To kill a mockingbird

consider atticus’s interactions with miss maudie and mrs. dubose. how does he treat them?

Atticus treated both women as a typical Southern lady, with respect and politeness even though they may do/say something against his own children.

Explanation:

Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mockingbird" revolves around the lives of the American South state of Maycomb, Alabama. The racist attitude of the people and the lives of the people during the prejudice times is also reflected in the story.

Atticus Finch is the lawyer dad of the small children characters Jem and Scout Finch. They are the family whose interactions with their other characters through which we will be acquainted with the issue an lives of the people in that town.

The characters of Mrs. Dubose and Miss Maudie are two contrasting women in the story. Mrs. Dubose is elderly and ill-tempered whereas Miss Maudie is a sharp-tongued widow but a good friend of the Finches, even the children. Atticus' treatment of these two women is just the typical gentleman, treating them with respect and courtesy and politeness. Even though Mrs. Dubose insulted the children, Atticus took no anger. Rather, he continued to treat her like he would treat any other women. He treated her like a real Southern lady, politely holding the door for her even after she had insulted his children.

Likewise, Miss Maudie may have never shown her opinion about whatever Atticus had done, but in her treatment of the Finch children, we can know that she supports him in his choice of defending Tom. Even though she knows that defending a colored man in a white majority community is tricky and even risky, she still kept her support for him fro she knows what he is doing is right.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)