To Kill A Mockingbird Dialectical Journal

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Quotations/Passages from the Text Commentary/Responses to the Text "1. “When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow…. the Ewells started it all. ” (Pg.3) " 1. This detail seems important because it is the first sentence of the book and it is italicized. Also it is foreshadowing to an important event that will happen later on. "2. “knew his people, they knew him, and because of Simon Finch’s industry, Atticus was related by blood or marriage to nearly every family in the town.” (Pg.5) " 2. Atticus seems like an important character because he is well known in Maycomb and has a high position in the town because he practices law. Is Atticus’ law practice connected to what happened to Jem? "3. “Maycomb was an…show more content…
Everything will revolve around Maycomb County because it is the setting. The setting gives the effect of a country town in the south where everyone is one big family. "4. “There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County. But it was a time of vague optimism for some of the people: Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself.” (Pg.6) " "4. This detail seems important because it helps the reader to understand exactly what the townspeople are going through. “Nothing to fear but fear itself” from FDR’s Inaugural Speech is an allusion to the Great Depression in which the story must take place. This tells the reader that Maycomb County was going through an economic slump. Why did the people see the world as nothing to see?…show more content…
“and it’s certainly bad, but when a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains… Are you going to take out your disapproval on his children?” (Pg.34) 13. This quote is foreshadowing about abuse behavior toward children from Bob Ewell. The reader gets the idea that later on in the book there will be some abuse by Bob Ewell to someone’s children that might cause problems. Will he abuse the Finch kids? 14. “Some tinfoil was sticking in a knot-hole…winking at me in the afternoon sun.” (Pg.37) 14.The author uses personification by saying the tinfoil was winking. The tinfoil was shiny and the rays of light were bouncing off the surface, which interested Scout and made her curious. 15. “I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.” (Pg.45) 15. The reader might get the idea that Scout does not like being a girl or is a totally tomboy. Scout thinks that doing girl things are bad and boy things are good and she can somehow avoid the “badness” of girls by not acting like one. Scout thinks that doing girl things defines her as a girl and vice
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