The Scout and Jem are in the learning stage and they will learn the importance of justice later in the book. Scout often consults Jem for wisdom and support, but the Jem sometimes give a wrong advice. Actual Mockingbird The name of the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” suggests that the mockingbirds are important. In the initial phase, the Jem and Scout were learning to use their shiny air rifles and the Atticus doesn’t teach them to shoot, but he actually gives them some rules to follow: He says to shoot at cans made of tin in the backyard and bluejays, but doesn’t ever hit a mockingbird because it is a sin. The mockingbirds are guiltless and it is a peccadillo to kill them.
and Mr. Whitelaw dig up hurt people from under the debris. Father hit a demon with his club lightly on the back of his head and fell to his knees, so then the demon refused to help father so he had to teach them a little lesson. All the rich and wealthy people only had their clothes and there lives which made father sad. The demon soldiers walked around looting places and people that didn't loot would get shot because they would think they would be looting. White Deer did not care about Moonshadow, Father, Mr. and Miss.Whitelaw and told them to” go stand in the bread line.” Moonshadow and his dad wanted to share food with the demons but White Deer was too selfish.
The judge ordered him to a state industrial school but his father explained to the judge that he would keep Boo in check. Maycomb is a small town that passes around rumors; for example, it was said that Boo mutilates the towns people’s pets, and kills his neighbor’s plants. We later learn that Boo is kind, protective, and has watched over Jem and Scout with care as if they were his own. Boo has been judged based on appearance and stories and they are all nothing but malarkey. Dolphus Raymond was thought to be the town drunk even though he had never been a drinker.
Another example of Atticus showing sympathy towards people is a case with Bob Ewell. There was a scene when Bob Ewell made a barbaric attitude by spitting in Atticus’s face, yet Atticus didn’t mind it and just simply walked away. In this scene, Atticus demonstrated a lot strength of restraint and dignity by resisting to retribute for Bob’s action. “Caring people no matter how nasty they are” is the lesson, which he taught to his son. The “mockingbirds” in this book, are innocent people who have a pure heart.
The short story is about a grandfather named Yoroshimo that persistently seeks medical help for his five year old grandson. When the dentist recommends Mumei to drink more milk, Mumei replies,” Im a bird”, which means that he prefers worms over milk (2). This is because birds rarely drink milk, and instead have a preference for insects.. This tone of the story was changed by Mumei, who used his imagination to answer the doctor, thus taking the stress of the situation out of the story. In response, the Dentist replied that the reason why is because birds don’t eat when the worms are contaminated, then there will be a lot of them since the birds would rather eat the bugs in the air (4).
He is generous, obedient, responsible, and honest. A broken young woman and her dangerous father threaten his life, but he has no harsh words for them,” (Iannone 243-278). Tom Robinson was never the evil that society thought he was and has to pay the greatest price for racism, his own life. His image was twisted by society because of his appearance, which causes the real evil in this situation to be the family who accused him and the citizens who sealed his
In the book, Scout describes Boo Radley as, “...Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall... he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that is why his hands were bloodstained...long jagged scar that ran across his face...teeth he had were yellow and rotten, his eyes popped out, and he drools most of the time”(Lee 13). Near the beginning of the story, the children are even scared of stepping near the Radley house and considering it an act of bravery when a child ran and touched the house. As the story progresses the children are still scared of the Radley house but not as much and were happily accepting all the gifts in the tree’s knothole. Throughout the book, the children received gum, Indian head pennies, carved soap figures of themselves, a broken pocket watch with a good quality fob, a penknife, a ball of twine, and a spelling medal. These gifts from him show his kindness to for the children, how he wants to be friends with them, and how he finds them as intelligent.
Cecil Jacobs is one of Scout’s classmates. He makes fun of Scout’s father for defending black people in court and scares Scout and Jem on their way to the Halloween pageant. 3. Francis makes fun of Atticus, so Scout beats him up. When Uncle Jack came outside, he listens to Francis’ side of the story and does not listen to Scout’s side.
In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Tom Robinson and Arthur “Boo” Radley are two characters who represent the mockingbird. In the midst of finding who Boo truly is, Atticus Finch explains to his children, Jem and Scout, that it is a sin to kill the bird because they don’t do anything but make music. As the story progresses, and the two “mockingbirds” are being accused and attacked both verbally and physically, the identity of the mockingbirds surfaces. As a crippled African-American man who is accused of rape simply because of his color, Tom Robinson symbolizes a mockingbird in Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel. Just as an innocent and defenseless mockingbird that only wants to make music is shot for sport, Tom is
When they went outside the saw a owl flying away with are male chicken and went over to are grandma and grandpa’s house in the tree. My mom had to get the gun to scare the owl away and to let it go. My mom trying to hit the male chicken and the owl she was trying to scare it. When my mom shot the gun the owl drop the male chicken and fly away. The chicken had a broken leg and by 6 months it