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life. This dividing line does not make an exception for Harper Lee’s Scout Finch. Between all of the differences of home and school they all share a common goal. That goal is to educate the next generation, and help them learn how to function in our society. To Kill A Mockingbird perfectly illustrates how Scouts exposure to both a formal and informal style of learning helps her grow into a mature well learned person. Scout Finch is an independent, strong willed character who sticks to her…

teaching them to the best of his abilities. The man, Atticus Finch, is left to parent his children after his wife died. He does what he can to parent his children excellently. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird shows that Atticus Finch’s parenting style is authoritative as shown by him setting high examples for his children, Jem and Scout, by explaining why those rules exist, and praising them for following his model. Atticus Finch sets a high expectation for his children. Atticus expects them…

“There is just one kind of folks.Folks.” (Lee 231; ch.23). The historical fiction novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Written by Harper Lee illustrates what it was like to look different down south in the 1930’s.To kill a Mockingbird is based on the finch family who .live in maycomb, alabama during the great depression. Tom robinson, a black man, is falsely accused of raping a white woman and gets convicted due to the racial prejudice in the mid 1900s.In this novel, the author wants the reader to learn…

brilliant author, Harper Lee. The book takes place down south in early 1930 America in a town called Maycomb. One of the major characters in the story is Atticus Finch, a lawyer whose difficult task is to defend a man of colour in front of an all-white jury. Although, this novel has been out for over 50 years, I still believe that Atticus Finch is one of the most admired characters in modern American literature. The three characteristics that are the most striking to me when it comes to Atticus…

ATTICUS IS AN EXCELLENT FATHER It is well known that there is no such thing as a perfect parent. However, there are many great parents out there. Atticus Finch, father of Jem and Scout Finch, is an example of an excellent parent. What makes him excellent is the fact that even though the children are being brought up in a racist and negative society, Atticus tries his best to instil morals and a sense of justice into his children. He does so by being not only a caring father to the children, but…

Heck Tate comes over and discusses Bob Ewell’s death with the Finch family. Officer Heck Tate of Maycomb County had come over to oversee Jem because he was hurt and unconscious because of an accident that had happened the night of Scouts pageant. Scout and Jem were walking home in the complete dark when someone attacked…

Throughout Harper Lee’s novel of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ life lesson and values are reflected to a very high extent throughout the entire novel. Such lessons and values of prejudice, racism and courage are portrayed to young Finch children and the reader through many different characters in the novel In Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, the life lesson of prejudice is portrayed to the reader to a high extent throughout the novel through the character of Boo Radley and Tom Robinson.…

The hatred the citizens felt toward the black community extended to anyone who became involved with them, especially the Finch family because Atticus was appointed to defend Tom Robinson. Scout and Jem suffered the most from the bullying primarily because they were children. When Cecil Jacobs intimidated Scout in the schoolyard by telling her, “My folks said your daddy was…

that she begins to understand how the real world functions and the problems people face day to day. This is when she starts to lose her innocence and her naivety. Another scene where she portrays her innocence is when she asks her father, Atticus Finch, to explain to her what is rape. Atticus replies the following to her daughter’s question: “He said it was carnal knowledge of a female by force and without consent.” Her reaction is ultimately naïve: “I didn’t know what he meant by that! Well if…

also is very formal with her father. Instead of callinghim what normal seven year olds would call their parents (mother or father) she callshim by his first name. Atticus. Atticus Finch, a single father after his wife passed awayfrom a sudden heart attack, is raising two children. A ten year old named Jem (JeremyAtticus Finch) and a seven year old girl Scout (Jean Louise inch). Scout, is a verytomboy much like girl, she wears overalls and she acts much like her brother Jem. Sheis always told…