Scout observes the whole scene when Atticus gets home that afternoon. Calpurnia goes with Atticus to tell Tom’s wife the news while Aunt Alexandra is in shock. She is mad because she feels that the case has torn Atticus apart. Miss Maudie comes into the kitchen and leads Scout and Alexandra back out to Alexandra’s company still in the living room. Alexandra composes herself to act in her usual polite manner. This makes Scout think about how “... if Aunty could be a lady at a time like this‚ so
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not be told to grow faster. They just need to be kids. In Maycomb‚ children are treated as less equals and told that they need to grow up faster. Aunt Alexandra is especially persistent about this. Scout is always being told to grow up‚ and this was evident that she was being treated differently. This is shown when Scout says that Aunt Alexandra was always on her case. She says‚ “Aunt
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Bob Ewell | Atticus Finch | -defending Tom Robinson | Mrs Bubose | Scout and Jem | -saw them as grotty kids with no manners.- didn’t like their father for defending Tom | Aunt Alexandra | Walter Cunningham | -not up to her standards to be friends with scout because he comes from a poor family. | Aunt Alexandra | Calpurnia | -Cal is black-Children are old enough for Cal to leave. | 1. What is Cal’s attitude to white society? She is treated with respect by the Finch family therefore her
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What do we learn about Maycomb society in Chapter 1 – 15? During the Chapters 1 -15 we learn a lot about Maycomb society especially since the novel is set in the 1930s and during the great depression. A couple of the points are: the rich rejecting the poor because of their economic level of life in the Great Depression and whites discriminating against blacks. During the Great Depression Maycomb would have been hit hard‚ “Maycomb was an old town‚ but was a tired old town”. This is Scout talking
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but they were still viewed as only housewives. Harper Lee accurately portrays thr roles of women in the 1930’s in her book To Kill a Mockingbird through her depiction of the characters Aunt Alexandra‚ Calpurnia‚ and Miss Maudie. One example of an accurate portrayal of women in the 1930’s is Aunt Alexandra. She is shown in To Kill a Mockingbird as being the prime example of
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and gotten far wiser‚ Aunt Alexandra has came to visit‚ Dill has ran away from his home and lastly‚ Atticus stood up for Tom Robinson. Scout has had a major impact on the storyline thus far; She has saved her father from being murdered/beaten up‚ grown up and learned that fighting is not always the answer‚ and to ignore people when they say hurtful things. In this journal I will be evaluating. Calpurnia is a more suitable mother figure for the children than Aunt Alexandra. Calpurnia is a better mother
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cinema art and music. He also includes pictures in posters of famous artists like Picasso and Renoir women. The music in the soundtrack also includes Mozart’s clarinet concerto and French pop radio. The entire story started when the character of Michel Poiccard which Jean Paul Belmondo portrays‚ has stolen a car. While he was driving he passed by two hitch hikers and decides to decline for the thought they were far too ugly for him. Then suddenly‚ he realized that the cops was behind him. He hid
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When the Finch family gets word that Tom Robinson is dead‚ Aunt Alexandra’s missionary circle is having a meeting at their house. Aunt Alexandra is very shaken but still keeps calm‚ thus inspiring Scout‚ because‚ “if [Aunt Alexandra] could be a lady at a time like this‚ so could [she].” (318). Even though everyone is distressed by the situation‚ Aunt Alexandra inspires Scout to regain her composure and act mature about the situation. In the beginning‚ instead of respectfully accepting the death
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Did you ever wonder what brought about the Russian Revolution in the year 1917? Grigori Efimovich Rasputin and his actions were one of the main causes of the Revolution that ended the Romanov Dynasty. He was born on January 23‚ 1872 in Pokrovskoye‚ Siberia to Anna Egorovna and Efim Akovlevich Rasputin. At the age of eighteen‚ Rasputin claimed that he was visited by the Holy Virgin of Kazan. He then became convinced that God had chosen him for a special purpose that he would find out later in his
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(Armengol 62). Such activities women would be expected to be involved in at the time would be tending to gardens‚ hosting parties‚ and cooking. All of these are done by the female characters in Lee’s novel. Jem even tells Scout‚ “ You know she’s [Aunt Alexandra] not used to girls’...’leastways‚ not girls like you. She’s trying to make you a lady. Can’t you take up sewin’ or something? (Lee 302) Scout also notes that in the 1930s “Ladies seemed to live in faint horror of men‚ seemed unwilling to approve
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