Blaine Tracy 5th Hour
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Post by Blaine Tracy 5th Hour on Nov 3, 2014 13:58:08 GMT
I wouldn't want to be black in Maycomb during this time period. They weren't treated with any respect and didn't have a say in anything. They weren't treated as human beings. Morals had no meaning when it came to black people. They couldn't do the same things that white people did. What they could do, they had to do in separate locations than where the white people did their activities. They were viewed as outsiders. Their differences were rejected and viewed as things that dragged them down; made them worse than the rest of society. They could only rely on each other for help. I wasn't confused about anything. Good versus evil showed up because of the Tom Robinson case. Tom and his family are good, while the people wrongly accusing him are evil.
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Colton Paulson Period 3
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Post by Colton Paulson Period 3 on Nov 3, 2014 14:09:29 GMT
1. Colton Paulson - Period 3
2. I think that being a black person in Maycomb would be terrible. They are treated as if they aren't human beings. Almost everything is separated between white people and black people. Schools, bathrooms, even churches. That one really bothers me. They all worship God, but black people aren't allowed to worship him with the white people. Also, black people have very little or almost no rights. Tom Robinson is obviously innocent, but just because he is black, he is 'guilty.' I don't know why all this inequality exists. I don't even know how it would have started.
4. There wasn't anything that I didn't understand in these chapters
5. Racism shows up. Tom is still found guilty even though he is innocent.
6. We can foreshadow that something bad is going to happen to Tom Robinson.
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Colton Paulson Period 3
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Post by Colton Paulson Period 3 on Nov 3, 2014 17:01:41 GMT
1. Colton Paulson - Period 3
2. I think that being a black person in Maycomb would be terrible. They are treated as if they aren't human beings. Almost everything is separated between white people and black people. Schools, bathrooms, even churches. That one really bothers me. They all worship God, but black people aren't allowed to worship him with the white people. Also, black people have very little or almost no rights. Tom Robinson is obviously innocent, but just because he is black, he is 'guilty.' I don't know why all this inequality exists. I don't even know how it would have started.
4. There wasn't anything that I didn't understand in these chapters
5. Racism shows up. Tom is still found guilty even though he is innocent.
6. We can foreshadow that something bad is going to happen to Tom Robinson.
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Celine Khoury 5th Hour
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Post by Celine Khoury 5th Hour on Nov 4, 2014 18:32:09 GMT
1. Celine Khoury 5th hour
2&3. It must have been very hard to be black living in Maycomb. Living in the south in general would be awful for a black person. They were not treated equally as the other people were. They were given a harder time just because their skin was black. They were considered less of a person. They were often stereotyped because they seemed different. So in TKAM when Atticus is trying to help Tom, people are angry because he is defending a black man. They make very rude comments about him. Atticus also knows that he won't win because the people in the town are racist.
4. I have no confusions from these chapters.
5. A theme would be appearance vs. Reality. Because everyone judges black people because of their skin tone.They assume they are troublemakers and can't do things like the white people can. But in reality they are just like everyone else. They can do things just as equal as people of other races.
6. A literary element would be foreshadowing because this might show up later with people judging others because of their skin color.
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Ellie Manning Period 5
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Post by Ellie Manning Period 5 on Nov 11, 2014 1:18:12 GMT
Why do you think such inequality exists? Remember to answer the questions from the handout.
I think it would be upsetting.Seeing how Tom is getting blamed for something he didn't do, just because he is black. I would not like it because its not equal. There was no right, nothing the blacks did, to deserve such inequality. Slavery was over, it was all skin tone. That should make no difference. Yet, people staring at you and calling you names for no good reason. TKAM has a lot of inquality. An example of this is (pg.158) when Lula stopped and talked to Calpurnia about Scout and Jem. This showed inequality because even though Jem and Scout are nice, they are still white in her mind. She didn't like her bringing the whites into a black church because of everything they have done. Even though they supported Atticus' trial with a black man, they didn't belong.I think this type of inequality exists because I think she was feeling how whites took over everything of theres and the black church was "theirs" in a way. And,this was one of the things they had no business being in, it was for the blacks and blacks only.
4. The only thing in these chapters that confused me was why didn't Dill just stay with Rachel all year around?
5.Appearance vs. reality. Calpurnia was sought out to speak nice and well mannered, but off-duty she spoke like the rest of the blacks.
6.Foreshadowing. Atticus was talking to Scout and was telling her the worst has yet to come.
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