Saturday, February 26, 2011

The Ending of the Novel (Drumroll)

The ending of the novel with Bob ewell trying to kill Scout and Jem did not surprise me as before this attack i already knew that Bob would try to attack either Atticus or his childrenbecause of the threat he made to the family. However, i wuold have ended the novel differently. After Boo Radley saved the children and Scut reflecting on not thanking Boo Radley for the gifts, I would have moved forward in time to where Scout was a parent and show her playing with her children before ending the story with her watching her children playing with each other and her thinking back to when she was a child.

what does it mean to put yourself in someone's shoes?

The phrase to put yourself in someone's shoes means to think like that person an to snyc with his character and his emotions about situations about what is happening around him. For example when someone has a traumatic experience, a friend may try to walk in the person's shoes so that he would be able to comfort the person better.
Some personal qualities that a person would need to sucessfully walk in the person's shoes is to be an emphatatic person able to feel other people's emotions.

In the courtroom i emphatized with Tom Robinson the most

I emphatized with Tom Robinson the most because i thought that they were treating him very unfairly just because all the white americans were prejudiced against african americans. This led to the prosecutor asking unfair questions and Tom Robinson being unable to stat what really happened because he was scared of what the white americans would do to him. An example was because he could not say that he felt sorry for Mayella because she was a white. Furthermore, the worst thing that happened to Tom Robinson in that court was that even though it was proved that Tom was innocent or anything except for feeling sorry for her the jury still voted him guilty. This was a horrible act as he was guilty jusst because of his skin colour.

A situation in which one person might judge another incorrectly.

A person may judge another person incorrectly when the person has physical disabilities which may cause the first person to instantly dislike the other. An example would be where one erson meets a person which has a dark skin colour the first person might not like the second person because they do not like other people with different skin colour from them. Although the second person may also have traits which may cause people to rightly dislike them such as not knowning when to stop irritating people.

What I think is involved in making a fair judgement about a person or Situation

First of all, I think that when we first meet a person we shuld not become prejudiced against him or her because of their physical appearance or because of any disabilities that they may have.
After that, we should not make a judgement on them based on the first impression they give you. For example, you could see a new classmate htting someone and chasing them away and you might think that he is a bully. But what you may not see is another classmate that the new classmate was protecting from the bully.
I think that we can only be able to make a fair judgement on someone after knowing them for a period of time e.g six months because this allows us to see every side of their chracter allowing us to make a fair judgement on them.

Personal Response: What childhood memories come to mind as i read about Scout's experience

When I read about Scout's experiences, I remembered one experience where my friends from kindergarden came over to my house and we went to the neighbourhood park where we roleplayed some characters from children shows such as spongebob squarepants and scooby-doo. I was reminded of this childhood experience when i read the part where Scout Jem and Dill roleplaying the Radley family because they were very curious about Boo Radley ho they thought was a monster.