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This is where we will discuss the novel To Kill a Mockingbird and other literature that will be read throughout the year. Please feel free to comment and post on anything that is currently relevant to class. However, please be polite and appropriate.
Quote the Book
- You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
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- What Really Is the Mockingbird?
- Why Do You Do That?
- Call me Cliche..Theme
- How Has the Trial Changed the Characters?
- Better Late Than Never
- Who killed the mockingbird?
- The Right to a Fair Trial and a Jury of Your Peers
- Forgetting
- Mayella
- Ms. Maudie's flowers
- Why is Aunt Alexandria still around?
- Parental Concern
- Unequality
- Aunt Alexandra
- Tomboy
- Mr. Ewell?
- Maturity is a Wonderful Thing
- Music of a Mockingbird
- The image of acceptance and wisdom Atticus portrays
- Mrs. Dubose
- The Mocking Bird
- ol' one shot
- It's not time...
- Atticus reading the Newspaper
- Overall View...
- DIE!
- Miss caroline.DIE.
- Fire!
- Random Acts of Kindness
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6 comments:
Indeed it is. But I guess since he is under oath that they have to take him seriously.
It doesn't seem ironic to me. It's just that it's Mr. Ewell's word against a black man's word and when compared to a black man Mr. Ewell is just always truthful and honest and an addition to the community.Pure racism.
Could it be that they want the Black Man to get in trouble? The town folk seem to want him to lose and find him guilty. So maybe they are believing him because they want to even though it's not true.
I know that Atticus has a hard choice on his hands. The town wants Tom to be found guilty, but Atticus knows he should defend even blacks. It must be very hard on him even though he doesn't show it much.
It is not necessarily Tom they want to prove guilty, but black men in general. I believe that ten people could have witnessed something contrary to what Ewell said, and the townspeople would still say Tom did it. It is very obvious to me that Tom did nothing of the sort. THe Ewells are despicable people, and their word should never have been brought into the case in the first place.Like Princess said, it is pure racisim. Nothing more.
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