Jennie Finch

Scout Finch is a young girl in To Kill A Mockingbird who lives in Maycomb, a small town in the South during the Reconstruction Era. Harper Lee uses Scout’s ignorance and vagueness as a little girl and her developing understanding about events happening her life to demonstrate a unique instance of the age old and common moral versus society dilemma. Lee’s approach to portraying this is made in an effort to show the inevitable problem in an unbiased way. As Scout grows older she becomes aware of…

One of the worst forms of social inequity that girls deal with, is gender inequality. Another example of social inequity found in the Wringer, by Jerry Spinelli, is when the boys that Palmer has befriended, Beans, Mutto, and Henry, bully and tease a girl just because she’s a girl. This is an example of social inequity because it’s not fair to bully someone just because of their gender. On page 104, Beans takes a muskrat that his cat brought him, nuked it, and pinned it to Dorothy’s door.…

The Real Atticus Finch In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, it contains a character whom has many different character traits. He’s a father of two and a lawyer in Maycomb County, and is a brave, wise, and admirable character. He goes by the name of Atticus Finch. Throughout the novel, Atticus proves to readers that he is a man of his words and will stand up for what he believes in. His son, Jem Finch, and daughter, Jean Louis Finch (Scout), both look up to him as he believes…

People are often irresponsible, intolerant, and quick to judge. Atticus Finch is the complete opposite of such person as seen in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. To Kill a Mockingbird is the fictional story about a young girl named Scout. It is the narrative of a girl being shaped and realizing that not everyone sees things as she does. Throughout the novel, with Atticus’ help, Scout matures in understanding that people and things are not what they seem. As revealed in the…

. . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”(Lee 39). To Kill a Mockingbird shows its true meaning in every character. The novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, tells a story of two siblings, Jean Louise Finch (a.k.a Scout) and Jeremy Atticus Finch (a.k.a Jem), plus their friend, Charles Baker Harris (a.k.a Dill), during their summer adventures. In the novel, they make many assumptions about a strange, reserved man on their street, Mr. Arthur Radley (a.k.a Boo Radley),…

Boo Radley was an individual in To Kill a Mockingbird that was discriminated. He was an outsider of the community. Because of the rumors made about him, he never came outside, and grew up with social development issues. In this essay, i’m going to show you how Boo was discriminated. The first of many times he was discriminated was, being accused of biting off his mothers finger. “Boo bit off his mothers finger one night when he couldn’t find any cats or squirrels to eat it.” This rumor shows…

opposition and cruelty by the bad people, but the silence over that by the good people.”. In a town where the common opinion and mindset is a preset prejudice of racism, the smaller unheard of belief that is more accurate gets turned down. Atticus Finch, a man who is brave enough to accept a case he know he is going to lose to prove a point. Equally important, someone who stands up to those who want to hurt him to protect others. And lastly, the character that goes up in front of an entire town…

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch teaches his children the importance of empathy before judging others. Atticus, a main protagonist in the novel, teaches his children, Jem and Scout, that looking at their perspective and never others is horrible. Scout, the main character of the novel struggles to understand the importance of empathy, making the story bias at times. In the first few chapters, Scout is told not to judge others, however she does not fully grasp the…

People never really know what an invasion feels like until, they come face to face with one. An invasion that is almost impossible to stop. When attaching birds cover the sky in England during December. In the short story "The Birds," by Daphne Du Maurier the main character, Nat hocken, repeatedly lied to his family because, they needed to remain calm, the children were too young to understand, and he knew that him and his family was in danger. Nat Hocken had a family and he needed them to stay…

Character Analysis Jean-Louise Finch, more commonly known as Scout was the character that told To Kill A Mockingbird through her own eyes. Before the age of ten, she has done some pretty rambunctious things along with her wiser, older brother, Jem, and her best friend and future husband, Dill Harris. Living with her single father, Atticus, Scout discovers more about the people that live in Maycomb, Alabama. After a couple years Scout’s Aunt Alexandra moves in with the Finch’s to assist…