Reading Questions Chapter 1 What do you learn in this chapter about Maycomb‚ Atticus Finch‚ and his family? maycomb: a tired town in Alabama atticus+family: Mom is dead‚ scout and jem are siblings‚ 4 years apart 2. What do you learn about Dill’s character? Charles baker harris’ nickname is Dill‚ who is friends with em and scout. he comes every summer to stay with his aunt 3. What‚ briefly‚ has happened to Arthur “Boo” Radley? as a boy‚ Boo got in trouble with the law and his father imprisoned him
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text to tell the story. As a reader it is extremely vital to be aware of these narrative voices when reading the text because each narrator presents different emotions‚ ideas and knowledge. The three narrative voices are Scout‚ Jean Louise who is Scout as an adult and Harper Lee. Scout is telling the story from the point of view of a six year old child therefore she has a unique way of persuading her audience. A six year old child is obviously very young and this means she has very limited knowledge
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Mockingbird‚ Scout and Jem learn a lot about that life lesson and use it in many situations. Scout learns that it is important to put yourself in other people place and “crawl around in their skin” before judging them. A good example is when Scout puts herself in Walter’s place after she questions why he had drowned his food in syrup. Scout realizes that he was doing it because syrup is a treat for him. She then goes and apologizes for pressuring him about it. This shows that Scout realized that
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Lee and The Color Of Water by James McBride both Scout and James‚ respectively‚ show examples of how family shapes a person’s identity. Scout forms her identity through her father’s lenient rules and the morals he instilled in her. James forms his own identity through the lack of knowledge of his mothers’ background and his family being different. Family morals and values contribute to a person’s identity through their family background. Scout and James both use their family morals and values
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characters occupy a specific role in the social pyramid based on race‚ class‚ and other factors. For Scout‚ throughout the book‚ social class overrides racism in terms of how she judges and values other people at first‚ but ultimately a person’s essence determines their real value. The Cunninghams are looked at as very low in the social pyramid because they are of a lower class‚ but once Scout gets to know them‚ she sees that they are actually good people. Early on in the book‚ on Walter Cunningham’s
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Anti-Gay “Scouts of Honor” was a video that shocked me to know that the largest youth movement in the country‚ in which values are treating everyone equally and standing up for what you believe in‚ would ban gays to be a part of their organization. One in five boys in American are a boy scout. In Petalima‚ California‚ troop # 174‚ a twelve-year-old boy by the name of Steven Cozza started an anti-gay stand by the name of “Scouting for all”. They held petitions and set up stands at local grocery
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Atticus is a good father to both Jem and Scout. During the course of the book Atticus has been blamed to not have been a good father to his children when he allows them to do what most parents would not allow. Such as allowing Scout to wear breeches as it shows “[Scout] could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches; when I said I could do nothing in a dress…” (Lee 83). This shows that people inside the family and outside the family want Scout to act like a lady and do what lady are suppose
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it not meaning to hurt anybody This habit is stereotyping people by the way they look or talk based on what society considers normal. In the book‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee‚ Scout‚ Atticus and Tom Robinson are victims of being stereotyped by others. Each has to cope with being stereotyped. Scout and Atticus have the ability to change their ways in order for people to respect them‚ unlike Tom Robinson‚ who is stereotyped as a mutant to the town of
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Alabama that Atticus‚ Jem‚ scout and Calpurnia live in. Atticus is the father of Jem and scout who is a wise old man that knows when to talk and when to keep quiet. Jem is the son of Atticus who fits the description of a tomboy that never fails to take on dares or be proven wrong. Calpurnia is the black maid of Atticus that can read and write unlike most other black people in her time. 2) What did you learn about Dill’s Character? Dill is a friend of Jem and scout who comes over every summer
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and looked at the sky. He suddenly felt someone touch his back lightly‚ it was Scout. He turned around and hugged each other for what felt like forever. Soon‚ many other people joined around Jem and Scout and murmured different things about how great of a man Atticus was. He was the most respected man in all of Maycomb. Jem and Scout tried to look at the positive things about Atticus. Dill wrapped his arms around Scout‚ which the two married only three months before Atticus’s death. The family of
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