child with no real experience of the outside world‚ he regards courage as something of not much importance and views dares imposed upon him by Dill as something which required courage. When Dill challenges Jem to touch the front gate of the Radley house‚ Jem treats it as a job requiring real courage as he needs to overcome his fear of the Radleys. “Jem wanted Dill to know once and for all that he wasn’t scared of anything” (Lee 14). This portrays the shallow image of courage in the eyes of a young child
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a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee is about a young girl named Scout and her brother‚ Jem‚ growing up in the small‚ southern town of Maycomb‚ Alabama. Scout and Jem live with their older father‚ Atticus‚ and spend their summers playing with their friend‚ Dill. They have many neighbors‚ and one is an older woman named Mrs. Dubose. As the siblings grow older‚ they begin to drift apart and new disagreements begin. Yet‚ as Jem begins change‚ he starts to think more maturely about feuds with his sister and opinions
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doesn’t like them. 12. They play boo’s game 13. They found it a fun way to pass the time. 14. Atticus doesn’t overreact. He questions them‚ taking the scissors away. He’s a good father/role model. 15. 16. Dill and Scout don’t have much of a relationship. Dill seems to have forgotten that he was "in love" with her and becomes close to Jem. 17. She’s sharp tongued‚ honest‚ benevolent to the children‚ great at baking cakes and gardening‚ is sympathetic towards Boo Radley. She’s
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Arthur (Boo) Radley which leaves the town much room to create many fictions that hide the little known facts. The real Boo is nothing like the town’s “Boo”. In the very first chapter‚ the town’s view of Boo is explained to newcomer Charles Baker “Dill” Harris (10-16). The very first words Scout used to describe him were “malevolent phantom”. She goes on to say that the town blames him for a number of late night misgivings‚ such as frozen azaleas and small crimes. In one case‚ where pets and chickens
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The novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ written by Harper Lee‚ has many interesting characters such as Atticus Finch‚ Arthur ’Boo’ Radley‚ Aunt Alexandra‚ Scout Finch‚ Jem Finch‚ Tom Robinson‚ Mr. Dolphus Raymond‚ etc.. However‚ Scout Finch is a character that has sparked my interest. The novel is written from Scout’s point of view. Scout is a young girl who has a very interesting train of thought‚ capturing my attention with her blunt‚ naïve point of view. Along with the capturing story‚ Harper Lee takes
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hit Mammachi regularly with a brass-vase‚ leaving ‘crescent shaped’ scars on her skull. She has one daughter‚ Ammu (the black sheep of the family)‚ and a son‚ Chacko (a Rhodes-scholar‚ educated in Oxford). Mammachi starts a small business in making pickles and jams in her kitchen‚ a business her son Chacko soon takes charge of and develops into a factory when he moves back home after his divorce. Mammachi thinks highly of her family as well as of herself and has an almost obsessive habit of ranking
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When Dad Wanted Sorrel Soup Coming from Riga‚ Latvia and missing his homeland my dad wanted to be able to enjoy the foods he was used to in his country. One of those was Sorrel Soup. I will write a post on Sorrel however for this post let me just explain that this is a leafy spinach like plant and the leaves are rather tart. In Latvian it is called Skabene and soup made with these leaves is very popular. The soup can be eaten hot or cold. When eaten hot it usually includes some meat and an added
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Pranav Chandrasekaran Mr. Paul Dyer English 3rd September‚ 2014 CHARACTER ANALYSIS: PAPPACHI Pappachi is the original patriarch of the Ipe Family. His real name was Shri Benaan John Ipe. Pappachi had lived during the British occupation of India and had worked as the Imperial Entomologist. In British India‚ Britishers formed the dominating class and ruled over the Indians. In such an environment‚ Pappachi had begun to consider Britishers
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example‚ Wal-Mart essentially held the Vlassic pickle company hostage over the one-gallon jar of pickles they wanted priced under three dollars. Wal-Mart refused to allow Vlassic any room on the deal‚ stating that if they wouldn’t produce it they would go somewhere else to get the product. Vlassic was forced to compromise the image of quality they had worked so hard to produce over the years and submit to Wal-Mart’s demands of a massive jar of pickles at a ridiculously low price. This type of behavior
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thought it was. If the judge released Arthur‚ Mr. Radley would see to it that Arthur gave no further trouble. Knowing that Mr. Radley’s word was his bond‚ the judge was glad to do so. | * Jem and Dill(of the future) are reminiscing about the “accident.” They considered a couple options but thought about Dill and the Radleys. This quote is giving you some back ground about the incident. * This is an interesting piece of text because it gives you some history on a very important character. I like it
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