This week through chapters 12-16 I got to be the leader of my literary circle and I was suppose to make sure that everyone stays on task and does their work, but first I had to answer my own questions. What I found myself thinking about through these chapters was not that only white people don't like black people but black people didn't exactly like white people either. That makes sense to me but I feel very shallow because I only thought of how much white people hated colored skins but I didn't even think about a colored skins perspective of what they though of whites. Also I thought about how much Aunt Alexandra would hate me. I am more like Scout an I acted more like boy than a girl when I was little. Aunt Alexandra would have a very hard time trying to turn me into a "women" like she is trying to do to Scout. The two passages that I decided to choose was from page 154. This was where we were first introduced to Tom Robinson in the jail. I picked this because I thought it was an important part to the story. That was the first interaction with Tom throughout the whole book. My second passage that I chose was from page 164. This was when Jem, Dill and Scout went to the court room and it was about to begin. I thought this was the leading up to the plot of the book. I thought the most important ideas from these chapters was when Atticus meets with Tom Robinson in the jail and waited for "the mob" to come and he didn't want Tom to get hurt. This shows how much Atticus cared and lends a hand to people, who even though people don't like, he stays by. Another important idea from these chapters was that the trial of Tom is about to proceed. One question that I would ask the author if she was in my literature circle would be that why she thought it was an important to add in the part about Cal going to church and taking Jem and Scout with her.

In my literary circle we discussed what we thought about Dill coming back to Maycomb and how cute it was the way Scout talked about Dill. We also talked about how Aunt Alexandra is a scary lady  and would not want her in our families. But could all relate to that situation, having one family member that is so strict. We have all agreed that the plot to this story is the Tom Robinson Trial, and we are excited about what will happen. We did notice that we could all picture the snake description when Scout thought there was a snake under her bed in our heads because it was so descriptive.

I learned from these chapters was that you need to stand up for what you believe in. Like Atticus did about Tom Robinson. He knew that people were not going to like that he was defending a black person but he did it anyways without complaints. Even though he had to help Tom he never told Jem of Scout that because he did not want to have them saying that so he taught them a lesson too. Or when the mob came to hurt Tom, Atticus stood his ground and was not going to let anyone hurt his client. That shows that he does not care what people will say or think about him he is standing for what he believes in.