Examples of Compound-Complex Sentences. One of the easiest ways to understand compound-complex sentences is to first take a look at the compound sentence and the complex sentence separately. A compound sentence contains two or more complete sentences joined by one or more of the following words: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.
(Answer #4). Atticus's initial reaction is that Jem has killed Bob Ewell while trying to defend his sister and himself from attack-it is quite understandable that in his shocked and distressed state Atticus would not be thinking straight.Answer #1). In the book To Kill a Mockingbird Atticus was confronted in town after the trial by Bob Ewell who had spit in his face. Atticus states that he thought if Bob did do anything he would come after him and not after the children.
Aunt Helen bought him gifts and demanded that Charlie's father never hit him in her presence again. An interesting theory is that Aunt Helen's rapist often defended Helen and showed her love through gifts -- maybe that's why she decided to molest Charlie.I don't want to say out of love because that's disturbing, but so is molestation/rape.) That's just a theory, not a fact. Charlie repressed the memory because he didn't want to believe it, remember -- he held his aunt in high esteem and throughout his early childhood he was the one he cared about most.