Connections Paper
Carli Tuttle
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and A Separate Peace by John Knowles are novels with two different stories that have some similarities deep in their pages. The two novels are about children that learn from their experiences in everyday life. Both novels also have additional characters that face an injustice that ends up killing them. While they are two different stories ,they have those little details that make them similar.
In To Kill a Mockingbird Jem and Scout Finch ,our main characters, grow up in a small town in Maycomb County ,Alabama. They learn from their everyday experiences in their small town lifestyle and from the people that live in it. Jem and Scout have always had trouble with the old lady,…show more content… Finny always gets away with everything; from skipping class to sneaking off at night, he always finds a way to charm them out of punishing him. One day before they go have tea with Mr.Patch and his wife Finny takes the school tie and uses it as a belt, as a prank, for the term tea. At Devon this counts as disrespectful toward the school, However he comes up with a lie to get away with it. “I wore this, you see, because it goes with the shirt and it ties it all together- I didn't mean that to be a pun, I don't think they are funny especially in polite company, do you? - It all ties together with what we've been talking about, this bombing in Central Europe, because when you become right down to it the school is involved in everything that happens in the war, it's all the same war and the same world, and i think Devon ought to be included. I don't know whether you think the way i do on that.” Gene gets jealous because Finny never gets in trouble, so he ends up breaking his leg. One night some of the boys at Devon are trying to find out how Finny really broke his leg because they believe that simply Finny “losing his balance” is not true. The boys meet and start to have a little court case of their own to dig deep into how he broke his leg. Needing a witness, they called Leper in to explain what he saw since he was always really good with detail. “I can't think of the name of the engine. But it has two pistons. What is that engine? Well anyways, in this engine first one piston sinks, and then the next one sinks. The one holding on to the trunk sank for a second , up and down like a piston, and then the other one sank and fell.” They concluded from that evidence that Gene had caused for Finny to lose his balance on purpose causing him to break his friend's leg. Finny does not agree with anything they say because he finds it hard to believe that Gene broke his leg. Something
