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"someone had filled our knot-hole with cement."

They were about to put their letter in the tree but the found it filled with cement, this meant the difference between isolation and social participation for boo

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"Most people are, scout, when you finally see them."
Theme: like boo radley people are judged off rumors heard of them but they really are pure and misinterpreted

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Quote: "Lula stopped, but she said, "You ain't got no business bringin' white chillun here—they got their church, we got our'n."

Theme: whites and blacks aren't expected to coexist, but rather stay apart.

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"I guess Tom was tired of white men's chances and preferred to take his own."

Theme: people would be more reassured if judgement was based on character and not skin color

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Ex: Tolerance
Quote: "you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them."

Theme: Society is quick to judge someone without knowing them as an actual person.

~Natalia Heidel

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Quote: "enough time passed people would forget that Tom Robinson's existence was ever brought to their existence"

Theme: No matter how involved or isolated you were in society, through time everyone will be forgotten.

- Chace Dickens

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"Mr. underwood simply figured it was a sin to 🤬 cripples, be they standing, sitting, or escaping. He likened Toms death to the senseless slaughter of songbirds by hunters and children..."

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Jen and scout lost there innocnce when they realize that the court proved tom Robinson guilty even with all of the evidence "I peeked at gem: his hands were white from gripping the balcony trail,and his shoulders jerked as if each " guilty" was a separate stab between them.

Theme : democracy is not always the way it seems not everyone is born equal

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Quote: "Yo' folks might be better'n the Cunninghams but it don't count for nothin' the way you're disgracin' 'em--if you can't act fit to eat at the table you can just set here and eat in the kitchen!"

Theme: Society shouldn't judge others based on their social status

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Ex:justice v. injustice
Quote:"did it ever strike you that judge Taylor naming Atticus to defend that boy was no accident? That judge Taylor might have a reason for naming him?"
Theme:Judge Taylor gave Tom a fighting chance despite the overwhelming odds

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Quote "Some folks dont like the way I live. Now I could say the 🤬 with em"
Theme people dont like How he lives so they shun him and isolate him from the community

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"When it's a white mans word against a black mans, the white man always wins.They're ugly, but those are the facts of life" ex: prejudice

Theme:because of prejudice people have extra obstacles to overcome in life

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Quote:"I shut my eyes. Judge tailor was polling the jury:"guilty...guilty...guilty...guilty". I peeked at jem: his hands were white....and his shoulders jerked as if each guilty was a separate stab. Ex: prejudice

Theme: the prejudice between whits and blacks separates them in all terms , socially making them inferior to whites

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EX: Loss of Innocence
Quote: "She was white,and she tempted a Negro. She did something that in our society is unspeakable: she kissed a black man. Not an old Unlce, but a strong young Negro man. No code mattered to her before she broke it, but it came crashing down on her afterwards."

Theme: As people start to mature, their temptations get the better of them, causing people to take advantage of their rights. These maturations cause us to be more conscious about our rights

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Ex: tolerance
Quote: "Its is not ok to hate anybody"

Theme: Just because someone has done something terrible, doesn't mean they're a terrible person. One act doesn't define a persons personality, but can affect how others perceive them. You don't truly know what goes on in others minds unless you walk in their skin.

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Ex: toleranceQuote:"One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough."
Theme:
Looking at the world through someone else's eyes not only gives you a new perspective to life and a better understanding of their ways, but it also opens your own eyes and matures your views.

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Ex: Poverty
"This is not enough, we must have ten dollars."
Theme: Even though people are barely scraping by they still help others in times of need.

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QUOTE: "To my way of thinkin', Mr. Finch, taking the one man who's done you and this town a great service an' draggin'  him with his shy ways into the limelight-to me, that 's a sin. It's a sin and I'm not about to have it on my head."

THEME: Taking someone who has done good and punishing them for it by shoving them into the public eye is a sin. They mustn't be forced to socially participate if they don't wish it.

-Dillon Korfanty

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EX: Prejudice
Quote: "This case is as simple as black and white."

Theme: People are often judged by the amount of pigment they have in their skin.
Because of their race, they are judged by the society if they are a good or bad person.

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Ex: Prejudice vs. Injustice
Quote: "Strong enough to choke the breath out of a woman and sling her to the floor?"
Theme: Because the world sees men as strong and powerful , and blacks are stereotyped for their race , men are being judged on what they are capable of by their appearances .

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Ex: loss of innocence

Quote: "I always thought Maycomb folks were the best folks in the world, least that's what they seemed like.

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Ex: Poverty vs. Affluence
Quote: "You're shamin' him, Mrs.Caroline. Walter hasn't got a quarter at home to bring to you..."

Theme: Some people don't understand and can't wrap their heads around people with a lower quality of life because they're used to a privileged life and some refuse to put themselves in unprivileged shoes.

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Ex:Innocence
"Well, it'd be sort of like shootin' a mockingbird, whouldn't it?"

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Ex: Justice vs Injustice
Quote:"But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men"

Theme: No one is perfect but it is unjust to associate a single race with bad qualities. What's right and wrong is not a simple as black and white. Everyone deserves fair treatment.

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Quote: "The thing is, you can scrub Walter Cunningham till he shines, you can put him in new shoes and a new suit, but he'll never be like Jem. Besides, there's a drinking streak in that family a mile wide."

Theme: In a society swamped by prejudice, people will be grouped in the same category, no matter how much they don't belong in it, as their ancestors history.

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1. Find a quote that represents one of the following topics:

Poverty v. Affluence
Loss of Innocence
Justice vs. Injustice
Isolation vs. Social Participation
Prejudice vs. Tolerance

2. Write a thematic statement that you can derive from the quote/ novel at large.

3. Make sure you put your name on the bottom of your work.

4. Make a connection another work of literature we have read in class. In other words, ask yourself what else have we read that could apply to this theme and then explain the connection.

5. Comment on another's post by doing one of the following:
* add a connection (HMSCS)
* add an anti-example
* reflect on how this changes your perception of the world around you
* discuss how this theme informs the novel as a whole

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Quote: "They've done it before and they did it tonight and they'll do it again and when they do it-- seems only children weep."

Theme: Because children are not blinded by widespread prejudicial ideas, they have the unique ability to destabilize societal notions.

- Ms. Clark