when I woke up from the hellish flames. I knew my house was goner when I saw that the old Maycomb firetruck was taken out by the cold. When the men around me started to try and save my furniture I was thankful‚ but even more thankful when Atticus Finch came out with my old oak rockin’ chair I love so much. That man is a kind man and for that he has always‚ and will forever be‚ a great fren’. As more furniture came piling out of my old home‚ Mr. Avery was pushing out my mattress from the top window
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believes in President Roosevelt fixing things‚ but we all have our doubts that he is any different than Hoover. When we lost all of our money with what Jim had invested from his boxing earnings into what we thought was safe in the stock market‚ we lost everything. We had to move to a poor neighborhood‚ crammed in with everyone else from the community. I should be thankful though; at least we haven’t been forced to move into a Hooverville! I don’t think I could survive there‚ let alone bring Jay‚ Howard
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Letter to Dill To My Dearest Dill‚ So much has happened since you’ve left. I mean it all pretty much start ed with Tom Robinson’s death. But you already knew about that. But a lot has happened to me and Jem. But I’ll tell you that in a minute. Well‚ it started out with the Halloween pageant. You’ll never guess what I was. I was the ham! The costume was really hot and big. It wasn’t very comfortable. The bad things started during the pageant. I was supposed to wait for my signal for me to go
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night we had parties that sometimes led into the day. On September 1‚ 1781 we arrived in Philadelphia. I suppose British General Cornwallis was a little busy with the constant French attacks and for a second in this battle‚ he forgot about us. From what I had heard the French had blocked Cornwallis’s supplies and were preparing to attack. Once we heard the news we immediately celebrated (even though we had not even begun the battle). However‚ the French did not seem to be as jubilant as the
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The Coming of Age of Jem Finch People can develop through the ages quite rapidly sometimes; taking on contrasting values and becoming virtually different people. It is a common feature in the entire of humankind‚ that during the course of extreme change or difficulties‚ people change their qualities to adapt. Similarly‚ in Harper Lee’s renowned novella To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Jem Finch goes through such changes. The story set in a small and quiet town in Alabama in the 1930s‚ revolves around the
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The Citizens of Maycomb Was Atticus Finch a leader or a " nigger lover"? In the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ Atticus showed in multiple places how he was a leader and also how he could have been a "nigger lover". For a small town like Maycomb‚ there wasn’t a lot of neighborly friendship going on; between Boo Radley‚ and the mysterious minds of Scout and Jem‚ the town was in circles. The mad dog in the story was a symbol of many different things‚ it was a symbol of the town and
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definitely become easier when she is at BOAS home. Miss Goh is now 53 years old. She was admitted into Sime Darby Medical Centre last year on the 15th of December 2012 due to serious fracture of the ankle bone. The cause of this injury was that she fell from the stairs in a hypermarket. In the past 2 months‚ she had been treated by me and now becoming better where palpation on the injury area would cause pain anymore. However‚ she is still having difficulties in walking where there is weakness on the ankle
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The main characters of this book were Jem and Scout who we first meet with morality levels 0 to 1. It is their experiences which cause them to ultimately arrive at a high level of morality and exhibiting characteristics of level 6. Early in the story Jem and Scout act with a level of 0 and 1 in my opinion for many reasons. The first indicator is their bluntness when they first met Dill. They don ’t meet a whole lot of kids their age except at school for Jem‚ so when they talk to Dill they don ’t
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the law. To Kill a Mockingbird‚ was written by Harper Lee. In today’s society‚ people make up codes just to make life easier for them and not to get into fights with anyone. In this book‚ the Ewells kid does not go to school more than one day and Atticus tries to overcome one of the nation wide codes. The judge decides to go with the code and not the law of Mr. Tom Robinsons case. Burris Ewell‚ a poor boy in the Ewell family‚ has his own code. He only has to go to school for only the first day
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Liliana Rangel September 5‚ 2013 FR. Lit and Comp. Period 2 Dear Sue Monk Kidd‚ I am writing to you today telling you about your book The Secret Life of Bees. The Secret Life of Bees is an interesting story that I enjoyed very much. This story has a very complex plot and storyline. The main character‚ Lily‚ has a tough life living with her abusive father I wish T. Ray could have been a little bit nicer to Lily. I do not like how he is so ridged with her. I love Lily as a character because
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