Reading Reflection: In order to best prepare for your reflection, respond to the following questions below. You may want to copy and paste them into a Word document so you can print them out for you to take notes. 1. Write a quotation from the novel that best explains or reflects the theme of courage. 2. Make a few notes about how each of the following characters displays courage. a. Atticus b. Mrs. Dubose c. Miss Maudie d. Scout e. Boo Radley f. Tom Robinson g. Jem 3. Which character do you think is the best example of courage? Why? 4. Write a quotation from the novel that best explains or reflects the theme of prejudice. 5. Who displays prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird? 6. What are the effects of prejudice in the novel? 7. Which characters learn to overcome their prejudices? How? 8. Who is the most obvious symbol of prejudice in the novel? Why? 9. Who is the most obvious symbol of tolerance? Why? 10. What is empathy and why is it important? 11. Write a quotation from the novel that best explains or reflects the theme of empathy. 12. Which characters learn to display empathy? How? 13. Which characters do not empathize with others? 14. What are the consequences of not showing empathy?

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant