Before the lottery can begin, they make a list of all the families and households in the village. Mr. Summers mixes up the slips of paper in the box then is sworn in. Tessie Hutchinson joins the crowd, flustered because she had forgotten that it was the day of the lottery. She joins her husband and children at the front of the crowd, and people joke about her late arrival. The rising action of the plot
Williams keys in the trash can and make her miss her doctors appointment?” She asked over and over getting the same response out of me. “I don’t even know what you’re talking about, why would I throw Mrs, Williams’ keys away? I love Mrs. Williams!” I stated over and over as my eyes began to water and eventually I lost control of my emotions. I must have been in her office for a good hour denying everything she asked me, because I knew deep down in my heart it was not me. I then proclaimed to her in tears, “All I did was hide her chalk in the flower pot!” At that point I was just ready to go back to the class because this lady was intimidating and persistent with her masculine figure yelling and screaming in my face.
He started with living conditions then activities and care that the children have. In this way I thought that Atticus was embarrassing the Ewell family in front of the whole town. Getting back to the case Bob Ewell said that on the day of November 21 he was coming home with kindling, suddenly he heard screaming so he dropped his load and ran home. When he got to the house he saw Tom Robinson, me, raping his daughter
The rest of the time he has to finish all of the mother’s chores otherwise he gets punishments. The mother starves him, plays sick “games” with him and tortures him both mentally and physically. In school he’s being mobbed. He got the same clothes everyday and starts to smell. He doesn’t get any lunch from home and begins to steal from his classmates for survival.
In the book The Color Purple the character Sofia was sentenced to jail for twenty year for refusing to be the mayor’s child’s nanny and she got slapped, and in response punched the mayor. This was a huge punishment for such a small thing. And when Pecola tries to pay for her candy in a store the clerk hesitates when he has to take the money straight from Pecola’s hand, which was very rude. Entry 2 “Frieda brought her four graham crackers on a saucer and some milk in a blue-and-white Shirley Temple cup… socks never slid down under their heels” (19) All of the character in the books searched for someone to accept them and something they could do to make more friends. Lily wanted a family that cared and to fit in with her school friends she wished she had one of the charm bracelets that all the girls in her class excitedly shared.
I’ll tell you!” She put her hand to her mouth. When she drew it away, it trailed a long silver thread of saliva. “Your father’s not better then the niggers and trash he works for!” (Lee 102.). Jem becomes very upset and goes into Mrs. Dubose’s yard and pulls out all her white camellias. As his punishment he has to read to her every Saturday for two hours for a month.
Many of them tattered and broken like their homes and families. I vividly remember a little girl, no older than 5, telling me that she, “couldn’t go swimming in the ocean anymore because she had seen a dead body the last time they went.” Along with that, I remember a little 3 year old boy, who’s dad was in jail, and the single mother had to try and support three kids, not knowing where they’d be living that night or when their next meal would be. I could not piece these kids or their families back together like a jigsaw puzzle; although, I wish I could’ve. I did, however, try my best to make their days a little better. They sat in my lap and held my hands as we sang songs.
Sinopsis To Kill a Mockingbird The story started with the curiousity of Scout and his brother Jem, and their neighbor Dill about Boo Radley, their neighbor who never come out from his house. They heard the rumour that Boo wounded his father’s leg with scissors whe he was a kid, so his father locked him up in the house and never allow him to get outside. So, these kids tried many ways to see Boo. They get more curious about Boo when they found little presents in the big old tree near Boo’s house. One day, Scout’s and Jem’s father, Atticus Finch, an attorney decided to become a lawyer for a black man named Tom Robinson.
One day when he woke up, he saw that the truck was missing, it was not on the usually place on his bedside table. He search the entire house, whit out luck, so he went to the kitchen and burst out in rage and accused his brothers of stealing it. At the end of the summer, his mother ask him to carry some lunch to the working men, and one the way home he finds the Red Truck in the long grass. He couldn’t admit that the accusation against his brothers had been unfounded, so he hid it in the false bottom of his wardrobe. When he got downstairs from the attic, his mother and brother is sitting in the kitchen, and he shows the toy truck and tells that he found it in one of his brother’s boxes.
This is one reason why this is the worst thing that happened to America. Although millions of lives were lost in all the wars our country were in, there was reason why people died. People that died shouldn’t be blamed but the fact that their country decided to come into war is still in the air. The people of Salem had no business whatsoever and were blamed for having a doll in their home or because they simply had a wart. The people of the town were pressured, accused, and tested simple tests but the girls would scream with such pain whenever the accused spoke.