the novel‚ Jem and Scout Finch learned just about every lesson essential in life. Although they are only nine and twelve when the story ends‚ they don’t have much left to learn in life. After living through a biased trial‚ a near-death experience‚ and prejudice these children understand a lot. If it wasn’t for people in their life like Atticus‚ Boo Radley‚ and Calpurnia‚ they wouldn’t be as compassionate and intelligent as they grow to be. The trial of Tom Robinson is very influential on Jem and
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In William Shakespeare’s tragedy‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ Juliet is the lead female character. At first‚ she is portrayed as a young-hearted obedient girl‚ in just five acts time she undergoes significant change and matures. In the following paragraphs we see how she begins to view things from a changing perspective. At the beginning of the play‚ Juliet is shown as a young and naïve girl with no experience in love or marriage. When her parents want her to get married with Paris‚ although she has not
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Treat Others How You Want to Be Treated Do learning life lessons as a person grows up make them more mature? In the book‚ there is a family that lives in a little town called Maycomb. Atticus is Scout and Jem’s father‚ they do not have a mother‚ but they do have a nanny/housekeeper named Calpurnia who keeps them out of trouble. They are growing up during the depression‚ but are two of the happiest kids in Maycomb. They see many different things going on around town‚ some things they do and don’t
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Do you change as much as Scout Finch changes throughout the story‚ To Kill a Mockingbird She has some moments where some people may wonder what is going through her head‚ like when she fights with Walter. Some may wonder why she fights with him. People may think‚ “Why won’t she just leave him be?” Scout fights with Walter‚ because she thinks he is the reason she got in trouble from the teacher. In occasions within the story‚ Scout is feisty‚ outspoken‚ and curious. In the book‚ To Kill a Mockingbird
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in the novel when he wishes to interact with contrasting people from himself at the end of the story. When Philip first
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the power to make as much change as he does. By saying this‚ Lee was trying to show Atticus had mockingbird characteristics‚ because the mockingbird is bold and stands up for themselves‚ which is what Atticus displays. In addition‚ Miss Maudie tells Jem‚ “[T]here are some men in this world who were born to do our unpleasant jobs[...]Your father is one of them” (Lee
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Great Expectations Do our views of Magwitch change during the course of the novel? Great Expectations is about an ordinary‚ working class boy who suddenly finds himself with a secret benefactor who wants to make him into a rich gentleman. The boy comes to learn some hard lessons in life. In this story Dickens wants us to realise that being rich is not the most important thing in life compared to love and loyalty. Pip meets a convict in the graveyard where the story starts. The convict scares
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Kill a Mockingbird‚ Jem has significantly grown from a childish‚ playful boy that he was from the beginning of the novel‚ to a more calm‚ composed and mature figure resemblance to that of his father‚ Atticus. Harper Lee has incorporated the theme of Maturity into the novel through the development of Jem. Jem is shown in the beginning of the novel to be a boisterous child whose concept of bravery was through the acceptance of dares. Scout earlier on in the novel states "Jem never declined a dare
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Courage “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to your enemies‚ but a great deal more to stand up to your friends.” (Dumbledore from Harry Potter). Courage was used in the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. For example‚ Scout Finch and Jem Finch had to stand up to their friends and say what they thought was right even when people didn’t want to listen to what they had to say. Atticus had to stand up to the whole town and defend a black man even when he knew that there was no hope for
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Angel Arriaga Dr.Mink ELA 12‚November‚2015 Jem Finch Jem is the far oldest child in the finch family‚ since he has a sister named scout who is the narrator of the the whole book and is 4 years younger than him ‚but jem plays an important role in this story. Through his years he starts to change and become more sensitive than he was before. When he was thirteen he had a injury on his left. scouts says in the book “My brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.” (Ch 1 Pg.1). He had a fear
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