The novel To Kill a Mockingbird takes place during the 1930’s in a city called Maycomb located in the deep south. Scout, the main character, and her brother, Jem, grow as people as the novel progresses. Throughout the novel it displays a community that is very close yet diverse in many ways. Scout begins attending a public school and begins to realize all this. She realizes there are poor people and the color of a person’s skin matters in the society they live in. She realizes the color of a person’s skin matters during the unfair trial of Tom Robinson. Tom was a black man that was accused of raping Mayella Ewell, a white young lady. Scout and Jem throughout the whole novel have many adventures including ones with the intent of finding out
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The streets the town were slop, and everything was not maintained well. Although the town did not have good curb appeal the community was something that money couldn’t buy. One day at school a student named Walter that everyone knew was poor forgot his lunch. The teacher, Miss Caroline said to him, “Here’s a quarter.… Go and eat down-town today. You can pay me back tomorrow.” (pg 19) Even though Miss Caroline did not know Walter she offered him the quarter to be thoughtful and show that she cared. She also offered him the quarter because she didn’t know his background and that he didn’t actually bring a lunch because he didn’t have any money. Walter Cunningham joined the Finchs a while after that scenario for dinner and made a little scene. While eating dinner Walter poured syrup all over his dinner plate. Scout threw a fit over it and Atticus replies with, “…Don’t matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house’s yo’ comp’ny…” (pg 24) This quote demonstrates how Atticus is raising Scout to care for everyone because they all are equal. Even though Scout thinks that because she knows Walter at school she doesn’t need to treat him like company but Atticus makes it clear that is not the case. Scout has learned many lessons from Atticus but when she realizes a person cannot judge someone by what they look like until they know their story everything becomes more clear. Scout realizes this towards the end of the
The streets the town were slop, and everything was not maintained well. Although the town did not have good curb appeal the community was something that money couldn’t buy. One day at school a student named Walter that everyone knew was poor forgot his lunch. The teacher, Miss Caroline said to him, “Here’s a quarter.… Go and eat down-town today. You can pay me back tomorrow.” (pg 19) Even though Miss Caroline did not know Walter she offered him the quarter to be thoughtful and show that she cared. She also offered him the quarter because she didn’t know his background and that he didn’t actually bring a lunch because he didn’t have any money. Walter Cunningham joined the Finchs a while after that scenario for dinner and made a little scene. While eating dinner Walter poured syrup all over his dinner plate. Scout threw a fit over it and Atticus replies with, “…Don’t matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house’s yo’ comp’ny…” (pg 24) This quote demonstrates how Atticus is raising Scout to care for everyone because they all are equal. Even though Scout thinks that because she knows Walter at school she doesn’t need to treat him like company but Atticus makes it clear that is not the case. Scout has learned many lessons from Atticus but when she realizes a person cannot judge someone by what they look like until they know their story everything becomes more clear. Scout realizes this towards the end of the