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Samantha Fodor
10/28/2016 05:18:40 pm
"Hey Boo," I said. (Scout, page 362)
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Leslie Colandrea
10/28/2016 08:04:28 pm
I agree with you. I definitely believe that Scout and Jem were accepting towards Boo because of the trial. They learned to not treat someone unfair if they don't do anything to you. I also believe that the fear of Boo Radley came from the opinions of the town and their own imaginations. Once they realized he was another person just like them who happened to save their lives, they gained plenty of respect for him, and understood that he never meant to harm them.
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Ryan Williams
10/29/2016 08:46:57 am
I do agree with what your saying here. She does accept him more as a person. Which is represented in the book where it speaks on her viewing him as person, as much as she viewed him as a thing. Which is why she now can understand what he is and what he is to her.
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Bethany
10/30/2016 02:07:49 pm
At this point she is actually having a normal conversation with him. It is almost like they have been good friends for a while. They are both now excepting Boo as a person. She is not scared of him or what he might do to them.
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Kaelyn
10/31/2016 07:05:03 am
I think towards the end of the story you start to see more and more of what Boo is really like. You also see Scout and Jem grow as characters and grow into their skin. The stuff they endure during the story, also helps shape them to be the people they are at the end of the story.
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Sydney Morris
10/31/2016 07:11:06 am
Although this quote was very short, it had a huge lasting impression on the plot of the story. From the beginning of the book, we have always wondered about Boo Radley. These two words show Scout opening up and seeing the person she's been fantasizing for the first time.
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Bethany
10/28/2016 05:44:35 pm
"Jem was becoming almost as good as Atticus at making you feel right when things went wrong." page 261 Scout
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Charli Sween
10/28/2016 06:52:34 pm
I think Jem and Atticus definitely have a huge influence on Scout. She admires them so much and looks to then for most everything. She tries to be like them in all of the good aspects.
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Nicolas Morel
10/30/2016 05:36:11 pm
Jem has also developed to care for his sister throughout the book to the point in which he put himself in harms way to try to save her. This is due to the teachings of Atticus and his example that he has set. Scout has also been growing up into the young lady that Atticus has always said that she will become.
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Alicyn Craig
10/28/2016 06:08:10 pm
"There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads--they couldn't be fair if they tries. In our courts, when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always wings. They're ugly, but those are the facts of life" Atticus - page 295
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Nicolas Morel
10/30/2016 06:05:57 pm
This is the sad truth of the time, that African Americans are discriminated against. It takes exceeding courage to stand up by yourself or few others against a popular belief. Especially if in doing so it puts you or your loved ones in harms way. This courage is demonstrated by Atticus. Jem also does his part by standing up for his father.
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Sierra Barrett
10/30/2016 06:31:34 pm
I agree with that the court case is unfair to the African Americans and at that time people would just believe a white person over an African American all the time. Even if the thing they're accused of never happened, they would still most likely be found guilty at trial just because people believed whites over African Americans.
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Sydney Morris
10/31/2016 07:12:35 am
Usually you can find Atticus being very upbeat and hopeful, but in this passage he is basically saying race is just a way of life and there is nothing we can do to change it.
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Savanna
10/28/2016 06:10:39 pm
[Atticus says] "As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash." Atticus was speaking so quietly his last word crashed on our ears. I looked up, and his face was vehement. "There's nothing more sickening to me than a low-grade white man who'll take advantage of a Negro's ignorance. Don't fool yourselves—it's all adding up and one of these days we're going to pay the bill for it. I hope it's not in you children's time."
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Ryan Williams
10/29/2016 08:44:55 am
I do agree they are somewhat paying for the time they are growing up in. Although I think that Atticus is trying to mold them into people who will not let that stand and be the ones to factor in against the racism and hatred. Which is why I think Atticus always talked to Jem more about the things happening around them because he was getting older and understood it more. So when he stops her from smashing the bug it shows he understands the lessons his father has taught him.
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Alicyn Craig
10/30/2016 07:01:38 pm
I agree with Ryan, without Atticus helping them pave their way through life they would have the same midset as the other people around them. Atticus has taught them to do good and understand everyone is different.
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Boni Macias
10/28/2016 06:24:04 pm
"There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads- they couldn't be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always wins. They're ugly, but those are the facts of life." (Atticus pg.295)
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Charli Sween
10/28/2016 06:50:58 pm
I totally agree. I don't think that we will ever totally get rid of prejudice. As hard as we try, we can not understand people's way of thinking and their reasoning behind things. There's no excuse for prejudice, but it will just always be here in some forms or another.
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Leslie Colandrea
10/28/2016 07:59:49 pm
I also agree. I enjoy that Atticus does not care about being harsh, but simply tells it how it is. He tells you the ugly truths about life that you don't want to hear. I believe that, as Charlie said, in one way or another, there will always be prejudice. We can either be a person who condemns it, or someone you stops it.
Charli Sween
10/28/2016 06:48:42 pm
"I know it's not right, but I can't figure out what's wrong..." - Jem (pg. 294)
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Ashton Lazorick
10/29/2016 09:35:36 am
This tone also gives a sense of confusion. Jem is a young boy trying to be an older man. He's trying to figure out how he fits into this world, and that quote makes me think that Jem is getting frustrated because he can't figure out an adult problem.
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Leslie Colandrea
10/28/2016 07:48:55 pm
"Why couldn't I mash him?" I asked.-Scout
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Leslie Colandrea
10/28/2016 07:53:57 pm
Scout is younger than Jem and she hasn't fully grasped all the information from the trial. I believe that when she asked Jem "why" she couldn't mash the rolypoly, it served as a reminder that she is still young, curious, and full of questions. That one word demonstrates her innocence and confusion on why it would be wrong and Jems response simply shows how he understands that it won't cause her any harm. He answers her swiftly and simply, as Atticus would, to make her understand since she is still young.
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Natalie Linton
10/28/2016 08:33:01 pm
"I'm not a very good man, sir, but I am sheriff of Maycomb County. Lived in this town all my life an' I'm goin' on forty-three years old. Know everything that's happened here since before I was born. There's a black boy dead for no reason, and the man responsible for it's dead. Let the dead bury the dead this time, Mr. Finch. Let the dead bury the dead." Heck Tate, page #369
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Savanna
10/30/2016 04:05:11 pm
I believe that by the end of this book and after the trial is through with, many people are seeing the truth and realizing that Tom wasn't guilty but instead they feel guilty because they made a biased decision. I couldn't imagine living with that guilt
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Boni Macias
10/30/2016 05:52:22 pm
I agree with what you're saying. I felt like this was his apology for what happened during the trial and what happened to Tom. He's saying he can't change what has happened but what he can do is take charge.
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Sydney Morris
10/29/2016 08:14:13 am
"There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn't be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always wins. They're ugly, but those are the facts of life. […] "The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box." -Attitcus
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Ryan Williams
10/29/2016 08:42:10 am
"He's dead, Mr. Finch."
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Ashton Lazorick
10/29/2016 09:28:35 am
I agree. Although the trial was a very big part of the book, the death of Mr. Ewell definitely was the resolution to the story. The death of Ewell was tragic and unforeseen, but very fitting and well deserved in the story. It was an event that really made you think and question humanity and what this world has come to.
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Savanna
10/30/2016 04:12:46 pm
Wen Mr. Ewell dies, it's almost as if a relief settles over Maycomb. And even though people don't know how to feel about his untimely death, there is still relief evident
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Sierra Barrett
10/30/2016 06:40:16 pm
I completely agree with you on this. I think the tone and just how the people of Maycomb act shows a bit of relief to the news.
Boni Macias
10/30/2016 05:49:37 pm
I completely agree with you. I believe this scene left us all breathless and upset. Tom did represent all that was wrong with this period and how people were treated during this time.
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Kaelyn
10/31/2016 07:03:30 am
I think the people of Maycomb will always have the same mindset. They will always be small minded and not open to consider anything else or anyone else. They won't be accepting which is why prejudice is alive.
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Ashton Lazorick
10/29/2016 09:26:01 am
"Winter, and his children shivered at the front gate, silhouetted against a blazing house. Winter, and a man walked into the street, dropped his glasses, and shot a dog.
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Natalie Linton
10/30/2016 08:03:49 pm
I agree! Throughout the book, we see Scout's character develop with Atticus's lessons for her and Jem. With her being so young during the trial, she really didn't grasp all that was happening around her. But at this time, she definetly has a clearer mind and view on it.
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Sierra Barrett
10/30/2016 06:24:21 pm
"I sometimes felt a twinge of remorse, when passing by the old place, at ever having taken part in what must have been sheer torment to Arthur Radley-what reasonable recluse wants children peeping through his shutters, delivering greetings on the end of a fishing-pole, wandering in his collards at night?" (Scout. pg. 324)
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Alicyn Craig
10/30/2016 06:55:41 pm
Scout has changed throughout the book. Even though she is only 8, she has learned well enough between right and wrong.
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Natalie Linton
10/30/2016 08:08:44 pm
Scout has surely matured (like you said) and changed throughout the story. With all of the madness with the trial surrounding her and Atticus's role in her life, she now knows that she thinks more about her actions and the things around her.
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Kaelyn
10/31/2016 07:02:07 am
"To Maycomb, Tom's death was typical. Typical of a nigger to cut and run. Typical of a nigger's mentality to have no plan, no thought for the future, just run blind first chance he saw. Funny thing, Atticus Finch might've got him off scot free, but wait-? Hell no. You know how they are. Easy come, easy go. Just shows you, that Robinson boy was legally married, they say he kept himself clean, went to church and all that, but when it comes down to the line the veneer's mighty thin. Nigger always comes out in 'em".(25.25)
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Dillon Mentzer
10/31/2016 07:17:40 am
"My sister ain't dirty and I ain't scared of you" -despite being a old lady in a wheelchair, Mrs. Dubose's lashings will make even Jem shake in his boots
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