Cecil County

Why is the perspective of a six year old a good way to tell a story? Scout, a six year old is looking through the lens of a child in the regards to what an adult might or might not see. Children tend to see what adults are blind to and they are able to look at a situation with an innocent view and interpretation. Scout grows throughout the story and as she narrates she grows as a woman and sees what others tend to turn away from. This maturity comes from the events she has witnessed and her…

Thump! You are moving left and right, to and fro. Swiftly moving past players you jump with one ball in your hand and a person standing right in front of you. You unleash the ball with sweat trickling down your face and land with exhilaration and joy. What game could possibly give you this much exercise and enjoyment? Well, it is none other than dodgeball, a game where players run to retrieve balls placed in the middle of the gym and then try to get players out by throwing balls at them. Though,…

Makes a Society Imagine being hated and not trusted simply because of the color of your skin. In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout and Jem are children of a lawyer taking a case that will change their life for the better. In the small county of Maycomb, it’s unusual for white people to defend a person of color especially if the color is black. Their father, Atticus, not only defends a black person, Tom Robinson, he defends him with power and a purpose. Majority of the town is…

outside the boundaries of Maycomb County. ...Maycomb had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself.” Chapter 2: Why does Miss Caroline hit Scout with a ruler? Is Scout’s first day of school what she expected? Why or why not? How does Lee use the school setting to give the reader important exposition about Southern Culture? How does Lee show that Miss Caroline is not familiar with Maycomb customs? Why would Lee make Miss Caroline come from another county rather than Maycomb?…

view. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, part one, the characters like Atticus, Jem and the students at Scouts school all have empathy for someone. The author of the book To Kill a Mockingbird is showing that the conflict is the people in Maycomb County being apart of racism and prejudices. The author is also showing part one that empathy is the solution to racism and prejudice. An example of the author showing us empathy is a solution to prejudice is Jem having empathy for Boo Radley. Jem,…

Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and political leader. One Sunday they burst in on the gathering, armed with clubs and stones, to disperse the congregation permanently. The plantation was between Hillsboro and Cordova; his birthplace was likely his grandmother's shack east of Tappers Corner, and west of Tuckahoe Creek. After escaping from slavery in Maryland,…

warn the reader about Bob Ewell’s attack the Finch’s. For example when Aunt Alexandra has a negative feeling about the Halloween parade, manifesting it with the words “someone just walked on my grave” (Lee 339). Significant is also the attack from Cecil Jacobs which forewarns the reader about the future events of the book. The author very smartly drops hints which suggest that Atticus was going to be the target of Bob Ewell’s possible attack, considering he was already subjected to one when he…

Case: Plessy v. Ferguson Cite: 163 U.S. 537 (1896) Vote: 7-1 Opinion: Brown Facts: • In 1890 Louisiana passed the Separate Car Act. o Required different cars for blacks and whites on railroads. • A group of citizens formed Comité des Citoyens in order to repeal and/or fight the laws effect. o Formed by black, creole and white New Orleans Residents • The group persuaded Homer Plessy, a mixed race free man to participate in a test. o Even though he had some European background he was still…

injustice, and there are a lot of books that showed it. A specific book I’m writing about today is, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In this novel, Justice is influenced by age and race, and is distributed unequally in a small town called Maycomb County, specifically when; Tom Robinson, The Ewells, Atticus and his two children, Jem and Scout are affected. Firstly, the Ewells are allowed to do whatever they want, because they are lazy, and white. Initially, the book introduced the Ewells…

the simile is that her eyes became hateful, just like the tone of her voice, when she spewed out the comment. The next device was allusion, which occurred twice in the last section. The first time was during the current events scene, in chapter 26. Cecil Jacobs mentions Adolf Hitler, and this alludes to the timeline of the book. Hitler, at the time, was slowly growing his empire as mentioned…