Atticus messes with them a little here. Atticus saw Boo put the blanket on them, and he gets mad at them. He tells them that he thought he told them to stay put, but then he tells them that Boo put the blanket on them. He also tells them that all they had to do was turn around. I find it funny how he does this to them. Through this we can see a little glimmer of some of our parents. My own parents play jokes on my siblings and me all the time. It is funny to see this in Atticus too.
Reflections on Harper Lee's classic novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" from Blessed Trinity 8th graders.
Sunday, November 5, 2017
Boo comes out!
Poor Miss Maudie. She lost everything. She lost her house and her flowers. I think that this is really rough. Imagine everything you have ever loved suddenly being taken from you. While this is a terrible tragedy, we have to look at what else happened in the chapter. Boo Radley came out of his house! He saw two kids in the cold and gave them a blanket. Jem and Scout could have seen the guy that they have been trying to see the past two years. They were so close, all they had to do was turn around.
Atticus messes with them a little here. Atticus saw Boo put the blanket on them, and he gets mad at them. He tells them that he thought he told them to stay put, but then he tells them that Boo put the blanket on them. He also tells them that all they had to do was turn around. I find it funny how he does this to them. Through this we can see a little glimmer of some of our parents. My own parents play jokes on my siblings and me all the time. It is funny to see this in Atticus too.
Because Boo put the blanket on the kids, we can know that he is watching them. Boo watched them come down the street and stand outside his house. He saw them shivering, and he gave them a blanket, even though he didn't do it as a normal person would. We can also assume that Boo is the one putting the gifts in the knothole, the one who fixed Jem's pants, and the one that was laughing at Scout when she slammed into his house in the tire. I think that he is doing this because he wants a friend, but I don't think that Jem and Scout are going to see it that way. I think that they are still going to be ignorant, but we all try to be tolerant, so I am going to assume Boo is a good person until proven otherwise.
Atticus messes with them a little here. Atticus saw Boo put the blanket on them, and he gets mad at them. He tells them that he thought he told them to stay put, but then he tells them that Boo put the blanket on them. He also tells them that all they had to do was turn around. I find it funny how he does this to them. Through this we can see a little glimmer of some of our parents. My own parents play jokes on my siblings and me all the time. It is funny to see this in Atticus too.
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I like the way you write your blog post. You don't write one paragraph about what happened in the chapter and one paragraph about your opinion. You combine those two things together in your post. You talk about Miss Maudie and the feeling when we lose something. You talk about Atticus plays with Jem and Scout and tell that your parents do that too. And the last paragraph, I like your opinion about Boo is a good person and we all try to be tolerant. Also, I don't think we will see Boo.
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