TKAM Final Post

PART 1

Wow! That was so good. I loved it. Just kidding lol. But seriously, I really did like this book a lot more than any of the other ones we've had to read in this class. It actually had a story line that wasn't impossible to follow and words that weren't impossible to read!!!

The ending was so good to even though it was kind of a cliff-hanger because we never got to see what happened to Boo/Jem/Scout/Atticus, but I loved that you finally got to see Boo and that he turned out to be a nice old guy. My character Atticus was pretty static throughout the book, his personality never changed much. That's okay though because there were a lot of really good quotes that cam from him and he was a really important aspect to the story (obviously). Probably my favorite quote from Atticus during this section of the reading was when he says to Boo "thank you for my children" right after he saves their lives and maybe, possibly kills Bob Ewell??????????????? Because it shows just how deep of an understanding he has for what just went on and that he is willing to protect Boo for his children if anyone questions him. Other things were just how wise he seems, he always knows what to say to Jem and Scout and is raising them right because even Scout says at one point that Jem is getting almost as good as making her feel better than Atticus is.

Our discussion this week really was only about how we thought killed Bob Ewell and also about Boo coming out of his house. This made me question more about who killed Bob and now I'm not sure if it was Jem, Boo, or if Bob really did just fall on his knife.

PART 2

I think that when we use Jem/Scout/Dill as narrerators in anything, tthem being children adds a blindness. This blindness is due to innocence. They are to young to understand the evils that are going on around in and in their town, and this allows them to tell the story without any bias. Many aspects of the South at that time blinded people from seeing each other such as racism and prejudice that occured when people where part of the "mob" that stopped them from seeing the humanity in people. This novel shows us that even know we can never truly understand someone else'secret life, and that judgment can hold us back from seeing the truth.