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To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee: Chapter Analysis

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When reading “To Kill a Mockingbird”, I often read in my room, in the car, or in my family room. Those were places where I felt I didn’t have anytime time limit meaning I could take as long as I wanted to read. I chose those places mainly because I really disliked the book at the beginning and needed a long time to try and get through it. Although this is what I was feeling at the beginning, it did change throughout the book. The thing that I really did dread at the beginning however was taking notes, making chapter summaries, and tracking character development. I found this was not useful to me at all (in the beginning) and just slowed my reading time down as I had to pause periodically and write things down on sticky notes. As I progressed …show more content…

My initial reaction as I mentioned before was not very good but it improve as the novel went on. It improved because as I got to understand the novel and characters more, I think the book intrigued me more and more as it went on and my desire to find out what happened in each chapter grew with my understanding of the characters. Some chapters I was into more than others, for example, the Trial section of the book is probably my favorite chapter overall however there were other chapters that here interesting too, on the other hand, there were chapters like Chapter 11 with the story of Ms. Dubose that I didn’t fully understand until we had talked about it in class. Talking about the chapters in class is really what gave me a good understanding of the book and the characters, I understand that at this point I should be starting to see these things on my own while reading but there is simply no way I could have gotten that much meaning out of some chapters as we did in class, it was great! That was probably what made my reading experience so enjoyable (the fact that we talked about them in class) and gave me a much better

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5. Reading Process While I was reading the chapter their were times I wondered what I was reading since it would flash back an forth. In the novel since we are barley getting to know the character I was very confused of who was who in the novel. Also another issue that I had while reading the novel was that all the parts were in English so I had to translate what the characters had to say.

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Chapters 1-3 1. Atticus Finch – Atticus Finch is the father of Jem and Scout. He is a lawyer and widower. Jean Louise (Scout) Finch – Scout is the narrator of the story.

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As I read the beginning of chapter 12 Jem 's hit the middle school years, and everyone knows what that means: he 's angsty, moody, prone to prolonged silences broken by angry outbursts, and he all of a sudden thinks Scout should act like a girl. Also the story says that Jem is now the age of twelve, but he is now starting to get to the age where he doesn 't want to hang out with Scout and also feels annoyed. Also to add to Scout’s trouble, Dill will not be coming to Maycomb this summer, but Calpurnia eases her loneliness. What is even worse that Atticus has been called by the state legislature and to come into a special session and is away for two weeks. Calpurnia doesn 't trust Jem and Scout to go to church by themselves (there was a past

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It was my first time reading it and I was already able to take great advantage of it . The book has a big variety of vocabulary that I wasn't used to read before . At first while reading the first chapter I started to have difficulties comprehending what I was reading , I would look up the meaning of some words . The novel was something different than what I was used to reading .

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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

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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.

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Remember that special bird that always seems to be belting its cheerful tunes? Has anyone ever told you to appreciate the bird’s special knack for singing? Or rather, to do no harm to the frail animal since, after all, “It's a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Lee, pg.119). Harper Lee took this aphorism and turned it on its head: she gave this phrase a new meaning by creating the critically acclaimed novel, To Kill A Mockingbird starring the brother sister duo, Scout and Jem, both of whom constantly finding themselves in the most unlikely but simultaneously relatable predicaments. The audience follows the pair through their highs and lows in a key coming of age story.

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This book is about Finch and Violet who met each other at the bell tower when they are planning to jump off the ledge, but they didn’t continue. After this, they become partners in their project to wander Indiana. While wondering Indiana, they got closer to each other and became lovers. Finch helped Violet to overcome everything that happened after the accident with her sister. When Finch tried to kill himself, Violet tried talked about this to help him, but Finch got angry and they had an argument.

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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.

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The thermometer in there house registered sixteen degrees. Atticus recalls saying, “It was the coldest night in his memory.” Deep in sleep, Scout was awakened by her father, Mr. Atticus Finch, holding her bathrobe and coat. Meanwhile, Scout and her brother, Jem, still groggy from sleep, could detect the concern in their fathers’ hurriedness. Sirens began to be heard as they opened their front door seeing Miss Maudie Atkinson’s house in flames.

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The way the people and the town influence Jem and Scout make the characters more realistic and the overall story much more interesting. To Kill a Mockingbird is an exceptional novel that conveys many positive messages throughout. In her novel, Lee creates honest and relatable characters that take the reader on a journey through life in the south during the Great Depression. Readers are impressed by Lee’s eloquent writing and amazing characters, all of which make To

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Scout s ready to fight Cecil Jacobs because he insults her father. Scout has promised Atticus that she will not fight, and he said he would “wear her out” if she did it. Yet Cecil angered her so much she forgot. In the novel it states, “Cecil Jacobs made me forget. He had announced in the schoolyard the day before that Scout Finch's daddy defended niggers.

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“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.

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