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On the walk home from a pageant Jem and scout are attacked. Jem is hurt badly and was then carried home by a stranger. The Sheriff’s then turn up Bob Ewell’s body. Atticus thinks that it was Jem who stabbed him. The sheriff was going to cover for Jem and say that Bob fell on the knife, but Atticus told him not to.
Jem and Scout were walking by Mrs. Dubose house on a Saturday and she asked what they were doing out in town. Jem took Scout’s baton and snapped it with his knee. Atticus tells Jem to go have a talk with Mrs. Dubose. Atticus explains why he goes to court and fights for negros. They had sessions set up to where the kids visit Mrs. Dubose.
In chapter 6, Jem, Dill, and Scout go over to the Radley house on Dill’s last night to try and see Boo Radley through a window. Instead, they see a shadowy figure in the yard and a gunshot goes off, scaring them and forcing them to run away from the property. While they are running away, Jem loses his pants and leaves them behind. Once they get back home, they join the group outside huddled near the Radley house. Jem is questioned about where his pants are and responds with how he lost them in a game of strip poker.
TKAMB chapters 15-17 S.I.R by Tri Nguyen 1. In chapter 15, Heck Tate’s mob wanted to talk to Atticus that Tom Robinson have been moved to Maycomb Jail, and that there might be trouble concerning Atticus and Tom Robinson. It stated on page 165, “Mr. Tate was saying, “I don’t look for any trouble, but I can’t guarantee there won’t be any . . .” This show that as the trial are coming nearer, the people are getting more impatient, and this would cause them to act violence not only to the Negroes, but also to their fellow kind. This also show that prejudice can change a person point of view, and make them think only about their superiority over Negroes even though some of them are no better than the Negroes themselves, like the Ewell and the Cunningham.
Chapter,28 pp 342-357: Scout and Jem are walking home from a Halloween pageant when suddenly they get attacked by a man. They get away and run home as fast as they could. Jem is hurt but they find out that the man who attacked him was Bob Ewell and was found dead with a knife in him. 19. Chapter, 29 pp 358-362
To summarize chapter five up Walter had met a famous baseball player. His name was Sugar Ray Robinson, and he was the welterweight champion, Also he met them back when slavery was around .Most of Walters’s life revolved around school and church, but his school was integrated .Even though his church had white people involved in some capacity. He wasn’t aware of the race problem, so in the summer his biological father moved to Harlem. That’s when he knew he was adopted. On pg.
After realizing that they had an extra room in chapter nineteen, John and Jenny decided to have another member to the family but they really wanted a girl since the first two children were boys. Jenny wanted to find a way to give John a good birthday present, so on January 9th; she delivered their baby girl which they decided to name Colleen. Later on Jenny throws John a surprise birthday party which he thought was very thoughtful and made the night even better. Towards the end of the chapter, there was another thunderstorm, which is where John realizes why Marley is so afraid of lightening because Marley ended up saving John from a lightning strike.
In Chapter 12 of Harper Lee’s, To Kill a Mockingbird, there are many events and situations in which irony is used to support the theme of the chapter. An example of this is in the very beginning of the chapter, when Scout is concerned about how distant and moody Jem is acting, and asks Atticus, “’Reckon he’s got a tapeworm?’” (Lee 153), to which Atticus replies no, and that Jem is growing. This is dramatic irony because the readers understand that Jem is acting oddly because he’s growing, but Scout doesn’t know this until she asks Atticus about it. This quote supports the theme of Chapter 12 by showing when Jem started to grow distance from Scout, getting aggravated with her and telling her to stop bothering him, and shows how the children
I tightened the grip around the chalk and began to move it on the blackboard back mark to spell my name Miss Caroline. “I am from Alabama, from Winston .” I explained to the class. “I would like to start off the year by reading a amazing book about cats, we can learn tons bu how they act and behave.” I said to the class.
To Kill A Mockingbird Literary Analysis Throughout To Kill A MockingBird, by Harper Lee there are many acts of courage. This is shown in Atticus Finch, Jem Finch, and Boo Radley. Atticus shows the most courage in the book but all three of these characters show true courage in some way, shape, or form. Boo Radley showed a lot of courage, but he was not in the storyline as much as Atticus. Throughout To Kill A Mockingbird, courage is defined as standing up for people and doing what’s right.
In the passage Jem and Scout walk home during the dark hours,giving Bob Ewell an opportunity to stage an attack. As Bob Ewell attacks them Boo Radley rushes in to rescue Jem and Scout. After this Scout now understands what Atticus meant it is a sin to kill a mockingbird. The killing of a mockingbird is much like killing the innocent. It is beyond a crime and worse than the most heinous atrocities.
This movie is about a Baseball Scout named Gus. Gus is starting to lose his eyesight, Gus goes to the doctor to find out what is going on with is eyes. After the doctor exams, him he asks the doctor does he see anything in there, truth be told he didn’t truly want to hear what the doctor had to say to him about what he had seen in Gus’s exam. The doctor tries to explain that he thinks that Gus has glaucoma and needed to see a specialist. Gus didn’t want no part in hearing about the diagnosis, so he asks the doctor to pretend he had not been there for the exam.
I started to get concerned so I started walking faster towards them. The man started to attack Jem and Scout. He pushed Scout on the ground and broke Jem’s arm before I could get to him. I came up to the man, who I recognized as Bob Ewell. I grabbed him and shoved him on the ground.
-Summary for Ch. 11-15 (AT LEAST FOUR SENTENCES): In chapters 11-15, Jem did not know much about Mrs. Dubose but Atticus said that she was the bravest person he knew as she died of her illness. Cal took Scout and jem to a black church and some didn't quite welcome them to their church but they learned some new things about the difference in races.
“Courage doesn 't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying ‘I’ll try again tomorrow’” - Mary Anne Radmacher. Through this quote one can see the advantages of real courage. One can really understand the true meaning of courage by reading the books To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. The book by Harper Lee is written by a 9 year old’s perspective named Scout.