Blog #7

Choice B: Tell how the following characters respond to the jury's verdict: Jem, Aunt Alexandra, Dill, Miss Maudie, Bob Ewell.

Chapters 18-23

The jury's verdict was that Tom Robinson was guilty. Now weather the jury didn't wan't to vote for a black man or they believed Mayella Ewell is unsaid. But the reactions of the following people is like this...

JEM

He realized that it was unfair, but unlike scout, he didn't start to cry until they got home. He realized that Tom was innocent, and he was mad at the jury for being cowards and not defending him.

AUNT ALEXANDRA

She talked about it with her missionary group and said that she would have voted for Tom if she was in the jury.

DILL

He cried uncontrolably and was sad for Tom and his wife's sake.

MRS. MAUDEY

She was one of the only people in town who didn't go to the court house to watch what was happening. She was also at Aunt Alexandras missionary group and said she didn't think that it was their place to say what should or shounldn't have happened.

BOB EWELL

I'd emagine Mr. Ewell doing victory laps around the court room, but that would show that he wasn't tewlling the truth and had something to hide.

Blog # 6

Comparing me to Jem.

INSTRUCTIONS: Compare and contrast yourself to either Scout or Jem at their age. Compare and contrast your summer activities, friends, relationships with your dad, siblings, and adults.

Jem is one of my favorite characters in the book. He is always getting everyone into trouble, but would through his sister or Dill under a buss to keep from being yelled at. Unfortunately, I think that I can be like that some times, especially with my nephews. I guess that because your are older, you think that you're the responsible one, it just seems fit that the younger ones should be getting in trouble. Here are some other things that relate me to Jem.

In the summer, I always play pretend with my nephews, not go and play video games with kids my age. playing pretend is more fun because I get to act. We both want to be lawyers when we grow up, and me both have good relationships with our fathers. I think I sorta treat my nephews like Jem treats Scout and Dill, like little kids, like I'm the smart, elderly one, so I get to make all the rules. Also, when my niece is here, I sometimes don't play with her because me and the boys are playing boy games. I also have a lot of african american friends.

Some differences are that I still have both my parents, I don't have any younger siblings, I don't have a cook/maid/slave. I've never broken my arm, I don't live in the south, and I have a job. I think that Jem and me are alot alike. He is sly, mischeviouse, and unmistakably handsome. :)

Journal #5

Chapters 12, 13, & 14

Perspective Tom Robinson.

First Purchase is the greatest church in the world. While I was in jail, my poor wife Helen had no way of making any income, So reverend Sykes wouldn't let any body leave the church Until they had ten dollars all for her! An' my poor babies, they's is so hungry wifout me gettin' 'em any food. But thank god for that church! This week an' next week, they's is gonna gather ten dollars for Helen. An' I hear my frein' Calpernia brought Ol' Mr. Finch's Chillin to church with 'er. I always liked Mr. Finch. He's a good man, stickin' up fo' me in court. He's been sittin' with me in the jailhouse. Talking to me about his sister coming to live with him because she didn't want lil scout to grow up without a lady figure around the house. She wanted Cal to leave, But Mr. Finch Let her stay.I don't want to be here! All because of that damned Mr. Ewell! He even sent a mob of men down here to try to threaten me, possibly even to kill me! But thanks to Atticus, his daughter Scout, and Our sniper, I will live to see another day.

Journal #4
Chapters 10, 11, & 12
Perspective: Mrs. Dubose

I tell this tale from up in the skies. That negro lovin' Lawyer, Finch, had to shoot a crazy dog, wandrin' the streets th' other day. I can't stand that man. He won't teach his chilin any manners. The elder, Jeremy Atticus, used his own sisters new baton to chop down my beaytiful flowers I been growing. He was sent byhis father to apologize, an begrudgingly agreed to read a little bit to me every day. He always brought his sister with him, and she just sat there as he would read, I couldn't hear him, and I decided to push the clock back farther and farther to spend as much time as I could with them, before getting my preciouse morphine. And as our days came to a close, I just didn't want them to go. But I wasn't healthy enough for this kind of thing. The final person I saw was their father. I gave him a token for young Jeremy, but the flower was the last thing I had ever touched. Let's hope they don't start loving negros like their father, they start going to places like Th black avern or First Purchase church, they might not be joining me here in heaven.

Blog post number 3

perspective: Uncle jack

chapters 8-9

Well, right before I got here, snow started to fall. I have no idea how it happened, i mean, there hasn't been snow in macomb since me and Atty were kids. Also, A naibor of his whom had been letting lil Scout an' Jem to play in her yard had her house burn to the ground. Now, I'd never spoke to the lady, but she seemed to be pretty strong to be able to get through it all. I told Atty, I leave for a little while and all hell brakes loose.

Scout's been talking like that often. She finds pleasure in words like hell and damn. I was trying not to be the parent and let my brother do his job, but when she asked me to "pass the damn ham" I took her in the living room and had her sit on my lap.

She told me that she reckons she fancies words like that. I asked her to pardon herself to not use words like that anymore. Atticus said that she was just trying it on as all kids do, an' that she she would stop as soon as she realized it was't attracting any welcome attention.

then we went to see my sister Alex. Her grandson always gives Scout a hard time, but this time, it was Scout who punched him and called him a whore-lady. I was suprised, but I made her stand there. I aparently didn't let her share her side.

She said that Francais was saying that Atticus was a “nigger-lover.” I became furious. Not just with him, but with myself. Scout made me promise not to tell Atticus because Atticus had asked her not to fight anyone over what is said about him.

I promised and kept my word. because later, Scout overhears Atticus telling me that Tom Robinson is innocent but doomed, since it’s inconceivable that an all-white jury would ever acquit him. I had to keep myself from talking about what Scout told me today.

I'm on page 208 with my book, "Divine Madness" and James, Lauren and Dana had moved into the place where the survivors live. It had a A girl named Eve took James to a care home where they sold items to the people at the home. Elliot, a persuasive man from the Survivors, tries to make them donate their money to the survivors ark. He succeeds with this one woman who is fond of James. But when her son hears that she leaving all her money to some cult of whack-jobs, he comes down to the home and starts yelling at James and Elliot when they enter. The son grabs a knife and stabs Elliot, while James grabs the coffee maker and smashes it into the back of his head. One of the Survivor's attornies decides that the best way to make sure that James keeps his mouth shut about this is if he is sent away from all the survivors. She asks James if he would like to go to the ark, where the founder of the Survivors lives. He said he would like it if his sisters could come with him. She said that Lauren could, but Dana had a "Special Job" back with the survivors.

At the Ark, James and Joel Regan's (Founder of the Survivors) son Rat, get in trouble and get put in a metal-walled detention center. James realizes that Rat is may be a vital key this case.

I am on page 108 of my book. It started out with Bruce, Kerry, and Kyle, three other agents for Cherub, under cover in hong-kong. They discovered that a boy who went to their school their was part of a terrorist group (Help Earth) and had to foil his plans and take down the one who was giving him directions.

James, his sister lauren, and a girl named Dana have all ben sent into a town in Australia near a religious cult named the Survivors. They have been suspected to be in a partnership with Help Earth, so these three highly trained Cherubs will go undercover as siblings with their "Mother", an ASIS (Australian Secret Inteligance Service) member.There main goal is to first get in with the Survivors, but not to be taken spell by their mind control techniques.

On James' first day at school, James met with Survivors from his class, Ruth, and her brother. He is hassled a small bit, but he is a well built Cherub agent, and the students don't mess with him. However, Lauren gets hassled by two girls in her class, calling her names and stealing her sweets, but when one of them stabs Lauren with a protractor, Lauren punches back. Because she was new and the girls were trouble makers, she was let off the hook, but was told she had to meet with a student counselor. Lauren was amazed to find out that the student was a Survivor! She couldn't believe that they would let a bunch of loonies counsel other students! The Survivor, Mary, invited Lauren and her family to come and visit their Survivor commune, so the mission is working so far so good!

I am reading the book "Divine Madness". It is the fifth in the CHERUB series about a spy group of all ten to eighteen-year-olds. They go on missions to retrieve files and take down big-time crooks.

I chose to read this book because I have read the other four in the series and I really enjoy reading them because it is written very descriptively and realistically.

There is a very cool part at the beggining of the books where they print out the mission breifing. They give you all of the back story of the villains and the Role that the cherubs have to offer.

The story centers around James Adams and his sister Lauren as they go through deadly missions together.