Chapter six begins with the night Dill leaves Maycomb‚ we know school is coming soon and Scout and Jem are sad to see Dill go. As Scout put so bluntly; “ “We’re gonna miss you‚ boy.” I sad” (Harper Lee pg.51). During this chapter an important event takes place. Jem‚ Dill‚ and scout sneak over to the Radley place and are frightened by the shadow that they see in the window shutter‚ they run away and Jem loses his pants on the gate! Nathan Radley had scared them away by shooting a shotgun. They tell
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Joe thought he heard a mysterious sound.MMMMMMMMMM‚though Joe just thought it was just the heater.However there was a strange smell of rot flowing through the house as it soon started to sicken Him.All of the sudden‚the humming stopped all at once‚however the smell got closer. “What is that?” Joe thought. Soon joe Started to get frightened‚and he remembered that old movie “the grudge” and got up from his bed.Joe Stared and walked slowly and quietly towards the door.Scared‚Joe Creaked open the door
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From where do our innate fears come from? EVOLUTION: Innate Fears: Innate fears are fears we have from birth When geese are hatched in a hatchery they are set aside in a cage and have a cardboard cutout of a goose flown over them‚ they then reach out chirping and begging for food but when flown backwards the mother goose now resembles a hungry falcon‚ the geese then try to hide and stop chirping‚ Humans‚ how you scream at a spider did our ancestors run from an arachnid that was twenty times
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Coming of age novels‚ Cold Sassy Tree and To Kill a Mockingbird introduce readers to 14 year old Will Tweedy of Cold Sassy‚ Georgia and 5 year old Jean Louise “Scout” Finch of Maycomb County‚ Alabama. Both characters were brought up in small‚ close-knit southern towns‚ with false views of the world‚ and ignorance to knowledge and experience. As the stories progess however‚ the two gain a new type of knowledge and realization of the world. Experiences dealing with love‚ death‚ racism and discrimination
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To Kill a Mockingbird’s themes of justice‚ morality‚ and ethics are represented through the actions and beliefs of the characters Atticus‚ Bob Ewell‚ and the town of Maycomb‚ represented through the Missionary Society‚ which is controlled by the sociable white women. Justice‚ as in justice by law‚ is inherent in the novel as is justice through karma. Morality is also central to the novel; a strong sense of morality‚ or rather a lack of‚ guides the characters as the story progresses. Ethics and unethical
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Harper Lee‚ the author of To Kill a Mockingbird stated‚ “Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another race inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned everything is war”. In To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Scout‚ the main character‚ faces all kinds of discrimination along with Skeeter‚ the main character‚ from The Help. Scout does not to act like a typical girly girl. She wears overalls and plays around with her brother‚ Jem‚ and their friend‚ Dill. Throughout her story
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In the book To Kill a Mockingbird‚ written by Harper Lee‚ the main theme is that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird. This metaphor of not killing mockingbird is clearly portrayed throughout the course of this novel. This theme is so important to the plot of this novel that the author decided to entitle the book after this very metaphor. Mockingbirds are birds that do not do anything wrong and they just give us music. Atticus is the main character in the novel that really stressed why it is a sin to
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Atticus Finch‚ the best lawyer in Maycomb‚ was sitting nervously in his chair as he waited for the town Judge to arrive in court‚ Tom Robinson‚ Atticus client was nervous himself as well because he knew he didn’t do it‚ but Tom Robinson was black and 5‚7 and a lot of racemus was going around because it was in the 1930’s so Tom thought people were going to be against him because he was black. Toms sister katie was there to fight on his side. Tom is trying not to get charged with what they are saying
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To Kill A Mockingbird is a novel written by Harper Lee. The protagonist and narrator of the story is Jean Louise‚ or Scout‚ Finch. She lives in the small town of Maycomb with her father‚ Atticus‚ and brother‚ Jem. Scout is only six years old but is very intelligent‚ defensive‚ and curious. At Christmas‚ Francis is talking to Scout and is saying negative things about Atticus. Scout tries to defend Atticus by yelling. On page 83 Scout narrates‚ “I leaped off the steps and ran down the catwalk. It
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To Kill A Mockingbird Empathy You can’t just open a book and judge the story on the random chapter you happened to end up on‚ you start from the beginning and read the full story. Empathy is just like that. Empathy is like reading someone else’s story: being one with the characters and events and feeling the emotions of the main character‚ observing‚ listening‚ and understanding. When you read someone’s story is when the solution of racism and prejudices within communities is really possible
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