05.27.09
Posted in Uncategorized at 4:18 am by sanjuv
Quote “In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s word, the white man always wins.”(Pg 220)
Explanation
In the trial for the Tom Robinson case, the final verdict of the jury was death row for Tom. Although all the evidence was for Tom and it proved against the Ewells, they still charged him guilty for something he did not do. Atticus says that the jury always took a white man’s word over a black man’s. I agree with Jem that it was unfair and unreasonable. Atticus said that if the jury was made of Jem and 11 other boys like him, then Tom would have been free because the children would have made a decision based off of reason instead of the color of the people. I’m glad that our time now is different from theirs and people are treated equal most of the time.
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05.26.09
Posted in Music at 10:44 pm by morgatronrouw
I chose the song Don’t Matter by Akon because I think it represents the way that White and Blacks are separated in the book To Kill A Mockingbird. The society didn’t want to see the African Americans and White folks living together. However, some wanted to be equal. The town is so separated and this really bothers me. Maycomb is prejudice towards everyone besides the white people. Atticus tried to keep the black and whites equal by employing Cal and by representing Tom in court. I also like how they children sat with the Colored people during the trial. Over this song shows how they can get past the separatism going on in the town.
By: Morgan Rouw
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Posted in Picture at 8:31 pm by ckreme15
The chapters went by really fast, it mainly talks about how the town react to the case. I pick the picture of a king threatening his workers. I know the cartoon got kinda off hand, just take it as a joke?! The point I want to make is that Bob Ewell spat in Atticus’s face. Omg, that must be really gosh, besides that he is chewing tobacco. I would be really mad, if someone did it to me. However, Atticus didn’t really get mad. I htink that Bob is just really angry that the court didn’t favored him on the case. He thought that he could win and all. The good thing is that there’s Atticus, Judge Taylor and others that are standing on the good side. Bob is perfectly an example of evil in the story. He seems to have a grudge to everyone that is realted to the case. What’s the use of that? To make himself feel better about losing the case? I don’t hink it will scared anyone off. There’s no use in such thing like that…
By: Christy
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Posted in Initial Page tagged 012, 02, 21, 2210121, 4, ;, Add new tag, KMPMK, MKO, O, P, S, THI at 3:53 am by sanjuv
In chapters 21 – 25 of To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem begins to understand the Maycomb County and its people. He realizes that they were not how they he though them to be. I believe that this case about Tom Robinson made some deep changes in Jem. Jem believes that there are 4 kinds of people in Maycomb County, the kind of them and the neighbors, the Cunninghams, the Ewells and the black people. Jem says the one doesn’t like the other. So Jem and his f1olks doesn’t like the Cunninghams, the Cunninghams doesn’t like the Ewells, and the Ewells doesn’t like the black. But Scout thinks that everyone is the same and that no one is better than the other. But then Jem says what he thinks of Maycomb County now. He says that if they were all the same why they despised each other. He also thinks that the reason that Boo Radley doesn’gt come out might be that he wants to stay inqside. Boo might have realized the same thing as Jem did so he despises the town and doesn’t want to come out. Also I thought Scout question about thqe trial was important. He asked Jem “Why didn’t the folks like the Cunninghams acquit Tom to spite the Ewells?” What do you think?
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05.25.09
Posted in Initial Page at 3:56 pm by morgatronrouw
In these chapters, the trial is going on. The children and basically the whole town is there to view the trial happening. Calpurnia has not seen the kids the whole day. She takes a note to Atticus saying that the children have not been home since noon. Mr. Underwood informs them that the kids have been with the colored people throughout the afternoon. Once Atticus knows this, he tells them to go home and eat. They kids beg him to let they stay, and he tells them that they can come back after they have eaten supper.
What puzzled me, is why would he not want them to stay and watch the trial. They already have seen the mob, they know what is going on, and they know what Tom had supposedly done. Atticus thought that by making them go home and eat, that the court would be done by the time they arrived… but he was wrong. The courtroom was still full when they arrived back from eating.
Why would young children want to have stayed and watched something so boring? Especially Dill and Scout being so young, it is not like they could possibly have understood ALL of the lingo being used. The court case was so boring, that Dill ended up falling asleep.
So over all these chapters raised two questions for me:
1. Why wouldn’t Atticus have wanted them to stay?
and
2. Why would the kids have wanted to stay and watch something so boring?
-Morgyyy.
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05.24.09
Posted in Initial Page at 12:40 am by ckreme15
When the final ruling of the case is decided, I thought that Tom will have a chance of becoming a free man. He didn’t take the chance actually, he decided to run away. He decided not to wait, but to take his own chance of life. He lost his hope on the case already. He is a dead man when Mayella shout at him in the court, the book stated. Well, if his left hand is not useless, he can probably escape out of the jail. I feel really sad about that they shoot seventeen bullets on Tom. Tom just left the world like that, leaving his children and wife. How can Helen take care of all these children? After all, Bob Ewell is the cause of all these. Tom doesn’t have any grudge against him, why is he saying that Tom raped Mayella? I can’t believe Mayella lied about what really happened. I wonder of Mayella will feel guilty about Tom’ s death. People forgot about Tom after two days. We can just feel the evilness and unfairness in this case. ”It is a sin to kill a mockingbird” Atticus once said. Now the mockingbird is dead, who is there to blame?
By: Christy
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05.22.09
Posted in Quotation at 4:52 am by sanjuv
Quote: “I don’t know how he done it, but he done it” (Pg 186)
Explanation:
I thought that was the funniest answer I had ever read in the book. When Atticus asked Ms. Mayella how she was raped, that answer that she gave seriously made me laugh. But Atticus proved that Ms. Mayella was not raped and was just blaming on Tom for something that Mr. Ewell did. Also Mr. Gilmer interrupted saying that what Atticus was trying to browbeat Mayella. I agreed with the judge that it was Mayella that was trying to browbeat Atticus. She kept saying that Atticus was mocking her by calling her ma’am and Miss Mayella which angered me a bit since Atticus was only being polite. I would have understood if the answer given was for something that could not be seen. Rape is something you could see and experience and not something that cannot be seen.
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Posted in Picture at 12:37 am by ckreme15
What is fairness? What does it mean to us anyway? Most importantly, what does it mean to Maycomb? Is believing what a white girl say about the case really fair? No, of course not. Fairness is for everyone, we deserved the same amount of right. In the book, the chapters focus on Tom Robinson’s case. Racismhas gone really bad during depression. What’s up with people thinking that a “nigger” lies, but a white girl don’t. Is that fair at all? We are all created equally, despite the race, color and gender. I feel bad for the people who are being called a “nigger lover”, because nobody has to accept that title at all. I put a picture of a balance and law books. Law means fairness, that’s what a lot of people is saying. But what if the balanced got titled, because of race? Unfairness exist in all kinds of form in this world, but I can’t accept that showing favor to a person when you know they are lying… Fairness is something that we can’t never explain completely…
By: Christy
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05.21.09
Posted in Uncategorized at 12:34 pm by morgatronrouw
Mr. Raymond really puzzled me. I don’t see why he would want to portray himself as a drunk. I mean who would that image for themselves? Obviously he was trying to excuse his behavior by acting like a drunk. I think that he truly left an impression on Scout and Jem by exposing himself to them. Instead of the drink in his brown bag being alcohol, it was soda; this surprised the kids a lot.
This part in the store reminded me of a very important lesson that my mother impressed into my mind. This incident brought to the mind the fact that… you never know what happens behind closed doors. Whenever I would say as kid, “I wish I lived with them” or “I wish that was my family” my mom would always tell me that statement.
Truly, one does NOT know what happens behind closed doors. Just because a family may look happy or really close, doesn’t mean that thats really how they are. For example, you don’t know their emotional problems or financial problems; it is easy for people to put on a good front.
In the case of Mr. Raymond, he was good at putting on a bad front and making people think of him as an obnoxious drunk.
~Morgatron The Destroyer.
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Posted in Initial Page at 1:50 am by sanjuv
Since I’ve been reading the book, I got interested in some of the stuff that was going on. But as I read through chapters 17 – 20, the book had made me interested in it than what happened in the previous chapters. I like reading detective and mystery books. But I had never seen anyone do a fine job like Atticus did in those chapters. Although I was interested in how the trial was going on, one particular part of the trial seemed to make me a bit angry (a bit at least). It was the part where Ms. Mayella was called to the witness stand.
I know she says she’s been raped and stuff, but her saying that Atticus was mocking her seriously made me a bit angry. Atticus has been for sure one of the most gentleman-like person in the whole book. He was politely asking her stuff when she said that he was mocking her by calling her “ma’am” and “Miss Mayella”. Last time I checked that was being polite and not considered mocking. I did consider that she may have never been called like that and that she mistook it for mocking. Also I thought that her response “I don’t know how he’s done it, but he’s done it” kinda funny at first. But later we find out that she wasn’t really raped and that it was just an excuse. Overall I thought that the trial was good and I was glad that the judge didn’t take sides.
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