Analysis Of Harper Lee's 'To Kill A Mockingbird'
Throughout the first three chapters of the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, the main character, Scout, has experience a few changes to her perspective towards other. Scout used to be a little shy and a troublesome little girl. She was considered rude at first, but she is only a first grader, and children need to learn the rights and the wrongs, she was blameless. She could yell at someone for doing something that she considered as “wrong”. But she is eager to give someone her knowledge about the families of Maycomb. Scout actually developed quite fast because it would’ve taken a normal person some time to build up their courage on the first day of school to talk back at the teacher, but Scout knew she had to say something, so she
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One of the families that she mentioned, were the Cunninghams, “The Cunninghams never took anything they can’t pay back – no church baskets and no scrip stamps. They never took anything off of anybody; they get along on what they have. They don’t have much, but they get along on it,” said Scout. There was also the Radleys. The Radley family was a very closed family; they didn’t go out very much, there was a terrible story about the Radley family, they say that the son of the Radleys, Arthur Radley, killed his parents way back before Scout or Jem was born. They say that a phantom lives in the Radley house and haunted Maycomb every night on a full moon. But that was only a story; Scout never knew what really happened because she wasn’t born yet. And there was also a classmate of hers named Burris Ewell. “He’s one of the Ewells, ma’am” “Whole school’s full of ‘em. They come first day every year and then leave. The truant lady gets ‘em here ‘cause she threatens ‘em with the sheriff, but she’s give up tryin’ to hold ‘em. She reckons she’s carried out the law just getting’ their names on the roll and runnin’ ‘em here the first day. You’re supposed to mark ‘em absent the rest of the year…” Scout added. For a first grader, Scout knows a lot about the families in Maycomb, because she has to, to get
One of the families that she mentioned, were the Cunninghams, “The Cunninghams never took anything they can’t pay back – no church baskets and no scrip stamps. They never took anything off of anybody; they get along on what they have. They don’t have much, but they get along on it,” said Scout. There was also the Radleys. The Radley family was a very closed family; they didn’t go out very much, there was a terrible story about the Radley family, they say that the son of the Radleys, Arthur Radley, killed his parents way back before Scout or Jem was born. They say that a phantom lives in the Radley house and haunted Maycomb every night on a full moon. But that was only a story; Scout never knew what really happened because she wasn’t born yet. And there was also a classmate of hers named Burris Ewell. “He’s one of the Ewells, ma’am” “Whole school’s full of ‘em. They come first day every year and then leave. The truant lady gets ‘em here ‘cause she threatens ‘em with the sheriff, but she’s give up tryin’ to hold ‘em. She reckons she’s carried out the law just getting’ their names on the roll and runnin’ ‘em here the first day. You’re supposed to mark ‘em absent the rest of the year…” Scout added. For a first grader, Scout knows a lot about the families in Maycomb, because she has to, to get