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Tuesday, February 9, 2016
To Kill a Mockingbird-Finale (Jonathan Garcia)
The final chapters is riveting, while Scout and Jem are still in the court house awaiting what will become of Tom Robinson, Atticus continuing to do whatever needs to be done to give Tom a fighting chance and to me there was a chance where it did seem like Tom would have been pardoned, but then he tried to escape and got killed. One of my favorite parts throughout the novel Is when Scout is about to smash a roly-poly but then Jem tells her not to because the bug didn't to anything to harm her which goes back to when Atticus told them not to kill mockingbirds. What really made these last chapters exciting was the sense that Scout and Jem were growing up, where Jem seems not to mind growing up but actually excited about it Scout seems somewhat more reluctant to it, which brings me back to the roly-poly scene, scout not wanted to care about what happens to the bug, the same way a child would not care, and Jem older and somewhat wiser urgers Scout to leave it alone because it didn't do anything to harm her.
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Yeah, I couldn't help but notice how different Jem and Scout ended up being. Jem kind of mirrors Atticus, or at least tries to, while Scout remains the same. I wondered why the roly-poly section was even mentioned, since it seemed really unimportant, so your comparison with the mockingbird idea really makes sense.
ReplyDeleteI don't know that I would agree that Scout ends up remaining the same. She grew considerably. We must take into account Scout's age when the novel begins and when it ends as compared to Jem's age. He is 13 when the novel ends as compared to Scout's 8 and a half.
DeleteI agree that that part of the story really showed how Jem was growing up and beginning to act like an adult. It did say along the book how Jem was growing up and acting different but this part of the story is what actually made it the most noticeable that he was beginning to think like an adult.
ReplyDeleteI agree, Jonathan, it was great getting to see Jem develope into to the morally upright "man" that his father taught him to be. And Scout's development was notably slower, but being that she is 4 years younger, it can't be expected that she'd mature at the same rate.
ReplyDeleteDo you think it would've negatively affected scouts character develope had she reacted differently in the scene?
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