“‘You want to grow up to be a lady don’t you?’ I said not particularly.” While reading Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird‚ I was shocked to read Scout Finch reply with these words when her uncle asked her about growing up to be a lady. All throughout the book‚ Scout demeans her own gender. It hurt my heart to think that she was ashamed being called a girl‚ but now I understand why she felt that way. She did not think she could be the strong independent individual she wanted to be just because
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To Kill a Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee‚ reveals the development of Jem’s character throughout the novel. The reader watches Jem undergo a metamorphosis during the three years that the novel spans. Boo Radley‚ Jem’s family‚ and the Tom Robinson trial‚ shape Jem into what he becomes by the end of the book. At the beginning of the novel‚ Jem was an immature little boy‚ and was curious about Boo Radley. Because he was a young child‚ Jem was fascinated with the unknown. Hence the many plots he came
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One of the main lessons that Scout learns in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is that you can’t fully understand who someone is until you walk in his shoes‚ a lesson that Scout learns while standing on Boo’s porch and seeing from his point of view. When Scout gets home from her first day at school with Miss Caroline‚ she recounts the “crimes” of her day. Scout sits on Atticus’s lap and tells him about Miss Caroline’s notion that he shouldn’t have taught Scout to read‚ and after some contemplation
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The Absence of Equality The snowman Jem creates in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird‚ is a mixed-race snowman that helps to express the message that racism overpowers equality in the community of Maycomb. One example relating to the snowman that displays fairness is the instance when Scout is showing her confusion to Jem about the snowman having a black surface rather than a white surface. Scout says knowingly to Jem‚ “‘Jem‚ I ain’t ever heard of a nigger snowman‚’ I said. ‘He won’t be black long
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11-19-09 Language Arts 8A To Kill Injustice One of the many injustices in Maycomb County is racial injustice‚ more specifically the injustices towards African-Americans. For example‚ the townspeople of Maycomb they have such a hate towards African-American people‚ for example the use of the word nigger. It is a word that the “common people” meaning the people who had no deference for them. Which leads to segregation‚ of churches‚ schools‚ and the courtroom where Tom Robinson’s trial is held
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The Inequality in Maycomb‚ Alabama In the novel‚ “To Kill a Mockingbird”‚ by Harper Lee‚ the character Jean Louise Finch‚ also known as Scout‚ is from a mature perspective looking back at her childhood. This novel is considered touching by many‚ and the novel takes place in the summer of nineteen thirty-three. Readers meet the characters Scout Finch and her brother Jem who lived in a fictional town in Alabama called Maycomb. During this time in the south‚ there was a lot of segregation between whites
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Figure Of Speech: Characterization: Calpurnia was something else again. She was all angles and bones; she was nearsighted; she squinted; her hand was wide as a bed slat and twice as hard. She was always ordering me out of the kitchen‚ asking me why I couldn’t behave as well as Jem when she knew he was older‚ and calling me home when I wasn’t ready to come. The reason I picked this was because it’s explaining who Cal is ‚ it’s explaining how she was bossy always ordering him out and how she was
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I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and I am on page 260. This book is about Scout and Jem Finch coming to the realization that their hometown is imperfect. It is also about how these children react to the trial of a black man against a white woman who cried rape. The reader follows the children through this trial‚ and one can see how it matures them. In this paper‚ I will be predicting and evaluating. I predict that Tom will be found innocent. I believe that Tom will be found innocent
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To Kill A Mockingbird is a novel written by Harper Lee. The protagonist and narrator of the story is Jean Louise‚ or Scout‚ Finch. She lives in the small town of Maycomb with her father‚ Atticus‚ and brother‚ Jem. Scout is only six years old but is very intelligent‚ defensive‚ and curious. At Christmas‚ Francis is talking to Scout and is saying negative things about Atticus. Scout tries to defend Atticus by yelling. On page 83 Scout narrates‚ “I leaped off the steps and ran down the catwalk. It
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English To Kill A Mockingbird Monologue - Draft [Mayella Ewell is in the living room of the Ewell house alone. She has arrived home after Tom Robinson’s trial at the courthouse ended. She slowly paces around the room still dresses in the clothes she was wearing during the trial.] Oh‚ what have I done? [Mayella comes to a stop‚ gripping onto her wrist tightly] I know that lying on that stand was necessary to protect my reputation in this society; I know it would’ve shamed my family’s name to admit
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