This passage tells me that god is not at all fair and he makes some people wealthy and in good health but not others. Job was asking, why not kill me when I was born rather than letting me live this life and then ripping it all away from me and then killing me.
This passage tells me that humanities was a great deal back then. To have power, you needed wealth, and to have wealth, you need be protected by god your whole life. It was a matter of luck in their case.
An event in my life that I can relate to what happens in “Animal Farm” was for about the last 5 years of my life.
I used to play baseball and it was a dictatorship. We would HAVE to listen to the coach or we would sit the bench. The coaches would control us, whether it was the feeling of control over 10 yr olds or they actually wanted us to do better. They woud trick us and tell us some rules in baseball and then tell us that the rule they mentioned earlier had been changed, and we would cheat to win.. haha.
it was funny.
I believe that the open debates were very thought out and greatly performed. The witnesses did a great job and they were a key part in this trial. The decision faced upon the jury was a very hard one but I too believe that the alive team pulled out stronger. The cross examinations was a great idea and i like the fact that the project we did as a class in 9th grade, was somewhat like a real courtroom, and also that 11th grade AP Eng. was doing the same project and using the same books that we were using.
It was all around fun. 
I think that the author should have put Tom Robinson as the narrarator beacuse we would’ve seen much more of the story that would’ve helped us understand the trial much more and see Tom’s point of view. Besides that, Scout was the next best and I believe that the author chose her because she had realations with many people involved in the book such as the Cunninghams, Atticus and Jem, Calpurnia, Dill, Boo, and some of the black community. This was a good choice because not only could we see Scout’s point of view, but everyone that she had realations with also.
Mayella Ewell and Tom Robinson were alike and diffrent in “To Kill a Mockingbird”.
Mayella was an abused daughter of a drunk. She is forced to say that Tom was “raping” her during the trial. She was a troubled woman who would just ask for help everytime she saw Tom because she had somewhat of a “crush” on him. Mayella had no friends but Tom did. Tom Robinson was a black man. He was a nice guy accused of rape. He is a very innocent figure and Mayelle is not, she is telling too many lies at the trial. All Tom wanted to do was to help a troubled white girl with a drunk father but when he does, he gets caught on a ladder and Bob Ewell chases him away and tells his daughter to say that he was raping her, maybe to keep him away for good? There is a lot of racism going on here.
Then again, Mayella and Tom were somewhat alike. They were both living in hard times with troubled families and at least one wrong thing going on in there life. They were both viewed as a lower class, yes Tom was black and all so he was seen as very much LOWER and Mayella was white but seen as if she was mixed. I feel that there were a lot more diffrences than there were similarities.
In Conclusion, Mayella and tom were very diffrent but alike at the same time. They both had a troublesome life and were seen as the lowerclass but Tom was an innocent man and Mayella was anything but.
yayyy done!
Atticus knows that Tom Robinson isn’t safe in the jail. He decides to go to the jail at night and sit in front of it and read, to protect Tom. Low and behold, a lynching mob shows up and will not stop for anyone…..except an 8 year old girl who has no idea what’s going on.
So Cunningham and the Mob are about to beat Atticus to get to Tom. Scout steps in and somehow stops them. Her inocence portrays many things. She has absolutely no idea what’s going on. She tries to have a casual conversation with Cunningham at the WRONG time…. well for the mob anyways.
I believe that this is a realistic scene and the critics who don’t think so can shove it! (except you Mr.Amico if you think it’s not) In the 1920s many weird things were happening such as the KKK and lynching mobs. Scout doesn’t even know what a lynching mob is and has no idea what’s going on when she enters the scene.
It is very realistic because the inoccence of a child can turn anyone around in a situation. If you were about to beat someone and saw his/her own daughter come in and not know what’s going on, you’re not going to beat the man/woman like you had planned. Unless you have no heart, that is. For one, you wouldn’t want the daughter to witness the beating of their own parent and in Cunningham’s case, realizing how much he owes the Finch family.
I think that the mockingbird is a central metaphor of “To Kill a Mockingbird”. Mockingbirds are very peaceful and do no harm what-so-ever to the world. They kill bugs and make great music. It’s a sin to kill such a peace loving creature. Racism was big in the 1920s, there was peace and to kill that peace was sin. White people killed that peace by disriminating the “colored” folk, and made many racial slurs about there kind. Just beacuse the whites were more wealthy, they thought they could control everyhitng, and they could….. which was a bad thing. That’s when racism came about and THAT’S why it is a sin to kill peace. To kill peace is o destroy everything. This book uses symbolism also, the mockingbird is seen a figure of peace, and to kill it is a sin. Mockingbirds just sing and make us happy, why would you kill one?!
DONE
Jem is a young aspiring athlete. Dill is going to play a role, but not a large role in this story. he comes almost every summer. Jem and Scout have a good relationship together, they look out for eachother and they are seen as friends more than siblings in my eyes.
yayyy. done with homework!!!
I think that “To Kill a Mockingbird” will be about two siblings and their father. The father is a lawyer and is defending a black man accused of rape. I have a feeling that there is going to be many conflicts and tradgedies in this book. I also have a feeling that there will be many racial comments and that the whole town is racist. They are going to dislike the father for defending a black man in the court of law, especially when he raped a poor, young white girl that lived inside the town. I think that the black man was just helping her get chores around the house done, or fixing something every now and then. I also think that she came onto him and if there was any rape involved, the black man was the victim, although it is hard to prosecute a woman of rape. Besides that whole delimma, I know that the father is going to have to do something he never wanted to do again in his life, pick up a gun. Not only do the siblings have to go through some trouble i this story but the father also has a very big burden on his shoulders. There is going to be a little boy who comes down every summer, well most of the time, and he lies about his father and such. All three of them wil find a small nook inside of a tree outside of a house where they are forbidden to go. Inside the nook will be a new thing everytime they go there. The dad tells his son that he should never kill a mockingbird because they are sacred and it would be VERY bad luck to kill one of these sacred animals. There are very many rumors about the forbidden house; people say that the son that lives there is tied up in his room and forced to read the bible. The family stays inside the house at all times, except when the father comes out and gets groceries for the family. They think that the son is a juvinile black boy who is actually now a man because,as rumor has it, he’s been locked up in that house for about 20 years now. Somehow the son sneaks out and Jem and his sister see him almost every time. Turns out that the “juvinile black boy” is actually a “juvinile WHITE boy”. Noone expected this, because people back in those days were way too racist and thought that white people only did good in the world nd that black people always caused bad things to happen. Jem ends up accidentally causing the death of an old neighbor who always critized their manners.
It was a good book, I might say.
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-Doug Davey
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