Garrison Mrs. Easton English 3-4 Period 7 9 June 2015 To Kill A Mockingbird Everyday people’s lives are judged by others. Why? Because most think they understand what the other is going through when they have no clue. The idea of walking in someone else’s shoes teaches that everyone has things, big or small, going on in their lives and that you should not judge a person until you know the full story. Like in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird, a few of the main characters begin to understand other
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Chapter 1 Plot: • A young woman (Jean Louise Finch) is on a train excitedly watching the houses go by • She is on her way home to Maycomb, to visit her family, from New York • She decided to take a train instead of an airplane because it was unfair for her elderly father to drive to the airport early in the morning • Jean Louise reminisces about her family, and we learn that she has a very close relationship with her father • She is both excited and scared to return home • She is travelling to Maycomb
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Runyan 1 Anna Runyan Mr. Nevares HHSE1:4 1 November 2015 Everyone is Equal “A person is a person, no matter how small.” Dr. Seuss. Maycomb County belittles the members of the community according to their race. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee demonstrates that the town of Maycomb, Alabama drives down the lower class and colored members in society to keep them from usurping within the county. The main character Jean Louise “Scout” Finch learns this in her childhood as her father, a well known
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Growing up is something everyone has to do if they want to understand everything in the world. To Kill a Mockingbird is about Scout seeing the world around her and how she grows up because of things she learns throughout the book.In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows Scout growing up every single chapter by telling her experiences that Scout had as she goes from total innocence, awareness, to full understanding. It took Scout 2 years to fully understand her society. Throughout the
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sadness is inevitable. These are valuable lessons about how sick and twisted the real world is which are learned as someone grows up from a child to an adult. These same lessons are Taught to Jean Louise “Scout” Finch throughout the book “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee. The entire book itself is Scout looking back at joyfull, innocent, and fun childhood memories as well as events that brought upon sadness that also taught lessons important lessons on the sadness that the real world brings.
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Chapter 15: Good News! Dill can stay in Maycomb for the summer. After boring weeks , one evening Mr. Heck Tate knocks on the front door of the Finch house. Some men want Atticus to step outside. From the bits Scout can hear they seem to be about Tom Robinson. Tate doesn't want to keep him in the town jail the night before the trial starts.There are some back-and-forth threats and then Atticus says that he's going to make sure that the truth gets told. Tension rises, until Jem shouts that the telephone's
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In this passage, Sethe is explaining for the first time her reasoning for attempting to kill her children rather than allow them to be captured and taken into slavery. The metaphor used in this passage, the “hummingbird” that flaps its wings in Sethe’s head seems to describe the animal-like instincts that overcome her and drive her to protect her children by any means possible as soon after she recognizes schoolteacher. Sethe also describes her children as “the parts of her that were precious and
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One word or phrase that helps me visualize Miss Caroline is, “she looked and smelt like a peppermint drop.” The author uses a simile when describing Miss Caroline in that quote. Miss Caroline is a new native teacher. Miss Caroline often has trouble disciplining the children and does not understand the family economics of Maycomb. She seemed nice with bright colors and smelt like mint. Scout says it in an almost patronising way, as though she is mocking teacher’s naivety. Scout never loved to read
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Though people might give you advice how well it is depends on their knowledge. In To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee’s theme was that the more knowledge you have the more advice you can give and she shows this though Atticus, Miss Maudie, and Mr.Ewell. For example, Atticus is a wise man that has much knowledge and will share that with his kids in hopes of bettering them. He does this so that his kids will know what’s right and what’s wrong and to learn skills that will help them in life. Harper
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A: Jem can be very brave at times. SU: Bob Ewell attacks both Scout and Jem when they are walking home from the pageant. P: Scout says, “ From somewhere near by came scuffling, kicking sounds, sounds of shoes and flash scraping dirt and roots” (Lee 351). C: Jem fights with Bob Ewell in order to protect Scout’s life. Despite knowing he was fighting a grown man, as well as his chances against him, he still fights him showing his bravery. T: Jem is very brave as he protects his sister, yet this isn’t
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