https://padlet.com/qnguyen2/p8qo6pfzc1vk From To kill the mocking bird en-us 2018-03-09 20:08:59 UTC 2018-03-09 20:33:49 UTC hello@padlet.com qnguyen2 https://padlet.com/qnguyen2/p8qo6pfzc1vk/wish/240354647 To kill the mocking bird]]> 2018-03-09 20:12:43 UTC https://padlet.com/qnguyen2/p8qo6pfzc1vk/wish/240354647 qnguyen2 https://padlet.com/qnguyen2/p8qo6pfzc1vk/wish/240355001 She is intelligent and, by the standards of her time and place, a tomboy. Scout has a combative streak and a basic faith in the goodness of the people in her community.
 "Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing." - Chapter 2 of To Kill a Mockingbird]]> 2018-03-09 20:13:37 UTC https://padlet.com/qnguyen2/p8qo6pfzc1vk/wish/240355001 qnguyen2 https://padlet.com/qnguyen2/p8qo6pfzc1vk/wish/240357778 Scout hates school because in many ways it actually inhibits her learning. Her teacher is appalled that she already knows how to read, instead of celebrating that fact. She is bored waiting for the rest of the class to catch up to her skill level, and she doesn't have more than a passing respect for either of the teachers she describes in the story.
"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. Maybe things'll strike him as being—not quite right, say, but he won't cry, not when he gets a few years on him." (20.18-22)]]> 2018-03-09 20:21:45 UTC https://padlet.com/qnguyen2/p8qo6pfzc1vk/wish/240357778 qnguyen2 https://padlet.com/qnguyen2/p8qo6pfzc1vk/wish/240358431 Scout faces with the judging people by their social position.
"He ain't company, Cal, he's just a Cunningham--" Scout is taught by Calpurnia to be polite and respectful to everyone.]]> 2018-03-09 20:23:23 UTC https://padlet.com/qnguyen2/p8qo6pfzc1vk/wish/240358431 qnguyen2 https://padlet.com/qnguyen2/p8qo6pfzc1vk/wish/240359505 Scout Finch, a young Alabaman girl, learns many life lessons through an eventful few years of her young life including school, a mysterious man, and a rape trial, while trying to find herself in a town segregated by race and class. 
Atticus had promised me he would wear me out if he ever heard of me fighting any more; I was far too old and too big for such childish things, and the sooner I learned to hold in, the better off everybody would be. (9.1)]]> 2018-03-09 20:26:37 UTC https://padlet.com/qnguyen2/p8qo6pfzc1vk/wish/240359505 qnguyen2 https://padlet.com/qnguyen2/p8qo6pfzc1vk/wish/240360466 Scout figures out that sometimes bigotry and emotion overpower a supposedly objective justice system.
"Atticus has used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men's heart Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man in the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed." Chapter 25

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