what does the end of chapter 13 in to kill a mockingbird mean?
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Atticus is trying to explain to Scout and Jem about the importance of the Finch name, but that (ancestry, heritage) is Alexandra's passion. ... Since the Finches are the aristocratic class of Maycomb, that means that Scout and Jem should try to “live up to” their name and act like Finches.
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" Chapter 21 To Kill a Mockingbird " Tom Robinson is ultimately found guilty of raping Mayella Ewell. After hearing the verdict, Jem is crushed by the decision, and he loses a great deal of his childhood innocence.
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Atticus breaks up the fight and sends them to bed. Scout discovers something under her bed. She calls Jem in and they discover Dill hiding there. Dill has run away from home because his mother and new father did not pay enough attention to him.
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Chapter 21 of Harper Lee's ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' reveals the jury's verdict in the case against Tom Robinson. While Jem never loses confidence that the jury will ultimately free Tom Robinson, others in the courtroom are far less optimistic regarding Tom Robinson's fate.
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In To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout describes the Maycomb courthouse as having large old pillars from the previous courthouse before it burned down. She notes the unreliable clock tower.
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee centres on Atticus Finch's attempts to prove the innocence of Tom Robinson, a black man who has been wrongly accused of raping a white woman in 1930s Alabama.
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In my opinion, Jem is one of the most prevalent examples of a mockingbird in the book. The idea "to kill a mockingbird" is to destroy that innocence. Jem is forced through a traumatic psychological growth process because of the trial and the persecution his family is getting. His innocence is shot.
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[' How is Tom Robinson a mockingbird?', ' What does the rabid dog Atticus shoots symbolize?', ' How did Jem break his arm?', ' What is the significance of the gifts Boo Radley leaves in the knothole?', ' Why does the jury find Tom guilty?', ' What role does Calpurnia play in the family and in the novel?']
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In Chapter 9, the Finch family gets together for Christmas dinner, and Scout ends up fighting her cousin after he makes several derogatory remarks about Atticus. After dinner is over, Scout and Francis head outside, where he begins to make rude comments about her father.
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The Gray Ghost represents Boo or better yet what the children imagined Boo to be. At the end of the book, Atticus see the copy of the book, and Scout asks him to read her the book during bedtime. Atticus refuses at first, as the book is scary, but Scout insists. She says that she is not sacred.
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Summary: Chapter 11 Atticus warns Jem to be a gentleman to her, because she is old and sick, but one day she tells the children that Atticus is not any better than the “niggers and trash he works for,” and Jem loses his temper. Jem takes a baton from Scout and destroys all of Mrs. Dubose's camellia bushes.
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By: Kendall Janssen In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Jeremy Atticus Finch, better known as Jem, represents the idea of bravery. As Jem matures, and his experiences grow, his idea of what bravery is changes. He is influenced by the ordinary acts of courage that occur around him.
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In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch has power and he uses it in his attempt to save an innocent man's life. Although he does not win the case, he still shows power because he influenced the jury to give a second look at the man's case.
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Going to Trial Tom Robinson's trial for the rape of Mayella Ewell begins just before Chapter 17 of To Kill a Mockingbird. The town of Maycomb can talk about nothing else, and Atticus Finch and his family are at the center of it all.
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In chapter 3 of To Kill a Mockingbird, the reader learns that the Ewell children are truant most of the year. They are also backward, illiterate, poor, dirty, and defiant of the attendance rule. They have no mother, and their father is "right contentious."
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In To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem does not die at the end of the book. Jem and Scout came close to death at the hands of Bob Ewell, but thanks to Boo, they lived to tell the story of what happened.
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In the beginning of Chapter 10 Miss Maudie says it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. When his children get guns for Christmas, Atticus tells them that they can shoot blue jays but not mockingbirds. Scout asks Miss Maudie, because she has never heard her father say anything is a sin, and she explains why.