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Stevens
Kara Stevens
Mrs. Stevens
Gifted English I
25 April 2016
Quote Sandwich #1
Atticus exudes wisdom as he talks to his children about the events transpiring during their 1930s childhood. He possesses the innate ability to subtly teach his children valuable lessons without seeming like a nagging parent. In chapter three, while standing on the porch, he says, “ ‘First of all,’ he said, ‘if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—…until you climb into his skin and walk around in it’” (33). Scout listens intently and immediately interjects her feelings on the matter regarding her problems with Miss Caroline. Miss Caroline had chided Scout’s reading ability. This incident marks the beginning of her career as a student in the public school system and her first life lesson that purposely continues through multiple events in the book. Harper Lee pinpoints an issue that continues to be relevant to the reader:Everyone judges others without fully knowing all of the information that is part of a person’s story. A person’s circumstance cannot be truly understood until another has experienced it for himself. Atticus knows that the sooner Scout learns this, the sooner she will begin to understand the world around her.
Quote Sandwich #2
The desire to survive exists in every human being. From the beginning of time, humans have faced moments that require them to fight for their lives or surrender. Some of the characters fight to survive in And Then There Were None as Agatha Christie brings together ten guilt-ridden guests on Soldier Island to methodically punish for previous crimes. After five of them are killed, the narrator describes their demeanor: “They were five enemies linked together by a mutual instinct of self-preservation. And all of them, suddenly, looked less like human beings. They were reverted to more bestial types” (191). Initially, the aloofness of the guests takes precedence as they question their predicament. However, at this point, they have come to the realization that one of them is murdering the others one at a time. Christie communicatesthe remaining guests’ state of mind and outward appearance clearly by describing them as “bestial.” With the revolver missing and Emily Brent the latest victim, they are quite evidently panicked while they fear who will be next. The instinctive quality to outlastemerges from within, turningthe individual into a savage who craves survival. At this point, anything will be done in order to ensure existence, even if it means reverting to animalistic behavior in an illustration of survival of the fittest.