To Kill A Mockingbird Significance

31- Atticus has to tell Helen Robinson that her husband, Tom, was shot and killed.

32- The subject of Mr. Underwood's editorial was Tom Robinson's death.

33- Miss Gates was being prejudiced when she said that America is better than Germany because we won the war.

34- Before making any attempt to get revenge of the Finches, Bob Ewell's other targets were Helen Robinson and Judge Taylor.

35- Kids went into the Barber sisters house and hid all their furniture.

36- Scout played as a role in the pageant.

37- Scout wears her costume home after the pageant because she wanted to "hide her mortification under it".

38- Boo Radley saved the lives of Scout and Jem.

39- Heck Tate explains that Ewell committed suicide. He's says that he was holding

Scout really wants to find out what he looks like so he goes on his property to find out. Scout later puts herself into Mr. Radley's shoes and realizes that she isn't doing the right thing.

41. Personally I think that "To kill a mockingbird" is a "novel of strong contemporary national significance". I think that it is a "novel of strong contemporary national significance" because there is a lot of segregation and you deal with both, blacks and whites. During the Tom Robinson trail there was a lot of segregation. Atticus was white but he was trying to help Tom, who is black. And everyone was mad at Atticus for doing that. I would not say that it was a pleasant novel because there was a lot of killing and it was very glory. I don't see how this book would be described as a "pleasant, undemanding novel".

42. I believe that that Jems broken arm symbolizes the wound that the system inflicted on white southerners. I believe that because I don't think that an author would put something that's not important in the beginning of the book. On page three it states, "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow." I don't think that Harper Lee would put that as the first sentence in the book if that wasn't symbolic. I didn't figure out why it was symbolic but I know it's symbolic in a way. Maybe the broken arm symbolizes the segregation in Maycomb? The segregation in Maycomb

Yes, I believe that most people in the novel are nice once you see them. I thought that people were rude at first but then I put myself into their shoes and then I understood where they were coming from and they weren't as mean after all. I even took into consideration Atticus's advice he told Scout. Scout does the same thing. She puts herself into the other persons shoes and realizes that they really aren't mean. Atticus is able to see the good side of people despite all he has experienced because he does the same thing as scout. He doesn't "judge a book by it's cover". Always think to yourself, "what if I was