Dialectical Journal For To Kill A Mockingbird

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

Jem and Scout sit in the front row seats of the colored balcony with Reverend Sykes. They couldn’t find and seats downstairs, so Reverend Sykes helped them to find a seat upstairs. From the position that they were in, the circuit solicitor, a man, Atticus, and Tom Robinson sat with their backs faced at them. The balcony stretched across three walls, and they could see almost everything from

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.

It was said when Scout was telling about Maycomb County, and how everything was struggling to get by, and money was so tight.

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.

Jem and Scout do think differently in this section. You see the different thinking from the way each of the kids handling the outcome of the trial. When each of them share their opinion on what kind of folks there are it reveals the divide. The divide we see in the chapter is that Jem is understanding about how things work in the town that Scout can not yet comprehend. For example Jem is able to understand that segregation played a huge role in the outcome of the trial as Scout see's it as just a lost case. You can tell because Jem will not stop thinking about it, and he continues to ask Atticus questions ,realizing there is more than just "folks" and there are good people and bad people living in this world. Jem becomes aware of the fact that

When Attic us was walking down the aisle past the crowds of people Reverend Sykes tells Scout to stand up because of her father walking by as the Negroes were doing all around her and on another balcony. (PG. 283)

I, Chapter 24, am obviously the most significant. The others were hardly competition, however, 19 did give me quite the run for my money. I won because I show the message behind the story most clearly. Racism is undeniably present in this town, unfortunately, and my job was to show just how prevalent it is. I believe that I did quite the fine job in passages like this one, “‘Tom’s dead’ Aunt Alexandra put her hands to her mouth. ‘They shot him,’ said Atticus” (Lee 239). Because of the town’s racism, Tom would have never been given a fair chance, therefore, he gave up and was then shot 17 times. If that doesn’t show the town’s usual disease, this passage does, “The handful of people in this town who say that fair play is not marked White Only;

When I finished chapter three in the book To Kill a Mockingbird, I predicted that the kids would not meet Arthur (Boo) Radley. There are a lot of reasons they will not meet him. One reason is that he is locked up. Boo Radley was not the only one that was locked up. The whole family never left the house.

1)From the rusty window of the second floor, my eyes could easily spot her lying in the lush, green grass. Her small body stretches like a snake. The sun’s rays gently touch her bright yellow-orange fur. Her expression is as calm as the one of a sleeping baby. Once the sun starts to annoy her, she walks into the shadows of the walls and continues her sleeping beauty routine.

In To Kill a Mockingbird Miss. Maudie had a fire and Atticus saved the oak rocking chair that she valued very much. If my house was to ever caught on fire there would be things that I would love to save. I would love to save my phone and computer. I would save them because I contact people and my computer is worth a lot of money. My phone and computer are both easy to grab because they are by my bedside. Next I would grab my blue pillow I have had since preschool. This pillow has a lot of meaning for me and would be a great memory of the house if it did burn completely. To keep me and my family warm I would grab my blanket that is the size of my bed. This blanket would be easy access because it is on the floor near my window. This blanket would

I predict that the kids will not meet Boo Radley. I don’t think the kids will meet him because he is locked away and they are too scared. They might not meet him because he is locked away. The reason he is locked away is because he stabbed his dad with a scissors in the leg. Boo’s mom came out screaming that ,“Arthur was killing them all” (Lee 13). The sheriff heard what happened, so he had to lock him in the basement of the police station. He didn’t go to jail like normal because “the sheriff hadn’t the heart to put him in jail alongside Negroes” (Lee 14). After a while they had to just let him go to his dad because he would die from the mold on the walls. Last, the Radley family rarely left the house. They didn’t even go to church

Scout, Jem, and Dill work many summers to try to get Boo to come out of the Radley house for the first time in many years. Jem had been told many things about Boo in his short years in Maycomb, and he tells his sister Scout about the ‘monster’, saying, “Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that’s why his hands were bloodstained—if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time” (chap. 1). Jem’s ideas about Boo are very biased toward rumors that can be heard around Maycomb. This shows how Maycomb’s people often judge before they know, seeing as no one has seen Boo Radley in over twenty years and people are prejudiced to believing the unknown is always bad. Prejudice and rumors can often not be trusted and Boo Radley is no exception. After Miss Maudie’s house catches fire and half the town rushes outside to watch it burn, Atticus tells Scout, “someday you should thank him for covering you up” then Scout asks, “Thank Who?” And gets a response from Atticus, “Boo Radley. You were too busy looking at the fire, you didn’t even notice when he put the blanket around you” (chap. 8). Boo Radley is not really a bad person, he

As they visited boo, they learned a few things, one being that he wasn’t crazy to begin with . Boo never attacked his father, he had been quietly making his scrap book when his mother accused him of attacking his father. He had been so nice to them, and followed the two children around. Jem and Scout both knew that he was unable to kill anyone.

The community has ostracized Boo Radley from the community even though most people don’t know him. “Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom. People said he existed, but Jem and I had never seen him. People said he went out at night when the moon was down, and peeped in windows.” (Lee 5). This is how the community saw Boo Radley in the beginning of the book (Lee). This outlook of Boo has made everyone scared to even walk past his family’s house (Lee). At the end of the book Boo helps Scout and Jem out from an attack from Bob Ewell when they were on their way back home (Lee). After that event they look at Boo differently till the end of the story. This type of discrimination happens in today’s society still and in movies everyone has seen such as the “Sandlot”.