To Kill A Mockingbird Journal Entry 11 Chapters 28-End
Journal Entry 11 Chapters 28-End
New Characters:
CM
"If this thing's hushed up it'll be a simple denial to Jem of the way I've tried to raise him. Sometimes I think I'm a total failure as a parent, but I'm all they've got. Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I've tried to live so I can look squarely back at him... if I connived at something like this, frankly I couldn't meet his eye, and the day I can't do that I'll know I've lost him. I don't want to lose him and Scout, because they're all I've got,” (Lee 366)
“Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough,” (Lee 374)
CD
Instead of Atticus giving his kids the easy way out, he wants them to own up to the bad things they’ve done (or he thinks they’ve done). He has raised them to live an upright, honest, and moral life and he wants to encourage them that no matter how difficult something might be, you should always do what’s right in the long run. Even when Heck tries to tell Atticus that Jem did not try to kill Mr. Ewell Atticus disregards the obvious facts in exchange for instilling a sense of pride in honesty in his children. Atticus is much less concerned with judging his children than with how his children might judge him.
Taking Atticus’s advice to walk around in another’s skin, Scout actually stands on the Radley porch and imagines what Boo has seen over the last few years. And what Boo has seen—the life and times of Jem and Scout—has made him feel compassion for them.
New Characters:
CM
"If this thing's hushed up it'll be a simple denial to Jem of the way I've tried to raise him. Sometimes I think I'm a total failure as a parent, but I'm all they've got. Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I've tried to live so I can look squarely back at him... if I connived at something like this, frankly I couldn't meet his eye, and the day I can't do that I'll know I've lost him. I don't want to lose him and Scout, because they're all I've got,” (Lee 366)
“Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough,” (Lee 374)
CD
Instead of Atticus giving his kids the easy way out, he wants them to own up to the bad things they’ve done (or he thinks they’ve done). He has raised them to live an upright, honest, and moral life and he wants to encourage them that no matter how difficult something might be, you should always do what’s right in the long run. Even when Heck tries to tell Atticus that Jem did not try to kill Mr. Ewell Atticus disregards the obvious facts in exchange for instilling a sense of pride in honesty in his children. Atticus is much less concerned with judging his children than with how his children might judge him.
Taking Atticus’s advice to walk around in another’s skin, Scout actually stands on the Radley porch and imagines what Boo has seen over the last few years. And what Boo has seen—the life and times of Jem and Scout—has made him feel compassion for them.