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To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter Summaries
CHAPTER FOUR
• In this chapter, animals are described as being part of the family; animals can belong with humans just as much as other humans can.
• Raimond describes all of the animals they had at Frogmore, their roles and small anecdotes about them.
• They decide to buy a poultry farm; Romulus built an egg-washing machine.
• Christine and Mitru come to Frogmore in winter, but they argue so Mitru leaves to Castlemaine station to catch a train to Melbourne. Romulus drives him there, and on the way back his speeding motorbike developed problems so he jumped from it, breaking his leg in three places.
• Hora gave up his job to take care of Raimond and the chicken farm, Mitru left but Christine stayed. Hora didn’t like Christine.
• Hora was going through difficult times, both with Christine and a disease that plagued the hens. Christine
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The praise of the lazy, the dishonest or those whose character and work were shoddy meant nothing to him. In this respect he belonged to a long tradition of European thought which celebrated, as an essential constituent of a fulfilled human life, a community of equals, each worthy to rejoice in the virtues and achievements of the other.
Australian create barrier to belonging by judging others as they felt threatened of the diligent immigrants. Those were the days before multiculturalism – immigrants were tolerated, but seldom accorded the respect they deserved. It occurred to few of the men and women of central Victoria that the foreigners in their midst might live their lives and judge their surroundings in the light of standards which were equal and sometimes superior to theirs. •
The importance of name in classifying our identity That is why it never seriously occurred to them to call my father by his name, Romulus. They called him Jack. •
• The short and direct sentence creates emphasis on

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