To Kill A Mockingbird Dialectical Journal

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.

After Jem, Dill and I almost got shot on the Radley’s porch. Jem got stuck at the fence. His pants seemed to be stuck on one of the wires. He had no choice but to kick off his pants if he didn’t want to get caught. We all knew if we didn’t get to where all the neighbors where standing they would have of suspected us. So we ran over to where they were. Mr. Nathan was standing inside his gate with a shotgun. Atticus was standing beside Miss Maudie and Miss Stephanie Crawford. It was getting dark so we all had to go back in our houses and go to bed. I heard a squeak from Jem’s bed. “Jem, what are you doing”. “I am going back to the fence to get my pant before someone else finds them” Jem stated. I knew there was no use in arguing because it would

The Mockingbird symbolizes that you don’t harm something or someone that is innocent. Atticus tells Jem that

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

1. Truth: “As Mr. Radley passed by, Boo drove the scissors into his parent’s leg, pulled them out, wiped them on his pants, and resumed his activities.” (Ch.1 p.13)

, and she leaves, saying “So long, crumb-bum” (pg.128). Sunny has come back with Maurice and asks the rest of the 5 dollars. Holden says no and is “roughed” by Maurice(pg.136)! Sunday morning, Holden calls an old girlfriend, Sally Hayes, and makes a date to meet her at 2 to watch a “matinee”(pg.138). Holden was just about to cancel the date just because sally used the word “Grand”. Holden checks out of the hotel and leaves his bags in a lock box at Grand Central Station. He meets two nuns who are schoolteachers from Chicago there(pg.140). He goes for a walk toward Broadway(pg.149). Holden tries to call Jane, but her mom picks up the phone so, he hangs up. He decides to visit Central Park to see if he could see his sister, Phoebe, who often skates there on Sundays. Sally is ten minutes late, when she gets there she asks’ What are we going to see?” “I don’t know”,

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;

I lifted my cup of coffee and took a sip of it. My eyes concentrated on the newspaper but in my head, I was thinking of what happened yesterday night. As I looked up to see the clock, my eyes went to Jem’s eyes. His hands were wrapped around his cup of coffee, still untouched. I smiled and remembered what happened.

He had told him that him and Holden jumped out of the tree (Knowles 21).

Within the texts racism is highlighted by the major characters, by impacting the spirit of the communities and exploring injustice.

* Scout’s moral development throughout To Kill a Mockingbird has to do with how she is taught to see “the other”, her exposure to racism and injustice, and that she had Atticus as a parent to guide her through her childhood. These factors together create a stable learning environment for Scout to grow and develop in.

Atticus does not have a racist mind. For example, when Atticus is explaining to scout how to view the world he tells her “walk around in someone's skin” This Incorporeal idea of empathy illustrates Atticus`s understanding of the world and how to act when in public. Another example, Atticus took the case seriously, with reasonable evidence. As the other judge seemed insensate and oblivious towards The case at hand.”

““Do you defend n****** Atticus?” I asked him that evening. “Of course I do. Don’t say n****, Scout. That’s common.”

“They could never, never understand that I live like I do because that’s the way I want to live” (268). Mr. ------ is a white man, that lives with black people, has mixed children, and drank a lot of whiskey, at least that is what the whole town thought. Scout and Dill met Mr. ----- at the court house and he gave Dill a sip of his “whiskey”. Scout figures out that that was just a rumor and he does it because he wants too. Another thing he does is ive with the black people. He said the reason is that he wants to. He says no one will understand because they are not him.

Negro."?(Lee, 199) Scout shows that she isn?t surprised at the hatred and force aimed at black