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- 1Chapter 1 Scouts introduction about Maycomb. 'Maycomb was a tired old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it.'Scout emphasises the slow pace, Alabama heat, and the old-fashioned values of the town, in which men wear shirt collars, ladies use talcum powder, and the streets turn to 'red slop' in the rain. She writes of the time when she 'first knew' Maycomb, indicating that she embarks on this recollection of her childhood much later in life, as an adult. Her description also makes reference to the widespread poverty of the town, implying that Maycomb is in the midst of the Great Depression.
- 2'You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view....until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.'This extract from chapter 3 shows Atticus giving Scout the crucial piece of moral advice that governs her development throughout the novel. The simple wisdom of Atticus's words reflects the uncomplicated manner in which he guides himself by this sole principle. Scout struggles to put Atticus's advice into practice and to live with sympathy and understanding towards others. At the end of the book she succeeds in comprehending Boo Radley's perspective, fulfilling Atticus's advice and providing the novel with an optimistic ending, despite the considerable darkness of the plot.
- 3Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. “Your father’s right,” she said. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy . . . but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”These lines in chapter ten are the source of the novel's title and introduces one of the key metaphors in the book; the idea of 'mockingbirds', as good innocent people, who are destroyed by evil. Boo Radley is like a mockingbird- just as mockingbirds do not harm people but only 'sing their hearts out to us' Boo does not harm anyone but leaves presents for Jem and Scout. You could say that at the end of the book Boo is like a true mockingbird as he finally opens his heart out to us just as he did when leaving presents for Jem and Scout. The connection between songbirds and innocence is made explicitly several times in the book . In chapter 25 Mr. Underwood likens Tom Robinson’s death to “the senseless slaughter of songbirds by hunters and children”; in Chapter 30, Scout tells Atticus that hurting Boo Radley would be “sort of like shootin’ a mockingbird.” The moral imperative to protect the vulnerable governs Atticus’s decision to take Tom’s case, just as it leads Jem to protect the roly-poly bug from Scout’s hand.
- 4They stopped at an oak tree, delighted, puzzled, apprehensive. Winter, and his children shivered at the front gate, silhouetted against a blazing house. Winter, and a man walked into the street, dropped his glasses, and shot a dog. Summer, and he watched his children’s heart break. Autumn again, and Boo’s children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.After she walks him home, Scout stands on Boo’s porch and imagines many of the events of the story (Atticus shooting the mad dog, the children finding Boo’s presents in the oak tree) as they must have looked to Boo. She at last realizes the love and protection that he has silently offered her and Jem all along. The blossoming of Scout’s ability to assume another person’s perspective sympathetically is the culmination of her novel-long development as a character and of To Kill a Mockingbird’s moral outlook as a whole.
- 5“When they finally saw him, why he hadn’t doneany of those things . . . Atticus, he was real nice. . . .” His hands were under my chin, pulling up the cover, tucking it around me. “Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.” He turned out the light and went into Jem’s room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.These words, from Chapter 31, conclude the novel. As Scout falls asleep, she is telling Atticus about the events of The Gray Ghost, a book in which one of the characters is wrongly accused of committing a crime and is pursued. When he is finally caught, however, his innocence is revealed. As Scout sleepily explains the story to Atticus, saying that the character was “real nice” when “they finally saw him,” Atticus gently notes the truth of that observation. In this way, Lee closes the book with a subtle reminder of the themes of innocence, accusation, and threat that have run throughout it, putting them to rest by again illustrating the wise moral outlook of Atticus: if one lives with sympathy and understanding, then it is possible to retain faith in humanity despite its capacity for evil—to believe that most people are “real nice.” Additionally, this passage emphasizes Atticus’s strong, loving role as a parent to Scout and Jem—he tucks Scout in, then goes to sit by Jem’s bedside all night long. Through Atticus’s strength, the tension and danger of the previous chapters are resolved,
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