Hungry Teeth Hunting Last week‚ for Teeth’s twelfth birthday‚ Gerbil Bill gave him a bolt cutter and taught him how to break locks with it. Teeth broke everything he could fit in the bolt cutter until Gerbil Bill made a golden rule: leave it in the cart until you go out to scavenge. Teeth hates that word‚ “scavenge.” It reminds him of vultures and he considers himself more of a hawk‚ a war hawk with a helmet and armor. War hawks don’t scavenge. They hunt. Sleeping in gets tricky without a mattress
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To kill a Mockingbird Analysis Essay The book “To kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee is about a family back in the day in Maycomb “The finalist for the most boring town in america.” This means that they think nothing will ever happen there that is remotely bad and they focus on other things like work and stuff. The day after the showdown‚ Scout and Jem are full of questions about why people act the way they do reminiscing about what had happened the previous night.They are shocked how atticus
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Scout’s characterization and narrative perspective guides how we view the events in the novel. She does this through her child-like perspective‚ but adult-like observations. With this‚ Scout is a usually well-behaved child and is innocent. She is not brash and unruly‚ respects decency‚ and is conscientious. This is shown on page 15 when she says‚ “I told Jem if he set fire to the Radley house I was going to tell Atticus on him.” She also respects‚ listens‚ and is loyal to her father. “If I didn’t
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In part 1 of the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" there is a girl named Jean Finch‚ nicknamed Scout‚ and her brother Jem Finch live in Maycomb with their father Atticus Finch. Atticus is a lawyer who is loved by the whole city. Scout and Jem have a cook named Calpurnia who is like a mother figure in the house since the kid’s mom died when Scout was a young girl. Scout doesn’t remember her mother but Jem does. Jem gets sad when he thinks of their mother. A boy named Charles Harris‚ nicknamed Dill‚moves
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CHAPTER 4 What items do the children find in the Radley tree and what do they decide to do with them? Who do the children believe is leaving the gifts? What are your thoughts on who this person is and why they are leaving the gifts? The children found chewing gum and Indian-heads‚ and they decide to keep them and see if they belong to anyone at school. Scout is oblivious to who’s hiding spot it is‚ she just wants the loot. While Jem‚ being older‚ thinks more and has come to the conclusion that it
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Morgan Glennie 2/6/17 5th Hour Mrs. Wong The Problem with Judging Many different themes are in “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The theme of this essay is “Don’t judge before learning.” In the play‚ two kids called Jem and Scout investigate the rumors of a neighborhood man called Boo Radley while their father‚ a lawyer named Atticus‚ prepares to defend an African American named Tom Robinson for a crime he did not commit. People judged Tom Robinson‚ Boo Radley‚ and Scout. Tom Robinson was accused of
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Soldier’s Home Theme Theme is defined as the central idea or meaning of a story. It is what the plot of the whole story revolves around‚ and it is what ties everything within the story together. Finding the theme of the story may be challenging at times and can often be confused with the subject; however‚ with the proper critical reading techniques‚ the theme is much easier to determine. The search for the theme can be aided by identifying the setting‚ character traits‚ the plot‚ symbols and other
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In a small town deep south in Alabama‚ two children reside in a house with their father Atticus. Maycomb was this town’s name‚ and within Maycomb lived the nastiest‚ most psychotic‚ recluse to have ever live‚ and it just so happens that this monster of a man is the neighbor of the two young children‚ at least this is how “Boo” Radley is perceived to be in To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. “Jem” Jeremy Atticus Finch and “Scout” Jean Louise Finch‚ the two children‚ one four years younger than the
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“The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering” –Benjamin Spock. For the most part‚ parents have the largest influence in a child’s life by teaching them values to educate them and set them in the right direction for them to have the most fulfilling life possible. A value is a person’s principles of standards of behavior. However‚ the parent can only guide the child while the child has the drive and motivation to follow the path set out by the parent. For
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Title: To Kill A Mockingbird Author: Harper Lee Year of Publication: 1960 Text Type: Novel What makes the character in this text an outsider? The character that’s made an outsider is Tom Robinson. Tom Robinson is an outsider because of his skin colour‚ and was accused of raping Mayella Ewell. But him being black was the main reason as to why he was the outsider. Scout and her family were also outsiders. They were made outsiders by the neighbourhood because her father Atticus was Tom Robinson’s
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