Log #8

     From chapter III to Chapter XIV, we can know more about the dark side of secret of Maycomb, Jean Louise , and Jean Louise's family. Different from the previous chapter, which has talked much of Jean's childhood memories; these three chapters narrate more about the relationships between Jean, her father, her aunt, her uncle, and most importantly Henry. What's more, form those interactions among them, we can tell the personality of each of them. 
     
     In this part, John, Jean's uncle had finally showed up. As a doctor, he is said to be well-educated of literacy. We can see the difference between John and Atticus through their way of teaching Jean. John taught Jean about Victorian literature while Atticus taught her golf. Same background with different personality and occupation, which has form the freedom spirit of John. From his comments toward the ongoing racism in the South, we know he is a man who has the belief of true freedom- racist or not, it's one's freedom and right.
     
     Jean's aunty Alexandra played an narrow-hearted role in the story. When she knew that Jean has been swimming with Henry nakedly, her aunty was pissed off. However, Atticus performed an attitude of freedom, no matter is about her daughter's behavior or other issues, he is always perceiving things in a way of equity and kindness. What has shocked me was that I have mentioned in the previous chapter, Alexandra has described Henry as a trash in a very mean way. This time, she could never stand this man for a second more, so she scolded him right in his face, telling him that he should be shamed of himself. I know Alexandra did this for Jean's good, but has she ever thought about Henry's feeling? What would she feel to be said as a filthy subject when she has done nothing sinful? 
    
      That was just one of the aspect, another part in the book I suggest as the most brilliant and interesting one is, Jean saw a pamphlet with a cover of a negro's photo titled The Black Plague. When she knew the existence of the citizen council, where the book has come from, she showed a great disapproval of such racism. However, the fact that her well respected father and her beloved Henry were both in the council has teared her heart apart. What she has taken as belief, for the most part of her life, gone. Not a time went by didn't she feel disgusted. She might not distinguished whether it was caused by nausea or the shocking truth that she had never dare to think of.   
      
     In the ends of Chapter XIV, we have gradually sensed that the real problem hides behind all the confrontation that had been happening within Jean and in Maycomb. While the Federal Government claimed that each man deserves his rights to freedom equally, people in the South thought that the protection of black people's right was an act that stood in their way to true freedom- a freedom that Jena, Atticus, and anyone in Maycomb shared. A freedom that allowed those southerners to criticize or despise any race they want, especially the Black. It implies a omen, a great conflict toward gap of value between generations of old and new, and the issue of the black was just a beginning.