Jean Louise Finch is an incredible young lady who has experienced events that no other elementary child should experience. From being mistreated by her first grade teacher to getting attacked by an old trashy man‚ Jean Louise‚ or Scout‚ has been through it all. There was a time frame in the beginning of the novel where Scout was entering first grade. Miss. Caroline‚ her first grade teacher‚ had assessed Scout in her ability to read. Miss. Caroline had seen that Scout had the ability to read beyond
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St. Germaine Cousin was born with a deformed and paralyzed right arm‚ and a disease called‚ Scrofula.This is a type of tuberculosis which affects the neck. In this case it also made her cheeks and neck look deformed‚ and not pleasant to look at. Sometimes‚ she suffered from swelling and open‚ runny sores. No one knew who her parents were. Laurent Cousin may have been her father’s name‚ but no one knows for sure. She might also have been left at the doorstep as a baby‚ maybe because of her deformities
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Living in the pages of a classic novel‚ there is a girl named Jean Louise Finch‚ or rather‚ Scout. She is young and untainted by the world’s prejudices‚ and she possesses a mind full of curiosity. Scout wondered about many things. She wondered why Mrs. Dubose is such a mean old hag‚ about why Arthur‚ Boo‚ Radley never leaves his house‚ and why must a girl become a lady? The question that Scout pondered most about‚ however‚ was what it means to kill a mockingbird. The character Scout and the book
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would be impossible. The ability to do the right thing takes courage and Harper Lee illustrates this idea in her novel. In To Kill A Mockingbird we see that courage is important because without courage it is impossible to do the right thing. Atticus Finch has integrity because of his tremendous courage. People who are not courageous often follow the ideas of others‚ but those who are courageous also have integrity because they are able to stand up for what is right even when the odds are against them
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Raphael Singleton Professor Strawn English 300 2 May 2013 Know your neighbor How well do you know your neighbor? Visiting my cousin in a farming community in Vacaville‚ there is no telling who actually lives next to you. My cousin Albert‚ a tall slender goofy man who is very animated‚ offers me a job helping him take down and trim a neighbors crops. “Hey Raph! You wanna make some money?” Albert asks me knowing I hate it when he calls me “Raph”. “Doing what?” I respond in an irritated tone
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Character Analysis: Jem Finch Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird was written in 1960. The book takes place in a small Alabama town called Maycomb. Jem Finch is a young boy who matures throughout the story. He is submerged into a world of inequality and unfairness. Jem matures throughout the novel because of the experiences he went through; Tom Robinson’s case taught him inequality and how nothing is fair‚ Boo Radley taught Jem what is right and wrong‚ and he learned that Maycomb and the world
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1) Kind and understanding‚ strict but fair‚ Atticus Finch embodies everything that a father should be‚ evidence of this is in Scouts description of her and her brother views of their father‚“Jem and I found our father satisfactory: he played with us‚ read to us and treated us with courteous detachment.” showing he does what a father is obliged to do but treats them as he would treat anyone else and that they are on the same level as him. A man of great strength and courage‚ he is Scout and Jem’s
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Atticus Finch Throughout chapters 1-17 in To Kill A Mockingbird‚ Atticus Finch is shown as a very courageous and non-judgemental person. At times in the book he is also a very caring father but he can be strict at times. His name‚ Atticus is also a very polite man and always shows courtesy to the people he meets. Many people that live in Maycomb know Atticus is a gentleman and is very polite. He also has a conscience when he says that if he didn’t defend a Negro then he would be ashamed and wouldn’t
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Everybody changes. It is an almost universal fact. The protagonist in a very famous Southern literary novel‚ “To Kill A Mockingbird”‚ Jean Louise “Scout” Finch‚ has changed very much in a span of just three years‚ certainly a short time to mature. The book starts out with an innocent Scout‚ 6 years old‚ and progresses through the common and controversial acts of the Great Depression to 9 year old Jean‚ very mature in her perception of discrimination and progressing faster than most kids. So‚ what
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REPLICA PLATING AND INDIRECT SELECTION OF BACTERIAL MUTANTS JOSHUA LEDERBERG AND ESTHER M. LEDERBERG Department of Genetics‚ ’ College of Agriculture‚ University of Wisconsin‚ Madison‚ Wisconsin Received for publication August 31‚ 1951 Elective enrichment is an indispensable technique in bacterial physiology and genetics (van Niel‚ 1949). Specific biotypes are most readily isolated by the establishment of cultural conditions that favor their growth or survival. It has been repeatedly questioned
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