Differences In A Christmas Memory And To Kill A Mockingbird
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” - Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird. In this quote Atticus is telling his daughter, Scout how she shouldn't judge a person until she understands what they go through and to feel what it would be like to be that person. This is a lesson that is taught throughout book by Atticus that everyone should be given an opportunity, and that scout should see how other people live to be able to judge them. In a Christmas memory is a story about a boy that is called buddy that lives with his cousin whose name is not given throughout the story. These two live in a house with other family members but do not
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Another thing that these stories have in common are that both characters are poor. In a Christmas Memory this is shown in the story when buddy starts the talk about being able to buy the ingredients with this quote, “But before these Purchases can be made, there is the question of money. Neither of us has any.”. In TKAM it is shown that they are poor when Atticus is payed for his attorney services in hickory nuts, afterwards Scout asks her father “Are we poor, Atticus?’” to which he responds with “We are indeed.”. In these two stories, these two characters, Buddy and Scout,are similar in many ways as shown above. The first contrast between these two characters is that Buddy is a boy and Scout is a girl. In a Christmas Memory Buddy isn't actually named “Buddy” his real name is never given throughout the story but he is given that name by his older cousin he lives. She calls him this because when she was younger she had a friend that went by the name Buddy. In TKAM Scout is a tomboy but is still a girl. In this story Scouts gender leaves her lonely at some points, when her brother Jem and another boy who lives with his aunt and visits the town in the summer named Dill play without scout. They act out stories and Scout is given male parts like Tarzan and other male
Another thing that these stories have in common are that both characters are poor. In a Christmas Memory this is shown in the story when buddy starts the talk about being able to buy the ingredients with this quote, “But before these Purchases can be made, there is the question of money. Neither of us has any.”. In TKAM it is shown that they are poor when Atticus is payed for his attorney services in hickory nuts, afterwards Scout asks her father “Are we poor, Atticus?’” to which he responds with “We are indeed.”. In these two stories, these two characters, Buddy and Scout,are similar in many ways as shown above. The first contrast between these two characters is that Buddy is a boy and Scout is a girl. In a Christmas Memory Buddy isn't actually named “Buddy” his real name is never given throughout the story but he is given that name by his older cousin he lives. She calls him this because when she was younger she had a friend that went by the name Buddy. In TKAM Scout is a tomboy but is still a girl. In this story Scouts gender leaves her lonely at some points, when her brother Jem and another boy who lives with his aunt and visits the town in the summer named Dill play without scout. They act out stories and Scout is given male parts like Tarzan and other male