Directions: Write one theme that appears in this book and where/when it appears. Make sure that it is a complete statement ("death" is not a theme, but "humans fear death" is). To add this to the page, just post a comment, making sure to include your name. Do not add one that already appears!
Jennifer:
ReplyDeleteIt is important for people to learn to walk in other people's shoes, to really understand where they are coming from.
Losing your innocence is painful.
Fearing the unknown can you hold you back from seeing what's really there.
ReplyDeleteThis appears with Scout finally meeting Boo Radley.
Nailah
ReplyDeleteLet people be how they are and live how they wish to. (Pg.204 with Mr.Raymond talking to Scout and Dill and pg.280 with Heck Tate saying it's a sin to drag Boo out of his shy ways)
Staying try to yourself can be difficult. We see this when Scout doesn't want to do some of the things Jem is doing like going to the Radley house. Sometimes she does it sometimes she doesn't.
ReplyDeleteStaying true to yourself can be difficult. Not try
DeleteGet to know someone before you judge them. At the end when scout first saw who boo really was instead of the monster that he was perceived to be in the beginning.
ReplyDeleteSometimes you have to comprise because you can't always have things the way you want. This comes up when out makes a deal with Atticus
ReplyDeleteThis comes up when Scout make a deal with Atticus that she will keep going to school.
DeleteSometimes tradition needs to be broken. This relates to how Maycomb and the families living in it are all very 'tradituonal' and don't break patterns. This appears when Atticus breaks tradition when he agrees and then actually puts effort into defending Tom Robinson.
ReplyDeleteSometimes, even if you don't know the out come or are simply expecting the worst, you just need to try your hardest. I saw this in a lot of places in the book, a less obvious example would be that Scout didn't want to go to school because she didn't know the out come, but went anyway. The one that really stood out to me, though, was with Atticus when he was defending Tom. He pretty much knew that the outcome would not be in his favor, but he still tried hard to help Tom.
ReplyDeleteIt is difficult to change human nature, and when people are confronted with ideas that contradict their deeply held beliefs, it causes them to become irrational and aggravated. This is shown throughout the book, but it is especially apparent during the trial when the Old Sarum folks and Bob Ewell begin threatening the Finchs and lashing out because of the changing views on racism and Atticus doing what no other white man would consider doing, defending a black man against a white man.
ReplyDeleteJordy
ReplyDeleteGood people have bad opinions, and it is your job to stand up and change them. This shows up throughout the entire book, from how the town people see Boo as a squirrel eating monster instead of the kind hearted hero he is, to how the entire town sees black people as worse then them where as they are exactly the same, if not better.
People will always surprise you, in good ways and in bad. This theme comes up throughout the book, but most notably when Bob Ewell attacks Jem and Scout. First Mr. Ewell surprises Atticus, who thought he was just yelling at him to get his feelings out, but never thought he would actually do anything, by trying to kill Jem and Scout. Then Boo surprises everyone by coming out and doing something.
ReplyDeleteYou must follow the rules and expectations that come along with being a lady.
ReplyDeleteWe see this when Aunt Alexandr comes and tells Scout to wear dresses, when Jem says Scout is acting more like a girl every day and needs to toughen up , and when Scout feels pressured to act more proper in front of the ladies at the meeting.
Children's point of view is not clouded by discrimination, because they have yet to conform into the social pressures of adulthood.
ReplyDeleteWe see this when Dill gets very upset over how Tom Robinson is treated in the trial, and Mr. Dolphus Raymond said, "Because you're children and you can understand it, and because I heard that one—Things haven't caught up with that one's instinct yet. Let him get a little older and he won't get sick and cry."
Camille
ReplyDeleteNobody is perfect or omniscience. You see this a few times in the book, but they were all with Atticus. When Atticus doesn't realize that Bob killed himself and when Atticus looses the case, you realize and so do Scout and Jem, that Atticus is not perfect and he doesn't know everything.
Too much pride can lead to trouble.
ReplyDeleteWe first see this when Scout fights Cecil Jacobs because he called Atticus an n-word lover, and Atticus is quick to reprimand her. We also see an example of this when Bob Ewell testifies during the trial. He walks in with a greasy little head held high, but through clever questions from Atticus, is quickly confused into saying things that could have done without saying.