In the book bad boys on chapter 5 it talks about him in the class room and Mrs. Conway getting on to Myers. As it stated on page 45 she dropped all the pieces on my desk. “Then made me pick them up and take them to the garbage can while the class laughed. Then she went to her closet, snatched out a book, and put it in front of me.” She sputtered “you are a bad boy.” Walter and his friends tried to hang Richard because that is what lynched meant to them. The pastor was shocked because lynch meant something worse to the pastor. Walter met Jackie Robinson when he was a child. Jackie Robison was a famous baseball player. Walter realized that he had a speech problem when the kids started laughing at him when he started talking to the class. In
As I read the beginning of chapter 12 Jem 's hit the middle school years, and everyone knows what that means: he 's angsty, moody, prone to prolonged silences broken by angry outbursts, and he all of a sudden thinks Scout should act like a girl. Also the story says that Jem is now the age of twelve, but he is now starting to get to the age where he doesn 't want to hang out with Scout and also feels annoyed. Also to add to Scout’s trouble, Dill will not be coming to Maycomb this summer, but Calpurnia eases her loneliness. What is even worse that Atticus has been called by the state legislature and to come into a special session and is away for two weeks. Calpurnia doesn 't trust Jem and Scout to go to church by themselves (there was a past
In Chapter 12 of Harper Lee’s, To Kill a Mockingbird, there are many events and situations in which irony is used to support the theme of the chapter. An example of this is in the very beginning of the chapter, when Scout is concerned about how distant and moody Jem is acting, and asks Atticus, “’Reckon he’s got a tapeworm?’” (Lee 153), to which Atticus replies no, and that Jem is growing. This is dramatic irony because the readers understand that Jem is acting oddly because he’s growing, but Scout doesn’t know this until she asks Atticus about it. This quote supports the theme of Chapter 12 by showing when Jem started to grow distance from Scout, getting aggravated with her and telling her to stop bothering him, and shows how the children