To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee‚ portrays the challenges of race and gender expectations through the maturity of Scouts character. On page 48 Scout defies what it is to be a girl‚”Dill if you don’t hush I’ll knock you bowlegged.I mean it-” Scout is really passive agressive‚ Lee manages to disperse any such idea of gender roles.Yet‚before a blue sky‚ comes a thunderstorm‚ Scout still faces the challenges of gender expectations with her Aunt .Especially Jem as he gets older his attitude changes
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life you should always follow the moral of having to see things from others perspectives. This is a topic in a scene from Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Scout‚ the main character‚ talks to her father Atticus about her teacher‚ Miss Caroline‚ telling her about how Scout needs to stop reading at home. Harper Lee uses this scene to have Scout learn an important lesson which has to look at other people’s points of views in order to understand them. In To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee uses
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poor‚ so were the doctors and lawyers. CHAPTER 3 Identify two lessons taught to Scout‚ one by Calpurnia and the other from Atticus‚ as well as the context surrounding these lessons (what occurred that caused Calpurnia and Atticus to teach Scout these lessons?). Explain why these lessons are important for Scout to learn‚ and suggest ways she might be able to put them into practice in the future. The lesson taught to Scout by Calpurnia was that you if you invite someone over‚ you let them eat however
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teacher feels Scout is messing her learning system. She is "introducing a new way of teaching" one which involves the teacher waving cards at the students with simple words printed on them. Scout begins to write a letter‚ which the teacher stops her from doing. She also is angry at Scout for writing‚ because "you don’t learn to write until you’re in the third grade. Obviously‚ she is stopping her from learning more. School is now a place where Scout is told to stop learning. 7) Why does Scout explain
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Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee‚ Scout‚ the main character‚ begins to mature into a woman. In the beginning of the book‚ she is a tomboy who cannot wait to pick a fistfight with anyone‚ but at the end‚ she lowers her fists because her father‚ Atticus‚ tells her not to fight. Scout’s views of womanhood‚ influenced by how Aunt Alexandra‚ Miss Maudie‚ and Calpurnia act‚ make her think more about becoming a woman and less of a tomboy. In the beginning of the book‚ Scout is a tomboy. She acts‚ dresses
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Mockingbird”‚ Scout is a character who learns many major lessons throughout her adventures and encounters. Over the course of the story‚ Scout grows and matures from the lessons she learns. Through her experiences‚ she is taught empathy‚ the existence of good and evil‚ and the racial inequality within her community. To begin with‚ one of the most important lessons Scout learns during this entire novel is empathy. In other words‚ she learns how to understand the feelings of others. Scout learns throughout
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Jem and Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird‚ is a great parent for a number of reasons. He is a good example to everyone around him. Atticus is an excellent parent who teaches his kids valuable lessons‚ the Golden Rule‚ and the importance of treating everyone equally. Throughout the book‚ Atticus teaches Jem and Scout valuable lessons that will help them later in life. One of the valuable lessons that he taught them was to care for those around them and especially each other. Jem cares for Scout by telling
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Ms. Walker Ethics: The Keys to Humanity’s Forbearance Morality is not a virtue that many can tolerate without a conscience. It was considered the critical awareness of humanity’s standards of conduct that are accepted as proper. Yet‚ for Scout‚ morality becomes not only a principle‚ but also a necessity in order for her to survive in the prejudiced society of Maycomb County. It is solely the essence of ethics that causes her to frown upon the injustices brought about by intolerance. Thus
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“To Kill a Mockingbird” Jem and Scout reside in the quiet and small county of Maycomb‚ Mississippi. Like any other child‚ the two siblings enjoy playing outdoors. Over the course of time life experiences have big influences on the maturation of Jem and Scout mentally‚ emotionally as well as physically too. Jem changes from a young boy to a young man. Scout enters the story as an innocent young girl only to re-emerge as a young woman. Jem rapidly progresses from a child to a young adult.
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Mockingbird‚ Scout’s views and understanding of femininity changes. Although Scout is not the stereotypical female of her age‚ she receives different views of that matter through three different influential ladies in her life. Through them she realizes that being more feminine is not a negative changer in her life. Scout at first is tomboyish and does not do or like things a girl of her age is expected to. After Francis annoys Scout by called Atticus a “nigger-lover”‚ she “split [her] knuckle to the bone
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