Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird is a classic coming-of-age social drama novel that has been taught in classrooms for many years. During the depression a young girl, Jean Louise (Scout) Finch, has a tough year when her father defends a black man in a rape case during a time when racism is still very prevalent. In her book, Lee uses the controversial dialect, perspective of minor characters and an unreliable narrator to expose the negativity of racism in the early nineteen hundreds. Harper Lee uses the way young children in the speak to show how the racist culture of the town becomes ingrained into even the young and innocent children that grow up in Maycomb, Alabama. When Scout and Jem see snow for the first time they decide to try
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Dill tells scout that you can order one from this man who rows across from an island. Scout shoots him down, “That 's a lie. Aunty said God drops 'em down the chimney. At least that 's what I think she said." (pg 144) This reminds us that Scout is still very young and naive. Another example of her youth comes during a particularly cold Alabama winter
One morning Scout looks out the window and saw something extremely unusual for maycomb, alabama. The young girl was seeing snow for the first time and was very feared that all was going to end. “The world is ending, Atticus! Please do something!” (64) Scout may be smart for her age, but her innocence shines through clearly in this laughable circumstance.
Unfortunately for Scout, her innocence is does not always end up being quite so commical. Sometimes, such as the night when the mob approached Atticus at the jail house, Scout’s innocence, or lack thereof, leads her into a potentially dangerous situation. The young defenseless girl walks through a group of angry, and likely drunken, men who are out for blood. Luckily nobody does harm to Scout, although she did throw a nasty kick at one man’s groin. Scout, who actually brought the men to their senses with her harmless small talk and failure to see the threat of the mob, may have came out uninjured, but this misjudgement could have been detrimental to not only herself, but also to Atticus and Tom
Dill tells scout that you can order one from this man who rows across from an island. Scout shoots him down, “That 's a lie. Aunty said God drops 'em down the chimney. At least that 's what I think she said." (pg 144) This reminds us that Scout is still very young and naive. Another example of her youth comes during a particularly cold Alabama winter
One morning Scout looks out the window and saw something extremely unusual for maycomb, alabama. The young girl was seeing snow for the first time and was very feared that all was going to end. “The world is ending, Atticus! Please do something!” (64) Scout may be smart for her age, but her innocence shines through clearly in this laughable circumstance.
Unfortunately for Scout, her innocence is does not always end up being quite so commical. Sometimes, such as the night when the mob approached Atticus at the jail house, Scout’s innocence, or lack thereof, leads her into a potentially dangerous situation. The young defenseless girl walks through a group of angry, and likely drunken, men who are out for blood. Luckily nobody does harm to Scout, although she did throw a nasty kick at one man’s groin. Scout, who actually brought the men to their senses with her harmless small talk and failure to see the threat of the mob, may have came out uninjured, but this misjudgement could have been detrimental to not only herself, but also to Atticus and Tom