boo Radley game as being “a melancholy little drama, woven from bits and scraps of gossip and neighborhood legend”(Lee 39). The children formulated their game based off of the gossip they heard from their parents and neighbors, which suggests that the children developed their ignorance and curiosity because of their influence on them and the fact that there was mystery surrounding the Radley house, which made it more appealing to explore. The game represents the problem of influences on children in society. Children have a tendency