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The following are four quotes and documentation of some of the student responses to these quotes:

?Bigotry tries to keep truth in its hand with a grip that kills it.? ? Rabindranath Tagore

Whites keep the truth how they want it. Tom?s innocence in the trial is the truth, but the writes manipulated it the way they wanted it to be.

A mockingbird is the truth, and you can say bigotry tries to keep the bird in its hand with a grip that kills it.

In the trial when Tom says he feels sorry for Mayella, that is the only reason why he got killed. Racism kills the truth.

Boo?s parents keep him inside the house because they don?t want him to see the outside world. Theya re not ashamed of him, but rather they don?t want him to see the cruelties of Maycomb.

Bob Ewell is just trapped in the cycle of racism.

?There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle of the mirror that reflects it.? - Edith Warton

Tom is the candle ? the townspeople are the mirror.

Tom is the match tat lights the candle, and Atticus is the candle.

The light from the candle does not always have to be good.

?When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace? ? Jimi Handrix

If reminds me of The Outsiders ? having the ability to love and care for things is gold. But then once you get hard, like Dally, you are incapable of loving things because you almost forget how.

The jury loves the power so much that it overcomes their reason.

?A man who won?t die for something isn?t fit to live.? ? Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Tom is like the blacks fighting for freedom in the civil rights movement ? he sacrifices his life for freedom.

Tom just ran because he was human (didn?t sacrifice himself)

Tom is like the panther ? caught in a cage and tortured.

Does this quote mean that Mr. Ewell isn't fit to live?

It isn?t Bob Ewell?s fault, he was brought up that way.