Jennie Finch

Southern Tomboy In Harper Lee`s To Kill a Mockingbird, the young Scout is one of the main and most important characters. Mostly caused by the influence of her older brother, she has become a tomboy. She does not go by her real name Jean Louise and prefers breeches over skirts. Everyone who cares about her wonders if she will ever mature into a young lady. That is due to her many rampages and getting in trouble. Besides being a tomboy, Scout displays spunky, outspoken, and…

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.” (Charles Darwin). To Kill A Mocking Bird depicts an innocent story of childhood curiosity. With the coming of age and the world changing around them their view on life alters. In the past Jem and Scout would play games together along with their friend Dill. But as they got older Jem begins to change while Scout stays her childish self. We…

To kill a mockingbird was written by Harper Lee during the mid- 1950s with the setting time 1933-1935 and setting place the fictional town Maycomb, Alabama. The story is narrated by Scout Finch, who lives with her older brother Jem, their widowed father Atticus and their cook Calpurnia in Maycomb, Alabama. Atticus is a lawyer, leading to the family live well off compared to the rest of the society. Every summer, a boy named Dill comes to live in his aunt’s house in the neighborhood and is soon…

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…

Scout is a strong, tough, tomboy who develops a lot through this story. To Kill a Mockingbird is a story written by Harper Lee, following the story of the two siblings Scout and Jem. Growing up in the small town of Maycomb Alabama, Scout and Jem have many adventures as they both grow up and mature. Scout goes through many coming of age experiences through conflict, foreshadowing, and setting. One example of scout coming of age is in the school yard where a classmate was harassing Scout. With…

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…

“Low-down skunk with enough liquor in him to make him brave enough to kill children” (Lee, 360) These are the words of Mr. Tate to tell Atticus Finch what he truly thinks of Bob Ewell. One thing about This is true because, Bob loves to drink, but when he does, he has no self-control and even attacks the children of the person he hates the most, Atticus Finch. Bob and Atticus have two drastically different lives, they have totally different social classes and ways of thinking and behaving.…

class, a young student of mine, who was labeled Scout Finch, seemed like she knew everything needed. She had known how to read, write, recite the alphabet and all of the above that a first grader should not comprehend and understand so easily. But this aggravated me, strongly. I wanted all of the kids to have a fresh start. I wanted to have a perfect learning environment for all the students. Scout has mentioned that her father, Atticus Finch has taught her to read and write. “Scout it is your…

In the beginning there was only darkness. The space above the ground was pitch black with just a few stars to light up the ground below. The birds never used their wings because they found that the higher they flew upward, the darker and colder they became. All the animals in the kingdom of Shady Grove felt a big storm coming their way and so they started to prepare. The squirrels gathered their nuts and darted for a hole at the bottom of a tree stump. While the other animals gathered their…

before but I have heard some great reviews on it. The book follows a girl by the name of Jean Finch, she narrates it. She primarily goes by the her nickname, Scout. She starts the book out by explain how her brother, Jem, broke his arm years earlier. She is trying to tell the circumstances that led up to it, so she starts recounting her family history. The first of her ancestors to come to America was Simon Finch, a fur trader who fled England because of religious rules. He decided to establish…