...us change as things happen, and time goes on? In the novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee,(Re-Word Whole Sentence) you can notice that happening throughout the novel, from beginning to end. The characters that have the most change, are the two protagonists, Scout and Jem. They get older throughout the novel, and as such they mature Do not list one of your paragraphs points in introduction. Different events that occur around them cause them to shape their views. The fact that they are still kids makes their minds more malleable, and they often side with ones close to them in conflicts. This causes them to adopt morals as they grow up, and changes how they view things in everyday life. Jem and Scout change throughout the novel, for a variety of reasons. As Scout and Jem age, they gain maturity, as humans do. When Scout attends school for the first time at 6 years old,...
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...Maturity is essential for life and people go through different processes to achieve it. However many people never mature, and they lose themselves in childish worlds of ignorance. Empathy is an essential tool for reaching maturity, which is prevalent through Scout, a character in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. In her novel, Scout matures by following her father’s advice to “climb into his skin and walk around in it.” (39) Examining how Scout treats the Cunninghams, Mayella Ewell and Boo Radley, empathy allowing for maturity is clear. The way Scout treats the Cunninghams shows Scout maturing through empathy. Near the beginning of the novel, Walter Cunningham’s behavior at the dinner table disgusts Scout. Throughout the meal, Scout acts...
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...Characterization of Atticus. Atticus is kind to people. He is fighting for Tom Robinson when no one else will. He says he wouldn’t be able to live with him self if he did not help Tom Robinson. Atticus’s own brothers, sisters and nephews say that he is destroying the family name by defending Tom Robinson. Atticus will look at something from someone else’s point of view before making a judgment or choice. He teaches scout to look from others people shoes and he tells her that you don’t really know someone until you try on their shoes and walk around in them. Calpurnia’s church is fond of Atticus because of his help in the Tom Robinson case. On page 163 the Reverend Sykes exclaimed, “This church has no better friend than your daddy.” Atticus...
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...Leadership has always been a major aspect of the life I choose to live, and my experience as a Boy Scout and Swim Team Captain have directly impacted my life. As a Boy Scout, I was put in plenty of scenarios that have required me to critically think and act on instinct while leading a group of boys, but the fact that I entered scouting my Freshman year presented a whole new scenario. Due to the three years more of experience I held over the entering 12-year-old scouts, I was entrusted with much more responsibility that any new scout despite my rank. In situations like this, I was required to make quick and timely decisions while using tact to avoid any problems with the younger scouts. Being put in conditions like these, I was taught to learn...
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...In to kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee the main character Scout is a young girl in 1993 Alabama. Her father, Atticus Finch, is a successful lawyer defending a black man accused of rape. Scout’s brother, Jeremy Finch, who is four years her senior is her companion throughout the story. The main idea of this story would about scout losing her innocence. In the first chapter of this story Scout recalls the summer when her brother broke his arm and she looks bad at the incidents that lead up to the big bang. As scout starts school she has a teacher that’s new to Maycomb with a different teaching style. Scout does not have a good first year at school experience. She gets her hand spanked by the teacher for explaining another student’s financial problems (he couldn’t pay the teacher back for lunch)....
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...Scout plays a very important roll in To Kill a Mockingbird. Her character has a very strong voice and she is not afraid to voice her opinions.She shows courage in doing so.She is also very intelligent. She can notice people's behavior and understand corruption within the town. She often finds herself in trouble with her father and other authoritative figures. She spends most of her time playing outside with the boys. She would most likely be characterized as a Tom-boy because of her clothes. One situation where scout showed great courage was when she intervened a lynch mob. She had snuck out of the house with Jem and Dill to follow Atticus because they had a bad feeling about what he was doing and where he was going. When they caught up to...
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...Mockingbirds are a big part of the story in Harper Lee’s classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Mockingbirds sing their hearts out, that’s just what they do. They don’t hurt others or damage any trees, they sing a beautiful tone for all to hear. As Mockingbirds sing, so do people, they have their own characteristics and ways that they express themselves in. Atticus says that it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird, and so it would be a sin to kill someone’s voice or the way they stand up for others. Three characters that I think are mockingbirds that sing their own song are Atticus Finch, Scout Finch, and Jem Finch. Atticus Finch is the person that does the dirty work, he is a wise and great father to his children, he teaches them many great life lessons...
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...from the character in the book.This is shown in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, “Reading and literature makes us smarter and nicer” by Annie Murphy Paul and Shami Sivasubramanian 2016 article, “Study Finds Reading Fiction Develops Empathy”. Harper Lee teaches us about prejudice, family and fear, through the eyes of the characters in the book. Firstly Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to a land of prejudice known as 1930’s Alabama. This teaches us how bad prejudice was back then and how much it has improved. “He despises Negroes, wont have one near him” is an example of prejudice. Atticus tells us that “there’s something in our world that make men lose their heads, they couldn’t be fair...
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...Runyan 1 Anna Runyan Mr. Nevares HHSE1:4 1 November 2015 Everyone is Equal “A person is a person, no matter how small.” Dr. Seuss. Maycomb County belittles the members of the community according to their race. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee demonstrates that the town of Maycomb, Alabama drives down the lower class and colored members in society to keep them from usurping within the county. The main character Jean Louise “Scout” Finch learns this in her childhood as her father, a well known lawyer, has the chance to defend a colored man in court. Scout learns that even inside the court there is racism and hate towards the colored members of society and that they are belittled every day of their life. Fighting racism is like throwing a pebble in calm waters: One drop creates a ripple effect....
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...I have only one question and that is why Mr. Underwood did not show up sooner. The mob left because scout singled out Mr. Cunningham and got them to think about what they are doing and stop. Scout started talking to Mr. Cunningham about his entailment and he was avoiding responding to it for a while so she kept trying to have a conversation with him. Eventually she started talking about his son and then he nodded so she knew he was listening. She went back at telling him that entailments are bad and they take a while to pay off and scout talking like this to Mr. Cunningham help single out the mob and got them to think right so they would think about what they are doing because they were trying to kill Tom Robinson. When scout got them thinking...
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...Hank “jokingly” proposes. Jean Louise turns him down because she is scared she will cheat on him later in life and wants better for him. Character Development: Jean Louise Finch • Jean Louise can often be quite witty and sarcastic, especially when she is speaking to Hank “’Slow pickup isn’t it?’ She said. ‘No good for city driving’”, “’Where did you get that appalling tie?’” (Lee, 14) She obviously likes to banter and get people riled up. • She seems quite independent since she moved away to New York to lead her own life, leaving her family behind. Also does not conform to society’s image of how a woman should act. • Although she left him, Jean Louise obviously has a very close relationship with her father and is worried about his condition. “Jean Louise shook her head. She was too old to rail against the inequity of it, but too young to accept her father’s crippling disease without...
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...Phoebe Sanders English 9 Period 1 Who can be considered a Mockingbird? When thinking back to “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee it makes people think of many characters. When answering the question who could be considered a mockingbird, people may think of three characters. Those characters are Atticus Finch, Boo Radley, and Tom Robinson. Readers can see this through the towns people actions, and beliefs. Many believe and consider it a sin to kill a mockingbird. This is because mockingbirds do nothing wrong. They do not hurt anyone, or hurt plants. They are simply here to give you pleasure. It is a sin to kill one because they cause no harm just like these characters. They give you pleasure and happiness and stand up for what they believe in....
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...Brittney Garrison Mrs. Easton English 3-4 Period 7 9 June 2015 To Kill A Mockingbird Everyday people’s lives are judged by others. Why? Because most think they understand what the other is going through when they have no clue. The idea of walking in someone else’s shoes teaches that everyone has things, big or small, going on in their lives and that you should not judge a person until you know the full story. Like in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird, a few of the main characters begin to understand other people's suffering by “walking in their shoes” and learning that even the most misunderstood people need attention. One example of this theme is when the children prejudge Mrs. Dubose before they step into her shoes. She is a recovering drug addict who is very harsh and opinionated but the children only notice this and do not understand why. Jem begins to get tired of Mrs. Dubose’s taunts she makes at him and decided to break the stems of all her flowers. Because of these actions, the readers begin to see how courageous Mrs. Dubose really is by attempting to give up the drug “cold turkey” (Interpretation). This...
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...A: Jem can be very brave at times. SU: Bob Ewell attacks both Scout and Jem when they are walking home from the pageant. P: Scout says, “ From somewhere near by came scuffling, kicking sounds, sounds of shoes and flash scraping dirt and roots” (Lee 351). C: Jem fights with Bob Ewell in order to protect Scout’s life. Despite knowing he was fighting a grown man, as well as his chances against him, he still fights him showing his bravery. T: Jem is very brave as he protects his sister, yet this isn’t the only time he was brave enough to do what is right for both him and Scout. SU: Jem and Scout find Dill in their home after he ran away, Jem says his mother needs to know and decides to tell Atticus. P: Lee writes, “‘Atticus,’ his voice was distant, ‘can you come here a minute, sir?’” (Lee 188). C: Despite knowing that both Dill and Scout didn’t want Jem to tell Atticus, he does so anyways, making the right choice. This shows his bravery to make the best decisions, even if things don’t turn out the best for him, but rather the best for everyone. CL: Jem is brave enough to do what is not only best, but also just. A: As Jem goes through the book as a preteen, he is shown to be sensitive. SU: Scout mentions the trial to Jem, who reacts badly and yells at her to not mention it again. She then goes to Atticus for comfort. P: Atticus says, “don’t let Jem get you down. He’s having a rough time these days” (lee 331). C: Atticus says Jem is having a hard time dealing with what happened at the...
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... Atticus is a very good man with many good characteristics, but some of those characteristics Jem and Scout may not be a fan of. One of those characteristics is that he can be kind of strict, especially to Jem. When Jem followed Atticus to the jail and Atticus found them, he look Jem strait in the eyes and told him to go home. He did not want the kids being out so late and to get in the way of the mob. When Mrs. Dubose had wanted Jem to read to her, Jem told Atticus thinking that he could get him out of reading to her, but Atticus told Jem that he would read to her if that is what she wanted. When Jem and Scout were playing the life of Boo Radley game, Atticus told them sternly that he did not want them tormenting that man anymore. Atticus really wanted his kids to be who they want to be, but when Scout started to act up he said that he did not want her to be doing that anymore and that she should be acting like a lady. Atticus put the kids to bed every night at ten o’clock. Not only is Atticus very strict but he is also a very wise man. He can be portrayed as wise because he thinks and knows in his heart that everyone is equal no matter their skin color or background. He took the Tom Robinson case because he knew that it was the right thing to do and he knew if he did not he would not be able to face the people of Maycomb; He really wanted to keep his dignity. He knew that a mob of people were planning on coming to the jail and were going to lynch Tom Robinson. Atticus went...
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