Meanwhile, Scout and her brother Jem are interested in seeing Boo Radley, a man who has been rumored to had murdered his own father. On the other hand, the children’s father Atticus, a lawyer, takes on the case of Tom Robinson- a black man accused of raping Mayella Ewell. After Tom was declared guilty,a humiliated Bob Ewell tries to murders the Finch children for revenge, only for Boo Radley to save the children. Scout then looks at Boo, realizing to look from another person’s perspective.
Journal #5 I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and I am on page 376. This book is about a girl named Scout who lives with brother Jem, aunt Alexandra, and father Atticus. The kids have learned a lot from the experiences with people in the town like Boo Radley and Tom Robinson. When Tom died it affects the whole town for a little bit. When the kids were attacked by Bob Ewell, but Boo Radley came to save them.
Mrs. Dubose lived alone. Jem and Scout were scared of her and hated her. Atticus would get furious about what Mrs. Dubose said to him. Jem turned twelve during this chapter. Jem bought a steam engine and Scout got a baton.
-The kids were watching the house burn near the Radley house. -Scout discovers that someone put a blanket over her shoulders, and she thinks that it was
Scout Finch is not an ordinary girl, and she does not want to be. Everything about her life proves a little bit out of the ordinary, especially the mysteries of her town. Things start to get even more odd than usual when a neighbor’s nephew, Dill, arrives. He has an untamed curiosity that also boosts Scout’s wonder to figure out the truth of the Radley house next door and the mysterious Boo Radley who lives there. While many questions surround Scout, her father takes a case that will change all of their lives.
Chapter 15 8. When Atticus says that the Klan is gone, he is incorrect because although there may not be any official “Ku Klux Klan,” there will always be people whose ideas about races differ from the ones around them, and sooner or later, they will start to band together and form something similar to the Ku Klux Klan. For example, when Atticus was at the jail, a mob of drunken men had come in order to kill Tom Robinson before his trial. This mob could represent ideas similar to the Ku Klux Klan at that time. Chapter 16 9.
In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout and Jem Finch live in the small town known as Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression. Over time, Scout learns about the town’s true identity. She and Jem are forced to work for Mrs. Dubose, an old woman who seems to hate children. Accompanying this, Scout and Jem are stuck fearing the lunatic who only comes out from his rickety old home at night, Boo Radley. Atticus Finch, Jem and Scout’s father, was appointed as a lawyer to help defend Tom Robinson, a struggling black man who was framed for abusing Mayella Ewell.
Rumors embraced Jem, Scout and Dill as they acted out stories of Boo stabbing his father with scissors and imitated his sad, psychotic life. When the kids started to mature they received a sense of reality in Maycomb and how the citizens aren’t as innocent as they appear. While Scout and Jem began to realized this Jem stated, “...I think i'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed up in the house all this time … it’s because he wants to stay inside.” (Lee, page 304) When miss Maudie's house caught fire on the cold night, a blanket appeared over Jem and Scout while they sat in front of the Radley house. They later found out that Boo was the one who had placed it there.
This coming-of-age event evolves Scout and Jem's characters with its setting, conflict, and characters. For starters, the kids were playing outside in their neighborhood when they saw the dog. Scout recalls, “She followed us beyond the Radley place and looked where Jem pointed” (Lee 106). What Scout recalls
This leads to the town’s most known lawyer, Atticus, which happens to be the protagonist’s dad, to attempt to help Tom Robinson get a fair trial to prove his innocence. Throughout the whole book, we are able to read about the Finch family’s adventures of living in a racist-filled environment and how well they react to them initially and ultimately. Being just a child at the time, it is hard for Scout Finch to understand what’s really going on in the town of Maycomb and why people have turned against her family. The novel is written in the form of flashbacks, with the story beginning when Scout was only 6 years old and ending when she is 9 years old.
To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel about Scout and Jem and their story as they watch their small home of Maycomb, Alabama turn from slow and gloomy to a racially tensioned town. Before the action starts, the siblings meet Dill, who is fascinated with the mysterious Boo Radley, who never leaves his house and it is rumored that he killed his family. The action grows as a spark sends the story into its main act when Mrs. Maude’s home burns to the ground. As Scout watches the fire in awe, Boo sneaks out and covers her with a blanket. This starts to give off the impression that Boo isn’t as bad as he is said to be.
INTRODUCTION In Maycomb, Alabama town in the middle of the Great Depression, the year-old Boy Scout Finch lives with her brother, Jim, and her widowed father, Atticus. Atticus, a lawyer, and makes enough for comfortable family out of poverty, but his work long days. He relies on family black cook, Calpurnia, to help improve children.
“Gone was the terror in my mind of stale whiskey and barnyard smells, of sleepy-eyed sullen men, of a husky voice calling in the night, “Mr. Finch? They gone?” Our nightmare had gone with daylight, everything would come out all right” (Lee 226). In the courtroom, Scout built enough courage to confront Mr. Cunningham, the mob leader. She saved lives by engaging in small talk with Mr. Cunningham, about how his son, Walter Cunningham, is a good boy.
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.
Then, Miss Maudie’s house caught on fire in the middle of a cold night, causing the whole neighborhood to wake up and go outside to see what was happening. Jem and Scout were standing in front of the Radley house, watching the fire, when somebody came and put a blanket over Scout’s shoulders. At the time, neither Jem nor Scout noticed this happen, but later they realized it had to have been Boo. Later on, after the Halloween play at the school, the Finch children were walking home in the dark when they were attacked by Bob Ewell. Jem and Scout could have been killed, but again, Boo came out at just the right moment and saved them.
