Dec 15, 2009

To Kill a Mockingbird | Ideas for Reports and Papers

1. When Aunt Alexandria forbids Scout to associate with Walter Cunningham because she considers him "trash," Scout and Jem have a discussion about family background and what makes one type of family different from another in Maycomb. Jem tells Scout: "There's four kinds of folks in the world. There's the ordinary kind like us and the neighbors, there's the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods, the kind like the Ewells down at the dump, and the Negroes.. .Background doesn't make Old Family...I think it's how long your family's been readin' and writin'." Scout disagrees with him,...