To Kill A Mockingbird follows Scout and Jem impacted by their father’s radical views in the 1930s. Harper Lee creates an iconic story with a great deal of dialogue. Harper Lee uses dialogue and dialect to help bring her characters to life. Miss Maudie is depicted as selfless and educated. The same method also brings Calpurnia to life as accepting and protective. It also explores Atticus as wise and understanding man.
Harper Lee develops Miss Maudie as a selfless educated woman through her dialogue and dialect. Fire destroys Miss Maudie’s home and injures a neighbor. Miss Maudie speaks with Scout and Jem about it. “‘Only thing I worried about last night was all the danger and commotion it caused. This whole neighborhood could have gone up. …show more content…
Jem invites Walter Cunningham over for lunch. The Cunninghams are a poor country family. Scout makes a comment not very becoming as a host about the way Walter eats. Calpurnia asks for Scout in the kitchen. She says angrily, “‘Don’t matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house’s yo’ comp’ny, and don’t you let me catch you remarkin’ on their ways like you was so high and mighty! Yo’ folks might be better’n the Cunninghams but it don’t count for nothin’ the way you’re disgracin’ ‘em’“(Lee 24 to 25). Calpurnia knows what it is like to be looked at as different. She is an educated black woman in the 1930s. She is looked as less than a white person because she doesn’t share the same skin color. She stands out in her community for her education. These experiences have made her accept people as they are . She accept that Walter may drown his lunch in syrup because he’s different and his culture may be different. Someone shouldn’t be insulted for being different. Much of To Kill A Mockingbird revolved around differences and racism. Scout and Jem are not welcomed with open arms at Calpurnia’s all black church. Calpurnia gets into an argument with another woman. Calpurnia turns to Scout, “‘ Don’t you fret’’ (Lee 119). Calpurnia is scared but like a mother she will go down fighting to protect her children. When Calpurnia and the children are confronted she stands up for the children showing just how much she cares for the …show more content…
Scout is having trouble at school. Her teacher tells Scout that she can’t read or write because it interferes with the method of teaching. Scout upset talks with her father about this. Atticus gives her advice she may not understand now but is a main theme of the novel. “‘You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view”(Lee 30). Wisdom comes with age and experience both of which Atticus is in great supply of. Atticus has learned in his fifty or so years of life that to understand and accept someone you need to see how they see. Even imagining life as they do you do not truly understand them. In other instances throughout the book Atticus also expresses his wisdom and also his understanding. He also expresses his understanding when Scout’s friend Dill shows up at his house unexpectedly,dirty from running away. Atticus jokingly tells him to clean up. “‘And for goodness’ sakes put some of the county back where it belongs, the soil erosion’s bad enough as it is’“ (Lee 141). This expresses his understanding that Dill is worrying and even a bit afraid so he tries to lighten the mood and put Dill at ease. This also shows his years of fatherhood at work. Atticus Finch, an aging lawyer with two younger children, is explored by Harper Lee with dialogue. He is wise and understanding unlike many people at the time. His traits are a big impact on the progression of the
Harper Lee develops Miss Maudie as a selfless educated woman through her dialogue and dialect. Fire destroys Miss Maudie’s home and injures a neighbor. Miss Maudie speaks with Scout and Jem about it. “‘Only thing I worried about last night was all the danger and commotion it caused. This whole neighborhood could have gone up. …show more content…
Jem invites Walter Cunningham over for lunch. The Cunninghams are a poor country family. Scout makes a comment not very becoming as a host about the way Walter eats. Calpurnia asks for Scout in the kitchen. She says angrily, “‘Don’t matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house’s yo’ comp’ny, and don’t you let me catch you remarkin’ on their ways like you was so high and mighty! Yo’ folks might be better’n the Cunninghams but it don’t count for nothin’ the way you’re disgracin’ ‘em’“(Lee 24 to 25). Calpurnia knows what it is like to be looked at as different. She is an educated black woman in the 1930s. She is looked as less than a white person because she doesn’t share the same skin color. She stands out in her community for her education. These experiences have made her accept people as they are . She accept that Walter may drown his lunch in syrup because he’s different and his culture may be different. Someone shouldn’t be insulted for being different. Much of To Kill A Mockingbird revolved around differences and racism. Scout and Jem are not welcomed with open arms at Calpurnia’s all black church. Calpurnia gets into an argument with another woman. Calpurnia turns to Scout, “‘ Don’t you fret’’ (Lee 119). Calpurnia is scared but like a mother she will go down fighting to protect her children. When Calpurnia and the children are confronted she stands up for the children showing just how much she cares for the …show more content…
Scout is having trouble at school. Her teacher tells Scout that she can’t read or write because it interferes with the method of teaching. Scout upset talks with her father about this. Atticus gives her advice she may not understand now but is a main theme of the novel. “‘You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view”(Lee 30). Wisdom comes with age and experience both of which Atticus is in great supply of. Atticus has learned in his fifty or so years of life that to understand and accept someone you need to see how they see. Even imagining life as they do you do not truly understand them. In other instances throughout the book Atticus also expresses his wisdom and also his understanding. He also expresses his understanding when Scout’s friend Dill shows up at his house unexpectedly,dirty from running away. Atticus jokingly tells him to clean up. “‘And for goodness’ sakes put some of the county back where it belongs, the soil erosion’s bad enough as it is’“ (Lee 141). This expresses his understanding that Dill is worrying and even a bit afraid so he tries to lighten the mood and put Dill at ease. This also shows his years of fatherhood at work. Atticus Finch, an aging lawyer with two younger children, is explored by Harper Lee with dialogue. He is wise and understanding unlike many people at the time. His traits are a big impact on the progression of the