Hi everyone! Here's some questions for chapters 11 - 15.
Chapter 11 - Explain why Atticus described Mrs. Dubose as the "bravest" person he knew. Do you agree with him?
Chapter 12 - Do you think Scout liked Calpurnia's church more than her own? Which aspects of Cal's church did she enjoy?
Chapter 13 - At the end of this chapter Scout concludes, "I know what he [Atticus] was trying to do". What was Atticus trying to do by talking to Scout and Jem? Do you think what he had to say was important?
Chapter 14 - Dill tells Scout that his parents, "wasn't interested in me." Do you think Atticus is "interested" in his children, despite Aunt Alexandra's criticisms of how he is teaching them to behave?
Chapter 15 - Why did Mr. Cunningham tell the gang of men outside the jail to leave after Scout finished talking with him? Considering that these men had come to kill Tom Robinson, what does Mr. Cunningham's response to Scout demonstrate about human nature?
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ch. 15
Mr. Cunningham was in a mob and a mob is made up of individual men acting like one. When Scout picked out Mr. Cunningham and started to talk about his son, it made him come back to being one man and not someone part of a mob. Mr. Cunningham told the gang to leave because he realized that he didn't want to and couldn't kill Tom, especially with innocent children there.
Thankyou for your insightful response to Chapter 15. I agree with you that Scout's comments to Mr. Cunningham brought him back to reality, in a sense. He most likely thought of his own family, and decided against committing an act of violence. I think that his reaction shows an important aspect of human nature - that in some way, everyone, no matter how hardened, responds to love. Scout made Mr. Cunningham feel affection for her and for his own children. This feeling of sympathy is present to a greater or lesser extent in every person, I believe. By unwittingly appealing to Mr. Cunningham's sympathy, Scout may have been one of very few people in Maycomb who could have persuaded him not to kill Tom Robinson.
Yes, i agree with Atticus for a number of reasons as to why Mrs. Dubose was the "bravest" person. Since she struggled with her morphine addiction and her craving and fits were taking over her body she overcame her only wish before she past. She wanted to be free and Jem had helped her with that by reading to her every day for one month. So in the end she overcame her addiction and died free.
I think that Scout liked Calpurnia's church for many reasons, but at the same time didnt like it. Jem and Scout felt pretty unwelcome when they first arrived because of the reactions from all of the people esspecially Lula who was most unwelcoming. But as they entered they saw the simularities and many differences both shared. At Calpurnias church there was an offereing to be made, but the content of the service was pretty much the same.
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