To Kill A Mockingbird Biography
| TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD | | HARPER LEE |
| TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD | | HARPER LEE |
INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY
101
October 25, 2010 Sharon Goodwin
East Millinocket
Fall Semester
INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY
101
October 25, 2010 Sharon Goodwin
East Millinocket
Fall Semester
Lee Haper. To Kill a Mockingbird. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1960
--Summary of the plot. To Kill a Mockingbird is a story about two children Jem age 10, Scout who is 6, and their father Atticus Finch, who is a lawyer. They live in Maycomb, a small town located in Alabama in the 1930 during the depression. The story starts out with scout remembering how her brother Jem, short for Jeremy had broken his arm. Scout tells the …show more content…
They had lost their mother when Scout was only two years old. There was a women by the name of Calpurnia that helped take care of them, she did all the cooking and cleaning. Calpurnia was black and had been with the children before Scout was born. It is in the summer that the children met a boy by the name of Charles Baker Harris. Charles went by the nick name of Dill; he was small for his age of 7. Dill spent his summers living with his aunt Rachel across the street from Jem and Scout. The children are fixated with a neighbor by the name of Boo Radley. Boo it seems was a kind of legend of the town, people spoke of how he was kept locked in his home and only came out at night to wreak havoc on the neighborhood. They heard that at one time Boo had stuck a pair of scissors into his father’s leg, and of course to them this meant that he tried to kill his father making him ever more interesting. The children had never seen Boo as he did not come out of the house. They would make –up stories about Boo and act them out. When autumn drew near Dill left to go back home to Meridian Mississippi. It was time for scout to finally start school and …show more content…
Her uncle proceeded to spank her for the offence. Later when her uncle goes to talk to her about it she tells him that he never gave her a chance to tell her side of it. That he only listened to Francis’s side of the disagreement. ( 97-98) “You gonna give me a chance to tell you? I don’t mean to sass you, I’m just trying’ to tell you.” Uncle Jack sat sown on the bed. His eyebrows came together, and he peered up at me from under them. “Proceed,” he said. I took a deep breath. “Well, in the first place you never stopped to gimme a chance to tell you my side of it—you just lit right into
| TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD | | HARPER LEE |
INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY
101
October 25, 2010 Sharon Goodwin
East Millinocket
Fall Semester
INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY
101
October 25, 2010 Sharon Goodwin
East Millinocket
Fall Semester
Lee Haper. To Kill a Mockingbird. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1960
--Summary of the plot. To Kill a Mockingbird is a story about two children Jem age 10, Scout who is 6, and their father Atticus Finch, who is a lawyer. They live in Maycomb, a small town located in Alabama in the 1930 during the depression. The story starts out with scout remembering how her brother Jem, short for Jeremy had broken his arm. Scout tells the …show more content…
They had lost their mother when Scout was only two years old. There was a women by the name of Calpurnia that helped take care of them, she did all the cooking and cleaning. Calpurnia was black and had been with the children before Scout was born. It is in the summer that the children met a boy by the name of Charles Baker Harris. Charles went by the nick name of Dill; he was small for his age of 7. Dill spent his summers living with his aunt Rachel across the street from Jem and Scout. The children are fixated with a neighbor by the name of Boo Radley. Boo it seems was a kind of legend of the town, people spoke of how he was kept locked in his home and only came out at night to wreak havoc on the neighborhood. They heard that at one time Boo had stuck a pair of scissors into his father’s leg, and of course to them this meant that he tried to kill his father making him ever more interesting. The children had never seen Boo as he did not come out of the house. They would make –up stories about Boo and act them out. When autumn drew near Dill left to go back home to Meridian Mississippi. It was time for scout to finally start school and …show more content…
Her uncle proceeded to spank her for the offence. Later when her uncle goes to talk to her about it she tells him that he never gave her a chance to tell her side of it. That he only listened to Francis’s side of the disagreement. ( 97-98) “You gonna give me a chance to tell you? I don’t mean to sass you, I’m just trying’ to tell you.” Uncle Jack sat sown on the bed. His eyebrows came together, and he peered up at me from under them. “Proceed,” he said. I took a deep breath. “Well, in the first place you never stopped to gimme a chance to tell you my side of it—you just lit right into