To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter 5 Summary

Maycomb, Alabama is filled with challenges that Scout Finch, the main character, faces. Scout lives with her father, Atticus, brother, Jem, and their cook, Calpurnia. Calpurnia is like a mother figure to Scout when her mother dies. Scout learns lessons from Atticus throughout the book. Scout, Jem, and their neighbor, Dill, are very determined to get Boo Radley out of his house. Boo Radley’s real name is Arthur. Arthur is thirty years old and hasn’t come out of his house in years. He lives right across the street from Scout with his older brother, Nathan. Scout, Jem, and Dill play games that involve the Radley’s. They start daring each other to touch the house or knock on the door hoping to get Arthur out. Arthur notices the children always by his’ house so he starts to leave treats in the tree. The children notice that it’s him leaving all these treats near the end of the book. They start to make schemes to get Arthur outside.

* Scout reveals she heard laughing when she rolled into the radley place but jem doesn’t know

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.

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.

“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.

On a chilly winter morning, Atticus rushed a tired Jem and Scout into clothing and out of their beds. He told them there was a fire in Miss Maudie’s house and they should stand in front of the Radley house where it was safe. They saw the flames engulfing Miss Maudie’s house and ran down the street to the Radley’s house. Watching the events unfold, Scout said to herself, “…I saw Atticus carrying Miss Maudie’s heavy oak rocking chair, and thought it sensible of him to save what she valued most” (71). She was proud that Atticus thought to save Miss Maudie most prized possession. As members of the community we're pulling furniture out of the house, Dick went to the top and threw furniture out on a mattress. As the flames rose and tore down the stairs,

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.

Boo Radley is one of the human mockingbirds in To Kill a Mockingird. people who, like the mockingbird, are innocent and harmless beings only capable of doing good (though this is not always recognized by everyone. Tom Robinson and many of the children in the novel are other examples of the human mockingbird). As Sheriff Tate had earlier explained, it would do no good for him to bring the reclusive Boo into the "limelight" of an investigation concerning Bob Ewell's death. Instead, Tate decides to call Bob's death self-inflicted in order to protect Boo. boo did a good deed for the town. Scout understands Tate's reasoning, and she applies the decision to one of Atticus' earlier warnings. It was okay to shoot blue jays, but "it was a sin to kill a

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.

Imagine a place where the verdict of a rape trial stems from racial prejudice rather than the proper evaluation of proven evidence. This is Maycomb, Alabama, the strange, Southern town where Scout and Jem Finch grow up during the 1930s in the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. In short, the novel travels a thin line between a light-hearted narrative of the siblings’ childhood with their single father, a defense attorney named Atticus Finch, and the injustices that arise within their close-knit community. The complexities include extreme racism, a peculiar social hierarchy, and general misunderstandings of certain people within the small town. These are all seen as “Maycomb ways”, almost as if they are considered facts. Through her writing, Lee conveys an important message that an essential part of a child’s education often takes place in a home or community rather than a classroom by utilizing the characters, Atticus Finch and Tom Robinson, a black man accused of rape whom Atticus is defending.

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.

As Stephen King once said, “The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.” In the book "To Kill a Mockingbird", by Harper Lee, Jean Louise Finch, a young girl who also goes by Scout, experiences many things such as racism, friends, and family. Her father, Atticus Finch, is a lawyer who is sacrificing his reputation to defend a black man, Tom Robinson. Scout and her friends take it upon themselves to uncover the mystery of Boo Radley. In this book the mockingbirds represent innocence. Many characters take on the role of the “mockingbird". Exploring Lee’s title, to kill a mockingbird is to kill innocence.

In both the text “To Kill a Mockingbird” written by Harper Lee and the film “A Time to Kill” directed by Joel Schumacher, similar ideas are presented using language devices and stylistic features in differing ways to appeal to their target audience. Each have very similar storylines in which a white lawyer defends a an African-American in a prejudiced court case. Racism is a key idea presented strongly in each due to the eras they are set in. The era and country set in each story provide a strong base for the prominent issue. With the unpleasant happenings in each text and through the racist acts the idea of compassion shines through. As well as compassion being a significant idea, forgiveness is also presented through the racists acts.

In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, all the literary features are established making this novel very worthy to read. This excerpt is from chapter three of the novel. It is the evening after Scout’s first day of school, and Scout seeks for help from Calpurnia, and Atticus. Scout questions the need to return back to school to Atticus, as she does not accept Miss.Caroline’s perspective on Scout having to stop reading at home.With the use of imagery and the characterization of Atticus, this excerpt proves that family with always educate you, and spoil you with

The roles of women in ancient times is undeniably important. They were the center of the home and the center of the family. Family was most important in these times, especially the fact that all men needed heirs, without women this would not happen. They were cunning seductresses, obedient housewives, givers of life and the center of all households. They were not given citizenship or had political power, but held power and influence none the less. Women were not worthy of education and were meant to stay subservient. They were thought of as worth less than a man, but where would men be without women?