Chapter 12-16 Connector

     During this reading session, I made some connections to my life in Kalispell, Montana. I thought that Kalispell is like Maycomb because of the people. Most places in Kalispell have friendly people that will you find what you need. I think that there are also people like Dill in the fact that they live with other people. You usually find them buy Target and Wal-Mart. I also made a connection between the fight between Scout and Jem. My brother and I always fight and they usually end in a bloody nose or two. Then right after the fight, it's like nothing ever even happened.There are people in real life that are just like the characters in the story. I related Dill to the people who are at the Hutton Ranch Plaza earlier in the blog. As I was reading, I tried to think of another story or book that I have read that was similar to the book TKMB. Then I realized that I don't read books and so I couldn't. But if there was a book full of racism, discrimination, and stereotypes, then that would be the book that I read that was similar. While on the topic of discrimination, our literature circle was making connections from the story to our life. I made the connection that parents had a huge impact on kids. My connection was when I was young, it was Halloween and I was at DQ with my family. A black girl that was dressed up as a cowboy walked in and I yelled, "Look Mom! A chocolate cowgirl!". That just proves that your parents have a huge impact on your early life.
     During the course of our literature circle, we discussed each of our jobs. There were things that we realized in the story that we didn't before. The main thing was the fact that some blacks didn't like the whites just like some whites didn't like blacks. As a group, we decided that one of the most important parts in this section was the fact that Aunt Alexandria came to live with the Finch's. We thought this because Scout was not being lady-like and she came to fix it. This stirred up a few fights and breakdowns. Along with Aunt Alexandria coming, the breaking of the childhood code, telling Atticus that Dill was in the house and he wanted to call his parents. Our literature circle thought that the tone of this section was kind of conflicting because in one part it would be all calm and then the next one would be all violent. We also concluded that Aunt Alexandria was really stuck up.