Job 1-2
What can we learn about humanity?
Humanity comes from ashes, therefore goes back to ashes. Even the faithful get punished, so we can’t expect good all the time.
What can we learn about God?
God doesn’t seem one hundred percent sure of himself. He accepts the bet with the devil, and lets one of his most faithful be punished in order to prove a point.
What can we learn about relationships?
Well Satan has the right to just waltz up to heaven, and question God, and he also roams freely about the earth. So even the wrost of enimies can stay friends?
What can we learn about Job and his family?
Job’s wife wants him to just give up, and curse God, and Job feels he must burn a sacrifice to protect his children.
The Animal Farm
What makes one person wiser? Is it age? I followed the suit of a child three months older then me, because he had this endless span of wisdom which would always span a fourth of a year over me. I couldn’t question what he said, after all, what did I know? I couldn’t put forth my own ideas, out of fear of his strength. The bare Truth is that had I tried, I may had been able to over power him, yet that three months proved his strength to me. If he said that four plus four was nine, I couldn’t rebut of fear. If there were friends about, I was safe from a beating, but had he said a misquoted fact, I would stay in line with him, since he was cooler, and older. I never envied him, hated him, or was confused by him. He was older, that’s what was the norm, and so, that’s how it went. He got me in trouble, I laughed it off. I don’t think it was to be accepted, or admired, I just thought it was how it was supposed to go. After all, I had nothing to compare it to. The day I refused to fetch him a snack, he hit me. I just stared at him, stood up, got him a snack, and sat back down. It never seemed to change, but I wasn’t mad or disatisfied. I wasn’t mad or disatisfied. I wasn’t mad or disatified. That’s what I said.
The Trial Was…
This was a good trial. The fact that everyone pulled together to create and enviroment of positive support, and learning was a nice side effect. I didn’t work at my hardest, so it was harsh, and nerve racking, but it went well over all. Some people did bad, when they were expected to do well, but a lot of people were suprisingly well. As was displayed, the American dream was able to be found in most things, but it was also easy to find it dead. Over all, the case was a truly enriching experience.
Different Mockingbirds
Whilst it is true that Mayella Ewell and Tom Robinson seemed like clashing personalities, they wern’t polar opposites. For instance, the lack of respect each got was obvious; Ewell being the battered woman thought to be stupid, and Robinson was a black-man. Clearly this garnered him disrespect around most of the white people in the county. They both meant no one harm, as Ewell, we can assume, was doing as she was told out of fear. Robinson only went by to fix something of hers, he was in the right place at the wrong time.
Though one cannot deny how different they were. Many of the differences are pretty basic; gender, race, things of that nature, but there were deeper things different. For instance; the author made Tom out to be this perfect man, yet made Ewell an ignorant hick. On the same note, Tom kept denying having any lust whatsoever, whereas Ewell had leapt on him to beckon him to stay.
While differences are visible, they seem small when looking at the book as a whole. In such a respect, I would say the two are more similar then different. Based on this conclusion, I would say they were both mockingbirds, if not with a different coat of feathers.
Goodness of Humanity or Unrealistic Portrayal?
From the beginning of the book, we learn of Scout’s above average intelligence. To say she does not understand what an angry mob means, is far-fetched beyond reason. The ideology behind human nature is understandable though. To see a man’s daughter is like seeing every flaw of your character at once, because these men had son’s and daughters of there own.
For the most flawed of children, detection of a problem is a simple thing. Scout was a smart girl and therefore should have been able to pick up that a crowd of assorted gentlemen, screams, and glares wouldn’t be a party in Atticus’s favor. If she had known, I don’t think her character could act so swiftly in a high pressure situation.
That is a leap of faith that I think is inappropriate in the book. Tis not to say it sets off the rest of the book, but it seemed out of place. The author could have played around with another, more believable way out of the situation, but ideas that pop into head aren’t as strong, and seem even more simple and scapegoat-esque.
The reaction, however, is in fact belivable. These men had sons and daughters of thier own, and seeing her would be like looking one of their children in the face. Indeed, they could almost empathize with Atticus as a father to Scout. Calling them out, I believe, would put them at shame.
The character of an ignorantly brave little girl is unbelievable. But the reaction of the stunned, once angry group of fathers is not. I can’t really say if you could replace this with any other situation, but the whole thing seemed like a feeble gamble at progressing the story. I wouldn’t say it was awful to the book, but it was a let down, after Lee had already shown her writting skills.
-Thor Hlavaty
To Kill A mocking Bird!
Wonder what this is about…
Hmm, well, a laywer protects a black man, this sparks controversy! The family has to cope with the towns hatered towards their acceptance, and the fact that they have a dead mother.
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