Wednesday, March 26, 2014
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Comment on any aspect of the book that you find particularly interesting. This may be a question that you've been pondering as you read, an inference that you've made, something you thought was symbolic, something you felt was unusual. Use this space to bring up issues that are important to you in your reading of "To Kill a Mockingbird".
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One of the events that was interesting in the text To Kill A Mockingbird is when Scout and Jem started to find hidden things in the tree in front of the Radley place. In chapter 7 of TKAM it states, "Less than two weeks later we found a whole package of chewing gum, which we enjoyed, the fact that everything on the Radley Place was poison having slipped Jem's memory."Generally speaking, when you find hidden things for you it is from a person that you least expect it to be from. I think that the tree and the gifts symbolize Boo Radley because this may be the only way that he can interact with the children since he doesn't come outside . The tree gives him life because he knows that he is interacting with the children in a good way by giving them gifts to keep. When i first thought about it it seemed unusual and confusing because why would a person hide things from you instead of just giving them to you in person but when I thought deeper it made sense and it's because Boo Radley is a person that keeps to himself, that just likes to be alone. Also, in my point of view I think that Boo giving them quality gifts means that he is corroborating that he is a good person after all.
ReplyDeleteI find this exact same event to be the most interesting
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ReplyDeleteI find it partially interesting that Atticus let Aunt Alexandra move in with them. I find it very unusual that Atticus lets Aunt Alexandra impose on his thoughts about how he has been raising his children. It makes me wonder about has he been having doubt about how he has raised them or is he letting other peoples opinion on his parenting change his thoughts. He didn't make her come until he started defending Tom Robinson and the kids kept complaining about what the neighbors and the kids at school kept saying.
ReplyDeleteI agree I don't think that he should have let her come and stay anyways because he knows that Calpurnia can take care of those children as well as him self. But if Aunt Alexandra would have not came he would not feel like this off of what someone else think about his children should be raised.
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DeleteI thought it was particularly interesting when Boo Radley finally came out in public and put the blanket on Scout. Boo doesn't usually come out because of his parents' strict rules and religion. The story states that people believe Boo Radley was a "malevolent phantom" because he never came out and because of rumors spread by Miss Stephanie Crawford. I think Boo is misunderstood by some people of Maycomb and that they don't see him for who he really is. This is why it may be surprising to most readers that Boo, also known as Arthur, would do such a modest deed.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Jessica I feel that this was an interesting part because it shows that Boo is not an bad man as people in the town say its just that he don't come out like the other people in the town do because that's not the person he is. I also feel that people should not Jude him just because they don't get to see him as often then they see the other people in the town.
DeleteOne thing that was interesting in the story was when Aunt Alexandra came and was trying to take Calpurnia spot at the Finch's house. Atticus was being a brave man and telling Aunt Alexandra that Calpurnia was not going to go anywhere until she was ready to leave. This was an interesting part because Atticus was being a brave man again because he did not have to say anything about what Aunt Alexandra said he could have walked away but he chose to say something again even Dow he did not have to.
ReplyDeleteSomething that I thought was very unusual was in chapter 12 when Calpurnia took Scout and Jem to her church and one of the Negro ladies named Lula was there judging Scout and Jem, telling Calpurnia to take them to the church the belong to. In the text it states " I wants to know why you bringin' white chillun to nigger church" (pg. 158). This quote is basically telling me that Negros disliked whites just as much as the whites disliked the Negros. Then in Chapter 16 when Scout, Jem, and Dill went to the courtroom and when they sat in the Negro balcony with Reverend Sykes they were treated soured of like royalty. In the text it states " There we went up a covered staircase and waited at the door. Reverend Sykes came puffing behind us, and steered us gently trough the black people in the balcony. Four Negroes rose and gave us their front-row seats"(pg. 219). This quote is basically going against the other quote so it was kind of unusual how Harper Lee made the Negroes point of view seem to be, because some would be soured of kind of admiring to them and some where just rude to them.
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