decides this is wise‚ but learns it has its consequences‚ sadly. Jem also is uneasy about his environment‚ but he’s more mature and figures things out. Unlike Scout‚ he understands the Depression and the tolls it takes on people. Scout doesn’t know how to relate the Depression to people doing anything for money. 4) All Scout Finch truly wants is to understand adults and mature things. She wants to know more about Atticus’s work and have knowledge about the happenings in her surroundings. Scout wishes
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“‘Well‚ Dill‚ after all he’s just a Negro.’ ‘I don’t care one speck. It ain’t right somehow it ain’t right to do ‘em that way. Hasn’t anybody got any business talkin’ like that-it just makes me sick‚’”(Lee‚ 266). In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird author Harper Lee lays out the story of the Finch family consisting of two siblings‚ Jem and Scout‚ along with their widowed father Atticus. This family is faced with a tough break when Atticus get appointed a case to defend an African American (Tom Robinson)
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To Kill a Mockingbird explores the childhood adventures and findings of a youthful and curious child. The heroine‚ Scout Finch‚ starts out as a naive six-year-old tomboy but gradually matures and develops values as new discoveries are made. Together with her brother Jem Finch and her daring and inventive friend Dill‚ Scout enhances her understanding of the adult world and begins to lose her innocence through a series of events spanning over three years. To Kill a Mockingbird illustrates Scout’s journey
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------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- TO KILL A MOKINGBIRD ------------------------------------------------- Jem mature considerably through the course of the novel. What developmental changes do they go through‚ and what causes these changes?" To Kill a Mockingbird’‚ written by Harper Lee‚ depicts a tenacious sense of maturity that you can see through the novel. Maturity‚ the word has a different meaning for every individual
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of the novel‚ Jem was an immature little boy‚ and was curious about Boo Radley. Because he was a young child‚ Jem was fascinated with the unknown. Hence the many plots he came up with to try and bring Boo out the Radley house. After Jem met Dill Harris‚ Dill dared him to touch the side of the Radley house. Despite this‚ Jem still ran past it every day for school‚ because of the rumors surrounding Boo. Jem described Boo as being six and a half feet tall‚ his diet consisted of raw squirrels and cats
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throughout the novel even if some of her elders disapprove of it (Bloom “Introduction”‚ par. 2). Harold Bloom described her as “Harper Lee’s book‚ being not only the narrator but much of its most interesting consciousness” (par. 2). As Scout becomes more mature‚ she has to come to new understandings of prejudice in a small community in the south‚ the natures of good and evil‚ and about compassion‚ hatred‚ and justice (Bernard 9). Scout Finch is a protagonist in the novel while also the narrator‚ yet the
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The theme of growing-up is seen throughout the entire novel as Jem and Scout grow up and begin to mature. The theme of friendship is influential in the novel with the relationship of Dill with Scout and Jem. Dill opens an entirely new world to Scout and Jem through his experience in outside the small town of Maycomb. There is also a kind of friendship between Atticus and his children. This is shown through
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Scout’s Lessons That Make Her More Mature Ones parents and teachers usually try to teach one something one doesn’t want to know. One should listen next time for it might an important lesson. Like ones parents or teachers‚ the adults in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird try to teach Scout/one that may be important. One lesson learned is to face ones problems. Another is to respect everyone no matter how they differ. A lesson taught is to stand up for what one believes in. Therefore‚ lessons learned
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English 10-1 To Kill a Mockingbird: Study Guide Antagonist: The main antagonist in this novel is Bob Ewell‚ he represents the darkness and evil in the town of Maycomb‚ and causes the death of an innocent man. After this‚ he tries to find and hurt Scout and Jem as he is too cowardly to attack Atticus directly. His character is essentially a direct contrast to Atticus’s character‚ mean and evil‚ the epitome of the darkness in Racism. The character Bob Ewell stands in opposition to Atticus primarily
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different from Scout at the beginning and this is because she has developed so much as a character. At the start of the novel‚ she is a determined‚ spirited tomboy; she loves wearing trousers. She spends most of her time with Jem‚ her brother and Dill‚ her friend who visits every summer. She can’t bear to be reminded that she is a girl and she is often excluded from the boys’ games because she is a girl. At times‚ being a girl makes her very lonely- she has no mother‚ sisters or female friends her
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