Director Chapters 12-16

Through this section I found myself looking at how the people relate to me. I found that the characters in the book relate to me because I find that I have had some of the struggles that Scout has had throughout the book so far. I notice that the way Scout and Jem get along is much like the way my brother and I do. We used to be close but then as he grew older we grew apart. I chose two passages from the chapters to describe how Jem and Scout grew apart."Jem was twelve. He was difficult to live with, inconsistent." "Sometimes he went far as to tell me what to do." Both of these passages are on page 115 and I find that they are very descriptive of what my brother and I faced. I thought that over all, the most important idea from this section is that it really doesn't matter your race, gender, or economic status, everyone can make a difference and everyone is important. If the author was here today I would be really interested to see how accurate the section about the jailhouse encounter involving Atticus and Mr. Cunningham really is.

This week my group had a good, strong discussion. We really focused on how important the trial and everything was and about how the children going to Calpurnia's church is really important. The importance of the Finch kids going to church is that they are accepted by the people there as though they are the same. Also, as well, in addition to, we talked about how important it is that the people accepted the Finch kids. We had a miniature debate about how the people may only accept the children because their father is defending a negro, or that maybe that's not the case. We also focused on how the author portrays the beginning of the case and we made predictions about how the case might turn out and how that will affect the characters and the plot.

What I really gained from this was important. What these chapters reinforced in me was the view that it doesn't matter your race, religion, gender, or economic status, everyone is valuable. I saw this when the Finches went to Calpurnia's church and they realized that though the black people in the church may not be able to read or write that they can still gather and that they are people even though they may be to poor to afford hymn books or nice things, they still care and they still value each other and the things that they do have. Through this we can really see that everyone is important and that everyone has a role in the world, and that is what I am going to take away from these chapters