Movie Review

Characterization

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."(25) You know how your parents have always told you not to judge others just by their outside? In, To Kill a Mockingbird Atticus teaches Scout and Jem not to judge others by what they hear about them, but instead to imagine themselves in their places and what it would be like to look through their eyes and walk in their shoes. When Scout started school, she found herself not getting along with her teacher, Ms. Caroline, and she was judging her on how she taught the kids.

Atticus told her that it was not fair to judge her teacher because it must have been hard for Ms. Caroline to come to a new school, not knowing the lifestyles of each kid, or the way that they were used to being taught like. Another time that this lesson affects Scout and Jem, is when Jem and Scout think that Ms. Dubose is a mean, cruel, wicked woman, and once Jem got upset at Ms. Dubose and ruined all of her flowers. Atticus told Jem that as his punishment is to go read to Ms. Dubose and Scout went along as well. One day Ms. Dubose passed away and Scout talked to Atticus about it and asked him why she was so mean. Atticus told her that she had been trying to get over an addiction and explained to her that Ms. Dubose was acting like that because she was having a hard time trying to get over her addiction.

Scout looked at the whole situation through Ms. Dubose’s eyes and understood that being around noisy children that would not listen to her probably would have been hard to tolerate.

 

Chapters 17-21

Murer- Director Chp 12-16

            

Murer- Summarizer Chapters 6-11

                   The settings in this section are mostly at the Finches house, the Radley place, Finches Landing, and Mrs. Dubose's house. The most important parts in this section would be, when Miss Maudie's house catches on fire and Boo Radley comes out and puts a blanket on Scout and she doesnt realize that. Also, when Scout, Jem, and Dill decide to go and try to look into the Radley Place so that they can try to see Boo Radley, and Jem tears and loses his pants; and later that night he went back to get them and they were already hung up on the fence and Boo had sewed them up for him. By the things that Boo does for the children I think that their opinion on how he is changes, they were curious of how he was because of all of the rumors that they heard about him from the adults. But by what Boo does they think that he might be a pretty nice guy.
                   A lesson in this part of the book that Jem and Scout learn is dont kill mockingbirds. Atticus said not to kill mockingbirds because they dont do anything wrong but sing beautiful music for them. But now thinking about it there was deffinately a deeper meaning behind all of that. When Atticus says that it reminds me of mockingbirds being like good people, who are being "killed" by evil. Kind of like Boo Radley, he doesnt hurt anyone but instead he leaves wonderful gifts for Jem and Scout and as you can see from my examples I gave earlier, he wanted the chldren to know that he was good.

Murer- Connector Chapters 1-5

              My English 10 Literature class has just started reading Harper Lee's To Kill a Mocking Bird. In this section of the book that we have read, we were introduced to the characters of the book and their lifestyles in Maycomb, Alabama. 
                  Some connections that I can make between the setting of this book and with my home is how small the town is and quiet and sleepy it is. During this book, the Great Depression is going on ,and right now we all can relate to that, and I think that that’s a conflict that we can relate too. Jem and Scout remind me of my cousins who are really close to each other but at times can get sick of each other. They have a lot of fun playing make believe games and having fun during the summer. This fall i read The Help and this story relates to it because of all the racist judgments of colored people and how they are not treated equally.
                   In this part of the book, Scout learns to put herself in other people's shoes and to see things how they see and feel about them. This is a great thing to learn how to do and I think that more people should learn how to do that because by doing that, we all would be able to see things past our point of view and I think that people would be easier to understand, and people would not judge each other. The lesson that Scout is taught is important because I believe that she will be able to use it later on in the book.