that not everyone treats each other kindly or fairly. In Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”‚ the innocence of Dill‚ Scout‚ and Jem is taken away. In “To Kill a Mockingbird”‚ Dill is one example of someone loosing their innocence. One example of Dill loosing his innocence is when Mr. Gilmer was disrespectful to Tom Robinson in the courthouse‚ this made Dill very upset. This shows that Dill lost his innocence because when Mr. Gilmer called
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Finchs’ black housekeeper. She grew up at Finch’s Landing and moved with Atticus to Maycomb; the closest thing to a mother that Scout and Jem have & fewest of negroes in town who can read and write Charles Baker “Dill” - Jem and Scout’s neighborhood friend. Living in Meridian‚ Mississippi‚ Dill spends every summer with his aunt‚ Miss Rachel Haverford Bob Ewell – a drunken‚ one of the poorest members of Maycomb County. Ewell represents the dark side of the South: ignorance‚ poverty‚ squalor‚ and hate-filled
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be a small thing like saying hi to somebody as you pass them on the streets‚ even though you’re too shy to speak up. Courage can be a big thing like going up to somebody’s house that you don’t like‚ or are scared of. In the novel‚ many times Jem and Dill wanted to go up to the Radley house‚ Scout didn’t like the idea‚ but went along with it anyways. Jem ran
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Dills Divorced Family Life How have divorced families changed since the 1930s? Harper Lee wrote a book called To Kill a Mockingbird. This book is based off of the 1930s and is Historical Fiction. It includes many lessons and what happened between families‚ including divorce‚ from The Great Depression. In the 1930s many people did not have a lot of money so they could not pay for divorce. ("Making do: Family Life in the Depression."). If this did happen‚ many families were depressed. (The 1930s:
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The state of mind that allows a person to believe they can conquer anything is courage. Where there are individual strengths and fears‚ all people share the common emotion of weakness and doubt in a certain situation in which creates an overwhelming feeling of defeat. Weather it is the test that you cannot ace‚ or the sport that you cannot play‚ many people have a worry that may seem unusual to them‚ but in reality‚ it is truly ordinary. It is sometimes easy for a person to determine their flaws
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Growing Up Can you remember a time when you realized growing up had a lot of of ups and downs? In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ a young boy named Jem discovers this through his own unique experiences. At the beginning of the novel‚ Jem is innocent and naive while he is obsessing over his scary and mysterious neighbor‚ Boo Radley. As time goes on‚ Jem grows up enough to realize that Boo isn’t so scary and mysterious‚ and that other assumptions that he made similar to that one‚ such as those
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To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter 6 Vocabulary Ensuing: Happening next. Prowess: Ability or a skill. Ramshackle: Badly built or rundown. Inviting: Attractive. Cot: Collapsible lightweight bed. Sentences 1. Jem said Mr. Avery misfigured ‚ Dill said he must drink a gallon a day‚ and the following contest to determine relative distances and respective ability only made me feel left out again‚ as I was untalented in this area. 2. The back of the Radley house was less attractive than the front:
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obvious that Dill has never met his father in a very long time. At the beginning of the book‚ Dill says he has no father. Scout then keeps pushing the subject on him and Jem tells her to hush because it’s a touchy subject. Dill’s mom doesn’t show much interest in Dill‚ he gets "passed around from relative to relative‚ and Miss Rachel keeps him every summer" (110). In this point of the book‚ it’s clear that Dill’s parents neglect him and makes him think that they didn’t need him. Dill deals with this
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Chapter 12 1. Jem is now 12. There is a widening gap of understanding between Scout and Jem. Find two or three examples which illustrate the emotional distance between them. Before‚ Jem would always be Scout’s playmate but now he tells her to “stop pestering him” and that she should start “bein’ a girl and acting right”. Jem now likes to be kept alone and feels as if Scout is a lot more childish than he had realized. 2. How do you explain Lula’s antagonism toward Jem and Scout? Lula feels as if
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because Jem made me take Dill out. For some reason Dill had started crying and couldn’t stop; quietly at first‚ then his sobs were heard by several people in the balcony. Jem said if I didn’t go with him he’d make me‚ and Reverend Sykes said I’d better go‚ so I went. Dill had seemed to be all right that day‚ nothing wrong with him‚ but I guessed he hadn’t fully recovered from running away. “Ain’t you feeling good?” I asked‚ when we reached the bottom of the stairs. Dill tried to pull himself together
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