final thoughts on the book

My thoughts on this book is that i thought that is was a pretty boring book. There was a couple of good parts in the book but most of it was not interesting to me. There was a lot of racism in this book which made the book some what interesting.”i wish i was the governor of alabama for one day, i’d let Tom Robinson go so quick the missionary society woulden’t have time to catch its breath” this quote to me stricks me because they think that tom robinson is so inocient. Another quote that got my attention was “didn’t they try to stop him?” this quote makes me think of the bad killing that tom got and i think that that was a little messed up because he was shot 17 times. Another quote was “what was one negro, more or less, among two hundred of em?” this makes me think of how much racism is in the book. The last quote is “Atticus leaned against the refrigerator, pushed up his glasses, and rubbed his eye.” I think that this is kind of sad because Atticus really wanted Tom Robinson to live happly ever after. But he didnt.

different ending

Tom took off running for the fence the guards starting to yell and fire the their rifles into the air, but tom did not stop funning. Next thing you know sirens are going off and the jail is going into lockdown. Tom tripped on the way to the fence, but just got up and kept on going. The guards were starting to take shots at him, but none of the guards could hit him, then finally Tom got hit right in the stomach, it slowed him down a little but not very much he just kept on running. As Tom approached the fence he leaped up and cut his hands, arms and legs as he crawled across the razor wire. Tom leaped off the fence and took off and was never seen again from the guards.

 

            About a week later Tom was knocking on Atticus door, Tom had a hat on his head and he was wearing jeans with a sweatshirt. When Atticus opened the door he about fainted. Tom said all I came over here was to say thank you for all the work that you put into the court trials, I escaped jail and got shot once but know I’m leaving town and going to start a brand new life somewhere else. Then Tom gave Atticus a hug and headed out.

 

            Atticus was the last person to see Tom Robinison.

trial blog

The trial scene in the book to kill a mockingbird was one of the most interesting parts of the book because there was actually some action. To me most of the book was boring, but this trial had a lot of action and it was one of those things where you want to keep on reading on.  Tom Robison was found guilty, for raping and beating mayella. I got this passage off page 203, I found this quote from reading nick’s blog. “I shall be brief, but I would like to us my remaining time with you to remind you that this case is not a difficult one, it requires no minute sifting of complicated facts, but it does require you to be sure beyond all reasonable doubt as to the guilt of the defendant. To begin with, this case should never have came to trial. This case is as simple as black and white.” To me I think that this passage is good in the trial scene. Atticus has a good point about the trial not being so complicated. The words that struck me the most was “this case is as simple as black and white.” Another  passage is out of chapter 23 the passage reads…”Aunt Alexandra entered the room as Atticus was saying, we don’t have anything to fear from Bob Ewell, he got it all out of his systerm that morning.” I really don’t agree on what she said I think that Bob Ewell still has all those thoughts in his system, If this story was real I think that he would be thinking thinking about twenty- four seven. If this situation was to happen today I think that it would be way different, for sure it would be all over the local news but I think that the trial would have lasted for a very long time. Because cases like that these days last for months.

chapters 16-19 blog

my way of finding passages or important lines in a book is by just reading. I usually find them by finding a key word on the pages. For a example a lot of passages that cought my eye in the book to kill a mockingbird the word was “nigger” or “negro” I see that easlly because i usually dont see those words in books. On the assignment where we had to go find four passages i for each chapter. I had to go back and find them i do that just the same way. I look for words that catch my eye. I would rather find the passages by just reading along then going back.

blog reflection

                                                                  Blogs 

the very first day of school this year i came to english, never writing a blog in my life i had no idea what it was, or how they work. Shortlly after school started Mr. Sheehy had us get a account on a blog website. Then if i remember right we started to read a book called the “old man and the sea”.  And for the assignements we would write blogs about what we thought about on what we read.  I have really enjoined writing blogs this year, i would rather do it on the computer then on paper. my favorite things to blog about are when my teacher leaves the window open like you really dont have to write about something specific you just have to give your thoughts about a certain subject, and you are free to say whatever you want to. I have learned a lot of things about blogging this year, i think that it is a good tool to get information from other people, for example we are reading “to kill a mockingbird” right now and if i want a better understanding of the chaper i can go to my classmates blog page and see what they said about it. in all of my other english classes in the past we would complete assignments on paper but in this class we do most of them on the computer threw blogs, and i really enjoy it.

chapters 12-15 blog

Calpurnia took her children to her church. Her church is different then others because it is a “colored” church. i have been to a “colored” church before i think that they are pretty cool they all like to dance and get into it i went to the “colored” church in Cleveland Ohio. I think that it would be a good idea to take the kids to the “colored” church because it will show the kids that they arent any different then others. Aunt Alexandra says that she is going to stay with the kids for a while, to give them a “feminine influence”.  I have never had anyone come and stay with me and my brother to influence us on anything, i’m glad that, that has never happened because i just like being myself. When the sheriff came to atticus’s house, he really didnt show any sign of fear. If a sheriff and some guys with him came to my house i would be nervous, i would be nervous because i wouldnt know what the sheriff wanted, or if he was trying to get me in trouble.

racism 10 sentence blog

I have been around a lot of raciest people. My grandpa did not like black people,  I beleive the only reason why he didnt like them was because he grew up in a different time period then I have.  I dont even ask him about it because I really dont want to hear about it. One of my best freinds is black and I wouldent treat him any different then any of my other friends.  I can releate a story to the book to kill a mocking bird.  My friend Brit who is black got into trouble with me a couple summers ago for sneaking into the swimming pool at night. We just jumped the fence and had a good time swimming and jumping of the diving board. Well the workers looked at the camera and saw us, and i have no idea how they knew it was us but, a week later the cops were at my house.  They sent both of us to court and he got more punishment then me, he had ten more hours of community service.  I asked the judge why he got more and the judge asked me if i want more,  I said no, i just want it even. So they gave me five more hours and took five hours off of his.  This reminds me of the book when Cecil Jacobs was blamming Scouts dad, and saying that he defends “niggers”.  I think is a sort of way i was kind of defending a black guy in my situation.

chapter 9-11, 10 sentence blog

Scout about got into a fight with cecil jacobs at school.  They about got into a fight over scouts dad defending “niggers”.  I think that this is mess up because  it really doesnt matter what color someone is.  One of my best freinds is black, and i wouldent treat him any different then any of my other friends.  Atticus’s brother jack came and stayed with them for a week during the holidays. Scout cusses in front of their brother jack.  Then after dinner Jack has Scout sit on his lap. Jack tells Scout not to cuss in front of him again. When Jack comes back and stayes with them it reminds me of when my cousin was in college. He would come and stay with my family for about a month in the summer.  My brother and I would always be way exited for him to come and stay with us.  I never cussed in front of him but i think that if I did he wouldent really care because he used some words of his own.

symbol

the symbol is the book to kill a mockingbird to me is the old tree. The kids  find the different objects in. I think that this is the symbol because alot of the story is about the old tree. If you think about it how many trees has a knot-whole in it where you find different objects all the time. i think that later in the story the knot-whole in the tree will mean more then just a knot-whole in the tree.

Jems journal

Today it is very cold out, it is so cold that when I go outside, my nose just solid like a rock and my cheeks turn bright red. I have been told that this is the coldest weather that we have had here since 1885. The only cool thing about the cold weather is the snow, and school did get canceled. I love the snow days. For one day during the week when I’m suppose to be in school learning, but instead I’m at home having a blast. And it was also the first snow day that I have ever experienced, first snow day that the whole town has experienced in a very long time. The most interesting thing about the snow day was that I got to make myself a real snowman, a snow man made of real snow that fell from the sky.

 

One sad thing happen this winter, old Miss Radley died this winter but it did not leave a huge impact on my life, because the only time that I seen old Miss Radley was when she was watering her cannas. I’ve heard that old Miss Radley just died from natural causes. I’m so glad that she just died from natural causes and nothing like cancer that causes a lot of pain, and is a slowly death. Also what happened that was not very good at all was miss Maudie’s house burned down to the ground, I think that the house burned down from her fire place in her house, no one got critically injured in the fire everyone was safe. That is all the main things that happened in my life this winter.