American Lit Research Paper Notecards by Rileigh Byrd https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q en-us 2017-12-04 16:08:26 UTC 2018-02-21 02:31:11 UTC hello@padlet.com Characters rileigh_b19 https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/215864086 - Scout - daughter of Atticus, sister of Jem; mom dead (died when she was 2); has no remembrance of her mother; the narrator
- Jem Finch -- son of Atticus, brother of Narrator; mom dead (died when he was 4); has a remembrance of his mother
- Atticus Finch -- father of Jem and the Narrator; wife dead
- Mom -- Died of a sudden Heart attack
- Dill -- (Charles Baker Harris) lives with his Aunt Rachel; is good friend with Jem and Narrator
- Calpurnia -- Finch's maid/ cook; basically raises Jem and the narrator; a mother-like figure
- Mrs. Dubose -- Neighbor of the Finch's
- Miss. Rachel Haverford -- Neighbor of Finch's; Dills aunt; Dill is her nephew and is living with her; Aunt Rachel
- Boo Radley -- The son of Mr. and Mrs. Radley; not really seen; only seen once by the town
- Mr. Radley -- Boo's father; is never seen by the town; mysterious
- Mrs. Radley -- Boo's mother; also not really seen
- Mr. Nathan Radley -- Another son of Mr. and Mrs. Radley; Boo's brother; comes back to stay with in Maycomb for a short period of time
- Mrs. Caroline -- The narrators teacher; no more than 21
- Tom Robinson -- Accused of raping Mayella Ewell; an African American man; lives in Maycomb; is not guilty
Mayella Ewell - Accuses Tom Robinson of raping her; even though he doesn't; she comes from a  bad family

]]> 2017-12-13 16:25:36 UTC https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/215864086 "As Mr. Radley passed by, Boo drove the scissors into his parent's leg, pulled them out, wiped them on his pants, and resumed his activities" (Lee 12) rileigh_b19 https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/216952476 - Boo Radley is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Radley and still lives in the Radley place. In this part of the story Boo just stabs his father Mr. Radley out of no where with a pair of scissors. This struct me because, it kind of shows Boo's dark side and how he is "High strung" (Lee 12) at times. This also give us the information as to why Dill, Jem, and the Narrator let alone the towns people are all suspicious of Boo Radley and don't go within distance of his home. ]]> 2017-12-18 14:13:54 UTC https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/216952476 "Jem said if Dill wanted to get himself killed, all he had to do was go up and knock on the front door" (Lee 14) rileigh_b19 https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/217504218 - Everyone is afraid of Mr. Boo Radley but, Dill, Jem's friend wants to see what he looks like. Jem does not think that Dill should try to see what he looks like or even go knock on the door of Boo's house because, he is just that scared of him, and has everyone else's opinions based off of his own.]]> 2017-12-20 14:54:52 UTC https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/217504218 "Dill left us early in September, to return to Meridian. We saw him off on the five o'clock bus and I was miserable without him until it occurred to me that i would be starting to school in a week" (Lee 17) rileigh_b19 https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/218354166 - Summer is coming to a close at this point in the novel, Dill has just left to go back to his home town. The narrator and Jem definitely miss Dill very much and do not want to start the school year at all. ]]> 2018-01-02 16:46:10 UTC https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/218354166 "Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading" (Lee 19) rileigh_b19 https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/218355280 - Miss Caroline is the new teacher from the seceded state/ country of Alabama in 1861. This starts off when the narrator starts to not like Miss Caroline what so ever. She does not like that Miss Caroline said that her father Atticus shouldn't teach her anymore. The narrator has childish outbursts from time to time and begins to not like Miss Caroline.]]> 2018-01-02 16:51:21 UTC https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/218355280 "That's okay, m'am, you'll get to know all the country folks after awhile" (Lee 22) rileigh_b19 https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/218356981 - Jean Louise one of the girls in Miss Caroline's class is saying that Walter Cunningham is trouble (which he is making at the time) and his family has a bad history in town. Miss Caroline gets a little angry when Jean tries to explain to her who Walter is, and just leaves it off by saying she will figure out whom everyone in town hence, Miss Caroline is new to town and does not know anyone what so ever. ]]> 2018-01-02 16:59:17 UTC https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/218356981 ""Are we poor, Atticus?" Atticus nodded, "We are indeed."" (Lee 23) rileigh_b19 https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/218357763 - Here as the reader we start to figure out the Finch family, and see that they are poor.

Question
- During this time did Lawyers not make much money as they do today? Because, Atticus is a Lawyer and I thought Lawyers made a lot of money?]]> 2018-01-02 17:03:09 UTC https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/218357763 ""Are we as poor as the Cunninghams?" "Not exactly the Cunninghams are country folk...."" (Lee 23) rileigh_b19 https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/218358560 - We also can see that the Cunningham family is a very very poor family, that live on a farm (considered country folk) and are a lot more poor than the Finch's. There family also does not have a very good reputation in the town of Maycomb. ]]> 2018-01-02 17:05:59 UTC https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/218358560 "Catching Walter Cunningham in the schoolyard gave me some pleasure, but when I was rubbing his nose in the dirt Jem came by and told me.." (Lee 25) rileigh_b19 https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/218359371 - We can see now that the narrator that we now find out her name is Scout, has a deep dislike for Walter Cunningham, and basically beats him up and bullies him during the school day. Scout is bigger than 
Walter and is the same age as him (Scout is a girl) and still beats him up. ]]> 2018-01-02 17:09:39 UTC https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/218359371 "Cecil Jacobs, who lived at the far end of our street next door to the post office, walked a total of one mile per school day to avoid the Radley Place" (Lee 39) rileigh_b19 https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/218360459 - This shows how suspicious and scared people of Maycomb are of the Radley's and their home. Cecil Jacobs a neighbor down the street from the Finch's even has to walk a mile to go to school each and everyday just to not go by the house. ]]> 2018-01-02 17:14:39 UTC https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/218360459 "What are you doing with those scissors, then? Why are you tearing up that newspaper? If it's today's i'll tan you" (Lee 45) rileigh_b19 https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/218361255 - Atticus is mad at Jem for shredding a newspaper that might even be that days newspaper. He also says he will "tan" him if it is the days newspaper. This could show how parents reprimanded there children back then.

Question
- What does tan mean?]]> 2018-01-02 17:18:48 UTC https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/218361255 "He had asked me earlier in the summer to marry him, then he promptly forgot about it" (Lee 46) rileigh_b19 https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/218362421 - We now see that Dill has a love for Scout; they are close friends and I guess have a love for each other. I also question this because, they are very very young and I do not think they could get married at such a young age.]]> 2018-01-02 17:23:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/218362421 "His name is Mr. Arthur and he's alive" (Lee 48) rileigh_b19 https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/218362915 - All of the children that are very curious and skeptical about the Radley's now figure out that Boo is still alive and living in that house down the street from them and are a little bit freaked out. ]]> 2018-01-02 17:26:09 UTC https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/218362915 "Atticus said, "Stop ringing that bell." Dill grabbed the clapper; in the silence; in silence that followed, I wished he'd start ringing it again" (Lee 54) rileigh_b19 https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/218383162 - Jem and Dill are playing there little game with the Radley home. They basically ding dong ditch his house to see if he would come out. And he does not. Atticus realizes their game and stops them and says to mind their own business and whatever Boo Radley is doing is only his business and not theirs.

Question
What is a clapper? Why does dill grab it?]]> 2018-01-02 18:58:57 UTC https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/218383162 "The back of the Radley house was less inviting than the front: a ramshackle porch ran the width of the house" (Lee 58) rileigh_b19 https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/218385181 - Jem, Dill, and Scout explore the outside of the Radley home one night. I understand they are curious but this is trespassing, they could get in big trouble. They think the back of the Radley home is scarier than the front and they still want to explore more to see what is actually up with Boo Radley.]]> 2018-01-02 19:07:48 UTC https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/218385181 "As a child, the tomboyish Lee struck up a close friendship with a boy near her own age who spent summers with his aunt in Monroeville" (Newsmakers) rileigh_b19 https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/227630606 - Lee grew up in a small southern town. She also spent most of a time with a boy during the summer who lived with his aunt every summer and then when back to his home town. 
- Lee is relating her life, and putting little pieces of her life into her book "To Kill a Mockingbird"
- Scout grew up in a small town with her brother (Jem) and her father (Atticus) in the deep south. She also had a very close friend named Dill, whom she spent a lot of her summer with, who also lived with his aunt for the summer, and then went back to his hometown for the school year. ]]> 2018-02-02 18:51:14 UTC https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/227630606 "Harper Lee wrote To Kill a Mockingbird, a searing tale of racial injustice in a small Alabama town in the 1930s. It won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1961 and became required reading for successive generations of high school students. "She showed us the beautiful complexity of our common humanity, and the importance of striving for justice in our own lives, our communities, and our country," declared President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama in a statement released by the White House, according to the Washington Post. "Lee changed America for the better."" (Newsmakers) rileigh_b19 https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/228680052 - There is a trial in the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" this trial included an African American Man named Tom Robinson. Robinson is accused of rape in this case and Atticus Finch is his lawyer fighting for him. Which essentially raises some eyebrows because, during this time it was a little odd for a White man to be defending an African American man. It kind of shows some racial equality. Tom is also a huge symbol of the Mockingbird.

- Tom is accused for Raping Mayella Ewell, who also has an abusive father. Robinson is asked to work for the Ewell's from time to time. The day he went into the Ewell's house Mayella, tried to kiss him on the cheek. All the evidence is their that Robinson is NOT guilty but since the color of his skin is not white and it is black, he will be affirmed guilty. 

- I really like what Barack Obama says about "To Kill a Mockingbird" because, "our common humanity, and the importance of striving for justice in our own lives, our communities, and our country."]]> 2018-02-06 16:06:04 UTC https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/228680052 "Lee was descended from the traditional Southern elite, with forefathers who had owned slaves and fought for the Confederate Army in the Civil War." (Newsmakers) rileigh_b19 https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/228687970 - Lee's family was wealthy and "Southern Elite" during the Civil War; The Finch family is somewhat wealthy and Elite too in the town of Maycomb as, Atticus is a lawyer/ attorney in town.

- Lee's family also owned slaves; this might have something to do with the character Calpurnia in the story; maybe relating to someone that took care of her as a young child; this reminds me of the book "The Help". ]]> 2018-02-06 16:17:27 UTC https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/228687970 "The incident at the center of To Kill a Mockingbird is a criminal trial in which the widower Atticus Finch, a small-town attorney, defends an African-American man falsely accused of sexual assault. Lee's father A.C. rarely took criminal cases, but he had done so once for an African-American man and his son who had been charged with the murder of a white shopkeeper" (Newsmakers) rileigh_b19 https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/228690907 - Lee's father "A.C" is an attorney, just like Atticus Finch. Lee is showing her father A.C. as Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird". 
- The trial of Tom Robinson is also about him being accused of Raping Mayella Ewell, and the court case that Lee's father A.C. took also shows racial injustice; "African-American man and his son who had been charged with the murder of a white shopkeeper."]]> 2018-02-06 16:21:16 UTC https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/228690907 "Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama, as the last of four children of a prosperous local attorney who specialized in tax law." (Newsmakers) rileigh_b19 https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/228790201 - Scout was born in the deep South and so was Lee. 
- Scout is also the youngest, and has an older brother named Jem
- Her father Atticus is an Attorney/ Lawyer just as Lee's father A.C. is ALSO an attorney, and does a similar case (on racial injustice) just as Scout's father Atticus does a trial on racial injustice. ]]> 2018-02-06 18:51:26 UTC https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/228790201 "During the three years of the trial, the two children come to an understanding of prejudice as their father stands his ground in defending a man he believes to be innocent." (Contemporary Authors Online) rileigh_b19 https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/228793764 - Atticus "stands his ground in defending a man he believes to be innocent" This also opens eyes to people throughout the story and the reader because, this is a white man fighting for an African American man. Atticus is also saying that he is not guilty, as all of the evidence is their for Tom Robinson to not be guilty.
- During the 1960's segregation was going on. So this would have been odd for a White man to be defending an African American one
- This essentially shows a theme of Racial Equality in the trial 

]]> 2018-02-06 18:56:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/228793764 "At the trial, the jury finds Robinson guilty, even though Atticus proves he cannot possibly have committed the crime. Despite this truth and all his hard work, Atticus can't break through Maycomb's deeply entrenched racial prejudice that "all Negroes lie, that all Negroes are basically immoral beings, that all Negro men are not to be trusted around ... [white] women."" (Contemporary Authors Online) rileigh_b19 https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/228806052 -  Why do they find Tom Robinson guilty when all of the information to prove him not guilty is there? 
- In my opinion this is completely wrong. I understand that segregation was going on at this time, but to send someone to jail just because, what color they are or their race. Is just pitiful to see. It is sad to see the racial injustice in this story. 
- People in Maycomb degrade African American's due to the color of their skin 
- They send Tom Robinson to jail, even though he is not guilty. ]]> 2018-02-06 19:14:34 UTC https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/228806052 "Throughout the book, Lee draws on the symbol of the mockingbird, which she associates with Boo Radley and Tom Robinson. This bird, which sings almost continuously, represents innocence and joy;..." (Contemporary Authors Online) rileigh_b19 https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/228809246 - Boo Radley and Tom Robinson are essentially innosant
- The people that live in the town of Maycomb think Boo Radley is a bad person because, he stabbed his father. People have big suspicion of him; Scout, Jem, and Dill are too scared to go and ring his doorbell, or even step foot in his yard. Some people even have to walk a little further to school just to avoid his house.
- The people that live in the town of Maycomb also think that Tom Robinson is not innocent but he is. All of the evidence to save his reputation of going to jail for nothing is there. He goes to jail because, of his race. He is still in the end innocent
- Symbol of the Mockingbird -- Innocence (Tom Robinson and Boo Radley) ]]> 2018-02-06 19:19:25 UTC https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/228809246 "Lee drew upon her own childhood experiences as the daughter of a lawyer in Alabama to create the fictional events in To Kill a Mockingbird. Together with her brother and their childhood friend Truman Capote, Lee enjoyed many of the small-town adventures depicted in the novel..." (Contemporary Authors Online) rileigh_b19 https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/228813456 - Lee does go by her own life experiences throughout "To Kill a Mockingbird" 
- Dill is Truman Capote; Lee also had a brother who had many good times with and expieriences// "the small - town adventures" 
- Dill, Jem, and Scout had many adventures for example, trying to go onto the Radley property; Daring each other to ring his door bell; going to the back of the Radley house. ]]> 2018-02-06 19:26:04 UTC https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/228813456 "readers discover that Atticus is an active member of the Ku Klux Klan and is a board member of one of the newly formed Citizens's Councils dominating Southern politics" (Contemporary Authors Online) rileigh_b19 https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/228815535 - If Atticus is apart of the KKK this could also raise some eyebrows for people in the story. 
- Atticus is apart of a white supremacy group (KKK) and defending Tom Robinson an African American Man 
- Atticus is showing racial equality by defending Robinson in his court case because, he is in the KKK and during this time the KKK really targeted African Americans. ]]> 2018-02-06 19:29:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/228815535 "Contemporary debates concerning race in America owe much to the 1960s when African Americans and other minority groups gained basic legal protections and rights of citizenship denied them in the century following Reconstruction" (Crespino, Joseph) rileigh_b19 https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/233326428 - To Kill a Mockingbird setting takes place during the 1960's 
- There is a lot of racial things in the story that take place, for example the Tom Robinson case where Robinson is accused of rape
- Robinson pleads non-guilty but is guilty because, of his race even though all of the evidence is their to show he is NOT guilty 
- This shows the racial inequality during the 1960's and after Reconstruction 
- Rights are definitely denied to African Americans in this novel ]]> 2018-02-20 15:41:36 UTC https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/233326428 "The enduring career of To Kill a Mockingbird as a story of racial justice, and of Atticus Finch as a racial hero, reveals much about American racial politics in the second half of the twentieth century"(Crespino, Joseph) rileigh_b19 https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/233341585 - Atticus is apart of the KKK, yet he is a "racial hero"
- This shows racial equality in the novel because, he defends Tom Robinson; an African American man who has been accused of raping a white woman 
- Atticus defends him even tho racial injustice is going on in the time (1960's)
- This makes Atticus a "racial hero"
- I think this could show readers during the 1960's that racial equality is okay; this book may have also changed the way Whites think about Blacks
- THE PUSH OF CIVIL RIGHTS; giving Blacks more rights; ending racism and segregation ]]> 2018-02-20 16:03:45 UTC https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/233341585 Paraphrase: "...the struggle for racial equality over the past forty years and allows us to look again at how competing groups have framed racial issues in America" (Crespino, Joseph) rileigh_b19 https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/233345562 From the 1960's to now it has been 40 years plus, during the 1960's there wasn't much racial justice for African Americans let alone Civil Rights. African Americans had to fight for their civil rights. To Kill a Mockingbird has made an impact definitely on the racial struggles, and road blocks in American history because, in the novel their is a racial struggle, Tom Robinson is accused of rape even tho he is not guilty and is guilty because, of his race. Now in 2018 jury's and judges look beyond race. There is only a few in which they have seen, and looking into race for example the Freddy Grey case in Balitmore. In 2018 their are issues arising with police pro-totality and black lives matter. Yet we still have these struggles we have came a very long way in American from the 1960's to 2018]]> 2018-02-20 16:09:49 UTC https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/233345562 Paraphrase: "...urban African Americans demanded that America address questions of racial inequality..." (Crespino, Joseph) rileigh_b19 https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/233355152 In the 1960's their was a push of African American moving up to the North from the South, in order to find jobs and a better life. Whites did not like this because, they thought that the African Americans would steal their jobs. So Whites would start getting mad that African Americans would move up to the North. They started to segregate more things, and start Jim Crow laws against blacks, impeding their likely hood of getting jobs. This novel might open the eyes of the whites that are mad at the African Americans and show them some racial equality; this could change the North's mind. ]]> 2018-02-20 16:24:07 UTC https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/233355152 "It signals that Scout herself is no longer a romantic or southern racist, but a realist" (Seidel, Kathryn Lee) rileigh_b19 https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/233454698 - During this time especially in the South (Southern 1960's) there is a lot of racism going on 
- South -- KKK, Lynching, White Supremacy, African Americans have NO RIGHTS
- It might surprise some readers that Scout is not racist and change the minds of racist white people during this time that is okay to NOT be a racist and be accepting of African Americans
- Atticus is apart of the KKK? But is he truly a racist? He does defend Tom Robinson though he is in the KKK?]]> 2018-02-20 19:00:48 UTC https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/233454698 "She uses racist language, for example, asking Atticus, “‘Do you defend niggers …?’” (Lee 82). She is prejudiced against all manner of persons, including African Americans and people of lower social classes" (Seidel, Kathryn Lee) rileigh_b19 https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/233458161 - Could Scout be 50/50 about racism? 
- Is she a racist? 
- During the story Atticus does defend Tom Robinson (an african american man) but she questions it as anyone else would during this time 
- She also looks down to Walter Cunningham as she beats him up during lunch on day at school 
- Scout is definitly a racist 
- Is she Racist towards Calpurnia?]]> 2018-02-20 19:06:06 UTC https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/233458161 "Scout must confront the outcasts of her town, just as the South must confront the grotesque reality of violent racism" (Seidel, Kathryn Lee) rileigh_b19 https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/233555685 - Their is a lot of racism in the town of Maycomb 
- The trial of Tom Robinson is going on at the moment in the book and Atticus is his defense lawyer. 
- Atticus (a white man) is defending Tom (a black man) 
- This is a weird pair for this time period; white men don't normally defend black men like Atticus does
- The racism in this is that, the jury is making Robinson look guilty when all of the evidence shows that he is strictly NOT GUILTY
- The jury is making him guilty based upon his race ]]> 2018-02-20 23:44:14 UTC https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/233555685 Paraphrase: "...And when they shoot Tom Robinson..." (Dave, R.A.) rileigh_b19 https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/233557037 As Tom Robinson tries to escape the prison he is shot by the guards a good 17 times. This is a reference to the guards being "bird hunters" as they are killing the symbol of the mocking bird. They kill Tom Robinson as they shoot him. Maycomb essentially does not really care about this and become "senseless" to what just happened to Tom Robinson. The Mocking Bird in the novel is a symbol and a huge motif that describes Tom Robinson. The Mockingbird should NOT be killed. ]]> 2018-02-20 23:52:24 UTC https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/233557037 "...and Tom Robinson sentenced to death for a rape he never committed, are kept as invisible as the crimes they never committed." (Dave, R.A.) rileigh_b19 https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/233558560 - Tom Robinson is being sentenced to death for something he did NOT do
- Yes he was their during the day of the crime scene but he did not rape Mayella Ewell at all
- He is being charged with a crime based on his race, and is now being put to death for it 
- This is a form of racism as he did not commit the crime, he is just being put to death because, of his race and the time period the story is taken place which was a time of segregation and Jim Crow laws against African Americans and impeding their lives essentially ]]> 2018-02-21 00:01:42 UTC https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/233558560 Paraphrase: "...when Tom is shot dead—not killed but set free from the coils of life..." (Dave, R.A.) rileigh_b19 https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/233560219 Tom Robinson; an African American man, is guilty because, of a crime he did not commit, he is being charged based on the color of his skin. He is then sentenced to death for "raping" a white women when he never did; he was just doing some handy work at her home because, she asked him to. When Tom gets shot he is "free from" all of the struggles he faces in the world as an African American man; Robinson escapes the struggles of racism which in all is a good thing. Not that he died is a good thing but he is escaping from a struggle he faces every day. ]]> 2018-02-21 00:13:24 UTC https://padlet.com/rileigh_b19/poc9tftt7q4q/wish/233560219