6-11 Illuminator

     As I was reading through chapters six though eleven, I noticed there were symbols throughout the whole time. The one that stood out to me the most was the dog. It seems weird but I think that it wsa the dog because to me it symbolized Atticus showing the kids that he isn't just a lame old lawyer, but he still has "One Shot Finch" inside of him from when he was a boy, when he shot the dog. I noticed that in chapters six through eleven, the author, Harper Lee, shows an excellent setting by just the way she dicribes eac hand every season. For example, when she is discribing the first time it snows in Maycomb, and the children are making snowmen out of mostly dirt and then covering them in a top layer of snow, is a good example of the type of setting Harper Lee shows in the chapters. Every section of the book has conflict and resolution and I felt the need to tell you about at least one of them. The dog, towards the end of the section, is the perfect example of man vs. nature in a way that the man, all of the people, and the nature, the dog, are in a conflict and resoulution situation. To make this conflict intense, Harper Lee made the dog mad or in my opinion rabid. This man vs. nature conflict was settled when Atticus Finch was handed the gun and shot the dog, reminding him of his days as "One Shot Finch". This was the easiest method to solve the conflict because the dog didn't belong to anyone and they could risk anyone being hurt. In this section of the book, I felt that the emotion was off and on. What I mean by that is there were parts where the mood was soft, like when Atticus told Jem and Scout told them about not killing the Mockingbird because it is a soft, delicate creature. Or the mood was harsh like when Scout fought his cousin for saying bad things about his father. If I was one of the characters in the book, and I was at my literature circle, I would be Boo Radley. I think that if I were him, I would just be huddled over in my own little corner, not wanting to talk to anybody.
     The discussion that I had in my literature went well. It was the first actual literature circle we had and we didn't have the Connector. Colby and Paige were the Directors. They talked about the director questions as well as the extra questions