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Children words about love
“If falling in love is anything like learning how to spell, I don’t want to do it. It takes too long.” — Glenn, age 7
“Love is like an avalanche where you have to run for your life.” — John, age 9
“I think you’re supposed to get shot with an arrow or something, but the rest of it isn’t supposed to be so painful.” — Manuel, age 8
“No one is sure why it happens, but I heard it has something to do with how you smell. That’s why perfume and deodorant are so popular.” — Mae, age 9
“Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too.” — Greg, age 8
“Once I’m done with kindergarten, I’m going to find me a wife.” — Tom, age 5
“On the first date, they just tell each other lies, and that usually gets them interested enough to go for a second date.” — Mike, 10
“I’m in favor of love as long as it doesn’t happen when Dinosaurs is on television.” — Jill, age 6
“One of the people has freckles, and so he finds somebody else who has freckles too.” — Andrew, age 6
“My mother says to look for a man who is kind. That’s what I’ll do. I’ll find somebody who’s kinda tall and handsome.” — Carolyn, age 8
“It gives me a headache to think about that stuff. I’m just a kid. I don’t need that kind of trouble.” — Kenny, age 7
“One of you should know how to write a check. Because, even if you have tons of love, there is still going to be a lot of bills.” — Ava, age 8
“When somebody’s been dating for a while, the boy might propose to the girl. He says to her, ‘I’ll take you for a whole life, or at least until we have kids and get divorced.’” — Anita, 9
“I’m not rushing into being in love. I’m finding fourth grade hard enough.” — Regina, age 10
“Most men are brainless, so you might have to try more than once to find a live one.” — Angie, age 10
“A man and a woman promise to go through sickness and illness and diseases together.” — Marlon, age 10
“[Being] single is better … for the simple reason that I wouldn’t want to change no diapers. Of course, if I did get married, I’d figure something out. I’d just phone my mother and have her come over for some coffee and diaper-changing.” — Kirsten, age 10
“Love is foolish…but I still might try it sometime.” — Floyd, age 9
“Love will find you, even if you are trying to hide from it. I been trying to hide from it since I was five, but the girls keep finding me.” — Dave, age 8
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Don’t Be Sad!
live your life one day at a time, and no matter what just keep on breathing.
*It doesn’t matter whether you win or not, it only matters how you play the game.
*what goes around comes around
*you are never alone
*everything happens for a reason, something good always comes from it.
*In life, there’s good days and there’s shitty days. If you live your life the best you can, eventually the good days will level off the shitty ones.
*always be open to different opinions
*what you see in the mirror (and how you see yourself on the inside) isn’t whats really there. Your insecurities are always magnafied..
*you shouldnt talk dirt about people or put them down because truly you are only doing it to make yourself feel better
*treat people the way you want to be treated.
*be grateful for what you have…even if it may seem like nothing, you wont realize how important it is until it’s gone.
*it’s better to light a candle than to curse the darkness
*if something is wrong, do your best to fix it because sitting there feeling sorry for yourself will only make things worse.
*lifes not perfect…sometimes you have to settle for the next best thing.
*there is no such thing as a life filled with nothing but happiness. Even if there was it wouldn’t be a good life because you wouldn’t be a strong person.
*dont focus on the past, it just wastes the day
*most people arent as strong as they seem…everyone has weaknesses
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What They Have Learned
Through Harper Lee’s novel To kill A Mockingbird Jem, Scout and Dill have learned and developed from series of events throughout the novel’s chapters. They have learned and realized different issues during their childhood period by observing peoples in their society and from their father. In addition, through the kids’ perspective the reader is being enlightened to different issues and matter on the adult’s society. The three children have shifted from being innocent to mature and understandable children which appears throughout the story’s plots. In the novel of To kill A Mockingbird, the events allow Jem, Scout and Dill to learn about moral courage, not prejudge people, and social ideology.
Jem, Scout and Dill experience courage and morality in several events in the novel. In the beginning of the novel, the writer shows how Radely was a mystery for them, and not knowing him was a challenge. The father ‘Atticus’ makes a rule for his kids which was ‘to not go near the Radley’s house’, but Jem wanted to prove for Scout and Dill that he is brave, so he has broken Atticus’s rule. But, the courage and the morality appear when Jem shows courage and morality when he returns again to take his pants and avoids disappointing his father. Furthermore, running to a house which was burning to rescue neighborhood was a great courage from the kids who didn’t care about their selves. Moreover, Jem has learned moral courage from his father when he saw his father shoots at a dog and the kids were impressed by their father. In another day, when Jem cut off Mrs. Dubose’s flowers; his father punished him by asking him to go to Mrs. Dubose’s house and read to her. In addition, Atticus has explained that he wanted Jem to see real courage instead of thinking that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
In addition, the three kids learn to not judge people by their appearance in several events and by observing their father. In a kid’s life, he see all the boys are the same, but adult may rise different on social classes or colors and that what happened with Scout who decided to play with Walter even though her Aunt Alexandra has forbid Scout to play with him because his family is poor. So, Scout learns that how much money that a person has is not away to judge people. Moreover, the three kids learn the same lesson by judging Boo Radley when they pictured him as a monster. But, during several plots the three kids learned that he is a kind person and they cannot perceive a person through his looks, In addition they realized this fact leisurely. Furthermore, they have learned to not judge people by their appearance or by listening to people point of view from Atticus. When he chose to defended the ‘Tom’ and stand with a black man against the people in the village. Through the jury he shows the children that they have to know the truth and not judge a person because of his look.
Jem, Scout, and Dill, have learned how the society is divided people by unethical reasons. Each one of these kids has learned this concept from different angle. Scout, has learned that in her village when they sorted people according to how much money they owned. In addition, she decided that this division is not right. Furthermore, the kids see how the society divided the black people and they are highlighting racism issue. So, Atticus is aware of the society ideology and its impact on his children belief and there for he is teaching him that they have to be opened minded and not sort people. In addition, the father is trying to teaching them by being open minded and show his attitude towards black people. Furthermore, he defended ‘Tom’ and stand up with a black man against all the people on the village to teach his children this lesson.
In conclusion, this novel shows the reader the development of the three kids from being childish and innocence to being mature and reasonable. Jim, Scout and Dill has learned and experienced a lot of things through actions, events, and observing people, such as Atticus. In addition, the father is the most important figure that helped on teaching the kids and developing their ethics. This novel shows the reader different aspects of life and different lessons from the respective of child’s eyes. Moral courage, not prejudge people and social ideology are the main lessons that is the three kids have learned or throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
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