-Summary for Ch. 11-15 (AT LEAST FOUR SENTENCES): In chapter 11 Jem got mad and he trashed Ms. Dubose’s house. His punishment for doing this was to read to Ms. Dubose every day. Scout is disappointed when she finds out that Dill is not coming back and that he says he has a new father.
From 1867 to 1900, the U.S. actively expanded beyond its borders. The Alaskan Purchase, the annexation of Hawaii, and the Spanish-American War contributed to expansionism and imperialism in the United States. The United States purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867 for $7.2 million. William Seward, Secretary of State, was quick to agree to Russia’s offer.
After Jem realizes what happened to Mrs. Dubose he understood what her problem
As he is starting to grow, Jem is changing the way he acts, such as him, visiting Mrs.Dubose’s grave and being “grateful for [Scout’s] company when he read to her [Mrs.Dubose]”. Earlier, when he was small, he disliked Mrs.Dubose because she would insult him and Scout. But it went far to an extent where Mrs.Dubose insulted Atticus for defending an African American, causing Jem to kill her favorite flowers. Atticus made him go to Mrs.Dubose’s house to read to her, every day for a month. Eventually, after a month, Atticus received the news that Mrs.Dubose has died.
Dubose every day for a month. Mrs. Dubose wasn’t a kind lady, she would frequently insult Jem and Scout as well as Atticus on their actions and behaviors; but Atticus saw past that. Atticus saw Mrs. Dubose as “a great lady”(149), someone who doesn’t give up. While she was a grumpy person, she was also fighting a morphine addiction so she could be free before she died. Atticus wanted Jem to read to her so he could “see what real courage is”(149), so he would see that as courage rather than “a man with a gun in his hand”(149).
It was then revealed she was a Morphine addict, and Jem was there to help her get rid of her addiction (him reading to her, kept her mind off of Morphine). Atticus just wanted Jem to see what “real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.” (page number). Atticus didn’t want Jem to think that courage and power came from a gun or a weapon, and wanted him to see how courageous Mrs. Dubose was for trying to stop her addiction despite the fact that she was going to die
As punishment, Atticus makes Jem go and read to Mrs. Dubose each afternoon. Scout goes with him. At first, each reading session is cut short by Mrs. Dubose's strange fits, but over the month the sessions get longer and the fits slowly disappear. Soon after the reading sessions end, Mrs. Dubose dies. She leaves Jem a single white camellia flower.
It began when as punishment for the deed he had to, “...Come over [to Mrs. Dubose’s house] every afternoon after school and read to her out loud for two hours”(Lee 121). This seemed like torture to Jem, who whined and complained to Atticus, but he eventually submitted. As Jem read, Mrs. Dubose seemed to be trying to teach him new words, according to Scout, who said, “When Jem came to a word he didn’t know, he skipped it, but Mrs. Dubose would catch him and make him spell it out”(Lee 122). Jem seemed to be unaware of this, but he must have learned new words and their meanings from this experience. However, he was mainly focused on how ghastly the old woman appeared.
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
They walked by Mrs. Dubose's house one last time, Jem still furious decided to cut down every camellia bush she owned. When this news came around to Atticus, he felt embarrassed and disappointed. All his life has been teaching Jem and Scout to be respectful and civil, and when this happened, it broke him. As a form of punishment, he made Jem go to Mrs. Dubose's house every evening after schools and on Saturdays to read to her for a month. Scout didn't want Jem to do this alone, so he decided to come with him from time to time.
Jem was walking home when Ms. Dubose started her usual ranting but this time it was different. She went on about Atticus and how he was a disgrace to this town, and Jem finally snapped. He took his sister’s newly acquired baton and started smashing all of her snow on the mountain flower bushes. As his punishment, Atticus made Jem read to Ms. Dubose for a little more than a month. Not only does Atticus show courage by raising Jem
“In the corner of the room was a brass bed, and in the bed was Mrs. Dubose. I wondered if Jems activities had put her there and for a moment I felt sorry for her.” The reason why Jem and Scout were at Mrs. Dubose’s house, was because Jem and Scout were walking by her house when Dubose started yelling at the kids saying that Atticus is not any better than the “niggers and trash he works for.” Jem lost his temper and takes Scouts baton he bought for her and snaps it in half. Jem destroys all of
Mrs. Dubose put Jem to the test when she stepped out of line with remarks about Jem’s father, Atticus. Atticus had told Jem “ You just be a gentleman, son” (102). Atticus told him this in hopes Jem would be mature enough to see the sometimes you have to be the bigger person or in this case a gentleman. After one too many rude comments from Mrs. Dubose, Jem finally snapped and what Atticus had told him, did not matter anymore. “He did not begin to calm down until he had cut the tops off every camellia bush Mrs. Dubose owned, until the ground was littered with green buds and leaves” (103).
This is when he went out of control and lost all of the maturity he had. He could no longer take Mrs.Dubose’s insulting comments. This was a terrible decision yet others would have been tempted to do the same thing. As a punishment, Jem is forced to read to
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.
