How can Scout be seen as a product of her environment? Scout at the age of six and growing, can be seen as a product of her environment in many ways. First of all, her character is a result of the environment she subsides in and that environment can be described in many ways that are influencing to the character. The environment she is growing in is going through many phases like the Great Depression, racism against certain races, and discrimination.…
Scout’s Identity Scout is the main character of the book. Scout is a young six-year old girl who lives with her dad who’s name is Atticus, her ten-year old brother named Jem and the cook Calpurnia. Even though Scout is just a little girl she goes through many changes because of the events that caused her to grow up. From her first day of school to meeting Boo Radley Scout changes a lot and so does her identity.…
Throughout the novel, Scout transitions from being innocent and oblivious to thoughtful and curious. By portraying Scout’s feelings of the Radley Place and how they “ceased” to terrify her, Lee highlights Scout’s maturation with the complex, strong word. However, Lee argues through structure that the label-based traditions of Maycomb are more powerful than Scout’s maturation. Lee uses the repeating phrase “no less” to show Scout’s core beliefs surrounding the significant topic, arguing that although Scout has matured greatly, the dominating labels created by Maycomb give Scout a distorted lens on the Radley Place. In addition, Scout refers to Arthur Radley as “Boo”, an informal label given to him through Maycomb’s detrimental stories.…
In the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, there are multiple characters who learn through Atticus and different situations that life is not alway fair. They develop throughout the story and learn so much about life and the good and evil of this world. Scout, who is six, completely changes by the end of the book at the age of nine. Scout is the one telling the story and is impacted and learns the most throughout the book.…
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee focuses mainly on innocence throughout the novel, the mockingbird came to represent the idea of innocence. Killing a mockingbird means a loss of innocence I the eyes of the reader. Throughout the book many of the characters can be identified as mockingbirds. Jem, Scout, Dill, and Boo all lost their innocence as they grew up in a town such as Maycomb. Tom Robinson is another example of a mockingbird in this book because of the injustices he faces being a colored man in Maycomb.…
Theme Essay Innocence is in people of all ages. In To Kill a Mockingbird Scout, Jem, and Dill are exposed to a rape trial. Atticus, Scout and Jem's father, is the lawyer for Tom, a black man. During the trial Atticus is treated differently along with Tom.…
Scout being a mature girl. Throughout life people is stereotyped, misread, and seen as something they aren’t. At this point we understand the change that Scout is having and the world where she’s living in, a cruel world, where the racism is in the streets and kids are innocent and they grow up just as they watch people acting in the streets. We could judge people at all the time, but with the pass of the time people change in different ways to think, act and physically.…
In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird a young girl named Scout narrates the book and by doing this the reader can see Maycomb through an innocent girl’s eyes. Scout is smart and far beyond her age, but in certain area she lets her naivety shine through. In some situation this gets her in trouble but it is also quite helpful. Scout and her older brother Jem grow up with innocence because they have not yet been exposed to their society’s dark side.…
It reminds me of the smell of rice cooking in the kitchen and the cheerful murmurs of my family in the background as they played a game of Dominos. It reminds me of being young and not having a care in the world. I had no responsibilities at the time, and thus no worries. Everything was taken care of for me by my family. My Gameboy represents my past and being a child, which I can’t help but miss when I’m forced to study over forty pages of a history text book.…
Scout and Jem are just two children who have to learn this lesson the hard way. Scout and Jem witness unfair and racist behavior throughout their town. They witness the death of harmless mockingbirds. They see Boo Radley’s connection to the children cut off for selfish reasons, they saw the unfair conviction of Tom…
How Scout Grew Up Growing up is an important time in life where people begin to understand themselves, the world and others. To Kill A Mockingbird is a story of two children Jem and Scout Finch growing up; they start to understand themselves and the world in a more adult fashion. In the beginning of the book the young children don't understand the world is why the way it is. They look at a different point of view thanks to Atticus, through the Tom Robinson trial, and interactions with Mrs. Dubose, the Cunninghams, Boo Radley; the children learn to then view the world in a different manner.…
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a novel set in the 1930’s in the fictional of Maycomb, Alabama. It mainly focuses on racial discrimination and social injustice in the South while being told through the perspective of an elementary school aged girl named Jean Louise Finch who goes by “Scout”. Scout is a very intriguing character as she is smart for her age, but lacks understanding of human nature. With a lawyer father that defends Blacks when Scout hears insults directed toward her father she gets into fights to deny that racism exists. As the book goes on Scout comes to acceptance that racism and evil exist which causes her to lose innocence.…
Amazed and concerned about Dill’s actions, Jem shows a sign of growth and maturity by informing his father about the situation. Although both Dill and Scout see Jem as a “traitor” for telling Atticus, the young man recognizes that he did the right thing. He says, “Dill, I had to tell him… You can’t run three hundred miles off without your mother knowin’” (161).…
Innocence is most commonly defined as ‘freedom from sin, moral wrong, or guilt through lack of knowledge of evil’. When comparing this definition to the characters of Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, it becomes clear that the loss of innocence is a central theme and is pivotal to character development. Some of the key characters who have lost their innocence are Jem Finch and his sister Scout , Arthur (Boo) Radley and Mayella Ewell. This collection of characters is unique, as they all of them are extremely different from one another. Due to the fact that the novel was written in the first person view of a child, the audience is given a deeper connection with the loss of innocence, whilst becoming witness to how the four characters…
In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee exploits the toxic nature of the South, the early 20th century. The destruction of innocence is evidently shown throughout the rampant bigotry, through the explicit phrase of ‘…it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.’ Hence, To Kill a Mockingbird is to kill innocence. In the tale, from the very beginning, a threat that is based on generational racism is posed to destroy a number of innocents. Ultimately, the ‘Mockingbird’ is killed in ways that are worse than death and by the end results in the loss of innocence.…