To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee: Character Analysis
“To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee is a perfect example of how the plot progression of the story was closely related to the character development. Lee used Jean Louise, also known as “Scout” as a main model of character development, as she grows through her understandings of racism, how to handle social situations and her intelligence . The plot progression throughout the novel was very close in relationship of bildungsroman in the characters personal stories. This book being fiction is not true but it depicts how life was during the time period of the 1930’s. The characters also are very close to portraying common people of the time in Macon County of Alabama. Jean Louise starts of the story as a innocent, young mind to be molded, who
does not know much about the terrible racism that surrounds everything she knew. She first started to learn about the inequality with racism in the world when she talked to her brother Jem and he said, “ around here once you have a drop of Negro blood, that makes you all black.(16.78-81) When Jem stated this he construed the fact that people are treated differently based on their race, mainly for the wrong reasons.
does not know much about the terrible racism that surrounds everything she knew. She first started to learn about the inequality with racism in the world when she talked to her brother Jem and he said, “ around here once you have a drop of Negro blood, that makes you all black.(16.78-81) When Jem stated this he construed the fact that people are treated differently based on their race, mainly for the wrong reasons.