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Read the text excerpt of the book "To Kill a Mockingbird", written by Harper Lee and published in 1960. The novel is about Scout Finch and about what she learns about people and about life. Her father Atticus is a lawyer and defends Tom Robinson, a black man who is accused of raping a white woman. In the following text passage, Atticus explains to his daughter Scout why he defends an African American in court although everybody is against it.
Cecil Jacobs made me forget. He had announced in the school yard the day before that Scout Finch's daddy defended niggers. (...)
'Do you defend niggers, Atticus?' I asked him that evening. 'Of course I do. Don't say nigger, Scout. That's common."
'´s what everybody at school says.'
'From now on it'll be everybody less one -' (...)
'Do all lawyers defend n-Negroes, Atticus?'
'Of course they do, Scout."
'Then why did Cecil say you defended niggers? He made it sound like you were runnin' a still.'
Atticus sighed. 'I`m simply defending a Negro - his name's Tom Robinson. He lives in that little settlement beyond the town dump. He's a member of Calpurnia's church, and Cal knows his family well. She says they're a clean-living folks. Scout, you aren't told enough to understand some things yet,but there's been some high talk around town to the effect that I shouldn't do much about defending this man. (...)'
'If you shouldn't be defendin' him, then why are you doin' it?'
(...) '(...) if I didn't I couldn't hold up my head in town, I couldn't represent this county in the legislature, I couldn't even tell you or Jem not to do something again. (...) every lawyer gets at least one case in his lifetime that affects him personally. This one's mine, I guess.'
(...) 'Atticus, are we going to win?'
'No, honey.'
'Then why -'
'Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win,' Atticus said.
Decide if the following statements are true, false or not given.
Wichtig!
Remember: You mark statements...
True if the statement agrees with the text
False if the statement does not agree with the text
Not Given if there is no information about this in the text
False if the statement does not agree with the text
Not Given if there is no information about this in the text
Statements | True, False or Not given? | |
| 1. | Scout uses the racist term "nigger" because she does not like African Americans. | |
| 2. | According to Atticus, lawyers defend African Americans in court because they want to fight for racial justice. | |
| 3. | With the statement "Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win", Atticus means that it does not make sense to keep on fighting for justice. |
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