Monday, June 26, 2006
@7:38 AM
it has been a LONG time since i last blogged. hahah. anyway bowling camp was quite fun! hahah. bunked with michelle florry cheryl jinnie. yupp. but grace and jas came over too.
left at 9 on friday for malaysia. didn't do anything much, so boring lah. no sale! that's really bad): cos i went there to shop. bot very little things. oh and ther was a ice skating competition there too. very nice! some competitors were from singapore. haha.
anyway i missed so many things! like the bbq at trina's and tania's. training and interclub.):
okok. back to work. first day of new smester. and i'm already loaded with homework):
arghhh!
1 chinese compre
2 to kill a mockingbird essay (shit!)
3 math inverse proportion
4 read that da chang jin book. and test is on thursday.DIE!
5 home econs one dish meal.
6 life science human genetic whatever.
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8
i can't remember!
notes for TKAM! i found this! and i have to like rewrite it using some information from here.): i wanna sleep!
Analysis: Chapters 7–8
Originally portrayed as a freak and a lunatic, Boo Radley continues to gain the sympathy of the children in these chapters. Lee uses an elliptical technique in telling Boo’s story—she hints and implies at what is happening without ever showing the reader directly. The reader must read between the lines—inferring, for instance, that it was Boo Radley who mended Jem’s pants and placed the presents in the tree, since Scout does not realize that Boo’s hand is at work until Jem explains things to Atticus after the fire.
In comparison to Scout’s still very childish perspective, Jem’s more mature understanding of the world is evident here, along with his strong sense of justice. When Nathan Radley plugs up the hole in the tree, Scout is disappointed but hardly heartbroken, seeing it as merely the end of their presents. Jem, on the other hand, is brought to tears, because he grasps that Boo’s brother has done something cruel: he has deprived Boo of his connection to the wider world and has broken up his brother’s attempt at friendship. This incident, which the reader must detect behind the scenes of Scout’s narrative, plays into the novel’s broad theme of suffering innocence, and Jem’s anger at this injustice foreshadows his later fury concerning Tom Robinson’s trial. While Scout retains her innocence and optimism throughout the book, Jem undergoes severe disillusionment as part of his “growing up,” and the Boo Radley incident in this chapter is an important early step toward that disillusionment.
The implicit comparison between Boo’s soap figures and Jem and Scout’s snowman reveals the difference in how each party interacts with others. Whereas Boo carves his figures out of a desire to connect with the two kids, Jem and Scout craft their snowman out of a dislike for Mr. Avery. Further, Boo doesn’t make his carvings for himself; rather, he offers them as presents. Jem and Scout, on the other hand, make the snowman purely for their own enjoyment. Boo interacts with others on their terms, while the children, not yet mature, interact with others on their own terms.
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wonder of your love
