don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird." (p. 88)
Jem realizes that Atticus is someone willing to do the difficult things other people would not, such as killing the rabid dog no one would face. Later, Jem exemplifies his father's courage when he refuses to leave Atticus's side when the lynch mob comes to kill Tom Robinson. Jem and ...
In other words, Bob Ewell kills mockingbirds, something Atticus identifies as a chief sin. Mockingbirds are symbolic in the novel of innocents: they only exist to "sing their hearts out for us," and hence should never be killed. To kill one is akin to killing pure beauty, something Bo...
Nothing must be done hastily but killing of fleas. 除非要捉跳蚤,做事不可匆忙。 来自《简明英汉词典》 59 tune n.调子;和谐,协调;v.调音,调节,调整 参考例句: He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子,并在钢琴上弹给我们听。 The boy beat out a tune on a ...
It is because the father in this story told the children that no matter how many blue birds you shoot, killing a mockingbird is a sin. For they don't destroy other people's gardens or make nests in the corn.They just sing for theirselves. It is just like black people in the United ...
and that Boo is actually responsible for killing Ewell, thus saving her and Jem's lives. In spite of Atticus' insistence to the contrary, the sheriff refuses to press charges against Boo. Scout agrees with this decision and explains her understanding to her father. Boo sees Jem one more ti...
Yeah, says Scout: it would be (title alert) like killing a mockingbird. Chapter 31 Scout leads Boo to Jem's bed, where Boo looks at Jem "as though he had never seen a boy before" (31.9).She's got a knack for sensing Boo's mute communications. When she realizes he wants to ...
That’s Atticus’s attitude towards the mockingbirds, the African-Americans, the men who are feared and disgusted by the uninformed. And that’s also the author wants everyone to be. That’s also the aim of not killing a mockingbird. ...
How could this be so, I wondered, as I read Mr. Underwood's editorial. Senselesskilling -- Tom had been given due process of law to the day of his death; he had beentried openly and convicted by twelve good men and true; my father had fought for him allthe way. Then Mr. Underwoo...
their investigative glare from the inhumane travesty conducted in Philadelphia—the mutilated, mass killing of born-alive infants within the seedy walls of the Women’s Medical Society Clinic by a certain Doctor Kermit Gosnell. This ‘Doctor’ eschewed the Hippocratic oath and human decency. Instead...