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
“She took pain-killers for years. The doctor put her on it, she’d have spent the rest of her life on it and died without much agony, but she was too contrary-. (Pg.111) From this quote you can see that Atticus put in great effort to make sure that his children knew of Mrs. Dubose condition and to not just judge her by the anger that she displays. He took the time to understand why Mrs. Dubose acted in such a way and did not just jump to the conclusion that she was mean by nature. Another way Atticus shows that
The coach accused Brian of turning his back on the team and the playoffs were cancelled because of this incident. Following this event Brian moved to a different school because of the hostile environment that came about when the Playoff games were cancelled. Brian brings about this suit under Title IX, stating that he was treated differently because he was a boy. He argues that he was told to take the locker room incident ‘like a man’ and he argues that he was given such treatment because he was a boy. Issue Did the defendant’s treat Brian differently because he was a boy claiming assault by other males?
Even though it is obvious that Mayella’s dad beat her and Tom is not guilty, the jury still convicts Tom Robinson because of his race. Some time after the trail, Boo Radley, the recluse who they used to bully, saves Jem and Scout from an attack from Mayella’s furious father. It is then when Scout grasps the lessons of her childhood, as taught to her by her father, Atticus. It is common knowledge that kids pick up their morals from their parents, and in the book, Harper Lee expresses that idea by implying that the
When Atticus, Jem and Scout go to the family plantation for Christmas, she gets in trouble for beating up her cousin. Scout’s cousin calls Atticus a "Nigger Lover” so Scout hits him. Scout’s uncle comes outside and yells at her without listening to what she had to say. The injustice is Scout not being able to tell her side of the story. As the famous saying says “Assumed guilty until proven innocent”, this is the case for Boo Radley.
Atticus uses a sense of credibility to target this value in his speech by creating reassurance that all Maycomb residents are equal. Walter Cunningham, a poor neighbor was having dinner with the Finches. Walter poured too much syrup all over is food and Scout lashed disrespecting Walter. “But he’s gone and drowned his dinner on syrup...theres somes folks that don’t eat like us, she whispered fiercely.” (32) Just like Calpurnia recognising that everyone in Maycomb is equal at the dinner table, Atticus manipulates this in his speech. Atticus brings up that all everyone is equal by recognizing important people who have said wise words about equality.
The children are afraid of him because of all the stories they hear about him from the people in Maycomb. For example, Miss Stephanie tells the children that while Boo was sitting in the living room cutting a magazine, he "drove the scissors into his parent's leg, pulled them out, wiped them on his pants, and resumed his activities." (p.11) After hearing stories like these, the children consider him to be evil. Gradually they assume more about Boo
(Chapter 11, Page 113) When she bad- mouthed Atticus like that, Jem decided that the best way to settle things was to ruin Mrs. Dubose's camellias. After Atticus heard about this stunt, Jem was made to read to her every afternoon for a month. Mrs. Dubose was a very sick lady, and had morphine to ease her pain. It was not until after she died that Atticus explained to Jem and Scout how courageous the lady was because she knew she was dying but was still determined to die free of the morphine. She
David’s father became angry with his son because he did not admit to helping Sophie, a deviation, escape. Because of this David’s father decides to hit him. At the end of page 52 David lies in bed after his whipping, wishing he could have kept Sophie’s secret. “‘I couldn’t help it, Sophie,’ I sobbed, ‘I couldn’t help it,’” The implication that the author makes is that David’s beating is even worse since he was standing up for his friend. Child abuse still takes place today.
So much so that his parents disabled his car at night and took his shot gun away from him. When he was expelled his college dean urged his parents to have him evaluated for mental illness and they never followed through. Had they have placed a higher priority of understanding why their young son had been behaving so irrationally they would have discovered much earlier that he was suffering from schizophrenia and possibly stopped him from harming