1 REFLECTION

Now I read the first two chapters and I think it is a nice and funny book. Sometimes a bit difficult to read because it's written in excellent English. At the beginning for example I didn't realised that Scout the narrator is a girl. I thought she's a boy.

Two things are a bit confusing yet:

• Whats the meaning of the title? To kill a Mockingbird - It makes no sence for me yet. It will be answered later. I finded out that Mockingbirds are little birds who likes to copy the songs of other birds or the sound of Insects. And I know that a main theme of the book is the segregation and humiliation of races. So a Mockinbird could be a sign for all humans are the same: humans. A Mockingbird looks different from other birds but the somgs are the same. So if someone would kill a Mockingbird, he distroys this sign and thzat means he would make differents between races.
• What's the mistery of the Readlys and their house? The Readlys are strange People and the Readly Place is a dark and frightening place. I think this People an their place will be important for the story.

"The Readly Place jutted into a sharp curve beyond our house. Walking south, one face its porch; the sidewalk turned and ran beside the lot. The house was low, was once white with a deep front porch and green shutters, but long ago darkened to the colour of the slate grey yard around it. Rain-rotten shingles drooped over the eaves of the veranda; oak trees kept the sun away. The remains of a picket drunkenly guarded the front yard - a 'swept' yard that was never swept-where johnson grass and rabbit-tabacco grew in abundance." - A difficult sequence that describe the Readly Place.

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