Colegio de Bachilleres del Estado de

Michoacán

Plantel: Los Reyes

Asignatura: Inglés IV

Ensayo del libro: “Matar a un ruiseñor”.

Profesor: M.C.P. Eduardo Madrigal Galván

Alumno(a): Edwin Moisés Cortez

Grupo: 402 M

Los Reyes, Michoacán: a 29 de mayo del 2022.

 How to kill a nightingale, essay:
Start: is the one who tells this story, she is a six-year-old girl who greatly admires
her father, she lives with her older brother Jem and her father Atticus, a widowed
lawyer. Jem and Scout are close friends with a boy next door named Dill who visits
Maycomb for the summer. The children are intrigued to know about their neighbor
Boo (Radley) the children imagine things about Boo since the adults of the colony
do not talk about him much, the children wonder why they keep him hidden, the
children make plans of how they could get Boo out of his house, but they can’t.
After a while the children begin to receive anonymous gifts that are placed on a
tree near Boo’s house, the one who put the gifts was Boo but the children did not
know, since Boo preferred to remain secret.

Developing: Atticus agrees to take charge of a black man named Tom Robinson
who is accused of raping a white woman named Mayella Ewell. Jem and Scout get
bullied because people tease them because their dad is on a black case, and they
call their dad: the black lover. Atticus doesn’t want the kids to witness Tom
Robinson’s trial, so Scout, Jem, and Dill secretly watch him from the black balcony.
Atticus manages to prove that both Mayella and her father Bob Ewell, the town
drunk, are lying in their accusations. But despite this the jury finds Tom guilty,
desperate Tom tries to escape from prison and that is when he is shot.

Conclusion: Angry at what happened in the trial, Bob Ewell seeks revenge,
without knowing what happened and in his desperation he sees Atticus in the
street and decides to spit on him, he also attacks the helpless children Jem and
Scout when they were going home after a school Halloween fair. Bob breaks Jem’s
arm and in the middle of the fight someone appears to help the children, the
mysterious man takes the children home, and they realice that the one who helped
them was Boo Radley. After the investigations and the consensus between the
sheriff of Maycomb and Atticus, both end up deciding that it would not be fair to
judge Boo Radley or Jem, and define that Bob Ewell ended up dying after stabbing
himself with the knife during a fall discovers that Bob Ewell has been killed during
the fight, and the judge finds that it was justifiable homicide and that Boo Radley is
innocent. Boo asks Scout to walk him home, he says goodbye and disappears
again.
Reflection: I think that without a doubt it is a fantastic racial novel, it contains a
wealth of information contextualized in the impressive time, it frames the religious
and social themes in an absorbing way, and this at the juncture of a narrative, both
childish and cruel, focused very intelligently. The story of an American family in the
1930s, starring a very young girl, her brother who is somewhat older than her, and
her father sets the scene and shows how much can be squeezed out of a context
as discriminatory as the one that pressed the epoch. In the course of the novel, the
adventures of the small but daring children take place, in the company of another
boy (Dill), this in parallel with what becomes the main plot of the story: a legal case
that frames their father, the defense attorney, in an agonizing onslaught against
society trying to defend a black man, who had certainly not committed any crime;
the outcome is somewhat tragic, but so unexpected that it envelops. If there is
something that can be highlighted in this work, it is the extensive content of the
dialogues, the great creativity to set them and the wide range of secondary
characters that the author creates to lead the story. An ideological and ethical
battle is constantly seen that leaves more than one reader thinking, this is
appreciated.