Intrapersonal: Friends & Visual: Maycomb

My learning abilities are much based around Math-Logic, Linguistic, Interpersonal and Kinesthetic. For others, they are either above average... or just average.

But I did the one on Naturalist. And now Intrapersonal. So I will do something short for the Visual ones.

So, who do I want to make friends with? Maudie Atkinson. Her all rounded attitude in Maycomb, and her being the only one as lively as Scout, yet not as young, and wise as Atticus, and to be impermeable by the disease that's lurking around, its rare. She speaks nothing but the truth, and is as curt as John Proctor in The Crucible by Arthur Miller, but she has the moral conscience to say that. (John Proctor committed adultery.)

She is unique in the sense she's not fervently religious like the foot washing Baptists, nor does she go over to the other side. She's herself, and it is a kind of trait inexistent in Maycomb, a place where being same is the norm.

Then, you ask, why not Atticus? Atticus reads his books, he's not going to bother you unless Scout or Jem takes you as Arthur Radley and come a'knockin' your door down, and trying to get you out of your house when you are snug or comfortable reading newspaper, cutting and pasting items.

Atticus is also wise and impenetratable by racism, but he fails to go out of the second box. He is as boring, as tired as Maycomb itself, and he does not actually have the moral conscience to tell the kids some things (he lies himself!)

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Offtopic:

Mr. Chen was talking about Atticus did not actually have true courage. He was appointed to defend Tom Robinson, and etc. However, you ought to note that he did defend him and gave him a fair trial. To not have courage, is such as escaping from the fact that you are appointed. He did not. He gave his best. Just like in the book P.S. I love You by Cecelia Ahern, Holly is depicted to have true courage by her younger sister Ciara. Did Holly's husband, Gerry died cause she wanted to? She got the courage, to avoiding the truth, and rebuilding her self-esteem, and her life without Gerry. Holly depicted Ciara as courageous cause she dared jump off bridges and do bungee jumping. Ciara denies it as foolhardy courage, and this is the kind of case we are facing in TKAM.
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Back from offtopic.

Now Visual, draw a map of Maycomb. Take into consideration of the locations of homes, the street etc.

I won't draw, since I have completed my two tasks, but I shall recite what I want to say (linguistic is the second highest), through a narrative.

Contrary to popular belief, I feel that Maycomb is not located as Monroeville, with the help of Google Map. Maycomb Junction is just outside Maycomb County, and Maycomb County could not have been so big. A ride takes 14 miles (22km) from Meridian, Mississippi to Maycomb Junction. From the Amtrak Station (which obviously isn't the point, but its better than the exact center of town), 22km brings us just outside of Mississippi, into Alabama. Should he take a walk, he couldn't have take a boat, as Dill's recount didn't have a boat-ride. So, Monroeville, which is across the river, couldn't have been the site for Harper Lee's story.

Naturalist: Habitat of Mockingbirds

Contrary to the title, I WON'T go into Mockingbirds first. Lets start with the Bluejays. (Note, every info here is from a book dedicated to the study of birds, not any website you see online).

Bluejays (Cyanocitta cristata)

Skipping the unnecessary info for this study...

Very bold and noisy; hops rapidly from branch to branch

Eats fruits, seeds, insects and other invertebrates, small mammals lizards nestling birds and eggs, and carrion

Habitat areas are in wooded areas, including forest or parks


Moving on to the Northern Mockingbird, we can see the habitat of the neighbourhood Scout & Jem lives in. Then, we'll compare the plants Miss Maudie Atkinson, (presumely) Mayella Ewell and Mrs. Layafette Dubose grows in comparision to climate, and habitat, and the possibility should there be an inaccuracy in Nelle Harper Lee's book for its habitat and... etc.

Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos)

Feeds on lawns, vigorous defender of territory and food sources (Atticus is completely wrong; the mockingbird don't do one thing but to sing their hearts out; they feed on the Dubose, the Radley's lawn, and maybe Maudie had some difficulty chasing the birds to grow her flowers)

Diets on fruit, insects, worms, and occasionally small lizards (This can validate part of Atticus' saying. The bird certainly doesn't give trouble to the people who grow flowers. They don't eat flowers.)

Habitat areas include parks, thckets, woodland edges and suburbs.

Both reside in the Southeastern United States. So we can see that the community Scout & Jem lives in is at one edge of the town; a suburb. This shows that Maycomb may be a far larger town, or more isolated than it seems, as it takes Atticus only 2 miles to go into town proper; compared to 20 miles to work for those living in Montgomery participating in the Montgomery bus boycott.

2: Dubose and her Camellia

Well, it seems confusing, as there's two camelias. One is the green tea leaves kind of camelia (that's called camelia) and the Snow-on-the-Mountain (Euphorbia marginata) that is in temperate US. Of course its the latter.

It is however, small and numerous, and Jem could not have destroyed ALL of Dubose's camelias. However, since Dubose can afford to give her prized Snow-on-the-Mountain, it is definitely not a plant in which has only one flower, and thus the description by the scientific community perfectly fits Nelle Harper Lee's or vice versa (which is more logical).

Now, about Maudie Atkinson and her azaleas. Azaleas can be grown also everywhere, and Wikipedia says Mobile and Dothan, cities in Alabama has festivals. This makes her azaleas compatible in Maycomb's habitat.

Nutgrass (Cyperus rotundus) also fits in the description, as it spreads from Florida to New England.

Lastly, we have to check Mayella Ewell's geranium. However, the variety includes 522 exotic plant species, and it is impossible to check as it was only called geranium. Although it is noted that geranium in the world is usually attributed to geranium pelargonium, the pelargonium sub-type includes 200 exotic species.

Thus, it can be said, that mockingbirds live in Maycomb for its variety, and Nelle Harper Lee has been careful to make sure that all info on the habitat is perfectly correct.