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Because Atticus told them to stop bothering him and she doesn't want to get into trouble. She also thinks that they will get killed.
Why does Scout disapprove of Jem's and Dill's plan of looking in at one of the Radleys' windows?
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Jem tells Scout that when he went back to go get his breeches that instead of them being tangle and in a heap where he left them they were nicely folded all sewn up like they were waiting for them.
When Jem tells Scout about getting his trousers back, he tells her of something strange. What is this?
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Scout asks Atticus because she wants to know if Atticus had seen Boo to see if he was even still alive and if so what he looked like. All Atticus says to this is "No, i did not".
Why does Scout quiz Atticus about his visit to the Radley house? How much does Atticus tell her?
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He saves it because he knows that it is one of her most loved things.
Why does Atticus save Miss Maudie's oak rocking chair?
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Atticus feels that he should work hard to help Tom Robinson because Calpurnia says that she knows his family and that they are clean living folk and she goes to church with him. It was not usual for white lawyers to do their best for black clients at that time because African Americans were not considered equal at this time.
How well does Atticus feel he should defend Tom Robinson? Is it usual for (white) lawyers to do their best for black clients in Alabama at this time?
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It means that you can't judge someone until you've lived his or her life. I do think this is a hard thing for Scout to learn because she is still so young.
Atticus says that you never really understand a person “until you climb into his skin and walk around in it”. What does this mean? Is it an easy thing for Scout to learn?
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She thinks that school is extremely pointless and if it's going to be this boring for the next 12 years she is not going to be taking part.
What does Scout think of current fashions in education?
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Miss Maudie Atkinson is a widow hat loves to garden she seems a little bit off of the typical Maycomb women because she's being so friendly to the children. The children like her very much because she treats them almost as equals, makes them food all the time and spend time with Scout.
Describe Miss Maudie Atkinson? How typical is she of Maycomb's women? What do the children think of her?
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She tells Scout about how much that whole house hold cares about making sure they have a good after life and go to heaven that they think she's going to hell because she spends too much time outside with her flowers.
What does Miss Maudie tell Scout about Boo?
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He says that it is disrespectful and that they don't know what really happens inside and that they sould never make fun of someone like that.
What reasons does Atticus give for the children not to play the Boo Radley game? Do you think he is right? Why?
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That Maycomb is a little town and that Atticus Finch is either related to almost everyone in the town through blood or marriage. He lives with his two kids Scout and Jem and there maid/cook. His wife had died a few years ago.
What do you learn in this chapter about Maycomb, Atticus Finch and his family?
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That he is a very curious and adventurous little boy. He isn't scared of much and wants to see what Boo looks like.
What do you learn about Dill's character?
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He got involved with a bad crowd and instead of getting sent away with the rest when the got arrested he was kept in his house. He then spent s little time in the local county basement when he stabbed his father. He is now a ghost in his own house.
What, briefly, has happened to Arthur “Boo” Radley?
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He is very poor. His behavior during lunch when he covered everything in molasses and ate as fast as he could suggests that he doesn't get that much food at home and thinks he's going to take advantage of this and eat as much as he can because he doesn't know where his next meal is coming from.
What is Walter Cunningham like? What does his behavior during lunch suggest about his home life?
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Racism was very present, there was a lot of pressure on authorities to have the boys lynched. This would have made it very difficult for the boys to have a fair trial.
Where and when did the Scottsboro Boys' original trial take place? How do you think this affected the outcome of their trial?
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Stands for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which decided not to help the boys because it couldn't risk losing its power and effectiveness if some or all of the boys turned out to be guilty.
What does the NAACP acronym stand for? Why did the NAACP decide not to help the Scottsboro Boys?
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Communists, like black, were persecuted in the south by the KKK. They believed in integration and worked against racism. The communists saw the case as an opportunity to get famous among southern blacks and sympathizers for the boys.
The Communist Party came to the aid of the Scottsboro Boys. How did the South perceive the Communist Party, and how was it similar to the perception of blacks? What was the Communist Party's hidden agenda in providing aid to the Scottsboro Boys?
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Stephen Roddy was unqualified and the other Milo Moody was out of practice , they were not prepared for the investigation and for law. Even Stephen showed up to be drunk at the court.
The Scottsboro Boy were not provided with adequate defense lawyers. Please list at least 3 ways in which the defense lawyers were inadequate.
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The three trials were unfair because it was such a hot day and the judge rushed the three trials.All members of the jury were White, this caused people to question the jury commissioners. The boys were terrified and their testimonies were muddled. The defense attorneys did brief cross examinations of the prosecution witnesses, though there were clear contradictions of testimonies.
Describe the trials. Were they fair or unfair? Please include at least 3 supporting facts to back up your description.
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She was born in Monroeville on April 28, 1926. Her father was a former newspaper editor and proprietor; her mother suffered from mental illness for most of Lee’s life.
When and where was Harper Lee born? What was her family like?
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Truman Capote.
Who was her childhood best friend?
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She studied law, she did not participate in extracurricular activities; It is important as thanks to it she started writing.
What did she study in college? Did she participate in any extracurricular activities? Why might this be important to consider while reading To Kill A Mockingbird
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By getting help from her friend and a thanks to the editor Tay Hohoff she could work on a manuscript that became To Kill a Mockingbird.d
How did her decision to move to New York make To Kill A Mockingbird a reality?
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In July 1960, it was adapted to screen in 1962.
What year was To Kill A Mockingbir published? When was it adapted to screen?
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