The Role Of Recognizing Patterns In To Kill A Mocking Bird

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How to Read Literature Like a Professor By Thomas C. Foster Introduction: How’d He Do That? Memory, symbol, and pattern affect the reading of literature by making the story easier to understand or follow. Recognizing patterns in a story can help one remember a similar pattern from a different story, and therefore making one anticipate what would happen next. A symbol helped me appreciate a story more and gave the story more meaning. To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee, was my summer reading last summer. And the symbol was a mocking bird which mocking birds sing and do no harm so it is a sin to kill it. The black man in the story was nice and helped others but was accused wrongly and killed. So it was a sin to kill a man that…show more content…
The author may introduce violence just to make the plot or theme more interesting. We see both kinds of violence in To Kill a Mocking Bird. Some examples of direct violence are; the killing of the black man when he was trying to escape, the abuse of the daughter by her father, the father attacking Scout, and Boo killing the father. The second type of violence are; Scout getting into fights, the suffering and death of Miss Debouis, the kids taunting Boo, and cultural violence to the black people. The black man being killed made me sad and surprised, however when he father died I was relieved in a way, and less tense. The second effect of Scout, Miss Debouis and Boo helped us in understanding…show more content…
Friends give encouragement. Past reveals secrets. Angela Meyer AP English 11 August 6, 2012 Gist Statement Nickel and Dimed By Barbara Ehrenreich 1st Chapter She will work at unskilled jobs and see if she can live on it, but she didn’t expect the difficulties. 1st and 2nd Chapters Unexpected difficulties as a waitress are hard physical labor, lack of trust, and the little pay, but high housing costs. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Chapters Hard physical labor continued as she changed jobs and became a maid, and the low pay and high housing continued. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Chapters Hard physical labor was not needed as a Wal-Mart employee, and she did the same tasks daily, like a pattern. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th Chapters Each job had similarities, differences, and culture, but how she did life in general was difficult with rent and food. Angela Meyer AP English 11 August 6, 2012 The “WHAT” and the “HOW” Nickel and Dimed By Barbara
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