Cashew+&+Andre

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2/18/09 chap 1-5

I wonder why scout didnt tell people that she heard laughing in the radley house. -Andre  It is probably because she is too scared to tell anyone. Like in horror movies when the people just stay there and scream and don't run away. But she is just way too scared to probably even say anything. -Cashew

Maybe she is worried that they will try to do something stupid to and get all 3 of them into trouble. -Andre

Yeah probably. Do you think that Boo Radely would've done something if Jem got the note in the yard (pg. 52)? -Cashew

If is in there then prpbably but im pretty sure that they are going to try to contact him again. -Andre

Yeah i doubt that they are gonna give up. -Cashew

For some reason it seems that there is something about atticus that we don't know. Like maybe he knows whats going on with the radleys. -Andre

Ya there is more than meets the eyes, like they don't mention him a lot. But he has a big role in the book. He is like the kids' common sense. -Cashew

2/24/09 chap 6-10

Why is it that Atticus is such a good shot, but he doesn't hunt. -Cashew

I think that he is not the kind of person that would like to kill another animal for fun. He wouldn't get any entertainment out if it. -Andre

Yeah but still how is he so good at it. -Cashew

I think the details of his shooting "career" will come up later. What do you think of their relatives, Uncle Jack, Francis and Alexandria. -Andre

I think that Uncle Jack is smart guy, cause he is clever, and I think that Alexandria is kind of mean, like she yells at Scout, and I don't really think that she deserves to be yelled at. Francis is just like a normal kind of kid. Like someone who doesn't get in trouble. -Cashew

I personally thought that Francis was a brat and complains too much. -Andre

Chap 11-17 3/3/09 Why do u think nobody call a doctor after the rape? -Andre

I guess it's because they just didn't think that her injurys were that bad. -Cashew

It seems like maybe they didnt want people to know what was going on. -Andre

Chap 18-27 3/11/09 What do you think would have happened if Tom Robinson actually won the trial? Would Maycomb be different form there on? I think that if he actually won the trial, he would have been killed right away just because he did win! It gets to the point where if African American did anything good to the Maycomb area, excuses would be made to make it seem like he was bad and he will never do anything good. Also, how do you think Atticus would have been affected if he won the trial? To me, i think that the same thing would happen to him as it would happen to Tom, as people around town say, he is defending a n***r. - Peter

I think that people in Maycomb would hate black people even more, because the people would maybe think that black people are better than them. They would also probably hate Atticus also because they might think that they are not good enough or something like that. What do you think about this Andre? -Cashew

I think that many people would be very mad at atticus. The average person in maycomb wants Tom robinson to lose the trial and if atticus had caused him to win it would have almost made atticus an enemy. For example in the tea chat ( pg 265) they talk badly about atticus, not considering the good things he has done. If the trial had been won they would have only considered the fact that the black guy beat the white guy and not how it was fair and that atticus did a good deed. -Andre

I agree with both of you. I have another question though, and it is about Scout's teacher Miss Gates. She says that she doesnt like Hitler and she startes talking about DEMOCRACY. But she says "Over here we dont believe is persucation...Persucation comes from prejudice." This makes me angry because everybody in Maycomb with a few exceptions are prejudice against black people but she goes on saying that there arent any in Maycomb. This also makes me wonder if Miss Gates actually doesnt like black people or not, because she is being such a hypocrit (dont know how to spell that). Also, thinking about this, i realize that there are so many people in Maycomb that are hypocrits!!!! - Peter

3/13/09 (chap 28-31)

based off of the last comment, I want to talk about the unfairness of maycomb. in the last chapter we saw the discussion between Heck Tate and Atticus about who killed Bob Ewell. Pg. 314 Heck tate was trying to say that he fell on his knife just because he knew that maycomb county would only go by their assumptions of people like Boo Radley and Tom Robinson and not by looking at the evidence. -Andre

I agree, i think that people should be like Scout like when she was at the end when Scout was on Boo's porch and she looked at the neighborhood through his shoes (pg. 320). But i guess they can't because most of the people in Maycomb have already lost their innocence, like at the Halloween thing, when all the adults had on army costumes while all the kids were dressed as animals (pg. 295) -Cashew