Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a novel about a young girl named Scout and her family who live in Maycomb County‚ a small town in Alabama during the 1930’s. Throughout the book‚ Scout and her older brother‚ Jem‚ experience many minor and major alterations and events that ultimately lead to them changing the way they look at the people around them and have a new perspective on life itself. Even so‚ there are some things that remain unchanged. Scout and Jem had a very strong bond at the start of the novel
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To Kill a Mockingbird: "The Timeless Classic of Growing Up‚ and the Human Dignity That Unites Us All." Harper Lee demonstrated both the harsh and the happy moments a brother and sister‚ Jem and Scout‚ encountered growing up. As the years went by‚ the two of them witnessed some events that taught them many significant life lessons. Two of those lessons were about kindness and responsibility. As Jem matures in the novel‚ the events that occur in the small Southern town of Maycomb affect him more than
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What do Jem and Scout learn during the course of the novel? Jem and Scout are two caring siblings who look out for each other. At the start the children are not aware of a few things such as what real courage was. Boo Radley‚ to them a very strange man‚ lived at the corner of the street in a shabby house with his father and mother. The children’s assumptions about Boo were very strange‚ they thought that “he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch” and that “his eyes popped and he drooled
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To kill a mockingbird: Analyze the childhood world of Jem‚ Scout‚ and Dill and their relationship with Boo Radley in Part One. The novel ’To kill a mockingbird’ is a story about the older Scout looking back at her childhood in Maycomb‚ Alabama‚ and how she had grown up from a world of complete innocence into a much more complex adult world containing lots of negative elements and some good that together form her idea about the world and the way she thinks reacts to different thing later on in the
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"I would ask you a favour‚" said the German captain‚ as we sat in the cabin of a U-boat which had just been added to the long line of bedraggled captives which stretched themselves for a mile or more in Harwich Harbour‚ in November‚ 1918. I made no reply; I had just granted him a favour by allowing him to leave the upper deck of the submarine‚ in order that he might await the motor launch in some sort of privacy; why should he ask for more? Undeterred by my silence‚ he continued: "I have a great
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The debate on whether Alexander II was a Tsar Liberator is one which divides the opinion of many historians who examine Russian history. Alexander II introduced many reforms during his reign which revolutionised the political‚ social and economic landscape of Russia and were considered by many as ‘liberating’. My definition of ‘to liberate’ is to set free‚ either from oppression‚ confinement or indeed foreign control. Did Tsar Alexander do this and to what extent? The Emancipation of Serfs in 1861
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"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." Who are the people Scout comes to understand as a result of following Atticus’ advice? To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee‚ explores different themes and contains many important lessons. One of these lessons is empathy and understanding which is introduced to the main character through Atticus Finch who says "You never really
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Dill‚ Jem and I snuck out of the house to follow Atticus to the town center. Eventually‚ we saw Atticus sitting in front of the jail. Jem said we should go home‚ but just as he said that four cars drove up by Atticus and a bunch of men stepped out. They told him to step away from the jail. Just then‚ I ran toward Atticus‚ Jem and Dill came out after me. I heard one of the men tell Atticus he had fifteen seconds to get the kids out of here. Then I looked up and noticed Mr. Walter Cunningham in the
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point of view on Macbeth is this. “Macbeth is a good man whose intention is to do evil.” Pack compares the story to those of Hamlet‚ Othello‚ and Lear. He says “Shakespeare’s plays all reward retribution‚ and punishment take place on earth and within the sphere of mortal life.” Macbeth is punished by his soul‚ not punished physically Macbeth is about a man who violates the moral order and is punished for it. Pack compares the story to Dante’s “Inferno” by saying‚ “we see that no torture is imposed
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Braving Script When: December or January Pack Meetings and Troop Meetings Props: Pie (whipped cream and pie plate) prop tomahawk feather headdress Braves of BAC Patches Backdrop for scenery Goggles Rain Poncho or Garbage Bags Native American music Characters / Participants: Chief Blackhawk Drummer “Pie in the Face” recipients Scouts to be Braved **Groups of boys can be braved at once. Chief Blackhawk can tap each kneeling Scout on their shoulder with his tomahawk as he reads
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