With the help of Grant, Jefferson goes from being compared to swine to being compared to Christ. To Kill A Mockingbird is a bildungsroman novel in which Scout grows up in a racist community. She learns about judging people from Atticus, her father and the biggest contributor to her maturity. When she says, “Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I’d have the facts” (Lee, 59), Scout shows that Atticus
My brother Sam is Dead Summary Paragraph Chapter 13 Cameron Loepp In chapter 13 of the book “My Brother Sam is Dead” by James Collier and Christopher Collier, I conclude the theme is that war is unfair and cruel. So in the begging, Tim goes to see Colonel Parsons to try to prove Sam’s innocence but Colonel Parsons tells him to come back in the morning. The next day Tim comes back to try to explain the truth about Sam but Colonel Parsons doesn’t seem to care very much and tells Tim to take it up with general Putnam since he will be the one to decide Sam’s fate. Tim and his mom figure that if anyone was to talk to General Putnam it should be Mrs. Meeker but its seems like she’s not very optimistic about the whole Sam thing but she goes anyways and does her best. She comes back later that night and tells Tim that he didn’t really want to deal with the cow business right now.
Lula is mad at Calpurnia for bringing them to a black church. While in church, they pay money to help support Tom Robinson’s wife, Helen. Scout realizes at the church that Atticus is defending Tom. Scout then
The reason Calpurnia punished Scout in the first place was because she had berated Walter Cunningham for having different tastes than her. In response to Cal’s lecture, Scout protests, “He ain't company Cal, he's just a Cunningham' “(pg. 24). In that short phrase Scout echoes Maycomb’s general attitude towards specific families. Walter is a Cunningham, so he is inferior and should be treated as such.
This upsets the original star bellied Sneetches. They are afraid of losing their method for discrimination between the two Sneetches. Then Mc Bean tells them about his Star- Off machine, costing ten dollars. The star- bellied Sneetches pay the money to have them removed in order to remain different from the plain bellied Sneetches. “You can’t teach a sneetch”, the Sneetches learn from this experience that neither
He is not excited to receive the Sacrament but the collection, so he can go see James Cagney at the local theater. He receives First Communion but his grandma won’t let him get his collection until he has had his First Communion breakfast. He ends up throwing his breakfast up along with the host from his Communion. Now his grandma wants him to ask the priest how to clean it up in confession. This is one of the more comical parts of the chapter.
This quote shows that the school boys are actually forgetting who they really are and worshiping the devil by sacrificing a pig. With this in mind Roger kills Piggy by pushing down a rock with, "delirious abandonment," (Golding, 180). After his death no one in Jack’s tribe had any remorse for Piggy nor Ralph, showing that they are willing to kill and enjoy it. Golding’s message by this, shows that when in total abandonment of Government and society, humans are willing to kill anything. In brief, the novel, Lord Of The Flies by William Golding, shows that without adults on the island, the boys became vicious, disorderly, and evil.
Cousin Francis yelled, “He`s nothing` but a nigger-lover!” (Lee pg83). Just because Atticus was doing the right and noble thing, Cousin Francis thought that he loved black people but he did not know Tom. Although, Jem stated that, “Atticus says cheatin` a coloured man is ten times worse than cheatin` a white man.” (Lee pg201) It is worse because it is like killing a mockingbird, which is a sin, coloured men do not really bother anybody. And then Atticus explained that, “...You’ll see white men cheat black men everyday of your life, ...whenever a white man does that to a black man, ... that white man is trash.” (Lee pg220). He explained that white men always win and cheat, so the white men are the victors but the white man is always a bad man.
This shows a reference to what Atticus and Miss Maudie had said earlier in the book about mockingbirds. Atticus had said “Remember, it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” Miss Maudie had later added to this by saying “Your father’s right,” she said. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy . . .
Everyone stays away from him because he’s black. He spends most of his free time reading in his separate bunk which was in the stable. “Eleanor Rigby”, a poem by John Lennon and Paul McCartney also relates to loneliness because of Eleanor Rigby. Eleanor Rigby works at a church and sees everyone get married except her. She goes home everyday and waits by the window with makeup on wanting someone to knock on her door.