Carin Britton
In this semester, we have had four units that are full of hatred and prejudice. In this semester, the most important theme to me was hope. There were always the bad people. The bullies. The horrible attitudes that overcome us all sometimes; greed, rage, and hatred. Hope always won in the end. It always held on until the last moment of all of the hatred. The hope is what kept people alive in the Holocaust. Hope was always hiding in the shadows like Boo Radley. Junior always had a little bit of hope, even when Rowdy turned against him. Hope kept Bassanio on the prize ahead, Portia. In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Junior really had a hard life. His dad was a heavy drinker, to the point of not …show more content…
There was a lot of poverty and people without jobs. Luckily for Jem and Scout, their father was a lawyer for Maycomb, Alabama. When their father, Atticus was asked to defend a black man for a rape case, Atticus defended him very well. Atticus was all about treating a man fairly in the courtroom, no matter the color of the man. “The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way by carrying their resentment into a jury box” (Lee 40) Though the children were fairly young, they dealt with a wide range of remarks about how they were “nigger lovers” and about how their father was wasting his time defending the black man. During all of this, one of the most important things to their childhood was trying to see the mysterious, Boo Radley. They were so transfixed on his ghostly charm, that they seemed to only want to know about him. During the trial with Tom Robinson, the man that Atticus was defending, the children hopped back onto the trial train. They wanted their father to do his best to create a fair trial. The children went to the trial without Atticus’ permission. They watched Atticus try his best to defend Tom. APPEAL QUOTE The trial is definitely unfair, even though Atticus tries to make an atmosphere where there is no race. Atticus always holds onto hope, even when everything goes