To Kill A Mockingbird Dialectical Journal Analysis

1. “But afterward the townspeople, theretofore sufficiently unfearful of each other to seldom trouble to lock their doors, found fantasy recreating them over and again - those somber explosions that stimulated fires of mistrust in the glare of which many old neighbors viewed each other strangely, and as strangers.” (3). This quote seems to be pointing to the main idea that trust can be easily lost, even if its just suspicion and it will change the way a person views others and the world. They usually trusted the community enough to not lock their doors, but suddenly they don’t trust each other, changing the way they think of each and their neighborhood.

2. “Though they may overstate the case (‘Look all over the world, and you won't find friendlier

It shows that they are being more aware that everything is not what it seems.

6. "’Sure I did. Only - a nigger. It's not the same.’ Then Perry said, ‘Know what it is that really bugs me? About the other thing? It's just I don't believe it - that anyone can get away with a thing like that. Because I don't see how it's possible. To do what we did. And just one hundred percent get away with it. I mean, that's what bugs me - I can't get it out of my head that something's got to happen.’" (68). This quote seems to be pointing to the theme of how people sometimes can be affected by their choices. Perry shows on how he is astonished on why he did what he did and why he got away with it.

7. “(Perry had ever since "tried to believe she slipped," for he'd loved Fern. She was "such a sweet person," so ‘artistic,’ a ‘terrific’ dancer, and she could sing, too. "If she'd ever had any luck at all, with her looks and all, she could have got somewhere, been somebody’ It was sad to think of her climbing over a window sill and falling fifteen floors.) And there was Jimmy, the older boy - Jimmy, who had one day driven his wife to suicide and killed himself the next.”