Go Set a Watchman details the return of Jean Louise Finch to her hometown of Maycomb‚ Alabama. The novel opens with the train ride to the smalltown and Jean Louiseś description of what it meant to go home. She conveys her thoughts on returning and shares what exactly coming home does to her: it morphs her into a different person. She arrives at her destination and is greeted by a familiar face‚ Henry Clinton‚ a boy whom she’s known all of her life. The two share in each other’s embrace and the reader
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Scout‚ also known as Jean Louise Finch is one of the most important roles in the book‚ as she is one of the main characters‚ and the book is based around her. She is the youngest person in her family‚ and is a very smart character that knows a lot more than most/all people of her age‚ she is also very mature and respectful‚ especially in the way that she speaks to people‚ she uses very mature words and talks quite sophisticatedly. Scout’s father Atticus inspires her to push her limits and learn what
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Character Traits Evidence (direct quote) Inference/foreshadowing Jean Louise Finch (Scout) Protagonist - lives with her father and brother and their black cook. Scout is a tomboy character‚ and is also very intelligent. Jeremy Atticus Finch (Jem) Male Character. He is Scout’s brother‚ and acts like a typical American boy‚ always refusing to back down from fights. He matures during the story but still stays close to Scout‚ even though he doesn’t play her games anymore. Atticus
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Memories of Scout The narrator Jean Louise Finch‚ nicknamed Scout‚ in Lee ’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ is a complex‚ innocent character. She possesses a wide range of traits‚ which undergo a transformation‚ as she matures. My interest in Scout stems from three main qualities of her personality with which I can personally identify. She displays curiosity‚ courage‚ and a love of reading throughout the novel. Scout ’s curiosity is revealed through questions she asks her father to understand what
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Jean Louise Finch criticizes the quality of education in schools. Firstly‚ she implies that prison education is better than the education given in regular schools “The other boys attended the industrial school and received the best secondary education to be had in the state‚ one of them eventually worked his way through engineering school at Auburn” (Lee 11). The words “best secondary education” implies that children in a prison-like setting receive a higher quality of education than the children
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In the Book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ you follow a little girl called Jean Louise Finch aka Scout in a town called Maycomb in Alabama. In which she does various activities with her brother and we see her grow.I believe the main idea in To Kill A MockingBird which means to kill innocence. Mainly in how a person grows‚ and in how their view of the world changes as they learn more about it. So far we have seen Scout go through the first grade and then go into the second grade. In this time
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Jean Louise was at school and it was lunch time‚ all the kids got out their lunches and began eating. The teacher walked by and look at all of the kids meals and came upon walter cunningham. Walter didn’t have his lunch with him so Miss Caroline asked him about it and offered him a quarter. She then offered it a second time‚ this time being a little more impatient due to the fact Walter would not take the quarter. Jean Louise stepped in and tried to explain to miss caroline why he would not take
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officers storm inside. The resident is being accused of murder‚ a crime they didn’t commit. In order to avoid jail time‚ the accused is going to need an exceptional lawyer. An excellent example of an exceptional lawyer would be Atticus Finch. He has many strong traits that show what an ample lawyer he can be. Whether it be his courage‚ which he shows when he takes the Tom Robinson case and defends Tom Robinson from the lynch mob. Or his intelligence‚ which he shows when he proves that Bob Ewell was
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killed by Atticus Finch By: Ms. Driscoll A-‐1 Maycomb’s streets are safe again after “One-Shot Finch” shoots a rabid dog. Sheriff Heck Tate and Atticus Finch responded to a call from the Finches’ housekeeper‚ that there was a mad dog on the loose. Arriving together‚ Finch and Tate recognized Tim Johnson‚ Harry Johnson’s dog‚ weaving down the street in front of the Radley home. At Sheriff Tate’s urging‚ Atticus Finch took the kill shot‚ ending the crisis. Jeremy Finch was the first to
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Dill‚ Jem and I snuck out of the house to follow Atticus to the town center. Eventually‚ we saw Atticus sitting in front of the jail. Jem said we should go home‚ but just as he said that four cars drove up by Atticus and a bunch of men stepped out. They told him to step away from the jail. Just then‚ I ran toward Atticus‚ Jem and Dill came out after me. I heard one of the men tell Atticus he had fifteen seconds to get the kids out of here. Then I looked up and noticed Mr. Walter Cunningham in the
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