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)
April 12, 2015 at 10:30 pm
You show very good understanding of characters and events – what I am most pleased about is your ability to look at the wider issues in the text and how this relates to a theme. Good job.
Targets
1) You use som quotations at the end, but ideally – you should be using a quotation for each paragraph – linking this to your overall focus for the chapter
2) Your given focus for this chapter was a question that you were intended to explore. Do copy these questions as your title – this will help your overall structure and focus.
3) Please try to proofread spelling – begin with the use of capital letters and then look for words that you know. I can help with this.