Friday, December 12, 2008

About To Kill a Mockingbird

I loved this book and we could guess the mockingbirds in this book. I thought that Boo and Scout and Tom were mockingbirds. They were innocent and they did not hurt other people but they were powerless. There were many people who attacked them like white people and their neighberhood. Especially, Tom killed himself because white people did not trust him and Scout was attacked by Mr. Ewell but Boo helped her. Thus, there are many people who need protections but we ignored them. Now I  think that we need to watch around us to find people like mockingbirds to help them.

Ch 23-24

In these chapters, I could see that most white people's thoughts because Scout's aunt Alexandra hated Calpurnia. She helped Atticus to clean the house and take care about the kids. However, she was black woman and Alexandra was white woman. I thought that Alexandra was same as other white people. She thought that white people were better than black people. However, it was wrong. I think that we are the same even we had different colors. 

Ch 17-20

In these chapters, Atticus asked some questions to Mr. Ewell, Mayella and Tom in the court room. I could not forget Tom's words because he said that he felt sorry for Mayella. Mayella was poor because her family was poor and she did not have friends. She was lonely but her father was not good person so she wanted Tom. However, she was scared about his father so she had to lie to people. Tom was poor, too because he tried to tell the truth but people did not believe him. He was a black man so people did not trust him. I thought that they were the mockingbirds becasue they were powerless people.