Harper lee introduces the theme of social contracts in chapter one when Dill,Jem and scout start talking about the face of Boo Radley and Dill says “let’s try to make him come out. At this point you can tell every one was shocked, this may in its self be breaking a social contract because no one ever went into the Radley house, that was made clear by Jem saying “if you wanted to get yourself killed all you had to do was to knock I’m the Radleys door”. Another main point would be when Dill dares Jem to run up to the Radley house and touch it, in this time or maybe in their social contract or in fact maybe just Jem, he never turns down a dare this was also made clear scout stating that Jem never declined a dare.
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February 8, 2015 at 10:36 am
Zak,
You have shown some understanding of events and characters in this chapter with an attempt to use supporting quotations.
Targets:
1) Be are to copy your quotations accurately.
2) You show some understanding of the concept of social contracts – however I would like you to explain it more explicitly
3) Always re-read and edit sentence structures – is your meaning clear?