Month: February 2015

when jem threw that rock and said atticus is a real gentelman, just like me.

i originally though that he was going to try and be like his father a bit more, but now i think that Jem’s view on atticus at that time changed. i believe that know Jem could have seen his dad in a different light. before  atticus seem like his old man who is too tired for everything like foot ball or even to teach him to shoot, all he does is read the paper and books. Jem still held Atticus high but he didn’t credit him any manliness. now Jem has seen Atticus shoot a dog he thinks that he is brave and manlier than before.

atticus probably relises this so he thinks up a way to show him real bravery and to teach him how to act. that real bravery come in the form of miss duboues. she may have very different view to atticus, and atticus knows she isn’t a good role mood but he know her conviction to carry on against all the odd is what he wanted to show him.

when jem starts to read to miss duboues he hates it and keeps up his hostility against her.“my sister an’t dirty and i an’t scared of you.” as the weeks go on the time they spend gets longer and long. jem hates it more and more. finally miss duboues dies a little while after jem has finish reading with her. atticus reveles that she is an morphine addict and that her reading session with him were helping her get better. jem gets very annoyed mis  duboues send jem a box that contains one of the flowers miss duboues likes jem burns it and storm of but atticus tell that eventhough they had split points of veiws she was the bravest person he knows.

i think that atticus let him go to the readings to show him how he should act in life and what a real gentleman acts. he wanted to show him that she had conviction know matter how cruel she seemed.“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew.”

boo Radley intregues the children a lot as at this point in the book, boo Radley is an unknown  entity. As he is this man that is known by all, but still is a ghost as he has’nt been seen for years an has a repeportation for blood. There are many rumours and views on this character. Characters in the book are known to have walked miles just to avoid boo’s house. As the story goes on dill interest in boo increases and is infectious for both Jem and scout. after touching the house Jem gets less and less scared of boo he starts to play games about he and starts to humanism him. soon all fear of this character is gone and the kids want to invite boo for ice cream. they try to send him letters.

jem come silently to the conclusion that boo must be the person that puts all the things in the knot hole.

chapter 9 is a very important chapter in the book as in chapter 8 it is still introducing new charichters and showing you their personality’s.chapter 9 is really the start of the story as you are introduced to the court case which the story revolves around.it also shows you how the town is affected by the court cases and Atticus choice to defend tom Robinson.

I believe that this chapter shows a lot about atticuses opinions and thoughts about the rest of society. in chapter 9 it also shows that most of the white community in America are agenised attiuses opinion. this reflects on scout as now she is getting bullied because of the case. even her cosine teases her. Atticus urges scout to not care about what people think he know that the case will be hard for her and he wants her to try and learn from it.

atticus knows that tom is doomed but still takes the case because he thinks if he doesn’t he will not be able to hold up his self respect and sense of justice. I think that atticus has a view on life that is all about good morals. you must always act for the common good and do what you think would be right.

If you shouldn’t be defendin’ him, then why are you doin’ it?”

“For a number of reasons,” said Atticus. “The main one is, if I didn’t I couldn’t hold up my head in town, I couldn’t represent this county in the legislature, I couldn’t even tell you or Jem not to do something again.” […]

“Atticus, are we going to win it?”

“No, honey.”

“Then why-“

“Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win,” Atticus said. (9.16-25)

miss mudie is resilient because she has not grieved over her house in the fire. instead she instead bounced back with optimism of a new yard. she saw a disaster and when everyone is upset over it she has filled it with confidence. so much so she is making a cake when it was her who was affected.she even is still interested in jem and scout affair.she is a strong character as she hasn’t stopped to look back or do anything.

miss mudie is a reliable-able person that scout goes to when she can’t consult atticus or needs a second opinion.miss mudie has different view to atticus.