FIVE GREAT WISDOMS from To Kill a Mockingbird –
5. Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad. Pg. 293 (Scout)
In this quote, Scout Finch is describing how friends, family, and neighbors work. She shows their friendship by telling about how they bring food and flowers after a bad occasion or deadly result. She understands, here near the end of the book, that a town is almost like a family. They need to work together to survive, and that if you want something from others, you may have to give something up first. Scout is maturing, and she realizes that there are good things and bad things in the world, but life goes on. At the beginning of the book, all Scout saw was the good things, near the middle she only saw bad, and now nearing the end, she sees both and accepts both. She realizes that when things happen you do not sit there and wonder why, but you act upon it and hope for the best.
5. Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad. Pg. 293 (Scout)
In this quote, Scout Finch is describing how friends, family, and neighbors work. She shows their friendship by telling about how they bring food and flowers after a bad occasion or deadly result. She understands, here near the end of the book, that a town is almost like a family. They need to work together to survive, and that if you want something from others, you may have to give something up first. Scout is maturing, and she realizes that there are good things and bad things in the world, but life goes on. At the beginning of the book, all Scout saw was the good things, near the middle she only saw bad, and now nearing the end, she sees both and accepts both. She realizes that when things happen you do not sit there and wonder why, but you act upon it and hope for the best.
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