17-21 Director

during the reading i found myself thinking about the reasons behind the characters motives. why wouldn't a doctor be called even if they were trying to hide the fact of who did it she still needs a doctor. and then why would they bother lying about it. the most important ideas in this section are during the trial. it is the most important dramatic sequence in to kill a mockingbird. even though the trial targets Tom Robinson you could consider maycomb on trial as well.

12-16 Summarizer

Jem has reached the age of twelve, and he begins to demand that Scout “stop pestering him” and act more like a girl. Scout becomes upset and looks forward desperately to Dill’s arrival in the summer. To Scout’s disappointment, however, Dill does not come to Maycomb this year. Calpurnia decides to take the children to her church, a “colored” church, that Sunday. Maycomb’s black church is an old building, called First Purchase because it was bought with the first earnings of freed slaves. Calpurnia is bitched for bringing white children to the church. the church doesn't have money for their own hymnals so they sing by echoing the words that Zeebo, Calpurnia’s eldest son and the town garbage collector, reads from their only hymnal. Aunt Alexandra explains that she should stay with the children for a while, to give them a “feminine influence.” Maycomb gives her a fine welcome: various ladies in the town bake her cakes and have her over for coffee, and she soon becomes an integral part of the town’s social life.Aunt Alexandra, meanwhile, takes over the Finch household and imposes her vision of social order.One day, Scout tries to ask Atticus what “rape” is, and the subject of the children’s trip to Calpurnia’s church comes up.A week after Dill’s arrival, a group of men led by the sheriff, Heck Tate, come to Atticus’s house in the evening. As his trial is nearing, Tom Robinson is to be moved to the Maycomb jail.The trial begins the next day. People from all over the county flood the town. Everyone makes an appearance in the courtroom, from Miss Stephanie Crawford to Mr. Dolphus Raymond, a wealthy eccentric who owns land on a river bank, lives near the county line, is involved with a black woman, and has mulatto children. Only Miss Maudie refuses to go, saying that watching someone on trial for his life is like attending a Roman carnival. the setting is obviously their town. the most important events that happen is the trial, taking the children to church, and dills arrival. these are important turning points in several of the characters lives. the tone or mood is rather stressful because of all of the he said she said going on and the trial, and with dills arrival. 

(6-11)Connector

Honestly, during these chapters I did not really make any major connections with the setting. If you take it at a broader approch then yeah sure a generalized town and school. However I did make some connections with the conflict of scout getting bored with school. I am extremely bored in school but I and people here do not get punished for being street educated. The characters in the text could be compared similar to my friends and other people I have met. The mischievious children in boo radley's yard could be compared with my weird friends running through other old men's yards. This story is not similar whatesoever with any other texts I have read. In our literature circle we learned that lots of people had connections with people they have met being like characters in the book.  However no literary devices were utilized.  It is said that this book will get better but it has yet too. I have had Zero Philosophical moments and very little connection to To Kill A Mockingbird Nothing in the current chapters has made this book at all worth while. The inner meaning of the whole book is obviously not prominent nor in that case important.

(1-5)Illuminator

The author in To Kill a Mockingbird uses imagery and great specifics and details to create a setting that we can clearly picture in our minds. The author uses several consecutive pages of description. The main symbol of the book is the title. To Kill a Mockingbird represents destroying innocence. a Mockingbird symbolizes innocence. One of the conflicts in To Kill a Mockingbird was Scout already knew how to read and write and Miss Caroline is very displeased and makes Scout feel guilty for being educated. The conflict between Miss Caroline and Scout was not resolved. The situation is made intense when Miss Caroline punishes scout for informing her about Walter Cunningham's situation. The overall tone of the first few chapters is kind of low key and gloomy especially since we are introduced to the radleys. If one of the characters was in our literature circles they would act more biased towards their point of view in the book. scout, dill and jem are scared of boo because of what others have said and apparently its not "right" to take your opinion from someone elses. Sometimes it feels necessary too though. if you have to hate someone and look down upon them and not associate with them because if you do then you get looked down upon from parents and other seniors then your obviously are not gonna take the scenario with a grain of salt. you are going to take it like it is and believe and agree with everyone elses opinions. In our literature circle there was very few "personal expieriences" this book is awful to "connect" to.