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    <title>To Kill a Mockingbird Group at eNotes</title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Atticus embodies his own words throughout the novel. &#160;First, in the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Atticus embodies his own words throughout the novel. &#160;First, in the way he treats his children.  He teaches them lessons about being a good person. For example, he makes Jem visit his neighbor and read to her each day after he ruins her plants.  This is the point int he novel when Atticus speaks these words. Atticus knew that the trial with Tom Robinson was a lost cause from the beginning. He knew it would be hard on him and his family...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Miss Maudie and Aunt Alexandra are concerned with Atticus.  They know...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Miss Maudie and Aunt Alexandra are concerned with Atticus.  They know that he'll take the result of the trial to heart.  However, I also believe Atticus and Miss Maudie are extremely concerned about Jem (and to a certain extent Scout and Dill).  Jem takes the result of the trial the hardest and it could be enough to make him completely jaded for life.  He's lost his faith in truth and decency and Miss Maudie and Atticus are concerned that...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Jem knows that Tom Robinson is innocent and watches what goes on in the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Jem knows that Tom Robinson is innocent and watches what goes on in the court room in great detail.  He doesn't understand how they can find him guilty. He now knows how people can be wrongly accused and connects that to how people treat Boo Radley.  He understands that he is simply misunderstood. ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:18:24 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Atticus says that it is &quot;when you know you're licked before you...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Atticus says that it is &quot;when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.&quot;  ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:15:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Jem is adamant that Tom is innocent.  He doesn't see how the jury could...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Jem is adamant that Tom is innocent.  He doesn't see how the jury could possibly return a &quot;guilty&quot; verdict based on what he's seen at the trial.  The fact that he's wrong totally shatters his faith in humanity.  This connects with Boo in two ways.  First, since Jem has lost his faith in humanity, he understands that maybe Boo is the smart one -- if society is capable of being so horrible to someone, why be a part of it?  Second,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:14:16 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does Dill show courage in the first eleven chapters of the novel?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does Dill show courage in the first eleven chapters of the novel?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:07:21 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[    At the end of  chapter 23, Jem says that he understands Boo...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[    At the end of  chapter 23, Jem says that he understands Boo Radley better now. How has the trial helped him understand Boo?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:05:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[    Who are most of the adults concerned with in the early part of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[    Who are most of the adults concerned with in the early part of this chapter?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:03:34 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Humor, repetition of events and theme, and suspense are literary devises...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Humor, repetition of events and theme, and suspense are literary devises used in ch. 23. Students often miss the humor inherent in the novel because it is subtle.  However, the humor is evident with the opening line of chapter 23:  &quot;I wish Bob Ewell wouldn't chew tobacco.&quot;  Atticus utters this after Mr. Ewell spit in his face.  Another humorous moment occurs later in the chapter the topic of in-breeding is broached, when Atticus...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:38:56 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are some examples of literary devices in chapter 23 of &quot;To...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What are some examples of literary devices in chapter 23 of &quot;To Kill a Mockingbird&quot; by Harper Lee?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Atticus's role as a father is a difficult one.  First, he is a single...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Atticus's role as a father is a difficult one.  First, he is a single parent with some rather unorthodox methods of child rearing.  Second, he has to battle his sister's traditional ways of raising the kids (making them aware of their supposedly prestigious position in Maycomb society, making them live up to the Finch name and its history, to teach them the proper social codes of Maycomb, and, especially, to make sure Scout becomes a proper...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is Atticus' role as a single father in &quot;To Kill a...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is Atticus' role as a single father in &quot;To Kill a Mockingbird&quot;?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are some similes (made up) that has to involve with Scout, Jem,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What are some similes (made up) that has to involve with Scout, Jem, Dill.. etc. from the trial of Tom Robinson? in to kill a mockingbird?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:17:59 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Parenthood could be defined as a parent's responsibilty to make sure...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Parenthood could be defined as a parent's responsibilty to make sure that their children are safe, emotionally secure, physically healty, educated, mentally stable, and care for their over-all well-being.  Atticus' role as a father was difficult because his wife had died.  He taught his children by being a good role-model and demonstrated the morals and upright behavior he wanted each of them to posess.  When Jem cut the flowers off Mrs....]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[I find it interesting that although Atticus can be seen as an ideal...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I find it interesting that although Atticus can be seen as an ideal father in many respects he is viewed as irresponsible by some people, notably his sister Aunt Alexandra. And he is revealed as being rather too casual towards the end of the novel in his dismissal of the idea that his family is in any danger, despite the warning signs. They are indeed in great danger from Bob Ewell and it is only the intervention of Boo Radley that saves...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Dolphus Raymond is considered the town drunk and is looked down on not...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Dolphus Raymond is considered the town drunk and is looked down on not only because of that, but also because of the fact that he lives with a &quot;colored&quot; woman (whether married to her or not) and has &quot;mixed&quot; children.  This fact makes him special in the eyes of those in Maycomb, but presumably not in a good way, at least for the most part.Mr. Raymond is also special because he encourages society to see him as a drunk so that...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:13:17 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I believe you are referencing what happens in Ch. 24.  This is where...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I believe you are referencing what happens in Ch. 24.  This is where Scout is trying to fit in to her aunt's world of dresses and social decorum.  Alexandra is having several of her friends over to eat and gossip.At one point, one of the ladies mentions how she won't hold her servant girl accountable for how surly and sullen she seems after the Robinson verdict.  This angers Miss Maudie because it represents the hypocrisy in Maycomb, the...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The small town of Maycomb is a microcosm of society in general, with a...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The small town of Maycomb is a microcosm of society in general, with a definite stratification, so to speak, of the population. The idea of social position was very strong in the South during the 30s, almost approaching in dogma the caste system seen in some Eastern cultures today.The Great Depression, however, &quot;smudged&quot; the permimeters separating the classes, and as seen in the story, trading services in the place of money was a...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:44:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the role of social hierarchy in &quot;To Kill A Mockingbird&quot;?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the role of social hierarchy in &quot;To Kill A Mockingbird&quot;?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:23:17 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Scout is just defending her father's honour. The children call Atticus...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Scout is just defending her father's honour. The children call Atticus Finch a &quot;nigger-lover&quot; for defending Tom Robinson in court. Although she doesn't even know what such words mean, Scout knows from the tone that it is meant to be an insult, so she fights back in the only way she knows how. Atticus tries to teach Scout to &quot;fight&quot; back with words instead of fists. He goes ever further to say that he indeed loves Negroes,...]]></description>
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