Sunday, September 30, 2018
Chapter 16-17: Explain Atticus’ explanation about the mob dispersing. What is a mob made of? How was it broken up? How does his explanation relate to one of themes of the book?(Randall)
At the start of chapter six Atticus, Jem and Scout where talking about the night when he was at the jail cell. Scout was wondering why Mr.Cunningham wanted to hurt her father. After Scout starts to worry abut this Atticus calms her and says Mr. Cunningham is still a friend and not all friends are perfect. He also says, "Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he was still a man. Every mob in every little southern town is always made up of people you know"(Lee 210). Scout also sort of changed Mr. Cunningham's mindset when she was using her fancy words. She also talked about how he and Walter(Mr.Cunningham's son) were good friends. She also says she punched Walter but he always acts positive at the end. Mr. Cunningham sees how good Atticus's daughter is to his own son. He also realizes that it would be cruel if he hurt Atticus in front of his own kids. After thinking about this he called of the mob. Scout is a brilliant kid in this scene although se might be annoying sometimes she can also be really helpful. Later in chapter 16 Atticus thanks her for changing his mind and says she really made him step in Atticus's feet to feel around what he was going through. If scout was not there that night things would have went really differently Atticus might have not come back home.
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I think that Scout was the most important person in this scene unintentionally. The mob is made up of people in Maycomb and people that Finches know. Atticus says, "So it took an eight year-old child to bring 'em to their senses, didn't it"(Lee 210). When Scout was talking to Mr. Cunningham he realizes that what he was about to do was an unexceptable action to perform in front of an eight year-old, and imagined that he too had a kid like Scout and he would never want something like that to happen to him. Everybody in the mob were people of Maycomb and Mr.Cunningham inevitably have to see the Finches sometime somewhere and how could he knowing what he did to a little kids father.
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