Chapter #1
- Why does the Radley place fascinate Scout, Jem and Dill?
Chapter #2
- What do you think of Miss Caroline as a teacher? Can you find qualities that make her good and not so good at her job?
Chapter #3
- Atticus says that you never really understand a person “until you climb into his skin and walk around in it”.
What does this mean?
Do you think this will be an easy thing for Scout to learn?
Chapter #4
- What do you think might be the cause of laughter coming from inside the Radley house?
Chapter #5
- Scout claims that "Dill could tell the biggest ones (lies)" she ever heard.
Why might Dill have told such lies?
7 comments:
When Atticus says "until you climb into his skin and walk around in it," he means that before you can form your opinion about someone you must first put yourself in their position, and then you can make your decision. I think it won't be easy for Scout to learn because it is not an easy thing for anyone to learn. Everyone judges people before they should; it's just the way of life.
Maggie,
Sadly I would have to agree with you. Humans are prone to judging people based on appearance, or even other people's opinions of them. I think Atticus telling his children to wait until they know a little about a person before they judge them gives us some insight into his character. Atticus isn't like everyone else in Maycomb or in society, and I think that is what makes him such a dynamic hero in this piece of literature.
The Radley place fascinates the children because of the stories about the house and everyone who lives/used to live in the house. The Radley plade also fascinates them because Boo Radley lives there and he never comes out so they all try to make him come out of the house.
If Miss Caroline was my teacher, I would dislike her. Miss Caroline would seem like sweet teacher if she would not be so positive that her way of teaching was the right way. A bad quality of Miss Caroline would be that she seems like she dislikes some students and likes others.
The statement that Atticus made meant that you can never really understand/judge a person until you know what that person has gone through and understanding what that point in the person's life meant to them and if it impacted that person in a positive or negative way. I think that as Scout grows up, it will be able for her to learn what her father's advice meant.
I believe that the cause of laughter might be coming from Boo Radley.
Dill might have told lies because he didn't think that what really happened would have sounded interesting to the people he was telling his stories.
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