Hi everyone, this is the last entry of the book ” To kill a Mockingbird” I have finished the book, and I strongly recommend everyone to read it!
The author’s language is written as they talks in the book. Considering the setting is in Alabama in the thirties, they had a dialect that the book is written in. It was not always simple to understand their dialect, and I could not consider the language as easy. The dialogues are used to tell the story, and to bring the story forward. The book is written in first point of view, which means Scout tells the whole story in her perspective.
I would say the story is pretty slow in the first 40 pages. The author wants the reader to think through a lot about what you were reading about, and the events aren’t explicitly described.
The climax of the story is when Jem and Scout had been attacked, and Mr. Tate was asking them questions about what had happened. The man who had carried Jem back to the house was standing in the corner, and they suddenly realize it’s Boo standing there.
Pg.297 ” Why there he is, Mr Tate, he can tell you his name.
Pg.298 ” Hey Boo, I said”
There are two storylines in the book, one of them which is about Atticus defending Tom Robinson in court, whose accused for raping Mayella Ewells. The other storyline is about Arthur Radley, and why he won’t go outside his house. These storylines doesn’t meet until the end of the book, when Mayella’s father, Bob Ewells tries to murder Scout and Jem as an attempt to take revenge of Atticus because of the way Atticus humiliated Bob in court. Arthur hears the children scream and runs out and saves them from getting murdered, therefore he saves Scout’s and Jem’s lives.
On page 249 in the book Jem says that their are four kind of folks, there’s ordinary kind like the Finch family and their neighbours, the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods, the kind like the Ewell down at the dump and the Negroes. And the ”ordinary” kind of folks don’t like the Cunninghams, the Cunninghams don’t like the Ewells and the Ewells hate and despite the coloured people.
I can relate to today’s society in Sweden. I think the differences between the upper and lower classes are bigger now than ever before, though it exists a middle class which is the typical swedish class. Among this three classes their are more ”folks” that has it’s place in today’s society.
I believe Atticus has the ability to see the good side in everyone despite everything he has experienced, because he’s a lawyer and the profession as a lawyer requires the ability to always see the good side in people. He carries that capacity outside in real life as well, among his children,neighbours and even Bob Ewells. I believe Atticus also has the capacity to understand another man’s life by seeing it from another perspective. He says to Scout to make him more understand of other peoples lives.
Pg.33 ” You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view- ’ sir? - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”
The theme of the story is to explore whether the man kind is good or evil by nature. The society thought the coloured people was evil by nature because they were black, as a example Tom Robinson. He was charged guilty in court just because he was black. Scout has a problem understanding why her teacher thought the way Hitler treated the jews was horrible when the teacher was okay with the way black people was treated back in Alabama.
Atticus believes the man kind is good by nature no matter the colour of the skin, we can see that when he defenses Tom Robinson in court. Atticus wants his children to have a open mind and always see the good in people.
Bob Ewell do not think every man is good by nature.
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