Development of Scout's Character In To Kill A Mockingbird Essay

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    part one of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, Lee introduces key themes, characters and settings. The purpose of the part is to set the scene for part two (the trial), and to gain emotional control over the reader by describing key characters. She introduces the Finch family, and the other townsfolk, as well as Dill as an important character. Lee also presents various themes, which are all used to help describe and introduce the main characters. Jem and Scout are two important characters in the novel,…

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    When it comes to maturity, people tend to refer to adults but not in Harper Lee’s pulitzer winning novel To Kill A Mockingbird. The coming of age novel is written in a way the readers can experience how the narrator and the main character, Scout, matures. It gives an occasion to fully study the process of her growth and draw the changes in her personality or perspective that result from it. The readers would say they watched Scout grow since she experienced a lot of changes in her life that made…

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    Even though written decades apart, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird are very similar in their treatment of racism, social injustice, and the main character’s moral development. The two child narrators, Huckleberry Finn and Scout Finch, are very similar in their personalities and stories of self-discovery. They are both boyish and independent. They are both faced with moral decisions at a young age. Huck grows to realize the immorality of slavery and racism in…

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    Gabriela Moreno English 1 Critical Thinking Writing Activity (Ch 22-25) In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, as the novel opens Scout is only six years of age. As the story progresses, it covers the next three years of her life. Much the same as whatever other child, there are numerous changes in thinking and behaviors during those crucial years of development, although Scout is wise beyond her years. Her experiences during the course of the novel makes her even wiser and more mature within…

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    Scout, the main character of To Kill A Mockingbird, is new to school and its atmosphere, as is Caroline Fisher, Scout’s first grade teacher. Ms. Caroline, however is not only new to school, but Maycomb County entirely. Ms. Caroline hails from Winston County which is widely known to be a place of different values and traditions that many in Maycomb hardly understand. When Ms. Caroline was in college she was taught a new way of teaching which she seeks to implement in public education. However…

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    youths are as free as birds and undergo a story of mastery in life. In Maycomb, a town in the 1930s, racial stereotypes are a dilemma. Jem and Scout’s adventures direct to trouble and edify them about how harsh reality is. Atticus, a father and lawyer, safeguards a black man accused of assaulting a white woman. The novel is referred to as To Kill A Mockingbird, written by the late Harper Lee. A movie director, Robert Mulligan devised a film based on this book. To compare the film and novel…

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    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…

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    To Kill a Mockingbird is based on events that took place in 1931 in Alabama, Harper Lee was motivated to write the book from the “Scottsboro Boys” trials that took place in the 1931. The “Scottsboro Boys” trial where all the African America boys were all accessed for allegedly raping two white girls in the midst of the fight. All of them stated that they didn’t rape the two girls they all were still placed on trial and found guilty by a jury which contained 8 white jury members and one African…

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    Do rumors and gossip affect the judgement of other people? To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a book taught for many years that shows racial prejudice and follows Jean Louise Finch, known as Scout, as she learns things that influence her life. She hears tales about Boo (Arthur) Radley, who is supposedly a violent man who never leaves his house so she does not know if she should trust the stories or not. There are many events in the book that impact her understanding of Boo; from leaving the…

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    house that once resembled the chilling tale of the Radley house in Harper Lee 's prize winning work To Kill A Mockingbird (Wilson, Mike 2010). Author Harper Lee allows her readers to not only encounter a perspective of living in the imaginary town of Maycomb, but also gives the readers a view of her own childhood back in the 1930s. She uses her experiences and connects them through the main characters, Scout Finch, Atticus Finch, and Tom Robinson. Her life impacts the novel’s setting of…

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