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We have been reading the book “To Kill a Mockingbird”. There is alot of very important and interesting things in this book. We have read almost half the book and it has been very fun to do. I believe chapter 1 is the most important chapter in the whole book. Out of all the chapters this specific one is the most important to me for several reasons. Chapter 1 is the first chapter in the book, so it has to have some meaning or no one would want to continue on reading.
Chapter 1 is the chapter where most of the characters are introduced, the setting is introduced, and you learn alot about the main characters in this first few pages. For instance, “When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. When it healed, and Jem’s fears of never being able to play footbal were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury.” In just the first two sentences, you learn that the narrator, Jean Louise Finch, who goes by the nickname Scout, has a brother. Her brother is named Jem, hes nearly thirteen or older, and loves to play football. Without the first chapter the book would never even start.
Most of the time the first chapter is where the main theme is brought into the book. In the first couple words, we find out that the narrator or the person speaking has a very descriptive, careless, attitude, and knowledgeable tone. The theme of “To Kill a Mockingbird”, would be on the hypocrisy, racial prejudice, and the evil side. For example “According to miss stephanie, Boo was sitting in the living room cutting items from The Maycomb Tribune to paste in his scraobook As Mr. Radley passed by, Boo drove the scissors into his parent’s leg, pulled them out, wiped them on his pants and resumed his activities.”, this seems pretty evil to me.
This chapter is strange in many ways but in a couple ways its very similar to the life I live today. Like Scout says,
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