Goodbye Mockingbird and One Last Conspiracy Theory

Yesterday we finished To Kill a Mockingbird and I'd just like to say goodbye. For the past month or so this book has been the bane of our existence. It taught us many thing most of all the themes which we will have to write our final papers on. My favorite would be that you have to put yourself in someone else's shoes before you can truly judge them. We have seen this countless times in the book. When scout saw the world from boo's perspective it really enlightened us and showed us what a life boo lives. A secluded one where he can see maycomb and all the ignorance, tolerance, and mainly he could see Scout and Jem grow up. In a friendly way he was always watching them always protecting them making sure that they were always safe and that they could always be safe.  Me being me I have to fit one conspiracy theory in just before the book ends and thats that Atticus sort of asked Boo to watch out for his children and make sure that they grow up safely. Boo was right there to save Scout and Jem when they were attacked by Bob Ewell. Then when they were watching the fire Boo was right there with a blanket so that they wouldn't freeze to death. Furthermore, theirs the fact that Atticus acted as if he always knew Arthur so he could have been in constant contact with him. Boo does leave the house at night so Atticus could have been getting daily updates on his children and what they did. He did know that Jem was lying when he said the strip poker story. Arthur could have told him that he saw the children that night. We do have evidence that he was there the night that they were at the Radley place.  Scout saw his shadow! Now I can still see Arthur making those things for the children just to be nice, but I bet when Atticus heard about the trinkets from the knothole he went to Arthur's father and made him fill the knothole so that their cover wasn't blown. That's how Atticus could always be there for him. He had an informant. 

Atticus Finch Is Watching You

The Grind Was Real

To Kill A Mockingbird has got to be one of my favorite books of all time. I loved the characters and the entire story. The first page sounded boring since it was talking about how Jem broke his arm. To me, this sounded like the book would be mediocre, but oh was I wrong. We met many interesting characters like Boo Radley, Scout, and Tom Robinson. The book was much darker than I was expecting. However, I expected the death of a character because every book we have read has someone die. I learned many important life lessons and morals such as not judging somebody before stepping into their shoes. This lesson will always be me in my mind for the future because I'll use this for every single day of my life. My favorite character was definitely Tom Robinson even though he is no longer with us. He was the underdog of the trial, and everybody in class hoped he would make it out innocent. Of course the racism and ignorance of Maycomb defeated the jury, but it definitely removed the fear of a character dying... until Bob died. I was so hyped that the coward he was died because his previous actions annoyed me so much. Also, I just want to thank Boo for being clutch and saving Jem and Scout before they left us too. I was hoping Boo would finally make his appearance in the book. When he did, he did it in the best way possible. The final chapter of the book in my opinion was confusing. If Mr. Boyle did not explain what happened, I would probably be questioning the ending for a long time.

I would like to dedicate a mini countdown on the blog for the top three deaths of TKAM. Number 3, Tim Johnson. Even though we never knew his backstory besides him being owned by Mr. Johnson and having rabies, obviously. He had an honorable death by dying from One Eye Finch. Number 2, Tom Robinson. Tom Robinson was a great person in the book. The only thing bad about Tom is the reason for his death. If only Bob Ewell and Mayella had not accused him of rape, he would still be with his now-widow wife, and his fatherless children. I don't blame Mayella a lot for his death because Bob was the real reason. I just want to ask Bob, why would you cover up your daughter breaking a social code when nobody respects you anyway? Too bad he died. Finally, the moment you've been waiting for. I'll even use their full name. Number 1, To Kill a Mockingbird. Death by reading the last page. If you thought I was going to say Robert Ewell, he doesn't deserve to be on the list. Well that's it. Goodbye to this blog and goodbye TKAM.

It's The End of The World as We Know It

The title of my post is the title of a pretty old song, look it up if you want. We have been reading this book since October. It's January. Remember how the book started, Scout gave the background of the Finches. I remember I started reading, and felt like super good about myself because I finished the first chapter of a really hard book. Now I look back at the October Ellie, and I laugh. We just finished the book. It was a really hard book, and now we're done.
The last chapter was really interesting, in many ways. Scout had a Halloween pageant, and she missed her cue, and made a very embarrassing scene. She didn't want to take her costume off because she was too embarrassed, and decided to walk home in her costume. It was really dark out, and Jem didn't have a flashlight. They heard someone following them,a and they ran, but were to slow, and in the process, Bob Ewell attacked them. Scout was really confused through the whole thing, and heard Jem scream. Then Bob attacked Scout by trying to choke her, but instead crushed her costume. The costume must have saved Scout's life. Then Scout realized that four people were involved in this. Scout looked out, and saw someone carrying Jem home. Scout followed. She found out later, that it was Boo Radley who saved them. Scout actually gets to know Boo, and likes him. She realizes that he is not an evil demon, but instead, a really nice man who saved her life.
The old Scout who was the fighter, and the stubborn tomboy, would have run away from Boo, and been totally creeper out. Now that Scout has lost her innocence, and sees the real world, she takes Boo in as a person, and makes a friend. All this time, Atticus was trying to get her to see things the right way, but Scout has always looked at things with the deadliest disease, ignorance. Scout through her life grew up, and became a good person. She looks at things the way Atticus would, and thinks before she acts, and she is getting good at empathizing with others.
I think that the whole book has been about the themes that we talked about, and the trial, and Dill, but the real story plot is Scout growing up. It is about Scout seeing the world as, a beautiful, yet ugly place. She learns that it is not always what it looks like, but more what it actually is like. Dolphus Raymond is an example. Jem and Scout used to judge him because he could get drunk before 8:00 in the morning, and he was always hanging out with the black people. But once Scout, and Dill got to know him, they realized that he likes the black people better, and he never drank alcohol, just coke. Scout learned three things there. I think we can figure it out. This was an amazing story about a A father of integrity, a football loving brother, a boy who makes summer the best, a black man who got killed for doing the right thing, a ignorant man being let go because he is white, but soon dies, a girl who is abused, a cook, a hard working neighbor, a scary at first but very nice neighbor, and a girl who grows up, and looses her innocence, and sees the world from a different perspective. To Kill A Mockingbird.

The End.

In this chapter, we read about Scout putting Jem to sleep and Boo wanting to pet him. as they were watching Jem sleep, Boo did some communications with scout by grabbing her hand which was intending that he wanted to leave. she leads him to the front porch and he tells her in almost a whisper if she could walk him home. When she took him home, she had never seen him again. she begins to get sad since he had been the one giving her the little gifts in the knothole, but they had never gave anything back in return. as she leaves, she goes behind the window where Boo had been watching them the whole time and puts herself in his shoes for a moment. she imagines everything that has happened from the beginning of the book to what recent event had happened in Boo's point of view. she did this because Atticus had always told her to always stand in someone else's shoes and feel how its like to be them, so this seems why Scout had looked back at everything from the Radley porch. when scout goes back home, she goes into Jem's room and sees Atticus reading " the gray ghost". she tells him to read it to her, but falls asleep when he starts the book, Atticus carries her to bed, and she begins telling the story to Atticus as she is half asleep. she says the story was about a kid named "stoner boy" and some other kids who were chasing him to find out what he actually looked like, but found out he was really a nice kid. Atticus tells her that everyone is nice when you actually get to meet them, then scout realizes that Atticus was referring to Boo Radley.

I think that this book would end up kind of sad since I really thought that Boo was a bad guy who eats rats and stabbed his father in the beginning of the book. My first thought on this book was that it would be about an ordinary girl in the 1930s and her life during this time period. Overall, I think this book was pretty interesting, especially in the ending which scout had just made a whole summary of what had happened. I mainly enjoyed the last chapter because we finally got to find out who boo was and saw how the whole book ended.

Once you get to know Atticus, your personality will change

    Today, we finished the last chapter of the book To Kill a Mockingbird. This book has been with me for about two and half months. Before I started reading this book, I didn't know it would be so meaningful and useful for learning. First, I learned what the true courage is. I used to think that a strong guy with his strong power kill a bad guy is the true courage. However, my mind was changed completely after I read about the part Atticus sat in front of jail to protect Tom Robinson from the Cunninghams with no weapons. I know it takes guts to do that and I think people today are too scared to do thing like that because it is hard to do. Even I would not do that.
     Second, I learned how to put myself in other people's shoes and see what really happens before I judge them. If I judge them without knowing anything about them, I am not a tolerant person. If we see a man cries, maybe his mother just passed away or something bad has happened to him. If we see a student who frequently skips school or gets a bad grades, maybe that student has to work to help his/her parents. We cannot judge anyone unless we step in their shoes and see thing from their point of view.
     Third, this book gives me a lot of lessons about high moral standard. I don't know if there is anyone that acts exactly like Atticus in real world. I hope there is. His moral standard is so high that at the end of the book, before Mr. Tate told him Boo was the one who killed Bob, Atticus wanted to go to court with Jem because he thought Jem killed Bob. Although he knew that Jem would be found innocent, he still wanted to make it clear so people would not talk about it anymore. I always want to act like Atticus but sometimes I just give up because I'm too scared to tell the truth, to admit what I did was wrong.
     After finishing this book, I felt sorry for a lot of characters in the book but I especially felt sorry for Tom Robinson. He didn't do anything wrong yet he had to go to jail and then committed suicide. He wanted to free himself from the world that is full of ignorance people. He had no hope when he heard the guilty verdict. . He was a big mockingbird in this book. If people in Maycomb took a little time to think about what they did to Tom, they might think that "most people are nice when you finally see them".
    Thank you Mr. Boyle for a wonderful book. I really want to see the movie on Thursday. Can't wait!!

Why Tom? Why did you run?

Why seventeen instead of one

Everyone feels guilty

But now the mockingbird is dead

My Opinion on To Kill a Mockingbird

So we finally finished the book. As Mr. Boyle has said, the book has been the bane of our existence since October. After reading about four hundred pages, taking a huge law test, and discussing the book, I can definitely say that I loved this book. I thought that it was an amazing book. To Kill a Mockingbird is a work of pure genius. In my opinion, Harper Lee made a masterpiece. There are many reasons why this book is amazing. first of all, the characters are all unique and all of them have special roles to play. There are a few characters that act as metaphorical mockingbirds. They are people who have done nothing wrong yet they get punished. Probably the greatest example of a metaphorical mockingbird is Tom. Tom was a man who only wanted to help out Mayella. He knew she didn't have the best family and didn't have many friends. He believed that he was doing something small that was just the right thing to do. However, that little deed that he did lead to his death. Things like this are what give the book character. Second of all, the book is very emotional. It will make you happy, sad, angry, or scared. Every emotion can be felt while reading this book. Finally, I think that the book gives some very good commentary on how people had thought back in the 1930s. This book gives us an idea of how the average ignorant American thought back then about racism and mental disabilities. I am comfortable in calling everyone in this book (except for maybe Atticus, Jem, Miss Maudie, and Scout) ignorant when it comes to mental disabilities. Why do I say this? Well its quite simple, they didn't have the technology that we have today. Of course, they wouldn't know why Arthur acts.
Now that we have finished the book I can definitely say that this book was better Of Mice and Men. I thought that this one had more emotion and had a better story. I can tell that Mr. Boyle put these two books together because they both take place at the same time. I think it would be clever if Mr. Boyle made the books be read in order of when they take place. Anyways, this book is amazing and I think it has been a while since I really got into a book this size.

Adios to kill a mocking bird

Today is a really sad day. We finished the book today. I liked the book a lot. I learned a lot of things. I learned new lessons. Every lesson that I learned in the book helped me to look beyond and help others by doing the right things. It showed me not to hate people, because the people that I hated did nothing to me, so why would I hate them. In the last chapter Jem was still sleeping and he was going to wake up in the morning. Scout and Author where in the outside sitting down. They went inside to see Jem. Author was petting him. They were going back, then Author asked Scout if she could take her back. He said it like a little kid that was scared of the dark. When I was little I was scared of the dark, but not anymore, because I know nothing will happen and someone is protecting me. Author goes inside and that was the last time she saw him. When I was little I had a two wonderful friends in Mexico, but I had to come back and never saw them again. They were pretty nice people. Scout then stepped into Authors shoes show a moment she realizes that he has been nice to them and they were mean and ignorant. If People were nice to each other and not judge people right away the world would be different and better, everyone would get a long better. At the end Atticus is with Jem in his room and was reading a book. Scout comes over and asks her to read her. He said that she was probably to tired. She said no. While Atticus was reading Scout was falling asleep. When Atticus was going to take her to bed she started talking about the main character, that children were saying bad things about this person, but at the end he was a nice gentle person. Atticus left Scout and when to sleep. Atticus was going to go to Jems room. He was going to be there until Jem woke up. I was kinda sad, because we don't get to read the book anymore and that make me sad. Everything will be different. At least we get to read another book. Well this my last blog post for To Kill a Mocking Bird. 

"Atticus, when they finally saw him...he was real nice"

The quote that is in my title, is a very important analogy from scout. She was talking about both Stoner's Boy, and Arthur Radley. They both were seen as negative individuals. The people in the book, accused the Stoner's Boy of messing up the clubhouse, and throwing ink around, however they were too quick to judge, like we all are in today's society. We take one look at a person's appearance, and judge them. After we judge them, we either feel that they are intimidating, less than us,different, or anything else to separate them into society.  We all have done this before, including every person in Maycomb, except for Atticus. Atticus, is the person that we all want to be, selfless, tolerant to all, has high morals, and many more reasons as to why he is such an important person to look up to. He is everything. He has given us multiple ways that we should live our lives correctly. He teaches us real courage, in a different way than the movies and Television shows show a hero with true courage with a weapon. Atticus has true courage, because he went to the jail cell, where men came to kill Tom Robinson, and Atticus brought a weapon, now it wasn't a gun or a knife, but it was his words and his voice. He wanted to talk to the men as men. Another lesson is that we should and shall always look as people as equals. this is explained, when he tells Scout to walk in someone else's shoes and see the world through their eyes, to see the pain in their lives, and ow the people in Maycomb see them. In the end of the book, scout goes to the window at the Radley's house, and from there she can see everything. Meaning that Mr.Arthur Radley, can see everything, and that he has seen everything. He gave them so much. He gave them the blanket, the soaps, the broken watch, the ball of yarn, and their lives. Arthur was there for Jem and Scout when they needed them the most. And throughout the book, scout and Jem still believed the rumors and didn't give him anything in return for his gestures of friendship. Friendship, that's all that Arthur wanted. HE wanted to be seen as an equal, and unfortunately it took 374 pages for someone to see him as an equal. 

The Last Chapter of the Book

        In chapter 31, the last chapter of the book "To Kill a Mockingbird," we have found many things about Arthur Radley. As we all know, Arthur is a a mysterious person from the first chapter of the book. Jem and Scout know Arthur through many rumors and gossip about him, but no one really knows what he is like and people called him "Boo Radley". Jem and Scout thought that Arthur is a person look exactly like the rumors about him and did many things making fun of him. All of what Jem and Scout thought about Arthur were wrong, he's actually a good person. Arthur appears at the time Jem and Scout need the most to save them out of Bob, he has give them their lives, he is a hero.
        Arthur Radley  is a good person, even Jem and Scout making fun of him, he still watching them and appear at the right time to save them. Through what we have read, we know that Arthur has mental disability like so he can't go outside, that is the reason why Arthur just stays in the house and never go out. Arthur is a mockingbird, he was killed by the rumors, the gossip about him, but even though, he still do the right thing. At the end of Chapter 31, Atticus says that most of the people are nice when you finally see them. What Atticus says is like a lesson for everyone, it shows that we can't judge people if we have not met them yet. Overall, "To Kill a Mockingbird" is the best book I've ever read, it showed the the dark side of each person. This book also taught me many meaningful lessons that can help me grow up as a good, tolerance person and I really enjoy it.

Boo Radley and Atticus

This chapter was sad, but it was also pretty intriguing. I feel bad for Bob Ewell dying a little bit. Only because he has who knows how many children, and now they have no parents at all. Mayella and the other of Bob's children aren't going to make it up the socioeconomic ladder. They're lives will probably end up being a huge fail. It makes me sick what they are going through. A father that abuses, and neglects them?For Mayella, who knows what Bob was doing to her. I have a little sympathy for Mayella, but not one ounce for Bob Ewell. The things he did was pretty messed up. I can understand that they don't have a mother, and that's probably why Bob is the way he is. I'm happy that Bob Ewell is gone because he caused real trouble. He was in my words a really annoying bluejay that needed to be shot. He was really violent to people. Almost killed Jem if it wasn't for Boo Radley. Boo Radley and Atticus are true heroes in this book. There are a few other people that stood out to me, but if I had to pick two people, Boo Radley and Atticus would be the people with real courage. Boo Radley had to dodge and ignore all of the gossip about him, and it's funny because we are calling him Boo Radley and no one in our class had the idea to call him by his real name. We probably all forgot his name until Atticus introduced him to Scout, and probably Jem was awake, but he was probably knocked out and too tired to meet Boo. Boo STILL had Jem and Scout's back even when they were about to be viciously murdered by the drunk man himself, Bob Ewell. It's sad to say that there is only one or two chapters left. IT was really a good book and if there was a part two, something happens...Tom Robinson isn't actually dead and comes back, or Boo Radley has a case for killing Bob Ewell, and somehow is found guilty for what he did. Boo Radley is a ninja honestly. Without Boo Radley, I'm pretty sure there would be two dead children near the Radley's house.

"I Consider That a Crime"

          At the beginning of chapter 29 Scout is explaining what happened to Heck Tate. After she is done telling the story, it comes up on who was the person that flung Bob down, because Jem couldn't have done it because of his broken arm and hi being 13. When they ask Scout who could've done it she says it was the countryman in the corner of the room, and while she is looking at him she notices his pale skin, his pale hair, and his dull eyes, she realized he looked like someone who looks like they haven't been outside in a very long time, then it hits her, "hey Boo," she says. Then Atticus invites everyone to the porch because the lights in the living room may be too bright for Boo. On the porch Heck Tate is trying to cover up for the person that killed Bob. Atticus being the good person he is, and thinking it was Jem, says it should be put in the open so no one could think that Atticus paid a mint to get Jem out of trouble. But in reality it was Boo who killed Bob and they should cover up for him because he would be seen as a hero and Heck Tate says,"I Consider That a Crime," to give someone who doesn't want attention that much.
          I can relate to this because sometimes I don't want attention. Now before you judge this is in times when I mess up and am getting scolded for it. An example of this is when I make bad plays in football. A prime example is in one of my state games I let up a touchdown. I didn't hear right and I ran a different play than I was supposed to and by the time I realized the tight end had caught the ball and was already speeding down the field to the endzone. The coach even shouted me out at halftime on how bad of a play I made and all of my team was pissed at me. 

Why Boo Is Like He Is - Faraes Wubshet

As this book is coming to an end I would like to learn why Heck Tate Saves Boo.

No not that Boo, but the Boo we’ve been reading about for the past thirty chapters. Boo, or should I say Arthur when he was younger people learned he was in trouble with the law. People would spread rumors like this would spread about how Boo cut off his father Nathan’s ear off. I always wondered if this was the truth why people believe Boo is a monster, Nathan would of shipped hi away from the house scared of what he could do. Or if it’s not true Nathan would attempt to protect his son from these rumors by validating it’s false. Than in class we were brought to the idea Boo might be like Lennie. Mentally ill. This would make sense, to why Nathan would do nothing, because of people learned he was mentally ill, they would ridicule him more than they do know with these rumors. This is because people don’t know about mental disabilities as well as people do today, so if he showed his true self they would think his just dumb.

I believe Heck knows this, and understands the problem with Boo, so he tries to save Boo from any uncomfortableness his unused to. I really think he should inform Nathan about this in my opinion, because this might make Nathan and Boo more engaged with the people, and not alone in their own house. However in a time like that I couldn’t have made a better decision. From this I think Heck shows his on the tolerant side of Maycomb with Atticus and Deas, while people like Bob are on the other scale of the tolerant scale. Heck showed me in this chapter that he does the right thing to save Boo from a life he doesn’t want. Wrapping up this I would like to say goodbye TKAM.

Bye.

This was the second to last chapter in the book. When Scout and Jem got jumped someone saved them, but who? Chapter 29 has revealed that Boo has saved them, but why? Is he good or bad? Apparently he is some bad person who eats raw squirrels. Well as we leaned we knew that Boo has been watching them. He was the one laughing at them, he was the one in shudders, he was the one who stitched up Jem's pants. He has been watching them since the beginning. And it is good thing that he has been watching them at that time because he saved their lives. And also Boo is a mockingbird. My opinion on the book is kind of is it was okay. It was first of all the longest book Ive ever read. But It was kinda weird. Like it jumped around a lot. I never had the same story. It went to Christmas and then it went it the court and then to Halloween. It was kind of strange the stories did interest me a lot. The themes and symbolism was very deep and made me think a lot of all the things around me. Would I suggest if you read it (well i just spoiled it for you) but if i was talking to someone who didn't read it then yes, i would. This book has a incredible message and symbolism behind it and you could learn something from it like i did.

Farewell TKAM

      This book was amazing! This was probably one of my favorite books. I am excited to read the last and final chapter. I hope it lives up to its potential as "the best way to end a book." I'm going to start at the very beginning. I think it is cool how the book finished the main question we had at the very beginning of the book, how would Jem break his arm, and what happens in between Jem breaking his arm. As the book went on, just like Jem, Scout, and Dill, we all became obsessed with Boo Radley. We wanted to know what he looked like, how he acted, and why he stayed in his house all the time. In the end, we found out that he is just like Lennie Small. It is really sad that the Radley's had to keep him cooped up in the house all the time because he has a mental disability. It is saddening how ignorant the people of Maycomb (except Atticus) are. They don't understand that Boo was just born that way, and he couldn't control it.
       The book went on, and Aunt Alexandra moved in, and we all despised her. Well, I did. She was there because Atticus needed help teaching Scout to be a lady. The trial then came along, and we had to say good bye to Tom. We heard "one of the greatest closing statements," as Mr. Boyle would say. I have to agree with Mr. Boyle there. If I was on that jury, I would have probably gone in favor of Tom, just because of the closing statement. It was very sad to read that Tom had committed suicide by running. The guards had no choice but to shoot him. Helen, Tom's wife, was very sad to see him leave the earth, and that made me sad. I loved Helen and Tom, and I thought Tom was going to be the first African American to get the jury to rule in favor of him.
        The last big thing that happened was Bob attacking Jem and Scout. Heck would say Bob fell on his knife and Atticus would say Jem stabbed Bob. Heck finally makes Atticus see that he isn't covering up for Jem, he's covering up for Boo. He says it would be a sin to tell the entire town that Boo Radley killed Bob. He would be forced into the light, where he doesn't want to be. Scout then tells Atticus that Heck is right because it would be like killing a mockingbird. The title of the book is then seen again. It is neat to see it show up throughout our book like that. Through all the tears and Atticus' life morals, our book is finally coming to an end, and I don't know about you, but that makes me very sad.

TKAM Favorite Characters and Opinions

To Kill a Mockingbird has been one of the best books that I have ever read in my life. If a book has reached that title, it must be a VERY good book since I am immensely picky. This book has changed my whole mindset. Now, I have got a much more positive mindset. Atticus, throughout the whole book, has become my new hero. The level of integrity this man holds is unbelievable. He has inspired me to become a better person. He has made me want to take the time out of my day to think of all the bad things that has happened to me and look at them through the other person's shoes. He has taught me that fighting back isn't necessary in life. Fighting back with kindness and tolerance is enough to make someone feel bad about their actions. The bar he set for himself is unimaginably high, and that is what causes himself to be such a great person. Atticus, by far, has impacted my life the most out of all of the characters in the book
I see Scout as a statue that Atticus built. It may be a weird way of thinking about her, but to me, it makes sense. Atticus has tried to be the best father possible, and he definitely did a good job. Scout has been his work of art. He taught her everything he knows. As the book progresses, we have seen her childhood innocence go away. For some kids her age, when their innocence goes away, they start becoming misbehaved or they become rebels. However, since Atticus played as a huge role model for Scout, she has become more like him. Scout has taught me to appreciate those who work to make me the best version of myself, whether they are teachers or parents.
Lastly, Jem. Jem is a good big brother to Scout, even when he is going through one of his "moments". Even though he does not like going with her in public, He will defend her with his life if she is ever in trouble. He includes her in all of his games, and treats her as an equal for the most part. Like Scout, he also mirrors Atticus's actions, which makes him a much better person than if he didn't. Jem has taught me to be a good brother to all of my siblings, and also my friends. He is there for Scout when she needs him. That is a virtue that I want to have. I want to be able to have others feel comfortable laying their heads on my shoulder. I have learned so much from these blog post reflections and I am both sad and happy to click and drag this final meme, but remember to stay positive and look forward to our next units!

Chapter 29

In class, we read about everyone in Maycomb county preferring to not talk or discuss about Tom's trial because they all deep down know that he was innocent. Bob had gotten job, but later was fired since he wasn't working as hard. Helen had also gotten a job to work for Mr. Link Deas even though he didn't really need much more help. Mr. Link found out that Helen had been walking a mile extra to work. Every time, she would walk home from work, she would get harassed by Bob and he would always follow her to work. One day, Mr. Link walks home with Helen so Bob would stop harassing her. As he was coming back, he told Bob to stop harassing Helen or else he would put him in jail for using that kind of language towards Helen. She also had to wear a meat costume for a halloween pageant and had to run as part of the act in the school play. Then, she couldn't change back into her clothes on her way home and she was embarrassed of ruining the pageant, so she wanted to wait for everyone else to leave before she would go herself. She also didn't want to take her costume off since it was completely dark and no one was around. as they were walking home, they noticed a man following them. After a while, the man attacked them and was choking scout and broke Jem's arm. Heck tate later found Bob ewell with a knife under his ribs, which was shown to us that Bob was a coward by not facing Atticus himself, but going after his kids. We later found out that it was Boo that saved Jem and Scout.
I think that Boo Radley is only being nice to Jem and scout because he knows that they still have some childhood innocence in them and he is trying to make them realize what Maycomb really is. My oher "theory" is that Boo is only saving Jem and scout is because he has great respect for Atticus, so he focuses on them. I also think that Bob was harassing Helen because she was Tom's wife and he probably looked down at her since he used to look down at Tom. Bob was only looking down at the African Americans since the others of Maycomb used to look down at him.

Watch Out Atticus! (Prediction)

Bob Ewell, the man who is out to get three different people, is a coward. So far, he has done two coward things to two people who were just doing their job, and one of them had nothing to do with the case. Bob has been trespassing on Judge Taylor's property for revenge. He wants revenge for making him look like an idiot in front of the whole courtroom. Bob should have never acted so nonchalant during the case, or he might have actually never been exposed so hard. When he went to go to trespass on Judge Taylor's property, he fled as soon as he saw Judge Taylor with a shotgun in his lap. This is the first sign of being a coward. He ran after acting so tough at the sight of a man in his own home. The next sign of being a coward is being aggressive towards Helen. Helen is the wife of Tom, or at least she was. Now a widow, she works hard and makes a choice of either walking a whole extra mile to work everyday, or be verbally harassed by a drunk everyday on her way to work. Thankfully, Link Deas is there to protect her from Bob. He stands up for her and he threatens Bob that he will put him in jail for the "Lady's Law" or for harassment. Of course, Bob is a coward so he hides behind his fence. He is aggressive towards Helen, who has done nothing to him. Now that Tom is dead, he has to pick on Helen for some reason unknown to anyone who is right-minded. 

Now that we have seen all signs of being a coward; Running, attacking innocent people, and hiding. This leaves us with three different scenarios for Atticus's turn. I think Bob will do one of these three coward actions. If he chooses to be a runner, maybe he will try to steal something of importance to Atticus. He will sneak in his house and cause some kind of trouble. If he does, then it will end with him running away at the sight of a weapon or something that can hurt him. Maybe if he tries to get inside the house and steal something, he will be confronted by Jem with his rifle. That is when Jem will headshot Bob before he can make an escape. The second scenario is Bob attacking someone innocent who is related to Atticus. Maybe Bob will attack the kids at some point, maybe he will attack Cal for being an African American. Bob clearly has a hate for black people who haven't laid a finger on him, so Cal could be the victim of some kind of verbal abuse or perhaps even physical abuse. The same could go if he decides to attack Scout and or Jem, but that might be a little too much of a cowardly attack even for Bob. I would place my money on Calpurnia being the victim of this situation. The last scenario we have is hiding. I think that Bob could maybe simply hide from everyone in Maycomb. He is way too shameful to be able to harass the weakest, or to steal from the people who are doing their jobs. So, he will just stick inside his house and become the next Boo Radley. They will call him Boo Ewell from now on.

Bad vibe from this reading...and foreshadowing

In this reading, some quite interesting things happen. The pageant was going to start in about . Scout and Jem was going to the auditorium so that Scout could be the ham in the pageant. Jem walked Scout over to the place because it was pitch dark. I think it was pretty nice of Jem to walk Scout over, but he should always do stuff like that because he is her brother. It was pitch black on Halloween, and it sure did feel like a scary scene. I don't know why Boo Radley didn't pop out and do something he is assumed to do. When Jem and Scout were leaving, I had a bad vibe, that someone was going to do something like harm them. They are literally a corner and a few houses away from home but I still think something is going to happen. It is pitch black, the only thing that is probably giving them light is cars driving by, or if there is ones still leaving the auditorium. I think someone would attack the two kids like Boo Radley, but I know that something weird would happen while Scout and Jem are walking home. Someone I thought who could come out would be someone like Bob Ewell, or some other dangerous person. I think he would try to kidnap the kids, or harm them in some kind of way. I just have the feeling something is going to happen because Scout is stuck in a ham costume with no shoes on, and Jem has to hold on to her to make sure she doesn't fall or trip. I got a laugh out of Scout falling asleep and then waking up a few seconds after "Pork!" was called, and ended up crashing into Mrs. Merriweather. Mrs. Merriweather was a bit rude about it, Scout made a mistake and Mrs. Merriweather has made even worse mistakes...(talking about Atticus behind his back, in his house, eating his food, and sitting in his furniture..) luckily Miss Maudie called her out for that, but I think Aunt Alexandra should've been the person to stand up to Mrs. Merriweather. I also got a laugh with Judge Taylor knee slapping and dying if laughter, laughing so bad Mrs. Taylor had to come in and give him a glass of water with a pill.

I looked up 1930s halloween in Google Images, and this is what I found. I can imagine something like this lurking around while Jem and Scout are walking back. Hopefully they get back home safely to Atticus or Calpurnia, or whoever might even be there...Bob Ewell? Coyotito comes back for revenge to kidnap Scout and Jem?

Will they get robbed?

Chapter 28 Scout has a play to go to. she has the funniest from the part which is ham. on the play I’ll she has to do is run across the stage. however she gets tired and falls asleep. she falls asleep and when someone yells pork she supposed to run across the stage. what’s that she fell sleep she did not go onstage. even though it was not time yet scout decided to run across the stage either way.  however they were doing the grand finale and when she was running across stage she bumped into Mrs. Marry Weather. everyone started laughing hysterically. she waited to make sure that everyone has left the play because she was so embarrassed that she didn’t even want to get out of her costume. it was so late that there was no lie it was pitch black. scouts that she forgot her shoes and they try to go back and get them by the time they try to go back the lights come off. they will get them tomorrow but since you’re so black there’s no telling what could happen.

To me this seems very scary. just the thought of being alone in the dark with no people around drives goosebumps all around me. this scene looks like a horror movie and anything could go wrong. I am worried about Scout and Jem there’s, no telling what could happen. also I’m kind of wondering where atticus is. I don’t know if he went out looking for them but it was so dark I suggest that he would go and try to look for them. I have some theories or what happened to them. I don’t know what will happen but I thinks not something good. like I mentioned before This is like something in  horror movie anything could go wrong I feel like they would get kidnapped or robbed or something. I feel that something like that would happen. If they do get will they be found? I ahve so many questions and they will probably be answers when we finish the book.

What Will Happen in the Dark? - Faraes Wubshet

We learn in the chapter walking to home in that the author is trying to have a sinister area set. Everything is in the dark with no one around and everyone is gone with just Jem and Scout. This occured since Scout “ruined” the play, she hid out since she was so embarrassed to face anyone in the face. Now a seen is set out for something unexpected, or even scary to take place with Jem and Scout to be at the middle of this. The main reason I believe this will happen is that the biggest journey Scout says Jem will take together is coming up soon. Know I think a character from the past before the trial will appear, which too some might be a shocker, and to some won’t. It’s time for a character to come back.

My theory is that Boo will make a appearance. There are a lot of hints that point to Boo making a appearance. If you think about the hints it makes sense. First the school lot is near the Radley lot, next no one else is their and Boo might finally be able to see them alone. Their also have been many journey’s involving Boo Radley with Jem and Scout, so why wouldn’t the biggest journey also be involved with Boo Radley. I believe somehow Boo will communicate with them face to face. Jem and Scout might of found the haints ridiculous, but I still believe they(at least Scout) are scared to death of Boo. However I think Boo will show he is actually a good person, and not the person all the rumors paint him to be. I think this will redeem Boo’s reputation, because Jem and Scout will start talking about people, how Boo is not really a bad guy.

The Ham

In chapter 28 scout is dressed up as a ham for the halloween pageant of maycomb. While she is waiting to be called the band plays the national anthem and Mrs. Merryweather begins talking about the history of maycomb and how Colonel Maycomb Died on his expedition and they had the town named after him. Then while scout is waiting she sits down in her costume and accidently falls asleep. When its her turn Mrs. Merriweather says pork until she starts yelling it. Eventually she moves on and goes to the next child. When Scout wakes up the anthem is playing and Ms Merryweather is planting the flag on the stage so scout tries to sneak on in her bulky ham costume but her attempt is in vain. The crowd sees her wobble on and begins laughing during Mrs. Merriweather's finally. After the pageant Mrs. Merriweather yells at scout because she claims that scout ruined the pageant. Scout is so embarrassed after getting yelled at by Mrs. Merriweather that not even Jem can get her to leave while all those people are still there and think that she is a fool.

I feel sorry for scout because she really shouldn't be that embarrassed. I myself when I was her age and younger did stupid stuff that always made me feel embarrassed. Some of it was even filmed on tape for my parents to embarrass me anytime they want to. Even today I often embarrass myself with simple mistakes that are just silly and I probably could have avoided. I think scout should know how to cope with these things. My way is mainly with laughter. Whenever I mess up I find the funny side of things. If scout could find her little mistakes more funny than she would end up having better days for the rest of her life. If you just resent the little things then you miss out on life. You can't get hung up on one thing for all eternity then other opportunities will just pass you by. Another way to cope with a silly mess up would be to say that later youll find this huge embarrassment funny. Sometimes even I'm embarrassed to the point where I can't find anything funny to think about so I just tell myself that this small thing now will be funny later instead of beating myself up about for the rest of my life.

Best Pageant Ever

In chapter twenty-eight, Scout has to play the role of ham for Halloween because Maycomb is having a pageant this year. Before this year, Halloween was an event that the town didn't plan out. Everybody did their own thing. While Scout and Jem were walking to the school, Cecil Jacobs scared them. Jem lets Scout go hang out with Cecil and is okay with this because now he's able to talk with other kids that are his age. Scout is given thirty cents and spends it on a haunted house that she and Jacob aren't scared of. They then have to go and get ready for the play. Scout realizes by bending her knees, she can rest inside the costume. She falls asleep and misses her part in the pageant. she wakes up and thinks that its better if she goes on now instead of not going up at all. She waddles up to the stage at the end of the play. Everybody laughs and she is embarrassed. Scout and Jem leave after everyone else is gone. As they leave, Scout realizes she forgot her clothes at the school, as they went back to go get it, the auditorium lights turned off.

     I  thought that what we've read of this chapter so far is quite humorous. I think that its funny how she gets the role of being ham. I'm pretty sure everybody in the classroom reading this found this at least a little funny. I thought that it was funny when she woke up and waddle onto the stage at the wrong moment. You get second-hand embarrassment reading this because you can tell how bad this is for her. Although it is funny, you feel bad. I also felt bad when she found out the school was closed and she couldn't get her clothes back. So far, this chapter seems pretty good to me.

The longest journey might explain why Jem broke his arm!!

   Today is the first day of school after Christmas break and not everyone is excited about it. However, to us the eighth graders, chapter 28 makes us feel better again. There are many things that are both hilarious and mysterious happen in this chapter. 

   Halloween is coming in Maycomb town so each student will have a role in a pageant. Scout is a ham and she is very proud of her role. When Mrs. Merriweather calls "Pork", Scout will walk to the stage and then go back. When we read to this part, Mr. Boyle stopped and showed us what it looks like when Scout comes out with her ham costume and I found it really funny. Jem and Scout arrive to the auditorium and meet Cecil Jacobs. Jem gives Scout thirty cents and leaves her to play with Cecil Jacobs. They go into the haunted house but they find nothing interesting because they know what are the human organs made off. Then, the pageant starts with a long speech from Mrs. Merriweather. Scout excitedly waits backstage until Mrs. Merriweather calls her but she suddenly falls asleep. She then wakes up and realizes she should go on stage. However, Scout ends up stump into Mrs. Merriweather while she is holding the flag. Everybody has a big laugh because of Scout. After the pageant, Scout is so embarrassed that she doesn't want to change her clothes and waits until everybody leaves. She also forgets her shoes but Jem says she can get it tomorrow and they walk home.

    In chapter 27, Scout says that only she and Jem will go to the high school auditorium because Aunt Alexandra has to go to bed early and Atticus can't make it in time. I think that it's dangerous to just let two of them go there and go back home by themselves. By the time they leave, it is dark and no one is around. This shows that there will be something happen to Jem and Scout. My theory is that Bob Ewell will attack Jem and Scout because he knows he cannot fight against Atticus. He is scared. Because Jem protect Scout from Bob, Jem will break his arm and cannot play football anymore. Then, someone will appear and protect Jem and Scout. The person could be Boo, Atticus or Judge Taylor. I hope that Jem and Scout will know who Boo really is and see his face in person. 

Chapter 26-27summary

in chapter 27, there are some things that have happened to some of the people in Maycomb. Bob Ewell lost his job, because he was too lazy and is now only relying on his well fare checks that he gets once a week. Bob Ewell blames three people for this, and for embarrassing him in court. Tom, was the evidence that shows that Mayella had a romantic relationship meaning Mayella broke a social code. Because she broke this code, she made her family look even more less equal. another person is Judge Taylor. He proved that bob was left handed, and had already thought that he was guilty of abusing Mayella. On a Sunday night, Judge Taylor, heard a noise coming from the back porch, so he went to examine it. He only saw a shadow of the perpetrator. Everyone thinks that it was Bob Ewell because he has a grudge against Taylor. Atticus, is however not afraid of Bob, because he is a coward. He left the Taylor's house, because there was someone there, and was only going to break in if there wasn't anyone there. This shows that he doesn't have the guts. Another way that shows that he is a coward, is when Helen is walking past his house, he walks 15 feet behind her, calling her names and using foul language.He then stops when someone else has the guts to stand up to do something right besides Atticus, is Mr. Link Deas. He tells Bob that he will have him arrested for the ladies Law. In the end of Chapter 26, Scout makes the connection, that i hadn't made yet. She connects her teach being a hypocrite. her teacher says that she hates Hitler, because he is persecuting the Jews for no reason. But the white people in the south are doing the exact same thing. sure they may not be killing them and putting them in camps, but they are segregating them and are persecuting them in justly in the court of law, were all should be treated equal. Now Scout over hear her teach outside of the court house say that Tom got what he deserved. But he didn't deserve anything, because he wasn't guilty. All of the evidence pointed to not guilty. chapter 26 show just how blind people are. Th think that segregating the African Americans, is okay, because it has been a second nature to them, for their whole lives. But when something this drastic happens to two different white cutlers, it is completely wrong.  

How I Relate to the Ham Incident

          Chapter 28 is about what happened when Scout went to her pageant. Jem walked Scout to the auditorium and gave her thirty cents for her to use before she had to go on stage. She went to a haunted house with Cecil Jacobs but Scout thinks it was a waste of money because she knew that it was fake. She was supposed to be touching a human heart, which was just raw liver, then human eyes, which were peeled grapes, and intestines, which was just cold spaghetti. Then when it was time to go to the stage she was waiting on the side. While Mrs. Merriweather was talking Scout figured out how to sit down in her costume and was sleeping in no time. When it was time for Scout to go on Mrs. Merriweather called, "Pork!" three times before Scout woke up and realized what was going on. By the time Scout went running onto the stage Mrs. Merriweather had moved on and ran straight into Scout. Everyone was laughing really hard because it was so funny. Scout ended up asking Jem to stay after until everyone left because Scout was so embarrassed that she didn't want anyone to see her, and she also ended up keeping her costume on too. 

          This reminded me of a time that I was really embarrassed too. This previous summer I had a tryout for the Minnesota state team and I got some reps in a cornerback. My first few plays were good because there was no receptions on me, or I covered the route well but my last play was terrible. I was covering one of the best wide receivers there but when he made a double move route I broke down and slipped really bad. Even though it was only one play to me it seemed like all that mattered. 

What Will Happen?

        What we have known so far is Bob Ewell is trying to get Atticus and Judge Taylor because two of them is the person who made Bob look like a liar in the courthouse. What Bob is trying to do now is revenge Atticus and Judge Taylor. In chapter 27, Bob Ewell is trying to break into Judge Taylor's house because he thinks that no one would be home, but Bob run away because Judge Taylor was home. While Scout and Jem worry about Bob will trying to do something with Atticus, Atticus seems doesn't worry at all because what Bob did showed that he is a coward. Bob also follows Helen, Tom Robinson's wife, when she walks to work. Link Deas finds out Bob is stalking Helen and he walks Helen home and warning Bob that if he keeps it up, he will have Bob thrown in jail. At the end of chapter 27, Scout has the school pageant, Jem and Scout are going to the pageant and Scout says it begins their longest journey together. There is foreshadowing about a big event is going to happen with the pageant, or maybe it will happen to Jem and Scout.
        In chapter 28, we have known that Scout plays a ham in her school pageant an it is her dream role. During the pageant there are many things happen with Scout. Scout falls as sleep and when she wakes up, she has missed her part. Scout decides to go out, but it is the wrong choice. When Scout goes out, she bumps into Mrs. Merriweather and ruining the pageant. Scout is embarrassed for ruining the pageant so she waits until when everyone is gone and then goes home. By the time Scout and Jem leave, it is dark and no one is around. For me, it's kind of scared when I go in a dark road without anyone around. I think that something will happen with Jem and Scout because I have watched many movie, and when a person go to a dark place alone, there is something might happen like the person will be kidnapped or something like that. It's just my own thinking but Scout and Jem are Atticus' children, and Bob is trying to get Atticus so I'm fear that Scout and Jem will be involved in this matter, but we don't know yet, we have to wait and see.

Something Big is Going to Happen, and It's Not Hamazing

Today in class, we read part of chapter 28. It was really dark out, but the street lights lit the path for Scout and Jem to get to the school where the pageant would be held. On the way, Cecil Jacobs appeared out of the darkness and scared Jem and Scout. Cecil told them that the pageant would not happen for a while, so Scout and Cecil decided to go around the school. They went to a haunted house where they touched the organs of a "dead body." They touched the eyes which were peeled grapes, the heart which was raw liver, and the intestines which was spaghetti. They also got food along the way until the pageant finally started. During the pageant, Scout fell asleep. Her queue was when Mrs. Merriweather shouts pork. Mrs. Merriweather kept shouting pork, but when Scout did not appear, they went on with the pageant. Near the end of the play, Mrs. Merriweather was about to place the state flag, Scout finally woke up and ran into her. The entire crowd died of laughter, but Mrs. Merriweather was angry. Scout was so ashamed that she did not leave the school until everyone had left. When Scout and Jem finally leave, it is now really late because all the street lights are off, and it is pure darkness except for the stars.

My theory is that something bad is going to happen while Jem and Scout walk back home. My first possibility is that Bob Ewell is going to attack them because of what Atticus did to him at the trial. He is going to attack his kids instead of Atticus himself because he is too much of a coward. My second possibility is that Boo Radley is going to finally show himself to Jem and Scout. However, he will unintentionally scare them, and they will think he is threatening them. In both these possibilities, Jem will end up breaking his arm somehow. Sheriff Heck Tate or Atticus may be involved, but they won't prevent Jem from breaking his arm. If none of these happen, something good will happen, but I highly doubt that.

A Walking Talking Ham

      Scout experiences some "technical" difficulties while being in the pageant. She, naturally, fell asleep when there was no action happening. She was the last food product to come on stage, so she fell asleep in a hot costume. Her teacher got mad at her when she tried to fix everything by running onto stage, but Mrs. Merriweather happened to be there to, so they collided. If I was Scout, I would have run into her too. She was very mean and rude to African Americans, and she gave such a boring talk that I'm surprised more people didn't fall asleep. I mean, you can't blame a kid for falling asleep during long talks. Personally, I remember falling asleep a couple times during an extra long homily at mass. (As a little kid) :)
      After the pageant, there is a very suspenseful scene, and this is where my skills come in. I think this is what is going to happen. They are walking by the Radley House when they see something behind them. They turn to see Bob Ewell standing with some sort of weapon. Then, because Boo has been watching them since the beginning chapters, he is going to come running out of the house. He will then somehow disarm Bob. I then think that one of them are going to die. They are going to then hold Boo as he dies, or be hesitant to thank him if he doesn't die. I then think that Alexandra or Atticus or both of them are going to come running out of the house to see them either holding Boo, or come to talk and thank him for saving them. Actually, they will thank him either way. If Boo lives past the night, I think that they will hang out with him a lot. They will invite him over for dinner a lot too. I think they are also in for a surprise when they meet Boo. I think that all the things they assumed about him are going to be proved wrong, and they are going to apologize because they will realize their mistake.