Character Analysis Jean-Louise Finch, more commonly known as Scout was the character that told To Kill A Mockingbird through her own eyes. Before the age of ten, she has done some pretty rambunctious things along with her wiser, older brother, Jem, and her best friend and future husband, Dill Harris. Living with her single father, Atticus, Scout discovers more about the people that live in Maycomb, Alabama. After a couple years Scout’s Aunt Alexandra moves in with the Finch’s to assist Atticus to turn Jean-Louise into the perfect lady and in years to come, a trophy wife. Although Scout is not a girly-girl and the entire town knows it, especially Miss Stephanie.…
Scout finally meets Arthur Radley after he saves her and Jem from Mr. Ewell. When she first sees the man, she describes his sickly appearance and finally realizes that it was Boo. Scout had always imagined the day when she would be able to meet Boo and gets emotional during the moment. This is an epiphany for Scout because after years of making up stories about him, she realizes that he is just a regular person. It changes her whole view of him.…
Final To Kill A Mockingbird Assignment. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird, Atticus father of our main characters Jem and Scout believes that in order to see a true person’s heart, one, must crawl into his/her skin and walk around in their shoes. And how our characters Jem Finch, Scout Finch, Mrs. Dubose, Boo Radley and Mayella Ewell change when this phrase is taken into action throughout the book. “Atticus was right.…
The kids played this game to tell the story about the Radleys that everyone believed,but they weren’t true. Scout and her brother would go to the…
I decided to read To Kill A Mockingbird, I have never read this book before but I have heard some great reviews on it. The book follows a girl by the name of Jean Finch, she narrates it. She primarily goes by the her nickname, Scout. She starts the book out by explain how her brother, Jem, broke his arm years earlier.…
Like wise Kohlberg once said “The child can internalize the moral values of his parents and culture and make them his own only as he comes to relate these values to a comprehended social order and to his own goals as a social self”. Kohlberg demonstrates that the apple never falls far from the tree, that a child does not only inherit genetic characteristics, but also absorbs behaviors from their parents. Harper Lee shows that when children are raised in a household with a parent already very high on the Kohlberg 's Stages of Moral Development, than that child is likely to develop a moral compass at an earlier age. The characters in To Kill a Mockingbird embody what really happens in our society. Studies say that when a parent is more intelligent than most then their child will have a better chance of being smart.…
Before the story has begun, the African American is already accused of raping a white, nineteen year old Mayella Ewell. Many townspeople of Maycomb believe that Robinson is not responsible for his crime because he is a hard-working and well-respected man. On the other hand, they disrespect and distrust the prosecutor, Mayella Ewell, because she belongs to a poor, disgraceful “white trash” family who lives by the town’s dump. The second evidence that proves Tom Robinson’s innocence is found in Mr. Ewell’s testimony on the rape. Mr. Ewell, Mayella’s father and one of the witnesses of the incident, tells Atticus, the lawyer of Tom Robinson, that he does not call a doctor for Mayella on that day.…
The Importance of Gifts Giving gifts to one another is a great way to express your feelings. In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird many gifts were given both tangible and intangible. All of the gifts in the book are important to the story in some way.…
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had the greatest courage to take over President Herbert Hoover’s disorder in America to an accomplished nation. He helped others in the struggle of life or death. Harper Lee’s book, To Kill A Mockingbird, shows many characters putting others before themselves. As Boo Radley decided to come out of his home, where it was safe for him, to save Jem and Scout from Bob Ewell who was trying to hurt them. He had help to protect their risk of being killed.…
Just standing on the Radley porch was enough." (373) This shows us that she finally sees what Boo has been seeing this whole time and now views him as a human being instead of a monster who stalks people at night. She sees him reaching out through the hole in the tree trying to get close to someone. This shows the development and maturity of Scouts character from being scared of the one who everyone else is scared of ,to reaching out to him and accepting him for who he…
Jem and Scout’s curiosity can get the best of them in some situations and cause them to become involved with conflicts. An example is, Jem and Scout wanted to find out what Boo Radley looked like because all they have heard is stories. They decide to sneak into the Radley’s backyard and look into the windows. During the middle of their adventure it was brought to a abrupt stop. Scout explained, “Halfway through the collards I tripped; as I tripped the roar of a shotgun shattered the neighborhood.”(Lee,71).…
She is standing on the Radley porch and imagines what Boo has seen over the past few years. Scout eventually realizes Boo is not a “scary monster” as she thought in the beginning of the story and has gotten the children gifts and had recently saved their lives, which progresses a new vision of Boo being a good…
Scout, her brother Jem, and their friend Dill are all captivated and simultaneously afraid of their neighbor, Arthur “Boo” Radley who keeps to himself, creating an aura of mystery and many whispers among the townspeople. The children are fascinated with him and try to come up with ways to see the reclusive man, but despite his gestures…
Author Radley was the son of Radley’s family who just lived next to the Finches. Because his social isolation from the rest of Maycomb, people hardly saw him came out of his house and terrifying rumors on Author’s cruel and horrible personality spread out. Scout, Jem, and Dill called him Boo Radley due to their perception of Author as a scary bad person. The three little characters maintained their fear and curiosity towards Author and he never actually showed up until the last part of the book, when Bob Ewell followed Jem and Scout on their way home and attempted to injure or even commit to homicide. Boo Radley jumped out of his house with a kitchen knife to fight and finally killed Bob.…
In To Kill a Mockingbird there are lots of racial, gender, and religious, discrimination. Which is shown a multiple amount of times throughout the novel. To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel written by Harper Lee which takes place in Maycomb Alabama, where there is a lot of racial discrimination. But there is also some gender, and religious, discrimination.…