TKAM Journal 9: Jems POV

There was something allegedly following us; we just didn’t know what it was. Scout and I were just coming back from the Halloween pageant when she had forgotten her shoes and we had decided to get them tomorrow because when we had turned around to go back, the lights had turned off. We kept walking towards the house, but I couldn’t help but notice that there was a shuffling behind us so I knew it was neither Scout nor me. It’s probably Cecil again, I tried to tell myself but I knew in the back of my mind that it wasn’t. Scout started talking so I couldn’t hear the noise anymore. “Hush a minute, Scout,” I said trying to put emphasis in my voice.
She took my request literally and a minute later she was talking again, “Whatcha thinkin’ about?” she asked.
“Thought I heard something,” I answered to her, knowing what I heard but not wanting to worry her. “Stop a minute,” I half asked, half commanded. As we stopped walking the sound behind us stopped almost in unison. This could be an inconvenience, I thought dryly to myself. Scout started to argue with me about me trying to scare her but I tried to ignore my annoyance and explained to her I was serious.
We realized the person following us could see scouts costume so we tried to change her into her dress but she reckon she couldn’t get it on in the dark. We kept walking; increasing our pace so that we would get home faster and not have to worry about our pursuer. As we walked faster I guess whoever was behind us realized they were getting further away and started in a run. I knew this person wasn’t Cecil so I consented to my careful assessment and screamed to Scout “RUN!” as loud as my voice would be. But she stumbled because of her costume and I saw some hands blocking out the glitter so I knew she was got. I ran back to help her, jumping on the man behind her. Flailing my arms and legs as hard as I could, I kicked and punch at whatever I felt, when his grip on me receded I ran back to scout and picked her up trying to get her to run but she was extremely hindered by the costume which made her move at a snails pace. As we half walked-ran my hand was grabbed by the unknown entity behind us and I was ripped away from my sister. The man had grabbed my arm and now held my in a lock I couldn’t escape. Not only that by he was twisting my arm so hard that I thought I my just fall off. I knew that I would have rather had my arms twisted a million times like that rather then have the pain that came from the sickening crack of my bone. I wondered absently why we were being persecuted but the thought was knocked out of my mind when my head was banged against a rock hard root of the old oak, everything went black.

TKAM Journal 8: Cecil Jacobs POV

All I’d wanted to do was have a nice talk to the class about my event. I just wanted to go up, recite my speech, and then sit back down. Did that happen? Of course not! My five minutes of fame inconveniently turned into a discussion with the class that I did not lead. Miss Gates stole all of my credit and now Jean Louise was the star, having answered he hard question. Now we got into a big talk about democracy when all I asked for was a little praise for my choice in articles. I raised my hand each time to try and redeem myself but she just wouldn’t look in my direction. Even though that made me mad, I had to admit, the talk we were having was a very god one so I consented to let it continue. People were interested in the fact that it was happening now, also people didn’t understand why this Hitler guy was doing all the things that he was doing. The overall assessment of the class was that he was an all around evil guy for persecuting people for no reason. Even though I didn’t really understand why he did it, I knew he was wrong.

TKAM Journal 7: Calpernia's POV

As I walked down the sidewalk thinking about what I would do to them rascals when I got me hands on them. I walked into town hoping that they were at the court house where I was guessing them to be. As I walked in I saw that it was an important part so I stood at the back of the court house waiting for Atticus to finish talking so that I could hand him the letter that Miss. Alexandra had wrote. As I walked up the isle I looked for the little ones but I didn't see them, left or right. I headed up to Atticus and asked the judge if I could hand him a letter. As I handed it to him I saw a sad look on his face that showed that he really hoped that he won. As soon as I said what the letter was about Mr. Underwood pointed out to us that all them children were just yonder in the balcony, right next to the reverend. As I walked briskly to the stairs I saw them coming down and I couldn't help but be relived when I saw them. But that feeling was soon overcome with anger when I saw that smug look on Jems face.

We walked back to the house, the two little ones mostly in silence and Jem trying to tell me about the case, but I didn't let him. Every time he would try to talk I wold shush him with my complains upon his behavior.

TKAM Journal 2: Dill's POV

It was when I came back to Maycomb that Scout, Jem and I came up with the funniest game yet, the Boo Radley game. We ran around acting out the Radley stories. I had to admit I was a chameleon in this game, one moment I would be Boo teetering side to side then I would Mr.Radley, in tyranny tying people up. We were reenacting the stabbing since when Atticus came out tormenting us in my opinion. We ran around, trading the characters up in a wild game of Radley tag when I tried dodging Scout evasively and ended up falling over, the most amazing thing happened, I looked over at the Radley house and I saw the curtains of the front window move, when no one was home. I never told them about it either, I would save this story for when I really had to distract someone.

TKAM Journal 1: Jem's POV

Me and Scout were walking to Ms. Rachel’s house because we heard something in her collard patch. We were hoping it was puppies cause her dog was expecting but instead we saw some sort of midget in them. Even though we’d never meet a midget before we decided to preserver and find out the truth about him. What we soon found out was that it was just some short kid who had moved here for the summer, he was an eccentric type of boy. Since we were indigenous to the area we took it upon ourselves to show him round. We told him about all the people in the houses till we came to the Radley’s. We started to tell him the scariest stories about them but he just got more exited, that irked me. Later then we were playing and he dared me to run up to the house. Of course I was scared but I didn’t want to show it, not in front of my young audience. We made a compromise an all I had to do was touch the house so I ran up fast as I could and touched it and ran all the way home not turning to look back.

TKAM Journal 4: Mrs.Dubose POV

So he would come and read to me, bringing that little girl who I was to stubborn to admit was just as pretty as her mother. He would sit on a chair next to my bed and read to me until the pain was too much, until his words were inaudible. Then I would lay there until Jessie would wake me up. My world was a plain place but it be better than the fog that those drugs put me into. Then he would come again and read to me, even though he contradicted me and made mistakes, I’ll admit he must be a lot more educated than his contemporaries. One day the alarm clock that was keeping me going stopped ringing; it was then that I knew the great peril of addiction was over. Also it showed that my time was coming up fast. When ever they would come over I tried to look inconspicuous of my coming time. I knew that if I showed any kinda sign that it was coming that they would start being nicer and showing sympathy but I didn’t need that right now. I wanted to remain my self to the last minute. No matter what in the end I would be the same cantankerous lady I was in the beginnin’.

TKAM Journal 3: Atticus POV

I woke up the kids, trying not to show any alarm at what was happening. I could see it in scouts eyes that she wanted to know what was going on, but I evasively looked away. I knew that she had figured it out when there was that look of simple awe and freight on her face. We walked outside where they finally saw the blaze of the fire. It was climbing atop the first floor onto the second. I entrusted Scout to Jem and told them to wait by the Radley yard where they would be safe from the fire.
All of the men who weren’t helping the firefighters went to help get Miss Maudies things from her house. While most of them were wasting time with the beds and dressers I went straight for what I knew she would need most, her rocking chair, the object the she loves and uses the most. As I carried it out all were mostly done with her furniture, all but Mr. Avery. As I yelled back for him to hurry it up I ran out of the door and set down the rocker. As I looked back up to the house I saw that Mr. Avery was stuck trying to climb out of the window and when he got out I couldn’t help but sigh. I looked adjacent house to see two police men debating near Ms.Muadie. I walked over to her and was about to talk but the perplexity on her face hid all her emotions from me. Even though we didn’t talk I knew that I was helping her by just being there. As she sat in silence watching her only place to go burn down, I saw one tear slide down her cheek before she quickly brushed it away.

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Quote 1: “What’s a DNR?” my father asked Bob in Creole.
“It’s a piece of paper that says if you die, you don’t want to be brought back to life and kept alive by machines,” Bob explained.
“No,” my father told the doctor. “I don’t want to be kept alive by machines. There’s already enough suffering.”
-a conversation between Bob and his Father, page 236

Significance: I choose this quote because however much her father tries not to show he’s in pain and suffering, it shows that he still is but he doesn’t want his family to worry about him. Also it also tells us that he’d rather die when he was going to than go on suffering the way that he is right now. I really feel sympathy for him because of his condition and the pain that he is going through.

Question 1: How would you feel if you heard your father say this? Would it make you realize what’s really happening?

Quote 2: Looking at Nick, my uncle said, “Maxo, I’ll be sad to die without seeing you again.” Then turning to Bob, he said, “Isn’t that right, Mira?”
He called me Ino, the name of his dead sister.
“Ino knows I’m right,” he said. Then closing his eyes once more, he added, “Kite zetwal yo tonbe.” Let the stars fall.
-said by Edwidges uncle (when she was 6), page 240

This quote was really scary to me because they all thought that he was going to die right then and must have been overjoyed when he lived. But it also is sad because she is pretty much going through her uncle dying twice in a lifetime. It must be really hard on her considering he was like a father to her growing up.

Question 2: Can you imagine what it would be like if you had to go through a close person in your family dying twice in your life?

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Quote 1: The last line indicated that my uncle was in the grievances section of the national police’s investigation and anti-gang unit. And as if to remove any hope that the matter he was complaining about might actually be looked into, the word complaining about might actually be looked into, the word “investigation” was misspelled in the department letterhead.
-thought by unknown, page 200

Significance: I thought that this was pretty much stating that the police weren’t going to do anything about it, in fact they didn’t care. This really shows you how corrupt the police are and how different it is from other places around the world. But it can also be the same because there are a lot of corrupt police and politicians across the world.

Question 1: Who was the one that was thinking this?

Quote 2: “They have papers,” I tried to explain.
“I’m sorry,” he said, “but I have two flights coming in.” Then he hung up.
-said by Edwidge and a flight helper, page 210
Significance: I thought that this really said how much people are unwilling to help other people when they don’t like their certain race or they just at introverts and don’t like talking or helping other people. I really feel sorry for them because now they will have to go down to it and get them.

Question 2: Why are some people so mean?

Exibits Reflection

Part 1: From Haven to Home
When we went to this exhibit in class I really was astounded by the about of history that Jewish people have in America, I never really thought that they came to America until after World War II. I saw a lot of things that made me more conscience of their culture like how there was an add campaign a while ago that promoted different races getting along better. I thought that this exhibit was really important because it makes more people aware of what they, and all immigrants for that matter, have to go to even once they get to the United States they have a lot of trouble. I think that’s this exhibit really completes its purpose because it travels the world telling more about the hardships of immigrants.
Part 2: Children of Immigrants
1. I saw photo of some girls walking through the streets of New York with traditional Mexican dresses on and as I read the caption I saw that they were the only ones in the picture celebrating Mexican Independence Day. I saw that other people in the picture were looking at them and this made me feel like they were all alone. I thought that they were worried about what people thought.
2. "America has everything we need: technology, goods. At least one person from every nation lives here. People immigrate to America because they know it's a land of freedom and a better life. I see America as the land of opportunities" from Tamara Frank from Poland. I thought that this quote really cause me to look at the way America really is and how it gives immigrants a sense of hope when they come over like they can accomplish anything.
3. I read a essay about a girls family and how they were treated in America and it made me really sad to see that she was sad in some of it. But she was also grateful that her family wasn’t poor and her parents had jobs which really made me feel for her.

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Quote 1: “The next time I wear it,” said my uncle, “will be at my own funeral.”
-said by Uncle Joseph, page 152
Significance: This quote stood out to me because most people don’t think like that, thinking about what they will where in a coffin and it shows me how much her whole family thinks about. They look not only days into the future but years.
Question 1: Doesn’t he show that he’s sad about his wife?
Quote 2: More, please, I wanted to say. Please tell me more. Both of you, together, tell me more. About you. About me. About all of us. But my father began coughing, so my uncle leaned over and whispered, “Ush, Mira. Just rest.”
Significance: This really shows how much she wants to learn about her past but it also shows how much her father’s health is a hindrance. I really hope that she can find all the letters sent back and forth.
Question 2: Who is Fedo?

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Quote 1: “The X-rays have returned,” he said, looking only at my uncle. His voice was slightly distorted by the mask, so he raised it slightly to make sure my uncle heard him. “There’s a problem.”
He knew that Uncle Joseph couldn’t speak and didn’t expect a reply.
“The children,” he said, glancing momentarily at Bob and me, “Appear to have tuberculosis.”
-said by the doctor on page 99
Significance: The reason that I choice this quote was because it changes the whole story, which means that they will have to stay in Haiti for another 6 months and won’t be able to see their family. I’m pretty sure that they will either go back to America to get a doctor or if they can’t, they will stay and their family will come to them. I really hate that another thing has to happen to ruin her life again; she just keeps getting devastating blows.
Question 1: Will her family come to her or will she head back?

Quote 2: “Don’t forget,” he told us, looking at our face at last. “Every morning when you take your pills, you’re closer to New York.”
-said by the doctor page 101
Significance: I thought that this quote showed them the hope in the situation. Even when they might have thought that there was none, it still showed through. I think that this was really important because now they will be more eager to get better.
Question 1: How will the situation that their daughter is in effect her parents?

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Quote 1:”One day this will stop,” my mother told him. Then she ran home, crying.
Page 55, said by Edwidge’s mother
Significance: I chose this quote because it really made me sad to think that because of her pride, her mother didn’t want to get help from anyone else and that because she had no money at all, she had to drop the children off at their uncles house in order to eat. This shows how much she loves them, because she didn’t stay to eat, she went home and worked.
Question 1: Why does she choose to not care about herself and treat herself bad?
Quote 2: “I knew it,” she shouted. “I knew you’d act like this. I’m pregnant, not ungrateful.”
Page 78, said by Marie Micheline
Significance: I choose this quote because it really shows some of the culture of the people in this book. If you read the whole chapter you’d see that she was sent away because she was pregnant and the father didn’t admit to his family that he was the father. This shows how much of their culture revolves around respect.
Question 2: Why would Tante Denise send her away that quick, why didn’t she wait to see what the guy would do?

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Quote 1: "I closed my eyes and held my breath, forcing myself to recite it as a mantra. My father is dying and I'm pregnant."-Edwidge Danticat's thoughts- Page 15
Significance: I chose this quote because it really reflects on the reality of their situation and life in general. The world doesn't stop for anyone and you have to face that. you cant just sit on the ground somewhere and cry like Edwidge Danticat, the author of this book, you have to get up and keep moving on or you will be left behind.
Personal: I feel connected to this quote because I felt like I saw my grandfather dying even though I didn't notice at the time because of my young age. Ever time I went to Wisconsin to see him, which was about every summer, he was less energetic and more frail. I know how its like watching someone deteriorate before your own eyes.
Question: Why isn't she happy about having a baby?
Quote 2: My father drew in his breath, something that required a great deal of effort and thus resulted in a grimace-like contortion of his face. "I don't-I can't- remember every moment. But what I can say is this. I haven't enjoyed myself in the sense of party and glory. I haven't enjoyed myself in the sense of party and glory. I haven't seen a lot of places and haven't done that many things, but I've had a good life."-Edwidge Danticat's Father- Page 20-21
Significance: This quote shows that all you have to do is be surrounded by the people that you love in order to have a good life. No matter what you go through in your life, you will always be happy around your friends and family.
Personal: This quote made me happy because I felt that only a selfless person would say that which reassures me that this book is a good one. Also my family is whats most important to me so we have something in common.
Question: Why is he taking his death like a business proposal?