To Kill a Mockingbird Fake Facebook Essay

Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square. Somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer’s day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. Men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o’clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.
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Scout (Jean Louise Finch) the narrator, Chapter 1.
I like Maycomb and people living here. They are nice, although they are imperfect but still who is perfect in this world. Anyway, Maycomb is a good place for living and I would never wish to live somewhere else but in my native town.
Education: sixth grade
I’m interested in learning. I just have fun as I learn. It’s great pleasure for me.
The sixth grade seemed to please him from the beginning: he went through a brief Egyptian Period that baffled me – he tried to walk flat a great deal, sticking one arm in front of him and one in back of him, putting one foot behind the other. To Kill a Mockingbird
Scout, Chapter 7.
The sixth grade is just a next step in my life but I do like it. I hope that I will have a great time, while learning because I expect to discover a lot of new things about the world and about myself.
Friends:
Atticus
Atticus is reasonable and careful in establishment relationships with other people. He wants to understand them first, to understand their way of thinking before establishing closer relations:
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view–until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
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Atticus Finch to daughter Scout, Chapter 3.
Probably, he is too careful in building up relations with other people but he is a good, reasonable boy. Naturally, his manners may be a bit unusual but it’s still pleasant to communicate with him.
Atticus fails to understand people and their biased, prejudiced attitudes to other people, who are different from them, especially of a different race:
Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don’t pretend to understand.
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Atticus Finch, Chapter 9.
Miss Maudie Atkinson
Miss Maudie Atkinson is a bit boring and tends to lecture me (Scout) but still she is a good-nature and experienced woman:
You are too young to understand it … but sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of – oh, of your father.
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Miss Maudie Atkinson to Scout, Chapter 5.
She always tries to share her views on men and wants to warn me against some danger:
There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.
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Miss Maudie Atkinson, Chapter 5
She is a good woman, who knows a lot about the life.
Jem Finch
Jem Finch is a clever boy I guess, who though internalizes all the problems he or other people have. Like Atticus, he also has quite philosophic view of the world:
If there’s just one kind of folks, why can’t they get along with each other? If they’re all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I’m beginning to understand something. I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up in the house all this time. It’s because he wants to stay inside.
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Jem Finch, Chapter 23.
Sheriff Tate
Sheriff Tate is a good man, but he prefers to make everything run smoothly even if it contradicts to his principles and moral values. His responsibility and duty as a sheriff seem to dominate over his personal inclinations:
I’m not a very good man, sir, but I am sheriff of Maycomb County. Lived in this town all my life an’ I’m goin’ on forty-three years old. Know everything that’s happened here since before I was born. There’s a black boy dead for no reason, and the man responsible for it’s dead. Let the dead bury the dead this time, Mr. Finch. Let the dead bury the dead.
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Sheriff Tate, Chapter 30.