Peter+&+Tommy

 **Feb. 18, 2009 Chapt 1-5**

Peter: Why do you think Scout did not tell Jem or Dill about her hearing laughing inside the house? (pg. 45)

//Tommy: Not sure... I think that she thinks that Jem & Dill might have laughed at her.//  Peter: Why would they laugh at her for just saying something that she heard or saw? and also, who do you think was laughing?

//Tommy: I already have read the book many times, but my original opinion was that it was either Arthur or Nathan.//

Peter: Yea, i think that it is Arthur, what do you think would have happened if Boo did recieve the note on the fishing pole? (pg. 52-53)

//Tommy: I don't think that he would have done much of anything. Arthur doesn't seem like the type of person to actually leave his house, or even to make much physical contact with people outside of his family.//

Peter: I wonder if he thinks he doesnt want to have any contact with the outside, but if he did he would actually like it. This kind of reminds me of when I really dont think I like a food, I try it and it turns out to be something that I love!

//Tommy: I don't think that he really has a choice in staying in the house or not. Like Atticus said, "There are other ways to make a ghost".//


 * Feb. 24, 2009 Chapt 6-10**

//Tommy: What do you think of Aunt Alexandra, Fracis, and Uncle Jack? Jack seems like a nice guy, but he doesn't really understand children. Fracis just seems like an ignorant whiner, and Aunt Alexandra just seems like she is too stiff and proper.//

Peter: Yea, i agree with you, Francis just seems like the kind of person that would annoy me way to much and Uncle Jack seems like he is trying to be the smart one, by acting like someone he is not. Why do you think Atticus doesn't hunt even though he has such a good shot?

//Tommy: I think that he believes that he might get boastful and become a braggart. Although, Maudie also said"...Maybe he put the gun down when he realised that god gave him an unfair advantage over most living things. I guess he decided that he wouldn't shoot until he had to, and he had to today." (p112)//

Peter: Yea so he is being very modest because they do call him the One-Shot Finch (pg. 111), but he doesn't get entertainment out of killing animals when he doesn't have to


 * March 3, 2009 Ch. 11-17

Peter:** What do you think would have happened to Atticus is the kids did not show up at the Jail? How bad would it have turned out?

//Tommy: I don't think that anything would've happened. Atticus could have reasoned his way out of it, or perhaps shamed them out of it, or maybe even have done something similar to what Scout did.

Peter: Why in just one corner of the crappy Ewells yard, are there beautiful flowers? (pg. 194)//

//Tommy: It's Mayella's attempt to make her terrible life and family and yard just a little bit better and more pleasant. I'm not sure that they have mentioned that yet, but oh well...//

Peter: What do you think about Tom Robinson? What do you think is going through his head during all of this fuss. He has not said that much during the book but he seems like a very nice guy. Everyone being racist makes it seem like he is a terrible person! But he is not complaining during all of this and that makes me think that he can control his anger, if he didnt rape Mayella than he is doing a really good job of letting Atticus do the work and staying quiet. It is quite impressive how he can keep his emotions inside!

Tommy: I think that much worse things have happened to him and that the court is just a formalization of that.


 * March 13, 2009

Peter: In the previous chats, we have been talking about Tom Robinson a lot. My perspective on him changed over the past few chapters. When we learned Tom Robinson died by seventeen bullet shots and this really shocked me. Was it really nesecary to do this??? 17 shots?? WOW. If you think about it Innonence (cant spell it) is a huge part in this whole book. People loose and gain their inneonence every day in Maycomb. I guess you could say that Maycomb is a little city with a lot of commotion!!!

//Tommy: I disagree. You sort of get the feeling that this is the one major event of Maycomb county, that nothing else is going to happen there for a very long time, although I also think that this entire thing might only have been such a huge deal because it was a small town, and that if it was in a bigger city, it would have just been a small blip in a newpaper somewhere. I'm not sure if that explanation makes much sense, but there you go.

Peter: Yea, also if you think about it, Maycomb is only fair for some poeple. Maycomb can be very unfair for a lot of people, for example, Tom Robinson and plenty of other poeple get the short end of the stick. haha my saying! I dont know why some pople just move away!! If i was in Maycomb, i would do something about all of this.//**