during part of their time growing up. In this book‚ readers see the adventures of Scout and Jem‚ and how they learn from them. Along with learning that racism is a big part in their society in this time‚ and the unfairness of it. The novel should be taught in schools because of the lessons taught to readers by Scout and Jem‚ as well as lessons about the effects and extremity of racism. The siblings Jem and Scout‚ Scout especially‚ teach readers important lessons and proves why this book should be
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children that skin color does not matter. Scout witness the difference between black and white in Chapter 16 when Atticus and Aunt Alexandra disagree about speaking openly in front of the "colored" help.Calpurnia teaches Scout many of the same lessons. Since Atticus sees Calpurnia as a member of the family‚ she is allowed to freely scold and lecture Scout if need be. Cal teaches Scout about treating people with respect and taking time to understand others. Scout watched Cal and even sees that being a
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Mockingbird‚ by harper lee‚ as scout grows up she sees the changes in her society‚ but those that affect her the most are community‚ parenting‚ role of women‚ and courage. Scout learns more and more about the world as she grows up and she starts to see the war between the blacks and the whites. Scout hears a lot of rumours about Boo Radley but never sees him. She knows how her society is bad from the day Tom Robinson’s trial and from all the rumours that were made of Boo Radley. Scout changes‚ grows and matures
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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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· The chapter opens with the introduction of the narrator‚ Scout Finch‚ her older brother Jem‚ and their friend and neighbor‚ Dill · her brother Jem breaking his arm. · She launches into a brief family history‚ beginning with her grandfather‚ Simon Finch. · Scout tells of her days living on the main street with Atticus and Jem‚ along with cook‚ Calpurnia‚ Their mother passed away when Scout was two‚ and she hardly remembers her. · Scout then recalls meeting Dill‚ a seven-year-old boy from Mississippi
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Scout is just a young child trying to be involved in everything she can. Over the summer scout makes a new freind names Dill. Her best friend is her brother Jem they do everything together. She is an out gowing girl she does everything that the boys do. Scout likes to tag along and be were everybody else is. Scout also likes to see what her father is doing all the time. She really never leaves her dad side either. Like scout I always wanted to be where ever my dad was‚ even if it was working on
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Lee show the “coming of age” theme is the unique plot/events. Scout had many events that happened in her early years that caused her to mature. One way Scout matured was when her teacher told her she wasn’t allowed to read at home anymore. Scout demanded to stay at home and not go back to that school but Atticus reasoned with her. In the book‚ Atticus states‚ “First
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A Mockingbird. It seems like both the kids have changed a lot in specific ways. If you know how much Scout has changed prepare for Jem’s changes. Jem has had many changes in the story To Kill A Mockingbird from him being called different names to having a new attitude in the book. First‚ at one point in the story Jem snitches on Dill which breaks their childhood rule. When Jem and Scout found Dill under the bed and listened to his story‚ Jem had then “went out of the room and down the hall”
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Mockingbird- Socialization of Scout Jean Louise “Scout” Finch‚ the narrator of To Kill A Mockingbird‚ is a very different six-year-old girl‚ in both her personality traits and in her social position. She can read before she enters school‚ she is unusually thoughtful‚ and she acts like a tomboy in her prim and proper Southern Maycomb. In To Kill A Mockingbird‚ various characters such as Alexandra‚ Atticus‚ and many others contribute to the socialization of Scout. Scout learns to act lady-like‚ how
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Cal teaches Scout about the other side of Maycomb (the blacks) which she would have never known about if it was not for Cal. When Walter Cunningham was invited to eat at the Finch home‚ Scout always held a bit of contempt against him for his coarse manners‚ his poverty and his ignorance he had. Since he was demonstrating all these behaviors when he was invited to lunch‚ Scout made fun of him. Immediately Calpurnia got onto her and demanded that
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