Sunday, October 3, 2010
To Kill a Mockingbird
So I am almost done with the book and it was a lot better then what i though. The end of the book had the most crazy ending. To start it seemed like Tom Robinson would have been found not guilty, but of course he was. I just don't understand why white people lived like that in those days. It just makes no sense to me at all. I could not see myself treating another race like people did with black people back then. Well that is just what they did i guess. We cannot change it now. Well back to the book. So Tom tries to then get out of prison, but he fails. So now Tom is dead because he got shot like 15 times. I think that is crazy that just because he was a black man that they made sure he was dead when they shot him. The reason Tom tried to escape was because he was tired of taking the white mans chances, so he took his own chance and did not succeed. So Jem and Scoot then go to the Halloween party that is at the school. The problem is they have to walk alone to the school. Well on the way there a boy named Cecil Jacobs scares them, but they make it to the school with only a little scare. But on the way home Jem hears someone behind the, but he just thinks it is Cecil again. The two kids just go on there way. But then someone grabs Scoot and tries to stab her and Jem gets his arm broken. Well someone comes and saves then. Mr. Heck Tate then comes over to their house. They find out the man who tried to hurt Jem and Scoot was Mr. Bob Ewell. He was killed with a knife. And they also find out that the man who saved the kids was Boo Radley. The real story is that Boo heard the kids and he grabbed a knife from his house and stabbed Mr. Ewell. The story they use is the Mr. Ewell fell on his knife. Mr. Heck Tate uses this story because he knows that Boo would not want to go to court and stand in front of a court room because he has been locked in his house for 30 years. Well i guess i will have to read the rest of the book today at some point. I wonder what will happen in the end?
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I'm glad you liked the book! I agree, the trial is surprising and sad...but it is an accurate portrayal of the time and place this book takes place in. I also loved in the end how the two story lines, Boo Radley and Tom Robinson, were tied together.
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