Use 11 of the following vocabulary words to complete the story below: ancient, bounty, civil, crouched, feuding, fondness, locomotive, pestering, pledged, ratcheted, riled, scowl, spindly, wager, withered

I behind the sofa waiting for my brother to walk into the room. He had pulled a prank on me yesterday and I had to get revenge! He had a for pulling pranks on me, and it was driving me crazy! I usually tried to be when dealing with him, but this time, I had had enough. I was going to get even. Later that evening my brother and I sat at the kitchen table. Our mother had a on her face as she looked at us. She said she was tired of us each other. She understood that between brothers was an tradition, but that it needed to stop before one of us ended up getting seriously hurt. We both beneath her angry look and words. We hated disappointing our mother! We both promised to stop pulling pranks on each other. At the time we meant it, but I that one of us will end up pulling a prank before too long. After all, we get so up with each other that we sometimes forget how to behave!

ancient, bounty,     locomotive,   ratcheted, spindly, wager,

I crouched behind the sofa waiting for my brother to walk into the room. He had pulled a prank on me yesterday and I had wager to get revenge! He had a fondness for pulling pranks on me, and it was driving me crazy! I usually tried to be civil when dealing with him, but this time, I had had enough. I was going to get even. Later that evening my brother and I sat at the kitchen table. Our mother had a scowl on her face as she looked at us. She said she was tired of us pestering each other. She understood that feuding between brothers was an ratcheted tradition, but that it needed to stop before one of us ended up getting seriously hurt. We both withered beneath her angry look and words. We hated disappointing our mother! We both promised to stop pulling pranks on each other. At the time we meant it, but I pledged that one of us will end up pulling a prank before too long. After all, we get so riled up with each other that we sometimes forget how to behave!

to kill a mockingbird basically is about a lawyer who goes against everything in a racist society like at the time of this novel, to defend a black man accused of sexual abuse. in the bible there are cases like that of joseph, who was accused by the woman of potifar, for a crime similar to that of tim robbinson, of that novel (genesis 39: 1-20). at this point we see that god also provides the escape to joseph, who was accused unjustly, but in his time, and through his attitude, his faith was not shaken, and god provided the solution. the perspective of god also written in the bible and not pay evil with evil. (ephesians 4: 32, 1 thessalonians 5: 15, 1 peter 3: 9). atticus, the lawyer, demonstrated during this lee novel, empathy, love of neighbor, understood the situation of this accused man. he went against everything in that society, and stood in favor of that man, for the injustice committed. this shows the empathy, the love taught by christ, in some passages that speak of love and justice in the sermon of the beatitudes (especially verses 6 and 7 of matthew 5).