Themes in To Kill A Mockingbird by Lizzie Stallings https://padlet.com/elizabethstallings1/oegrs1kgm59r1wgv en-us 2020-09-17 16:46:14 UTC 2020-09-17 18:18:07 UTC hello@padlet.com " it is a sin to kill a mocking bird" https://padlet.com/elizabethstallings1/oegrs1kgm59r1wgv/wish/756433858 2020-09-17 17:56:58 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethstallings1/oegrs1kgm59r1wgv/wish/756433858 Chapter 19, page 200: https://padlet.com/elizabethstallings1/oegrs1kgm59r1wgv/wish/756440113 "Negroes wouldn't have anything to do with her because she was white. She couldn't live like Mr. Dolphus Raymond, who preferred the company of Negroes". ]]> 2020-09-17 17:58:17 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethstallings1/oegrs1kgm59r1wgv/wish/756440113 Chapter 19, pages 417-426 https://padlet.com/elizabethstallings1/oegrs1kgm59r1wgv/wish/756451086 "What did he say tom?- scared of arrest? scared you'd have to ace up to what you didn't do?"]]> 2020-09-17 18:00:37 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethstallings1/oegrs1kgm59r1wgv/wish/756451086 "You know what I said to my Sophy, Gertrude? I said, ‘Sophy,’ I said, ‘you simply are not being a Christian today. Jesus Christ never went around grumbling and complaining,’ and you know, it did her good. She took her eyes off that floor and said, ‘Nome, Miz Merriweather, Jesus never went around grumbling’.’ I tell you, Gertrude, you never ought to let an opportunity go by to witness for the Lord.” (Lee, 240) https://padlet.com/elizabethstallings1/oegrs1kgm59r1wgv/wish/756455500 2020-09-17 18:01:34 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethstallings1/oegrs1kgm59r1wgv/wish/756455500 Jem, Dill, and Scout mindset's change after realizing the unfairness of the society around resulting in each of them to mature. https://padlet.com/elizabethstallings1/oegrs1kgm59r1wgv/wish/756456883
Jem:

Dill: Dill is explaining to Scout that he didn't like the way Mr G. was treating Tom, "The way that man called him 'boy' all the time an' sneered at him, and looked around at the jury every time he answered[...]  I don't care one spec"

Scout:]]> 2020-09-17 18:01:48 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethstallings1/oegrs1kgm59r1wgv/wish/756456883 Boo Radley https://padlet.com/elizabethstallings1/oegrs1kgm59r1wgv/wish/756464401 Boo Radley is seen as things like lonely, evil, and mysterious to the people of Maycomb, but in reality he doesn't like having much attention to him, and he does heroic things, in this case for Scout and Jem. Examples of heroic deeds Boo has done:
Chapter 8, page 84: "Someday maybe, Scout can thank him for covering her up. Thank who? I asked.  Boo Radley. You were so busy looking at the fire you didn't know it when he put the blanket around you."  ]]> 2020-09-17 18:03:22 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethstallings1/oegrs1kgm59r1wgv/wish/756464401 "I said to him, ‘Mr. Everett,’ I said, ‘the ladies of the Maycomb Alabama Methodist Episcopal Church South are behind you one hundred per cent.’ That’s what I said to him. And you know, right then and there I made a pledge in my heart. I said to myself, when I go home I’m going to give a course on the Mrunas and bring J. Grimes Everett’s message to Maycomb and that’s just what I’m doing.” (Lee, 239) https://padlet.com/elizabethstallings1/oegrs1kgm59r1wgv/wish/756465732 2020-09-17 18:03:39 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethstallings1/oegrs1kgm59r1wgv/wish/756465732 Chapter 20, Page 213 https://padlet.com/elizabethstallings1/oegrs1kgm59r1wgv/wish/756466492 "A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up."]]> 2020-09-17 18:03:48 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethstallings1/oegrs1kgm59r1wgv/wish/756466492 Chapter 24, Page 527 https://padlet.com/elizabethstallings1/oegrs1kgm59r1wgv/wish/756474260 J. Grimes goes to Africa to spread Christianity.  "Out there in J. Grimes Everett's land there's nothing but sin and squalor."  Mr. Merriweather proceed to tell Gertrude she is "simply not being Christian" because she was sulking about Tom Robinson's verdict. ]]> 2020-09-17 18:05:31 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethstallings1/oegrs1kgm59r1wgv/wish/756474260 “’t’s all right to talk like that—can’t any Christian judges an’ lawyers make up for heathen juries,” Jem muttered. “Soon’s I get grown—” (Lee, 223) https://padlet.com/elizabethstallings1/oegrs1kgm59r1wgv/wish/756480588 2020-09-17 18:06:57 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethstallings1/oegrs1kgm59r1wgv/wish/756480588 Chapter 20, Page 213 https://padlet.com/elizabethstallings1/oegrs1kgm59r1wgv/wish/756491610 "there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal"]]> 2020-09-17 18:09:16 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethstallings1/oegrs1kgm59r1wgv/wish/756491610 "Over here we don’t believe in persecuting anybody. Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced." (Lee, 253) https://padlet.com/elizabethstallings1/oegrs1kgm59r1wgv/wish/756498160 2020-09-17 18:10:40 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethstallings1/oegrs1kgm59r1wgv/wish/756498160 "Yes ma'am. They'd burn right with me. They thought I spent too much time In God's outdoors and not enough time in the house to read Bible" https://padlet.com/elizabethstallings1/oegrs1kgm59r1wgv/wish/756500043 2020-09-17 18:11:03 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethstallings1/oegrs1kgm59r1wgv/wish/756500043 "The thing is foot-washers think women are a sin by definition, they take the bible literally ya know" https://padlet.com/elizabethstallings1/oegrs1kgm59r1wgv/wish/756505647 2020-09-17 18:12:16 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethstallings1/oegrs1kgm59r1wgv/wish/756505647 https://padlet.com/elizabethstallings1/oegrs1kgm59r1wgv/wish/756511614 "Atticus sighed. “I’m simply defending a Negro—his name’s Tom Robinson. He lives in that little settlement beyond the town dump. He’s a member of Calpurnia’s church, and Cal knows his family well. She says they’re clean-living folks. Scout, you aren’t old enough to understand some things yet, but there’s been some high talk around town to the effect that I shouldn’t do much about defending this man. It’s a peculiar case—it won’t come to trial until summer session. John Taylor was kind enough to give us a postponement …” “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.” “You mean if you didn’t defend that man, Jem and me wouldn’t have to mind you any more?” “That’s about right.” “Why?” “Because I could never ask you to mind me again. Scout, simply by the nature of the work, every lawyer gets at least one case in his lifetime that affects him personally."]]> 2020-09-17 18:13:31 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethstallings1/oegrs1kgm59r1wgv/wish/756511614 "Jem, how can you hate Hitler so bad an’ then turn around and be ugly about folks right at home" (Lee, 255) https://padlet.com/elizabethstallings1/oegrs1kgm59r1wgv/wish/756515638 2020-09-17 18:14:21 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethstallings1/oegrs1kgm59r1wgv/wish/756515638 "But sometimes the bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky https://padlet.com/elizabethstallings1/oegrs1kgm59r1wgv/wish/756516579 2020-09-17 18:14:31 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethstallings1/oegrs1kgm59r1wgv/wish/756516579