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To Kill A Mockingbird Dialectical Journal

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Jarrett Rogers Due Date: Friday 2nd Journal #2 I am reading “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee. The story is about a girl named Scout, brother named Jem and a friend named Dill. These 3 search to find Boo Radley. In this journal I will be questioning and predicting G I predict the kids will not meet boo Y Boo is locked up R never comes out R does everything at home R cut his dad with scissors Y Kids are scared of Boo R stories of the house R stories about his terroristic doings R hesitant to go touch his house G The kids will not meet Boo most likely because both he is locked up and he is also scary and intimidating. As I am reading this story, I question what is going on with the character Boo Radley. I predict …show more content…

He could be locked up and hidden from the rest of the city. He never comes out of his house and Dill came up with the idea to try to make him come out. Many people have never seen him and think he may be a myth. They try to get him to come out at the end by going up to touch his house. The shutter and doors to his house were even closed on Sundays. The doors to his house are also always closed on weekdays and he hasn’t been seen in years. Also Boo does everything at his house and nowhere else. He does not go to church, but instead worships at home. He never crosses the street to speak to neighbors or have mid-morning coffee breaks. And he never joins a missionary circle. He could be locked up maybe because of when he stabbed his dad with a scissors. Its said that his father walked into the room while Boo was cutting things, and when his dad came by he stabbed him and just wiped the blood off the scissors and moved on with life. The sheriff wouldn’t put him into the jail with the negroes, so he got locked in the courthouse basement. The kids may also not meet Boo because they are afraid of him. They could be afraid of him because they always hear many stories about his house. The “entity” in the house could make the children behave

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Dalainah Gustafson Due Date: Journal 4 I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and I am on page 304. The book is about a girl, Mayella, who is accusing a man, Tom Robinson, of raping her. They go to court and she gets caught lying and some people think that Tom Robinson is telling the truth. In this journal I will be predicting and evaluating.

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Trinity Philbrick Due Date: Tuesday 6th Journal 2 I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, I am on page 42. This book is about Scout and what is going on in her town. In this journal I will be predicting and evaluating. I predict that the kids will meet Boo because they keep messing with his house, and one of these times one of the kids might get dared to go into the house, and that might possibly be when they all meet.

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He has not been seen since he was very little. Boo Radley rarely goes outside. If he does, it is when it is dark outside and no one can see him. He shuts the door and blinds on Sunday, so no one can talk to him after church. All the kids in Maycomb county are very scared

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For most of all of Boo’s life, he has been locked away in his house, shunned from the outside world. This has influenced his actions in many ways. One of those times was when“Mr. Radley passed by, Boo drove the scissors into his parents leg,...” (Lee 13).

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We first see how misconceived he is when Miss Stephanie is telling the neighborhood legend of how he supposedly stabbed his father in the leg. Legend has it that one day Boo was cutting some newspapers and as his father walked by, he “drove the scissors into his parent’s leg, pulled them out, wiped them on his pants, and resumed his activities”. (13) He didn’t really stab his father and this becomes more evident toward the end of the story when we see how gentle and kind he really is. The second time we see evidence of him being misread is toward the end of the book when he is in the Finch home and Scout is talking with him.

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