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To Kill A Mockingbird Analysis

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Students at Herman academy explain how people aren't always how they seem and how if you just know a person’s name that doesn't mean you know them who they are or what they've been through they explain this by going to the expanses of literature to prove how we have known this for so long and have wrote about it and taught those books in high school but we still assume we know someone by just knowing their name. They use the references of Boo Radley from the book To Kill a Mocking Bird and Mary Maloney from Lamb to The Slaughter by Ronald Dahl. Students explain how in To Kill a Mocking bird everyone in Maycomb believed Boo Radley to be a monster do to the rumors when really, he was a caring and loving man who was over protective of the children …show more content…

While in Lamb to the slaughter Mary Malone is lovely obedient house wife so when she kills her husband, no one thinks she is the one who committed the murder because she chooses to keep it hidden and pretend to still be that housewife. The detectives believed she did not kill her husband because of who they thought she was. The students explain how looks can deceive us if we don’t learn about the person. Sometimes a person who looks like a monster can really be the nicest person you know like Boo Radley or it can go the other way someone might seem beautiful when they are far from it and have a piece of darkness in their heart like Mary Maloney. Grade 10 Student Suzan Sinjari said I believe what Harper Lee author of To Kill A Mocking Bird is right when she wrote You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it. I believe this is true because it relates to real life so well we’re always judging people and making stories about them just by looking at them when all we know is their name.” The students show case both stories in a literature fair and explain how both pieces of texts are simillar when it comes to the theme of hiddden idenities and come to the coclusion that how people aren't always how they seem and how if you just

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