HIPPIE Man!

What can we learn about humanity?

The most obvious, and most likely the most prevalent to show up on people’s blogs, is that bad things happen to both good and bad people. Job was fearful of God and performed good tasks constantly to appease God, and prevent any mishaps to him and his family. Despite the sacrifices and steady loyalty, Job still lost hiis family and his livestock.

What can we learn about God?

God seems a bit over confident. I don’t have much to say on this subject.

What can we learn about relationships?

God shows trust in Job by proposing a test for him, but he seems a wee bit foolhardy telling Satan to test him. God does seem careless to Jobs Feeligs, because he gave permission to Satan to kioll his family. Also, God and Satan are always portrayed as opposites, but they both seem to get along.

What can we learn about Job and his family?

Job seems to seperate from his family because of his moral beliefs. Job is afraid of God and sin alike. He burns sacrafices for God to give forgiveness for any sins that his kids might have committed. This either shows that the rest of his family is less uptight, or it shows that Job has a lack of trust for his kids. His wife also asks him to give up his integrity and curse God.

                The area in my life, that I can remember, when I felt that I was subjected to the “pigs”, was when I participated in the Gifford Middle School band. The “pig” in this situation would have been my band director, Mr. Anonymous. All of the students in band, decided to join because they wanted to learn music and play an instrument. Many students walked out of band not knowing anything about music. Plus, he wasn’t a very good teacher

                 Overall, Mr. A taught us very little. He taught us how to read music for about one day, and he expected us to remember for the rest of the year. Also, he barely taught us how to play our insruments, since he was only a trumpet player. It was apparent by the third year that all he wanted was more prestige for him and his program.

Overall I thought that the trial was very good. It’s obvious that it had its pros and cons.

Starting with the cons, I didn’t like the amount of time that we had to work. The first weeks, we didn’t completely understand what was going on. Not until the last week did we figure it out, and that is when the true work started to begin. It could be because of the lack of time, but I could tell some people, including me, were not quite prepared. I also don’t like the idea of a group grade. I hope the group grade doesn’t reflect the work effort of hard working individuals. 

As for the pros, I enjoyed everybody give their speech or prosecution. I thought the prosecutions were great because you had to improvise based on the knoledge you had of the book. Another thing that I liked about the trial was getting out early, even if that never happens again.

Despite having more cons than pros, I did think that the trial was great.

Both Tom and Mayella were raised in poverty and both were abused(Mayella by her dad, Tom by prejudice society). I found that these are the two most obvious and prominent similarities between the two witnesses.

In my point of view I found more differences than similarities. For instance, Mayella is lonely while Tom lives in a close knit society, has a wife, and has two kids. She is rejected by all society; Tom is only rejected by racists.

In conclusion, despite being more different, Yom and Mayella are closer together than the people of Maycomb would like to believe.

My opinion on whether the scene in which Scout saves her father and Tom is that it is realistic(to a certain point). I also believe that Scout’s actions were not out of character. Despite seeming very unrealistic I consider the taming of the mob possible and fitting for the story.

Personally I view this scene as one that brings the reader back to Earth. Before, the book has portrayed Scout almost as an adult. People consider Scout a child in the book, but because the book is set in her perspective it emphasizes how advanced(ability to read) and mature she is for her age. The reason the scene is crucial to the story is because it shows the reader that Scout is still a child, and children act on impulse at times.

From what I understand Scout has the ability to see evil in the world clearly, but because she acted on impulse, she didn’t understand what was going on until she is already within the crowd. Once in the crowd, Scout’s actions were only explained to me as trying to do whatever possible (not including kicking) to save Atticus.

If I do know why mockingbirds are a central metaphor, I don’t know how to explain it. One possibility is that what it represents could be a major theme from the book.

I can only think of two ideas about what that quote means. My first idea is that mockingbirds represent the African American race. Stating that all that mockingbirds do is sing their hearts out could be reference to te church scene. My other idea is that mockingbirds represent the children. This is because mockingbirds repeat sounds from other things. An example in the story similar to this is when Scout talks to Atticius and she keeps on saying “nigger”. Atticus tells her not to use the word. She was using the word because other people were using it at school.

The incident between Scout and Uncle Jack is an example of the importance of point of view because he would of made a mistake if he did not think about Scout’s point of view at all. It shows how by being inconsiderate by not not respecting or listening to others viewpoints treachery in the world might go unjustified.

I think that point of view will play a big part in the Tom Robinson case.

Scout, Jem, and Dill all are leading fair lives. All sem to have had some sort of education, and all have grown up as the dominent race in the racial south at the time. I do see that in the book Dill questions Jem’s authority as the leader of the group. It’s obvious that Boo Radley could represent fear, but to me I wonder if that is too obvious. Boo Radley still remains mostly a mystery throughout part 1; I think that we will see more of him in part 2.

As an idea to throw out there, it’s possible that Boo Radley represents misunderstanding. I don’t know how if that’s right. There was racial tension when talking about Boo earlier in the book, but that could be just gossip from the local townsfolk. Boo Radley will be explained later in the book.

One of the things I’ve never understood about people, is why they have a grudge against vegetarians. Please leave a comment and tell me why. Thank you.

I don’t really think I’m a hippie. Does it count if I eat granola?

What’s up with the freaky, little smilie face off to the side of the sreen. It just stares and stares. It kinda scares me…………..yeah.