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To Kill A Mockingbird To Kill A Mockingbird is about a lawyer named Atticus who chooses to defend a African-American man named Tom just as equally as he would defend a white man in a court room. This novel takes place in the 1930's when there was racism going on between blacks and whites. Atticus is a person in the novel who choose to learn to understand others. By showing that he does this, his quote said “ You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view- until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” In this novel there are a couple of people who have trouble understanding people, not understanding people, and doing a little bit of both. Atticus is Jem and Scouts (the narrator) father. He is a lawyer who has been chosen to defend a black man named Tom …show more content…

Dolphus Raymond is a rich white man who has mixed children. He prefers to live among blacks than in a white society. He hates the fact that when it comes to certain things that blacks are always gonna be the people that everyone can blame. He acts like a drunken man so the people of Maycomb can have a reason for his behavior. His soon to be wife shot herself before the wedding because she found out about his black mistress. Mr. Dolphus learns to understand others but also doesn't learn to understand others. He showed that he understood others by putting himself in fraud to make the people of Maycomb at ease. But also this is a way to make it seem like he didn’t understand others. His quote said” I try to give em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason….. folks can say Dolphus Raymond’s in the clutches of whiskey- thats why he won’t change his ways.” He makes it seem like he learns to understand others by making them think he’s a drunk but he’s just disgusted of the white society. On the other hand he makes it seem like he doesn't learn how to understand others because he’s doing all of this so people won’t bother him by asking

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Harper Lee uses the mad dog to symbolize many things. It shows how Atticus is the one that must do the unpleasant jobs. Just like how Atticus gets rid of Tim Johnson, he also had to deal with Tom Robinson. The dog is put as an outcast just as Tom Robinson is. The dog can also be shown as foreshadowing for Tom Robinson’s case.

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The people of Maycomb believe that it was because she was so distraught when finding out about the mistress. Mr.Dolphus Raymond is also the father to a few mixed children. In this chapter, Dill is very curious about Mr.Dolphus Raymond and asks Jem many questions. Jem continues to explain that blacks won't take them in, neither will the whites. Because even one drop of colored blood makes you a colored person.

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As, he is faced with life 's heartache dilemmas he really sees Maycomb 's true colors. Although, he is faced with these hardships early on his mental state of mind is altered as he makes his way in life trying to survive peoples mismatched thoughts and actions. Yet all those people are tricked to believe in and follow one example base on someone’s actions that are higher in the social

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but Coca-Cola.’ ” This quote shows how easily the people in Maycomb came to their own conclusions about Dolphus Raymond. Everyone thought that he had been drinking alcohol out of his paper sacks, just because of how he was hiding it and the way that he

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In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee creates the characters by pulling traits of people in her daily life. Atticus, Scout’s dad in the book, is a perfect example of one of these characters because he relates to Harper Lee’s father, Amasa Coleman(A.C.) Lee. In chapter 1 of the book, it says, “… yet the tradition of living in the land remained unbroken until well into the twentieth century, when my father, Atticus Finch, went to Montgomery to read law… ”(page 4-5). This quotation connects to Harper Lee’s father because he was also a lawyer, according to Scott Stabler.

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Mr Raymond Dolphus shows another form of resistance in the face of those social norms when he preferred to marry a black woman and have mixed race children cursed to never belonging to either groups so to prevent that from happening he sent the elder one to the north of the country where a change of people’s views is happening .Even with his wealth, he did not chose a bourgeois white woman, his behaviour was measured as pure madness thus he was out-cased from the society. Even though, he can easily leave Maycomb behind him and go anywhere because of his financial prosperity, he chose to stay and try to bend the rules of this town where he’s born and raised by claiming drunkenness cause to him they “ could never, never understand that I live

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In the book, and in everyday life, prejudice is often promoted and portrayed by those who are only a step above the lowest class or people who are part of the normal crowd against people who are different. When talking about the insulting name that Atticus is being called, he said “Ignorant, trashy people use it when they think somebody’s favoring Negroes over and above themselves” (Lee 108). It’s clear that he doesn’t support this type of vocabulary and he thinks that low people are prone to use it. In relation to low classes, an example is the Ewell’s treatment and vocabulary towards people who are one step lower than them like Tom Robinson. Another example of a majority against the minority is the treatment of the Finches.

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Importance of Details Kathreen Perez 1)Interesting Traxler, 3 Chapter 20 detail: -The whole county thinks that Mr. Raymond drinks whiskey, but he is actually drinking coca-cola in a bag. During the 1930's, racism raged through every corner of the United States, and the imaginary district of Maycomb County displayed the effects of injustice brought upon the African-American community during that time period.

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This quote illustrates that people in the South looked down on others who did not grow up believing that the white race was the superior race. Another example, during the trial, the children run in to Mr. Dolphus Raymond. The children discover that he married to a black woman and has mixed children. He also pretends to be an alcoholic in order to give people a reason as to why he is happy with the way he chooses to live. However, when he asked why he truly lives the way that he does, he responded with, “Cry about the simple hell people give other people without even thinking.

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Quotations Responses 2/14/2023 - Chapter 7, p. 65 “As Atticus had once advised me to do, I tried to climb into Jem's skin and walk around in it: if I had gone alone to the Radley Place at two in the morning, my funeral would have been held the next afternoon. So I left Jem alone and tried not to bother him” (Lee 65). 2/11/2023 - Chapter 7, p. 67 “Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I’d have the facts” (Lee 67).

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He believes that even with the controversy of others in Maycomb, Atticus describes that others are “entitled to full respect of their own opinions”, but “before I can live with other folks I’ve go to live with myself.” (chapter. 11)

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Quote and page # Paragraph "'Your father does not know how to teach. You can have a seat now.' I mumbled that I was sorry and retired meditating upon my crime." (Question) page: 2 In this quote it seems like it is very interesting.

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Dolphus says “ It’s the way I want to live.” He says this because he despises how everyone treats negroes. He acts like he drinks so that people don’t harass him for having mixed children and a negro wife. He doesn’t want to be bullied for something that is wrong in his opinion. Scout is amazed that he acts differently.

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Mr. Raymond is disliked by many people in Maycomb and is distant from the other whites in the county due to them believing he abuses alcohol. When Scout questions Mr. Raymond about why he acts the way he does, Mr. Raymond answers, “… if I weave a little and drink out of this sack, folks can say Dolphus Raymond’s in the clutches of whiskey-that’s why he won’t change his ways. He can’t help himself, and that’s why he lives the way he does,” (Lee, p. 268). Dolphus Raymond explains that he acts

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One could shine light on the part of the novel when the kids run into Mr. Dolphus Raymond and he expresses that things are never as they seem by giving Dill a taste of the Coca-Cola. The man explains, “...folks can say Dolphus Raymond’s in the clutches of whiskey-- that’s why he won’t change his ways” (268). By hiding what he’s actually drinking, Mr. Raymond is a walking lie without his community knowing it. The people of Maycomb won’t question why he is always with the African Americans because they assume his mind is messy from alcohol.

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