Alexa Cantreva 11-04-2017
Period 4 Topic #2
To Kill a Mockingbird
People’s personal growth is heavily influenced on the environment they live in and their interactions with others around them. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Jem and Scout Finch are two children born in a town during the Great Depression. The town and its town people are central influences in the novel and play an important role in the development of these children because the issues the town faces throughout the novel exposes the children to very complex dilemmas which serve to challenge their way of thinking. Atticus Finch, their father, provides a general influence on how they develop their views on these issues over the course …show more content…
This lesson is first depicted when Scout’s first grade teacher, Miss Caroline, tells Scout to stop reading at home as she was intimidated by Scout’s reading abilities, and Scout takes it gravely. She comes home and cries to Atticus because she loves to read with him, and he tells her not to hate Miss Caroline for demanding her to stop reading at home, but instead to think about it from her teacher’s perspective. Scout uses this lesson later on in the novel after she finally interacts with Boo (Arthur) Radley, a mysterious man whom everyone gossips about because he never leaves home. She never really understood Boo until one night that he came to her rescue. As she stood on his porch, looking out at Maycomb the way he had done throughout his life she came to realize that Boo has been there for them every year of their lives. In the summer during the trial, “he watched his children’s heart break. Autumn again, and Boo’s children needed him” (374). Boo is always trying to befriend them, protect them and keep them safe in his own way and he even regarded them as his own …show more content…
Calpurnia taught her to be accepting of others and to be equally as kind and courteous towards everyone. In one passage, Walter Cunningham, Scout’s friend, is invited over to the Finches household for dinner. Walter is very poor and doesn’t get much food at home, so when he sits for dinner he is ravenous and eats everything in sight. Scout sees this and makes fun of him for doing so, but Calpurnia pulls her out of the room. “”. Calpurnia is furious and saddened by Scout’s treatment towards people of different socioeconomic status. This lesson comes up later in the novel when Calpurnia takes Scout and Jem to her church. She makes them dress up nicely and behave properly because she wants them to understand that they should respect the black church just as much as they respect the white church. This lesson teaches them that their race doesn’t given them permission to act as though they are superior, which allows them to relate to
Period 4 Topic #2
To Kill a Mockingbird
People’s personal growth is heavily influenced on the environment they live in and their interactions with others around them. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Jem and Scout Finch are two children born in a town during the Great Depression. The town and its town people are central influences in the novel and play an important role in the development of these children because the issues the town faces throughout the novel exposes the children to very complex dilemmas which serve to challenge their way of thinking. Atticus Finch, their father, provides a general influence on how they develop their views on these issues over the course …show more content…
This lesson is first depicted when Scout’s first grade teacher, Miss Caroline, tells Scout to stop reading at home as she was intimidated by Scout’s reading abilities, and Scout takes it gravely. She comes home and cries to Atticus because she loves to read with him, and he tells her not to hate Miss Caroline for demanding her to stop reading at home, but instead to think about it from her teacher’s perspective. Scout uses this lesson later on in the novel after she finally interacts with Boo (Arthur) Radley, a mysterious man whom everyone gossips about because he never leaves home. She never really understood Boo until one night that he came to her rescue. As she stood on his porch, looking out at Maycomb the way he had done throughout his life she came to realize that Boo has been there for them every year of their lives. In the summer during the trial, “he watched his children’s heart break. Autumn again, and Boo’s children needed him” (374). Boo is always trying to befriend them, protect them and keep them safe in his own way and he even regarded them as his own …show more content…
Calpurnia taught her to be accepting of others and to be equally as kind and courteous towards everyone. In one passage, Walter Cunningham, Scout’s friend, is invited over to the Finches household for dinner. Walter is very poor and doesn’t get much food at home, so when he sits for dinner he is ravenous and eats everything in sight. Scout sees this and makes fun of him for doing so, but Calpurnia pulls her out of the room. “”. Calpurnia is furious and saddened by Scout’s treatment towards people of different socioeconomic status. This lesson comes up later in the novel when Calpurnia takes Scout and Jem to her church. She makes them dress up nicely and behave properly because she wants them to understand that they should respect the black church just as much as they respect the white church. This lesson teaches them that their race doesn’t given them permission to act as though they are superior, which allows them to relate to