To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee Honors English Summer Homework Chapter 1-11 Summaries Chapter 1 Scout‚ the main character‚ starts the story off by thinking back to the summer where her brother‚ Jem‚ had broken his arm. She looks back to all the things and events that lead up to this mishap. Scout introduces us to her home Maycomb‚ Alabama and some of its interesting townsfolk like her father Atticus Finch‚ Calpurnia‚ Dill‚ The Radleys‚ and other neighbors. Her father‚ Atticus‚ works in
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growing up? In the novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ the narrator Scout is a young girl who goes through a series of obstacles in her life to choose whether or not she’s choosing the right path. As life throws obstacles at Scout‚ she manages to get through them by following suggestions from her parental influences Atticus‚ Miss Maudie‚ and Calpurnia. Although she may cause some problems and choses the wrong paths‚ her parental influences‚ puts Scout back on the track to choose right from wrong. Atticus
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that are learned or taught in the novel because some of the problems that existed back then still exist now. Scout gets to experience the feeling of prejudices and how it affects the lives of others. Scout does not know much about the events that are happening or why people judge or act the way they do throughout the book‚ but Atticus Finch and Maudie teach her many valuable lessons that Scout takes into consideration. She learns lessons such as giving everyone a fair chance‚ doing the right thing no
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Scout’s own "end of innocence." <br> <br>Scout opens the novel with a naive viewpoint on both the world and Boo Radley. At the start of the novel‚ Scout interprets a raiding on the jail‚ through an adolescent standpoint. Scout sees the circumstances of the attack from the perspective of a young child. Scout’s responses to situations‚ such as the one at the jail‚ attributes to the fact that she is young‚ and has few life experiences under her belt. Scout plays ludicrous games with Boo and her detachment
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because he protects Scout‚ stands up for himself and his family and is audacious regarding the mystery of Boo Radley. Jem shows an amazing amount of protectiveness towards Scout. Scout stands up for a boy named Walter Cunningham on her first day of school. She got in trouble with her teacher and when Scout finds Walter outside‚ she fights him but Jem stops her. He tells her “to stop”(Lee‚ 30). Scout still refuses. Again Jem says for Scout to “’Let him go’” (30). Jem doesn’t want Scout to get into anymore
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they become. Children‚ like Scout Finch in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ try to hold onto their naivety. But growing up surrounded by prejudice creates likeminded adults. Growing up in Maycomb‚ Scout is surrounded by prejudice. She desperately tries to hold on to her naive sense of justice‚ but do to the shocking events of a trial this becomes impossible to do. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Scout loses her innocence from the verdict of Tom Robinson’s trial. Scout discovers that the people
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Louise Finch‚ "Scout"‚ as the narrator. It allows the reader to see how Scout matures as a person. The story takes place in Maycomb‚ Alabama around the 1950’s. Scout lives with her brother Jem‚ and her father‚ Atticus .Scout is six when the story begins‚ and as she grows she can see how things really were. Scout learns not to judge people‚ fight in what you believe in and that the world can be unfair. Scout learns not to judge people in a wrong way before knowing them. Scout judged Boo Radley
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(Forehand). Scout starts out using only the two bottom layers of this method‚ knowledge and observation‚ and comprehension‚ both which she has had since a very young age. Scout moves up a level in this system when she applies pre-known knowledge and analyzes situations. For instance‚ when Walter Cunningham would not take Miss Caroline’s money‚ Scout realizes that Walter wouldn’t take the money because he didn’t want it‚ but instead‚ he wouldn’t take it because he could never pay it back. Scout reaches
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behavior. This book asks the question of human goodness and answers it with the childhood experiences of Scout and Jem Finch. Scout and Jem are introduced to prejudice and cruelty throughout the book‚ and Scout shows through these situations that she is independent‚ intelligent‚ and curious. Scout likes to have fun and do things her way. When Aunt Alexandra comes to Maycomb for a visit‚ Scout describes her‚ saying‚ “. . . she had river-boat‚ boarding school manners; let any moral come up and she
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Harper Lee’s coming-of-age novel To Kill a Mockingbird explores the childhood adventures and findings of a youthful and curious child. The heroine‚ Scout Finch‚ starts out as a naive six-year-old tomboy but gradually matures and develops values as new discoveries are made. Together with her brother Jem Finch and her daring and inventive friend Dill‚ Scout enhances her understanding of the adult world and begins to lose her innocence through a series of events spanning over three years. To Kill a Mockingbird
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