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The importance of Jem and Scout sitting in the colored booth during the trial can be related to other parts of the book. The kids are primarily in the booth to be able to see their father Atticus and the trial, because they were unable to get a seat in the rest of the courtroom. The reverend brings them up there because they knew each other previously. However, they sitting up there is symbolic because they don’t care being up in a colored booth with black people. This is not because they are ignorant, but because they aren’t racist and don’t see anything wrong with being with black people. This goes hand in hand with them wanting to see the trial, where they what happens to the defendant, Tom Robison. After going to church with black people and their caretaker, Calpurnia, they have a different perspective on the case, seemingly with more respect for black people. To conclude, the seating of the children has a certain impact on their attitude to the case.
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The writing style of the story changes significantly during the trial portion of the book, and this affects the reader’s perspective of it. Throughout the chapters previous to the trial part of the book, the story is narrated exclusively through Scout, using her opinions and thoughts to give the reader her perspective. However, once the trial begins, the narration changes to more fact based, with less opinion involved. In fact, the story seems less like it is being narrated through a person, and instead appears to being told outright with less of a bias. With the exception of the dialogue between Scout and Jem, the trial is narrated in more of a third person perspective for the most part. Finally, the tone goes from childhood problems innocence, to a racist attitude. Since neither Jem nor Scout ever showed signs of racism, it would be difficult to display this tone through their perspective. The tone is an important part of a story, and in order to convey certain ideas it must be changed at times.
My representation of these chapters is an cartoon of alienation. I chose this as my representation because that is what Scout feels like when aunt Alexandra moves in with them. The shifting of power upsets Scout because it completely changes her life.
The writing is relatively clear and easy to follow, few specific examples and quotes thought. The writing follows does follow and relate to the general ideas of the book, such as referencing racism and children's point of views. The webs appear to be complete and in depth and clearly explain what they should. The representation however, is quite literal, and this is simple as it could possibly be. overall I would give an 80-85% for this blog post, it has a few simplicities that could be better, but all in all, it was pretty well done.
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