This summer I shadowed my dad for eight hours because I aspire to have his success when I grow up. He runs a successful business and maintains a lot of land and animals on the land. I will most likely take over the business when I get older. I will be responsible for the land and the animals on it. One of my experiences with my dad was catching the younger male chickens that will start being trouble with the adults. I asked him how did he know which ones to catch and he said “You never really know when to catch them. But it is better to catch them a week early than a day late.” As I look back at what he said now, It was much better to catch them a week early before they cause trouble a day late. Another of my experiences was watching my dad …show more content…
I did not find the shifts distracting because they laid some clearer details than with Scouts innocent six year old mind. Adult Scout has more of an understanding of the events that took place in her childhood. Young Scout was too naive to understand the gravity of what was happening such as why the jury convicted Tom or why Bob Ewell tried to murder her and Jem. An advantage the author has is to make events clearer to the reader because adult Scout has the experience in life to explain events much better than young Scout does. Tom Robinson is a character in which he is expected to act a certain way because of double consciousness and the racism in the community. He is not to speak to a white person unless he is spoken to and he is falsely accused and prosecuted of a rape charge on a white girl and he is convicted and is shot seventeen times when he tries to escape from his prison. I do believe that double consciousness is still strong in our current society. Some upper class still believe the lower class is inferior and should “obey them.” There are race supremacists that believe that one race is superior than all others.I feel that I am forced into double consciousness very few times throughout the