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“There should have been three little ones.” (Lee 214)
Miss. Maudie always cooked three little cakes. However she cooked two little cakes and one large cake. This means that something has changed.
“But we understood when she cut from the big cake and gave the slice to Jem.” (Lee 215)
Giving a slice of the big cake to Jem means that Miss Maudie now treats Jem as a grown up. Jem became much more mature after the trial of Tom Robinson. He is aware of the injustice of the society. He isn’t as innocent and young as Scout and Dill. After Jem has grown up, he doesn’t belong to the same group with Scout and Dill.
Tom Robinson's trial was not a pretty one. Tom who seemed to be innocent was deemed guilty by the jury. Why? Because he was black. This can be pretty traumatic to a bunch of kids who don't hate just because of race. Dill, Jem and Scout all have a good sense of rationalism. They don't see why someone is automatically horrible just because they were born black. They rooted for Tom the entire trial. Both and Jem and Dill ended up cryin.
The morning after the trial, things had cooled down just a bit for the the three kids. Miss Maudie called them over. She was always nice to them. She was also one of the few not-racist people in Maycomb.
"...I thought to myself self...we're making as step... just a baby step, but it's a step..." (216) Here Miss Maudie is referring to the fact that jury took so long to find Tom guilty. Atticus made them think. Usually the jury came to a decision in a matter of minutes.
Miss Maudie had some cake for them. I guess that she probably called Jem, Dill, and Scout over to see if the were okay.
"...this was Miss Maudie's way of saying that as far as she was concerned, nothing had changed." (215)
One thing that had changed was that there was one large cake and two little ones. Scout had at first assumed that Maudie had forgotten to make one for Dill, but was surprised to see Jem get a slice from the large one. It has been apparent that Jem is growing up. I think everyone else was starting to take notice, too. Jem is not a child and does needs not be given special treatment for regular occasions. Miss Maudie is teaching this to Jem. I think it had a certain affect on Scout because these changes mean that she and her her brother are becoming gradually more distant.
Miss Maudie Atkinson, she is always a very cheerful, sharp tounged, and funny person. Miss Maudie I think is an "out of home" guardian to Jem and Scout. Almost every time Jem and Schttps://www.blogger.com/comment.do
Blogger: To Kill a Mockingbird - Post a Commentout came to Miss Maudie’s house she used to bake a big delicious cake and three little ones one for Jem, one for Scout, and one for Dill (when he was around). This time instead of baking three little small cakes she only baked two; one for Scout, one for Dill, and she let Jem have a piece out of the big cake. she used to only bake the big cake for grownups. When Jem had a piece out of the big cake this meant that his childhood was already left back and he was becoming an adult.
I am not surprised that the author used this event to emphasize the fact that Jem was growing up, because Miss Maudie is one of Jem, Dill, and Scout's good friends in the neighborhood. Miss Maudie also represents
according to what Jenny K said.
Jenny,
I kind of agree and disagreeee with you at the same time because: yes Jem is growing up to be an adult now. This doesnt exactly mean that hes not going to hang out with Dill and Scout. Even after the trial and him being more "mature" he still hangs out with Dill and Scout.
This is not a posting of mine. I just wanted to point out to Adrian that his first post has strange copy+pasted stuff and it is cut off.
Miss Maudie has been a neighbor for Jem and Scout since they were born. She had known Jem and Scout very closly and so she also noticed that Jem was growing up and maturing. She celebrated this by baking a big cake for Jem rather than a small one. Dill and Scout seemed to understand what Miss Maudie was doing and didn't complain that Jem got a big piece and they only got a small piece. It also seemed to be some kind of present to help Jem forget what had happened at court. But Jem only ate half of his piece of cake and then stopped to ask Miss Maudie some questions. She told him that there are some people on this earth that have to do the jobs for us that nobody else wants to do. And Atticus, she told him, was one of those people.
Miss Maudie has known the kids for a long while and now she starts to notice something. Miss Maudie bakes a large cake to demonstrate that Jem has grown up and matured. Jem has become much more mature after the trial and it symbolizes that Miss Maudie treats Jem as a grown up now. He is aware of how society works and the injustice. He is not so innocent as before and the bigger cake demonstrates that.
The significance of Miss Maudie's two little cakes and one big cake was Jem's "welcome" to adult hood. Scout and Dill now undestood that people in Maycomb will start treating Jem as an adult and no longer as a child. Jem is now aware of the injustice there is in Maycomb, and since the trial he has grown. He is now aware to the fact that white people treat the black as an "inferior race".
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