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    of life. JemScout‚ and Dill have various adventures that mature them‚ and allow them to understand how the world works in the mind of an adult. The children’s mind slowly transforms from understanding situations like an adult to having the mind of an adult. In effect‚ Jem begins to mature by going off on his own and preferring to be alone. “Jem was growing. I must be patient with him and disturb him as little as possible‚” scout narrated (153). Scout was beginning to realize how Jem was starting

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    To Kill a Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee‚ tells the story of a small town that faces many challenges. Atticus Finch is a very humble and respectful man who defends Tom Robinson. He has two kids‚ Jean Louise‚ and Jem. Jean Louise “Scout” Finch is a young girl that is very intelligent. She is the daughter of Atticus. Jem Finch is a young boy that matures throughout the novel. He is the son of Atticus Finch. Tom Robinson is a black man accused of raping a white woman named Mayella Ewell. Mayella Ewell

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    What is the Significance of Jem in the novel “To Kill A Mockingbird”? To Kill A Mockingbird‚ written in 1958-1960 by Harper Lee explores the irrationality of attitudes to race and class in the ‘Deep South’ in 1930s America. This bildungsroman presents in a stark reality the challenges facing civil rights activists‚ as Harper Lee sets out to bring racism and the fight against it clearly to the reality of a modern readership. Jem‚ the son of the lawyer Atticus Finch is caught up in this world

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    To kill a mockingbird: Analyze the childhood world of JemScout‚ and Dill and their relationship with Boo Radley in Part One. The novel ’To kill a mockingbird’ is a story about the older Scout looking back at her childhood in Maycomb‚ Alabama‚ and how she had grown up from a world of complete innocence into a much more complex adult world containing lots of negative elements and some good that together form her idea about the world and the way she thinks reacts to different thing later on in the

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    Scout‚ the narrator from Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird‚ learns life changing lessons in a few years. Although she might be young‚ that doesn’t mean that she is completely clueless. With her father‚ Atticus being a lawyer in the South during the 1930s she is judged by her father’s cases‚ although sometimes not in the most pleasant ways. Also with Jem‚ her brother‚ influencing her throughout the book‚ she learns more than most in just a few years. As Scout begins to grow up‚ her level of maturity

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    Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird is a coming of age story in which a young girl‚ her older brother‚ and their friend are exposed to the harsh realities of the 1930s. The various events that occurred over two years helped shape their moral perspectives into the ones of mature adults. With the help from their father‚ family cook and caretaker‚ and intelligent but stubborn neighbor‚ they come to realize that not everything is as good as it seems. The novel is titled To Kill A Mockingbird because the

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    Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is currently in theaters. Fans of the Harry Potter franchise are now enjoying the wizarding American world. There are some major differences between the Fantastic Beasts and Harry Potter‚ but there is one detail that stands out. This is a mandatory spoiler alert for those who have not seen Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them! In the Harry Potter Films‚ the only emphasis on non-magical people (Muggles) is found in Hermione (Emma Watson). She suffers the

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    Orourke English 9 17 Dec 2012 Mockingbirds and Scout Mocking birds in real life what they do is basically nothing but to sing for us. They do not harm any crops‚ corns etc. They do not hurt anything or anyone. In other words Mockingbirds are innocent. That is why in Harper Lee “To Kill a Mockingbird” Mockingbirds symbolizing scout. Scout and Mockingbirds are both similar. They are both innocent. A mockingbird does not harm anything or anyone. Scout wants well for ever one. She is not racist. She

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    one must first see the world from his or her point of view. We see Scout do this with Jem‚ after he visits the Radley lot: As Atticus once advised me to do‚ I tried to climb into Jem’s skin and walk around in it: if I had gone alone to the Radley Place at two in the morning‚ my funeral would have been held the next afternoon. So I left Jem alone and tried not to bother him. (Lee 77) Here is one of the many examples of where Scout applies what she has learned from Atticus. To “walk around in Jem’s

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    as an act of healing and resistance‚ in which the themes of the gender roles‚ family‚ feminism and immigration are predominant. These four themes serve to deconstruct and challenge the patriarchy‚ while seeking to foster a more inclusive community. Immigration plays a fundamental role in Chicana/o community‚ Reyna Grande’s memoir The Distance Between Us deconstructing the popular representation of the American Dream by

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