To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter questions Chapter 1 1.The characters introduced in this chapter are: Scout the narrator and protagonist of the story, Jem scouts older brother, Atticus the father of Jem and Scout also a lawyer, Simon Finch the grandfather, Calpernia the maid, the Ewells white trash, Dill the childrens friends, Boo Radley the next door neighbor who the kids are always tormenting, the Cunninghams from old sarum a confusing tribe, Miss Stephanie Crawford the nosy neighbor. 2.This story takes place in the year 1935 3.The vantage point that the narrator is telling the story from is a first person point of view from a girl named scout looking back at her childhood 4. 5.This story takes place in a town named Maycomb County in Alabama 6.Atticus is
When Dill goes back home and Atticus is assigned Tom Robinson’s court case, the children focus on the case. Atticus takes the job of the defense attorney for Tom Robinson, a black man who is accused of raping Mayella Ewell. The Ewells are a poor, white family, and are highly disrespected. Bob Ewell, the prosecutor, sues Tom for raping his daughter, and Tom is convicted guilty, although he is innocent. Through Maycomb’s families and the events that occur with and within them, Harper Lee posits that the ideologies of empathy, prejudice, and justice cause the loss of innocence and are all connected to one another.
They are not black and are well respected by the community, until Atticus is assigned to defend Tom. The town and even their family begin to turn on them, gossiping, staring and saying how they are embarrassments. Cecil Jacobs announced on the school yard "Scout Finch's daddy defended niggers" (Lee 74). Simply defending a black can cause everyone to turn on them.Finally, the mixed children are half black and half white children. They are ignored and outcasted by everyone because of their background.
He then gets arrested for assaulting the policeman and his father lectures him when he picks his son up. Christopher does detective work and explains how he finds it confusing when people tell h 3. Christopher wants to prove to everyone that he is far from stupid by taking the A levels math and achieving an A, in which is something extraordinary that no one in his school has done. Therefor he thinks that the other students are stupid. This is important because it shows his ambition to so to a University and get a high paying job.
Coercion theory can best explain Bernardo’s childhood and how he developed no hishis psychopathic traits while Hare’s theory expands on how those traits interacted to create a serial rapist and murderer. ****Reader may be confused by writing those instead of being direct about psychopathic traits****** Growing up, Bernardo’s aversive experiences with his parents contributed to his antisocial behaviour which was later reinforced through deviant peer interaction (Pron, 1995). From birth, Bernardo’s parents were constantly arguing and redirecting their anger at him.the anger they had towards each other at him (Pron, 1995, p. 50). His father was the classic
This creatively written novel by Harper Lee shows the children’s reaction to the Radley Place which effectively foreshadows the depth of prejudice and intolerance present in the wider community of Maycomb. Scout and Jem are both bred and born in Maycomb, living off a diet of gossip. The prejudice and intolerance in the community is shown from the very beginning of the novel, when Scout tells us about the mysterious myths and town gossip surrounding Boo Radley. For example, Boo never seen outside for years, getting into trouble with the law and stabbing his father with a pair of scissors in the thigh. “..people still looked at the Radley Place, unwilling to discard their initial suspicions.” (Page 9) This shows how small and connected the
Prejudice is a preconceived opinion not based on reason or experience. Sometimes prejudice is a destructive force in society. In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, prejudice is shown in many ways. Prejudice was shown when Atticus was defending the jail, a group of men came to kill Tom and also when Scout was getting teased at school by other kids because her dad was taking Tom’s case. Furthermore, when Tom Robinson was accused of being guilty even though he was not, and died because of it.
Breanne Gray Characterization Paper October 24th, 2013 Period 9 A True Gentleman “He had announced in the schoolyard that day before that Scout Finch’s daddy defended n-words,” Cecil Jacobs (Lee 74). In To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch plays the role of the protagonist who fights through Maycomb’s thick racism. Finch demonstrates a very strong sense of justice and teaches his children the same. No matter what the situation is he maintains his integrity. His character is so sterling in nature that he could have been boring or irritating if Harper Lee had not written him so beautifully and believably.
Because of his addiction, he is thrown out of his home by his parents. His father smacks him in the face, calls him trash and throws him out on the street. Not long after Lucky finds Dove. Dove is a drug dealer who decides to help Lucky and takes him into his home, where Lucky is to be his runner. Lucky seems happy to be working for Dove as well as living with him and there seem to be a light ahead for him.
It could even be said that the predominantly white justice system killed Tom Robinson. By dwelling only on that one issue, is to miss the larger theme of the novel: the loss of innocence. Jem and Scout are idealistic kids who, for the most part think Maycomb is a wonderful place to live. This applies especially to Jem, during his older years. After Atticus finishes his cross-examination of Mr. Ewell, Jem whispers excitedly, “We got him.” In fact, he’s sure the jury will acquit Robinson.