How Does Miss Caroline Change In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Events shape us as people. In To Kill a Mockingbird Scout changes a lot as a person throughout the novel. At first she seems to not care about most things and as it goes on she sees more of the hardships in life and how life isn’t the best. At the beginning she wants to read then gets discouraged by her teacher, she sees what the sentence is for Tom Robinson, and she gets to see Boo Radley. These events change her as a person and how she acts around people. These events leave an impact on her that last through the rest of the novel. In To Kill A Mockingbird many events throughout the book change Scout's character and her morals in many different ways One of the major events that changed Scout was when her teacher became angry with her after she learned that Scout had already learned to read. “Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading.”(Lee 17). Miss Caroline in chapters 2 and 3 is disappointed when she finds out that Scout is already educated. In the book it tells of how she doesn’t like how she was treated like that. She doesn't want to be with her …show more content…
“His face was as white as his hands, but for a shadow on his jutting chin. His cheeks were thin to hollowness; his mouth was wide; there were shallow, almost delicate indentations at his temples, and his gray eyes were so colorless I thought he was blind” (Lee 274). Scout runs home after being attacked and notices a man holding Jem taking him home.When Scout is telling the story about what happened at home she realizes that the man is Boo when she gives him a good look in her house. She realizes that she shouldn’t judge someone because she had never seen them. Boo had rescued her and Jem which shows her that he isn’t terrifying or even a harmful person. He only was very pale and not that

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