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    Homaira Faquiryan 3/22/09 Period 3 Jeremy Atticus Finch’s Evolution A child learns so much from interacting with its surroundings. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ Jeremy Finch does a whole lot of learning. Jem and Scout witness some of the evils of man and learn important lessons from them. However‚ Jem understands most of the events going on around him than his younger sibling Scout. From roughly the age of 10 through 13 we see how much Jeremy (Jem) Finch has evolved from

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    | TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD | | HARPER LEE | | TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD | | HARPER LEE | INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY 101 October 25‚ 2010 Sharon Goodwin East Millinocket Fall Semester INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY 101 October 25‚ 2010 Sharon Goodwin East Millinocket Fall Semester Lee Haper. To Kill a Mockingbird. New York: HarperCollins Publishers‚ Inc.‚ 1960 --Summary of the plot. To Kill a Mockingbird is a story about two children Jem age 10‚ Scout who is 6‚ and their

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    and barbaric feelings‚ one must constantly keep his morals strongly present in the front of his mind. Today‚ the world still consistently fights the impulse to be above one another‚ pitting races‚ genders‚ and social classes against one another. Prejudice has ravaged

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    be courageous. This statement is represented throughout To Kill a Mockingbird by Mrs. Dubose‚ Atticus Finch‚ and Boo Radley. Mrs. Dubose is a morphine addict that is trying to die morphine free. Atticus Finch is taken upon a case that requires him to defend a colored man. Boo Radley is a very shy man that comes out of his house to save Mr. Finch’s children. The characters‚ Mrs. Dubose‚ Atticus Finch and Boo Radley‚ in To Kill a Mockingbird demonstrates courageous people do what is right‚ even though

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    flirtatious‚ innocent‚ and submissive housewives.The men in charge set these societal expectations for women both in reality and Harper Lee’s classic novel about the period‚ To Kill a Mockingbird. However‚ in her novel‚ Lee does not make the female characters abide by these unspoken rules. Harper Lee portrays the women of To Kill a Mockingbird as human beings to show that perfect Southern belles did not exist. This is especially true in regards to her characters Maudie Atkinson‚ Stephanie Crawford‚ and Calpurnia

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    Conscience is the voice viewed as a guide to the rightness and wrongness in one character and behavior‚ and in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ the brother of the narrator‚ Jem‚ changes throughout the story and realizes that the conscience of plenty of the residents in Maycomb is disturbing and wrong. When Atticus said “…before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience” (105). Jem represented the theme

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    Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird takes place in Maycomb Alabama‚ 1930. The book focuses on a six-year old girl named Scout‚ and her ten-year old brother Jem. The two spend much of their time with their friend‚ Charles Baker Harris (everyone calls him Dill) who comes to visit during the summers. The 3 children spend most of their time sneaking around the house of their mysterious neighbor Boo Radley‚ whose said to be crazy . Early on in the story Atticus Finch‚ father to Jem and Scout‚ agrees to

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    begin to form and the uniqueness and differences of people are no longer appreciated. This leads into the two stories that center themselves around discrimination‚ one of which is To Kill A Mockingbird‚ written by Harper E. Lee. To Kill A Mockingbird‚ is a story about a young girl and

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    on their perspective towards the issue. Over time‚ we all develop a sense of perspective and opinion towards people and things‚ however‚ these perspectives are prone to change as we grow up to be more mature and thoughtful. In the novel‚ To kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ the Finch’s family develops the idea that despite your rank in the social hierarchy‚ personal values and beliefs are determined by one’s personality. This idea was further developed

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    The Change of Jem People often view mistakes as a negative thing‚ but what people often ignore is the positive effect it has on a person’s personality and helps them improve as a person. In Harper Lee’s bildungsroman To Kill a Mockingbird‚ a young boy named Jem Finch undergoes a change in both personality and maturity. In this novel‚ at first Jem is unaware of the world around him‚ but because of Tom Robinson’s trial and his obsession with Boo Radley‚ he becomes mature and understanding.

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