Analyze the childhood world of Jem, Scout, and Dill and their relationship with Boo Radley in Part One.
The novel 'To kill a mockingbird' is a story about the older Scout looking back at her childhood in Maycomb, Alabama, and how she had grown up from a world of complete innocence into a much more complex adult world containing lots of negative elements and some good that together form her idea about the world and the way she thinks reacts to different thing later on in the story and maybe even in the following years after the end of the book. One of the things that older Jean Louise talks about a lot in the book is Arthur ‘Boo’ Radley and his relationship with her, Jem, and Dill. That, basically, is the basis of this essay, together with the analysis of the childhood world of these three kids.
Jean Louise "Scout" Finch is considered smart for her age (6-8), and loves to read. In fact, she gets in trouble with her teacher Ms. Caroline because Ms. Caroline wants Scout to learn reading and writing her way, but Scout refuses. She is a tomboy who spends the majority of her time with her brother and their friend Dill. She matures from age 6 to age 8 as the novel progresses but still remains naive and idealistic, despite an increased understanding of human nature and racism in her town. At the beginning of the book, Scout is confused by some of the words and names she has heard people directing towards her father, such as "nigger lover". Being only six, Scout does not know how to handle such situations so she tries to resolve her problems by fighting and talking to Atticus about what she has heard. Scout’s changing personality in the book is mostly affected by her father, Atticus, the maid, Calpurnia, and her brother, Jem.
Jeremy Atticus 'Jem' Finch is the brother of Scout, and is four years older than her. Jem matures a lot throughout the course of the novel and is much more affected by events (his mother's death, before the novel begins, the