“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past‚ threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.” States African American poet Maya Angelou‚ who personally relates to racial prejudice. Prejudice is when someone adapts a negative attitude against a particular group or person without valid reason and make uneducated assumptions about them. people can express their prejudice in different ways and take extreme measures to get a point across‚ targeting certain individuals or communities. For
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To Kill a Mockingbird – Section One Study Questions. 6) What satirical points are being made about education through Scout’s experiences in school? I feel a major satirical point about Scout’s education is the fact that she is ridiculed for learning some place other than school. It’s as if her teacher feels Scout is messing her learning system. She is "introducing a new way of teaching" one which involves the teacher waving cards at the students with simple words printed on them. Scout
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To kill a mockingbird and Color Purple are two really good books who have their similarities‚ but of course not two things can be equal. This two book show us the the same from two different points of view. Both of them talk the problematics of African American in those times. It shows how life can be unfair sometimes and how most of those times‚ there is nothing we might do to change it. It shows how our decisions and action define us. How we live in a society were looking for equality and hoping
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Natalie Erdman Miss Atz English 9 Honors (Period 4) 15 February 2012 Mayella’s Testimony I hear someone call my name‚ my full name “Mayella Violet Ewell!” I can hear it loud and clear‚ I’m so scared. I know what really happened but I can’t tell. I walk toward the witness stand‚ terrified. I stop before enterin’‚ take the oath sayin I’ll say the truth‚ the whole truth‚ and nothing but the truth; but it’s all a lie‚ the oath and what I’ll testify. I’m sittin’ in the stand‚ lookin’ the
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Chapter 1 Chapter 1 introduces readers to the town of Maycomb‚ its appearance‚ its inhabitants‚ and the particular attitudes of many of its people. Find a sentence or a paragraph which illustrates each of the following attitudes/ideas. Quote at least a portion of the sentence or paragraph and give the page number. pride in ancestry and “tradition” “Tired old town” (pg. 5) pride in conformity and distrust of those who are different “Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing
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In Maycomb county‚ where Harper Lee has set her novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”‚ racial discrimination is unfortunately the social norm. By following the events of this novel‚ Lee invites the reader to understand that judging a person by the colour of their skin is unjustifiable. Of particular significance are the proceedings of the court trial where the characters Bob Ewell‚ Tom Robinson and Atticus Finch show this important moral message from different perspectives. Bob Ewell perpetuates racial
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aspects of prejudice in our lives. Through Harper Lee and Oodgeroo Noonuccal‚ we can explore the significance of our past and examine the prejudice aspects in the texts. Through Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird‚ we explore the power of the innocent and the importance of discovery in a prejudice community. When we explore Son of Mine‚ we can uncover the hardships of Indigenous Australians in the past through alienation. Texts have the capacity to challenge individuals pre-conceived ideas around prejudice‚ discrimination
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What does Scout learn at the end of the novel? Throughout the novel‚ The Kill A Mockingbird‚ the narrator‚ Scout‚ who is only three years old at the beginning‚ grows up to understand the evils of the society in the 1930s. Her mind is full of fun and excitement‚ but as important events unfold in Maycomb‚ she begins to discover themes such as racism and prejudice as she grows older that would have seemed meaningless to her during the beginning In the earlier stages of the book‚ Scout enjoyed the
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Miss Caroline’s first day * Her attitude to Maycomb and the school. * Her pupils (scout/Walter/Burris/Little chuck etc.) * Her teaching methods and there effectiveness. * Classroom management. * Key moments etc. Dear diary‚ I walked into the classroom to see all my new pupils‚ I was nervous at first but then Miss Maudie introduced me to the class and everything was fine. I wrote my name on the board and told them what it said and where I am from. The class just murmured
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The novel To Kill a Mocking Bird‚ the memoir Night‚ and the play Romeo and Juliet are good examples of how one can create a plan and the potential obstacles that someone may run into while executing this type of plan. Within the novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ the main character with a plan was Atticus. His plan at the beginning of the novel was to succeed in winning the Tom Robinson case. The case involved the accusations made against Tom that he raped Bob Ewell’s daughter‚ Mayella. Even though
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