To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter 1-10

The book’s first chapter is about Dryden meeting Rachel. She runs into him early in the morning and asks “Yes or no, she said, I can’t wait any longer”(Lee 6). From how Patrick Lee describes the scene you can clearly tell Rachel does not have a lot of time to waste. She needs to get going as fast as possible. That is why I chose the song Time Bomb by All Time Low. The quote from the song is, “We were like a time bomb set into motion, we knew that we were destined to explode”. This quote works imperviously for the whole book. The two are always being chased down and Rachel constantly has time stuck on her mind. She always has to be on the run from the Government. She makes some friends on this journey, in the little time she feels safe. She has had time stuck in her head since she escaped the laboratory that they were testing her in. Rachel tells Dryden she can not wait very long. She is just trying to keep enough time between her and the government, or at least enough to let her live. She lost all of her memory and that will take time for it to all come back to
He just thinks he’s helping a girl out for maybe a day or two, but it ends up being much more than that. He is in for the ride of his life with this girl you could say, “I’m going off the rails on a crazy train” by Ozzy Osbourn. Dryden is stuck in a bad situation, “We’ll look at it for exactly one minute, and then we’re getting the hell out of here” (Lee 183). Dryden is a very persevering man, most people would not even have helped Rachel back at the pier. They would have thought she is weird for acting this way, but he sees past that. He can see it in her eyes that she is not lying. She is scared and just wants help. Dryden's life has definitely been chaos, he was a former agent for the people who are chasing them down. The government started the testing that is in Rachel as soon as he left, he has information on them and uses it to his