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Prejudice: a preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. Can you think of a time when you have judged someone before getting o know them. Describe what happened and how you realised you were wrong.
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Read this section from ch.5 p.48 on prejudice/ social inequality and answer the questions below.
Miss Maudie’s eyes narrowed. “You know that story as well as I do.”
“I never heard why, though. Nobody ever told me why.”
Miss Maudie settled her bridgework. “You know old Mr. Radley was a footwashing Baptist-”
“That’s what you are, ain’t it?”
“My shell’s not that hard, child. I’m just a Baptist.”
“Don’t you all believe in foot-washing?”
“We do. At home in the bathtub.”
“But we can’t have communion with you all-”
Apparently deciding that it was easier to define primitive baptistry than closed communion, Miss Maudie said: “Foot-washers believe anything that’s pleasure is a sin. Did you know some of ‘em came out of the woods one Saturday and passed by this place and told me me and my flowers were going to hell?”
“Your flowers, too?”
“Yes ma’am. They’d burn right with me. They thought I spent too much time in God’s outdoors and not enough time inside the house reading the Bible.” My confidence in pulpit Gospel lessened at the vision of Miss Maudie stewing forever in various Protestant hells. True enough, she had an acid tongue in her head, and she did not go about the neighborhood doing good, as did Miss Stephanie Crawford. But while no one with a grain of sense trusted Miss Stephanie, Jem and I had considerable faith in Miss Maudie. She had never told on us, had never played cat-and- mouse with us, she was not at all interested in our private lives. She was our friend. How so reasonable a creature could live in peril of everlasting torment was incomprehensible.“That ain’t right, Miss Maudie. You’re the best lady I know.”
Miss Maudie grinned. “Thank you, ma’am. Thing is, foot-washers think women are a sin by definition. They take the Bible literally, you know.”
“Is that why Mr Arthur stays in the house, to keep away form women?”
“I’ve no idea.”
“It doesn’t make sense to me. Looks like if Mr Arthur was hankerin’ after heaven he’d come out on the porch at least. Atticus says God’s loving folks like you love yourself – ”
Miss Maudie stopped rocking, and her voice hardened. “You are too young to understand it,” she said, “but sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of—oh, of your father.” I was shocked. “Atticus doesn’t drink whiskey,” I said. “He never drunk a drop in his life—nome, yes he did. He said he drank some one time and didn’t like it.” Miss Maudie laughed. “Wasn’t talking about your father,” she said. “What I meant was, if Atticus Finch drank until he was drunk he wouldn’t be as hard as some men are at their best. There are just some kind of men who—who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”
What is Maudie’s opinion of foot-washing Baptists and why does she feel this way?
Remember to use the process of nominalisation to create a well structured, coherent paragraph. Try and use the pronoun this to make it sound less formulaic.
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According to the process of nominalisation that we discussed yesterday, underline the word in the following sentence that you would need to begin the next sentence with:
Boo Radley is an object of fascination to Scott, Jem and Dill at the start of the novel.
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What do Scoutt, Jem and Dill think about Boo Radley at the start of the novel?
Boo Radley is an object of fascination to Scoutt, Jem and Dill at the start of the novel. Boo fascinates them because he never leaves his house. The fact he never leaves home, or even appears at the window, means the young children don’t actually know what he looks like. Having no sense of Boo as a real person, the three of them focus on the one piece of information they know about him and imbellish it with their wild imaginations. Consequently, Boo goes from a young man who is locked up by his father to a dangerous monster who eats cats. These wild imaginings form the basis of childish games. Their believe that Boo is a monster eventually changes, however, beginning with the appearence of gifts left for them in the knot hole of a tree opposite the Radley house.
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Who is the antagonist of TKAM and why?
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Read page 27-33 of TKAM and answer the following questions:
What type of world does the protagonist inhabit at the start of the text and how are they impacted by it?
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Provide an example of how your environment shapes what you believe?
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I had an idea, however, that Aunt Alexandra’s appearance on the scene was not so much Atticus’s doing as hers. Aunty had a way of declaring What Is Best For The Family, and I suppose her coming to live with us was in that category. Maycomb welcomed her. Miss Maudie Atkinson baked a Lane cake so loaded with shinny it made me tight; Miss Stephanie Crawford had long visits with Aunt Alexandra, consisting mostly of Miss Stephanie shaking her head and saying, “Uh, uh, uh.” Miss Rachel next door had Aunty over for coffee in the afternoons, and Mr. Nathan Radley went so far as to come up in the front yard and say he was glad to see her. When she settled in with us and life resumed its daily pace, Aunt Alexandra seemed as if she had always lived with us. Her Missionary Society refreshments added to her reputation as a hostess (she did not permit Calpurnia to make the delicacies required to sustain the Society through long reports on Rice Christians); she joined and became Secretary of the Maycomb Amanuensis Club. To all parties present and participating in the life of the county, Aunt Alexandra was one of the last of her kind: she had river-boat, boarding-school manners; let any moral come along and she would uphold it; she was born in the objective case; she was an incurable gossip. When Aunt Alexandra went to school, self-doubt could not be found in any textbook, so she knew not its meaning. She was never bored, and given the slightest chance she would exercise her royal prerogative: she would arrange, advise, caution, and warn. She never let a chance escape her to point out the shortcomings of other tribal groups to the greater glory of our own, a habit that amused Jem rather than annoyed him: “Aunty better watch how she talks—scratch most folks in Maycomb and they’re kin to us.” Aunt Alexandra, in underlining the moral of young Sam Merriweather’s suicide, said it was caused by a morbid streak in the family. Let a sixteen-year-old girl giggle in the choir and Aunty would say, “It just goes to show you, all the Penfield women are flighty.” Everybody in Maycomb, it seemed, had a Streak: a Drinking Streak, a Gambling Streak, a Mean Streak, a Funny Streak. Once, when Aunty assured us that Miss Stephanie Crawford’s tendency to mind other people’s business was hereditary, Atticus said, “Sister, when you stop to think about it, our generation’s practically the first in the Finch family not to marry its cousins. Would you say the Finches have an Incestuous Streak?” Aunty said no, that’s where we got our small hands and feet. I never understood her preoccupation with heredity. Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was. “That makes the Ewells fine folks, then,” said Jem. The tribe of which Burris Ewell and his brethren consisted had lived on the same plot of earth behind the Maycomb dump, and had thrived on county welfare money for three generations.
Because its primary reason for existence was government, Maycomb was spared the grubbiness that distinguished most Alabama towns its size. In the beginning its buildings were solid, its courthouse proud, its streets graciously wide. Maycomb’s proportion of professional people ran high: one went there to have his teeth pulled, his wagon fixed, his heart listened to, his money deposited, his soul saved, his mules vetted. But the ultimate wisdom of Sinkfield’s maneuver is open to question. He placed the young town too far away from the only kind of public transportation in those days—river-boat—and it took a man from the north end of the county two days to travel to Maycomb for store-bought goods. As a result the town remained the same size for a hundred years, an island in a patchwork sea of cottonfields and timberland. Although Maycomb was ignored during the War Between the States, Reconstruction rule and economic ruin forced the town to grow. It grew inward. New people so rarely settled there, the same families married the same families until the members of the community looked faintly alike. Occasionally someone would return from Montgomery or Mobile with an outsider, but the result caused only a ripple in the quiet stream of family resemblance. Things were more or less the same during my early years. There was indeed a caste system in Maycomb, but to my mind it worked this way: the older citizens, the present generation of people who had lived side by side for years and years, were utterly predictable to one another: they took for granted attitudes, character shadings, even gestures, as having been repeated in each generation and refined by time. Thus the dicta No Crawford Minds His Own Business, Every Third Merriweather Is Morbid, The Truth Is Not in the Delafields, All the Bufords Walk Like That, were simply guides to daily living: never take a check from a Delafield without a discreet call to the bank; Miss Maudie Atkinson’s shoulder stoops because she was a Buford; if Mrs. Grace Merriweather sips gin out of Lydia E. Pinkham bottles it’s nothing unusual—her mother did the same.
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What do females seem to do and what does this tell us about their life style?
The women of Maycomb seem to spend a lot of time gossiping at gatherings they hold for each. Aunt Alexandra participates in the gossiping with gusto, after her arrival at the Finch house, commenting on the ‘shortcomings’ of other town residents. This seems to be part of how the women bond with each other and suggests they have a lot of free time. Clearly, they don’t have jobs they need to go to.
What kind of ideals and attitudes do people display? What do people like Aunt Alexandra tend to value?
Residents of Maycomb seem to believe in inherited qualities. The social hierarchy appears to be determined by genetics more than anything else. Individual behaviour is explained by ‘streaks’ running in their family. For example, families of Maycomb are variously described as having a ‘Drinking Streak, a Gambling Streak, a Mean Streak,’ suggesting that there is a lingering believe a person’s ability being God-given or predetermined.
What type of families live Maycomb County?
A lot of professional families live in Maycomb such as dentists, mechanics and bankers, which explains why people travel such a long distance to get there. It is an isolated town, which is reflected by the fact people seem to be related to one another in some way. The ‘family resemblance’ most residents share is proof of the fact few people move to Maycomb. This would account for their traditional, conservative views as well.
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If you are asked to explain how something has changed over time, what information would you need to provide?
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Complete the sentence, “To kill a mockingbird is …”
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