ToKillAMockingbirdPartTwo

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Chapter Twelve:
===Big Question: Why did Lula make such a big deal out of Scout and Jem going to the "black" church?===

Reflection:Lula thought it was wrong for Calpurnia to take Scout and Jem to their church, because she said that they had their own white church and that they didn't belong at First Purchase. She wanted things to stay separated, and for everything to be her way.

Additions: After Lula went away, Zeebo told Jem to ignore her and that she is contentious because Reverend Sykes threatened to church her.

Big Question: How can one person affect a whole family or group?
Reflection: When Aunt Alexandra comes to live with Scout and Jem, she doesn't allow Scout to go by Cal anymore, because she thinks they both are a disgrace. Alexandra also thinks that Scout needs to be more like a girl and act better. She tries to change Atticus's mind about the way he was raising his children, and angered him.

Additions: Aunt Alexandra influences their family a lot by trying to change them. She doesn't like how Atticus lets Scout wear overalls and wanted to turn her into a lady. It made him angry that she was trying to change things in the house, especially because she wanted him to get rid of Cal.

Big Question: Why do kids run away from their parents?
Reflection: Dill's mother found a new husband who disliked Dill a lot. Dill's parents forget about him and pay no attention to him, so Dill comes back to Maycomb.

Additions: When parents do not pay attention to their kids they will do things to get their parents to pay attention to them, this is why Dill comes back to Maycomb.

Big Question: Curiosity leads to getting in over your head.
Reflection:Scout is curious what Atticus is up to so Jem, Dill, and Scout follow him to the Maycomb jail. They see that Atticus is in over his head. Then Scout gets him out of trouble. . Additions: Jem and Scout watched Atticus leave in his business car so they knew something was up. They snuck out and followed him to see what was going on. Soon they were caught up in everything before they realize it.

Big Question: Why do people ignore the obvious signs of peoples real intentions?
Reflection: If everybody were to do this, there would be absolutely no trust in anyone, anywhere. Mr. Cunningham had almost killed Atticus. then later at breakfast, he defends him.

Additions: People naturally want to infer the best about other people, because to automatically assume the worst of others would be very depressing.

Chapter Seventeen:
===Big Question: Why do people go through dramatic measures to look respectable in court?===

Reflection: Mr. Ewell has been living his life in a pigsty, but when attending court, he scoured his face red to seem as presentable as possible. People will completely change their look and attitude to be viewed better in court, as a jury is more likely to side with someone more like them.

Big Question: How can one lie lead to more lies?
Reflection: When Mayella lies about being raped, her father and the sheriff also had to make up lies to cover for her. Which led to more problems because their lies didn't match up and didn't make sense.

Big Question: Why do children see things differently than adults?
Reflection: Children see things differently than adults because they are uninfluenced by group ideas and morals. For example, the children see that what they are doing to black people is wrong but adults don't because society around them hates blacks.

Big Question: Why do people stereotype "black people" as being "bad"?
Reflection: Atticus begs the jury to believe his version of the story and he asks them to see past their visions of all blacks being "bad".

Big Question:How can you accuse someone by their color?
Reflection: The jury convicted Tom of rape because most of the jury didn't like black people.

Big Question: Why do people try so hard to change unchangeable things?
Reflection: Jem thought that Atticus was going to win the case easily, but even though it was obvious that Tom Robinson was innocent the jury still convicted him guilty because he was an African American. A good person may think he can change the bad ways of some people, but it is going to take a lot more than just one person to make people do the right thing even when they don't like it.

Big Question: If all people are created equal and alike, why do people grow to hate and despise each other?
Reflection: It's taught through, school, family, and generations that this is what we do. That this is how it is supposed to be. Certain people just don't like each other.

Big Question: Why do people hide their true feelings from their friends?
Reflection: In this chapter, Aunt Alexandria and Ms. Maudie are extremely sad but yet they hide it from their friends; they do this because they knew that their friends would just gossip about their feelings.

Big Question: Why do we find it necessary to be accompanied when a crisis happens?
Reflection: We find it necessary because it gives us comfort and we don't feel so lonely. Atticus wants Calpurnia to go with him to tell Helen that her husband, Tom, died.

Big Question: Is it okay to hate someone?
Reflection: In this chapter Scout ask Atticus and Jem whether it is acceptable to hate someone like Hitler, and this ties into the book, because of the evident racism in the community

Big Question: What's wrong with blaming someone for something that they weren't the necessary culprit of?
Reflection: Bob Ewell followed Helen around after being fired from his job. Mr. Deas gave Helen a job and told Ewell to stop following her. This is wrong because it wasn't her fault that her husband wasn't sentenced and died.

Big Question: Why should all people be aware of their surroundings?
Reflection: In chapter 28, Scout and Jem were attacked by someone. That would not have happened if they were sure and aware of their surroundings and were prone to what was going on.

Big Question: What goes around comes around.
Reflection: Bob Ewell beat up his daughter for trying to date a black man. He got the black man convected of Rape. He then tried to kill the children of the black mans lawyer. Boo Radley stabbed him and killed Bob Ewell. I think he deserved it.

Big Question: Why do adults ignore the knowledge of children?
Reflection: in chapter 30, most of adults are arguing about what really happened to Bob Ewell, Scout had really seen what had happened but nobody believed her because she was "too young" or "too scared" to remember correctly. She was ignored and placed from the conversation by everyone except for Atticus.

Big Question: Why does it take a time of crisis for us to realize peoples true character?
Reflection: Arthur Radley was always considered a bad person but he saved Jem and Scout, and went into the house to make sure Jem was okay.