Unit tradition dictated the team met for their pre-mission normal bull session. So, that night Lt. Carter procured two cases of beer, iced down in an old artillery shell box and anyone’s guess where he obtained the ice. For this rotation, Captain Mason brought the food, which consisted of turkey and cheese sandwiches on freshly baked bread, potato chips, and fresh chocolate chip cookies. As with the ice, the rest of the unit wondered where the captain obtained the fresh baked goods and he wasn’t about to tell them he raided Colonel Johnson’s supply of fresh food from Da Nang. Colonel Johnson never ate from the mess and always had better food than the rest of his men. Jackson leaned against the doorjamb, watching his men and their antics until…
1. “Nature sent him into the world strong and lusty, in a thriving condition, wearing his own hair on his head, the proper branches of this reasoning vegetable, until the axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs, and left him in a withered trunk;”…
Foreshadowing - One form of foreshadowing in this novel is when Scout finds the bubble gum in the tree (page 44) . This event foreshadows the interaction between Jem, Scout and Boo, as Boo is putting those presents in the tree for Jem and Scout to find. Another instance of foreshadowing is when Jem finds his pants mended for him when he goes back to get them on page 76. We find out they were fixed for him afterwards on page 78 and when Jem states that “They’d been sewed up. Not like a lady sewed ‘em.-“ ; this foreshadows the care of Boo Radley for Jem and Scout . We see later on, during the fire, that Boo cares for Scout when he places the blanket upon her. The last instance of foreshadowing…
At the end of the book, Scout escorts Boo Radley back to his home. After Boo closes the door, she turns around and surveys the neighborhood from his perspective. She imagines how he has witnessed all the happenings of the recent years, including her and Jem running by the house on their way to and from school, her childhood Boo Radley games, Miss Maudie's fire, the incident…
All through the book, Scout, her brother, Jem, and their friend, Dill rack their brains, trying to understand why Boo doesn’t leave his house. After walking Boo home, Scout begins to look back on past events, but this time, from the Radley’s home. “I had never seen our neighborhood from this angle” Simply from this, Scout was able to imagine the world from Boo’s perspective. From meeting Dill to having their hearts broken by the Tom Robinson trial verdict, Boo had been watching. Scout begins to understand what Dill had meant long before, when he proposed that perhaps Boo stayed at home because he wanted to. From his home, he could watch over Scout and Jem, and for that, Scout was…
Groups of different animals have different names. The name of a group of crows is called a murder. You will never look at crows the same way again.…
One day after school Jem told Scott that he had found a pair of pants on the fence. They found another knothole, after school they went to go check it out. It was two figures that were made to represent Scout and Jem. Also when Mr.Radley says he plugged the knothole because the tree was dying.…
1. It depends on who you’re asking but the most trustworthy seems to be Atticus.…
Meanwhile,Scout, Jem and Dill harasses Boo Radley because they want to see what he looks like but in the end they realize they are wrong. The children sneak into his backyard and try to look at him through the window but they failed…
In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, the main theme is that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird. This metaphor of not killing mockingbird is clearly portrayed throughout the course of this novel. This theme is so important to the plot of this novel that the author decided to entitle the book after this very metaphor. Mockingbirds are birds that do not do anything wrong and they just give us music. Atticus is the main character in the novel that really stressed why it is a sin to kill a mockingbird. Mockingbirds are just a simple metaphor for the characters in this book who are killed, such as Mr. Raymond and Tom Robinson.…
First, Nathan cruelly cuts off an important element of Boo's relationship with Jem and Scout when he plugs up the knothole in which Boo leaves presents for the children. This upsets the children and at the same time makes the story more interesting for the reader. Scout begins to think that Nathan is similar to deceased Mr. Radley and Boo. Also, after this incident the children weren’t seen sneaking around the Radley’s yard.…
After Tom dies, the book switches back to Boo Radley, (he was the main attraction in the beginning of the book). Boo is all locked up in his house away from society and the children of Atticus Finch, scout and Jim, are constantly looking for him. When they figure out that boo has experienced allot of pain in his life they can be seen crying in sorrow. They know that no human being should be treated so badly. You feel bad for boo when you see this, because he has to experience horrible things for…
Jem first begins to put himself in others’ shoes and learn sympathy from his fascination with Boo Radley.…
Morals generally make up a good person. To know all morals will make you great and wise. If what I say is true, then To Kill a Mockingbird could make you a much better person. In the book, the one who learns how to become mature, wise, have faith and learn life lessons and morals is Scout. She learns not to hurt the innocent, not to judge, and treat everyone as equals.…
Chapter six begins with the night Dill leaves Maycomb, we know school is coming soon and Scout and Jem are sad to see Dill go. As Scout put so bluntly; “ “We’re gonna miss you, boy.” I sad” (Harper Lee pg.51). During this chapter an important event takes place. Jem, Dill, and scout sneak over to the Radley place and are frightened by the shadow that they see in the window shutter, they run away and Jem loses his pants on the gate! Nathan Radley had scared them away by shooting a shotgun. They tell Atticus that they were playing strip poker and that’s how Jem’s pants had gone up missing. Later that Night Jem went back and got his pants. This is the last adventure the kids have before Dill goes home and school begins. Scout is just as disappointed…