The flooring of the staircases were made of wood and hand railings were black painted metal that were cold to the touch. Any sound created would echo and be carried up through the staircase and reverberate throughout the hallways leading into the classrooms. There was no air conditioning, poor ventilation, and the little insulation in the building, so the early fall and late springs were always humid and muggy while winters were always dry and chilly. All the classrooms were an average size of twenty square feet. Because there were no lockers, all of the student’s belongings were stored in small wooden desks and their coats and backpacks were hung on wooden coat hangers on the hallway coat racks.
You’d be surprised how different it really was back in the early 1900s. Schools back in the 1900s had a much more difficult time than students today with all of the technological advances. In the early 1900s schools only had one teacher, a large room to teach in and every grade level to teach. School wasn’t really required back then, most attended but once a male was in about the sixth grade, he would drop out and help work with his father to support the family. They didn’t even know if school would still be around now; they thought that teaching would fail, all together giving up on education.
The small town of Maycomb County has never been the same, since i got into some trouble when I stabbed my father in the leg with some scissors because we got into an argument! So now I stay in my house all day, every day. No one would talk to me anyways even if I did so it is just easier for everyone this way! The weather was unusually warm for the last day of October. The wind was growing stronger.
We had land that was all ours instead of some park where we had to watch out for broken bottles and dog poop. The boundaries of where we could go without asking permission first or being with an adult no longer stopped at the front door. Every day was an adventure with five acres to explore. To the north was a rock quarry where they mined ‘trap rock.’ I knew that’s what it was called since that’s what was painted on the side of a tool shack. It must be very exotic and rare since I couldn’t find the name anywhere else and we had an Encyclopedia Britanica.
Boo is afraid of how Maycomb will judge him, much like how the blacks are judged and prejudiced against by the whites. Another example showing Boo’s innocence is his relationship to the tree in front of his yard. Throughout the novel, Jem and Scout find many assorted items in an oak tree in the Radley yard- from chewing gum to an old spelling bee medal. There is a strong implication that the items in the tree are left by Boo Radley. It is never said, but all the evidence points to this because the tree is in the Radley yard itself.
On the first day of school, Wade points out that Lorna doesn’t do well in classes because they don’t move fast enough for her; she usually just sits in class and reads on her own. Jesse is one of the few Indians to attend the school, and the other students stare at him. Wade and Jesse find out that they have a few classes together and begin their day. After lunch, they hang out on the senior steps. When a younger student approaches the steps, one of the seniors gives him a hard time.
Rudy’s chances of dressing for a game were slim to none because Devine was a harder head to crack. After two years already being on the team one of the final games were coming against Georgia Tech and Rudy still hasn’t dressed. That was than the team line up, head captains saw the dedication, motivation and spiritual mind Rudy had. Beginning with the captain entering Devine’s office saying he wants Rudy to take his spot for the final game. Devine said he lost his mind and he wouldn’t do such a thing.
We see these scenes after Josh has been told the news of his father’s death. He has just almost beaten Lightener to death, and now he sits in front of the military recruitment center, crushed by the loss of not only his father, but also his identity. Josh was going to go to college. Josh was the only boy who, in the whole story, did not show any interest in joining the military, and now he viewed it as his only option. All of the confusion and dismay can only be portrayed in a series of pages that confuse and possibly dismay the reader, and truly put the reader in Josh’s mind.
O yes because you all go to other schools because clearly no one can throw a decent party on this campus. It is also my firm belief that this is not a college, it is a re-creation of high school. I began classes harder than this at a local
My ninth grade was pretty cool until the last week of school I let my mouth get the best of me and said some things that I really should’ve not said and because I did I earned the next semester at the alternative school. When school started back I was very sad because I had to go to the “bad” school with all the “bad” kids and I was very nervous. Once I got there it was pretty cool and I really enjoyed it because the classes were smaller and you got more one on one help. My grades went up and my mom decided that I should spend the rest of the year there, which really messed me up because they did not offer any elective classes only the basics . My eleventh grade year was also a disaster because of the struggle of passing my biology state test and I was really distracted and just wanted to go back to the alternative school but my mom and the principle would not send me back.