Jeremy Finch Identity

As a kid, the process of identifying yourself is difficult. Figuring out who you want to be, where you want to go, and who you want to be around are substantial tasks. The largest task of all though is identifying who you want to be as a person. How you want others to think of you. But most of all how you think of yourself. This process is completed with the understanding of right and wrong, and the experiences you face as a child. Moral growth and our own identities are formed through how we grow up. It is formed through our childhood, and experiences we face. Jeremy Finch grew up before our eyes in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. He did not only become taller, stronger and older, rather his identity and views about the world advanced as the book and time processed. The novel To Kill a Mockingbird is narrated to the reader by a young girl, Jean Louise(Scout) Finch, as she grows up in the small town of Maycomb Alabama. The book is written with dramatic irony, in a very racist community. The family faces challenges of injustices they view of
It led awareness for racial segregation,and inequality for minorities. But most of all it showed of how events during childhood can directly impact the morals, and identity of people. Moral growth and identity are not just formed on how our parents raised us, the friend groups we spent time with, but can be traced back to how we perceived right and wrong and various experiences we faced. Jeremy Finch’s morals, and identity changed through, an unjust trial in his hometown, his love and protection of his family, and understanding his community. Protagonist in books push the story plot forward. The protagonist in this book was not a super villain rather the simple idea of what is right and what is wrong. In this case the protagonist not only added to the story, it developed, and influenced the moral growth and identity of a young Jem