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Post by MsElliott on Nov 11, 2015 3:49:39 GMT
In her lesson on Hitler, Miss Gates says that “we (American people) don't believe in persecuting anyone”. What seems odd to the reader about this claim?
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Post by jessicaduong on Nov 12, 2015 10:06:49 GMT
The thing that miss gates said about hitler's is that we know hitler was very manipulative and abused the Jew or people who wasn't upto his 'standard', miss gates reply was very peculiar because in Maycomb people persecuted the African-Americans as what she had said to her students it was not correct.
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Post by xxethanpxx on Nov 15, 2015 7:39:45 GMT
The thing that is odd is that the white people of Maycomb are always prosecuting African-Americans, 'a white mans word always wins over a black mans word in Maycomb'.
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Post by maddylarder on Nov 15, 2015 10:37:33 GMT
The thing that miss gates said about hitler's is that we know hitler was very manipulative and abused the Jew or people who wasn't upto his 'standard', miss gates reply was very peculiar because in Maycomb people persecuted the African-Americans as what she had said to her students it was not correct. In school, Scout's class discusses Nazi Germany and how Adolf Hitler persecuted the Jews . Scout is asked for the definition of democracy and she replies with, "Equal rights for all, special privileges for none." Miss Gates explains to the class how America is a democracy and that “over here we don’t believe in persecuting anybody. Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced." This is a very incorrect statement, in which Scout goes to Jem and asks him why Miss Gates finds it so upsetting that the Jews were persecuted when she seemed so happy when Tom Robinson was convicted. Jem responds angrily, "“I never wanta hear about that courthouse again, ever, ever, you hear me?" |
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Post by benzillasimpkins on Nov 17, 2015 9:01:50 GMT
when miss gates says this in the lesson about hitler it can be peculiar how she can say this when the town has just prosecuted tom robinson. in Maycomb the whites are like the NAZIs and the African-Americans are like the Jewish
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Post by watts on Nov 17, 2015 10:01:28 GMT
With what Miss Gates said about Hitler was a total double standard as she herself was racist to African-Americans. |
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Post by rileyjolly on Nov 19, 2015 10:02:17 GMT
Miss gates opinion is very weird as the the White people in her town are always prosecuting the African Americans
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