We trust him to do right" His conduct and conversation throughout the book show that he is entirely free from the usual Maycomb faults of pride, racialism and hypocrisy. ... Instead of hating and despising Mayella for lying about Tom Robinson he feels sorry for her. ... At each visit Mrs Dubose keeps Jem reading longer and longer until a month after his last visit Mrs Dubose dies. ... She was determined to break free of her addiction to morphine before she died and Jem's reading sessions helped her to do this. ... "She died beholden to nothing and nobody," he explains. ...

• Word Count: 1939
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

In the first opening paragraphs of the book it states, "She was barely twenty when she came to Canada. ... "...but all her womanly skills she would keep away from me, keep to herself until she died"(Choy, 35). ... Norma Goodrich states that heroines "give us one lesson after another in how to survive humiliation and discrimination"(Goodrich, 2). ... "If her mother...found out about Kazuo, she would spit at Meiying,...and disown her. ... A heroine " Must have proven fearless before strictures which she has adjudged unfair or wrong"(Goodrich, 8). ...

• Word Count: 1599
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School