Scout Promise

roles and ethnical stereotypes are major themes that are tied together during the story's time period in Maycomb, Alabama by painting vivid pictures of her characters that she creates. Scout Finch, the narrator, holds the first complex gender role found in To Kill a Mockingbird. Scout is…

Having a parent in prison can have an impact on a child’s mental health, social behavior, and educational prospects. Mass incarceration has had significant and long-lasting impacts on American society, and particularly on the children of the incarcerated. This paper will provide an outlook on why having a parent who is incarcerated has a negative effect on the child. I will begin by providing an estimate on exactly how many of those incarcerated are parents. Secondly the effects the…

Siddhartha tells of a time when “The world was sick, [and] life was difficult” (Heese 21). Despite an uncertain future, people found promise sent from Buddha of a “new hope… a message, comforting, mild, full of fine promises” (Heese 21). They coped with their hard lives with this message of something better coming. Varian Fry also held onto hope when around 15,000 people asked for help from their agency. Even though it was a “time…

Good afternoon, On behalf of Jeff and I, I would like to thank everyone here today for taking time out a busy summer weekend to be here with us to celebrate Alessandro reaching the rank of Eagle Scout. To raise a child it takes a village Alessandro you are fortunate to have been part of a good village through the years. Troop 32 along with family, friends, water polo and neighbors, has been an anchor for you through challenges and adversity. I would like to express my…

Although she uses a stern tone, she does not embarrass the children to get her point across. For example, when Scout is caught making Walter feel uncomfortable and unwelcome, Calpurnia calmly calls her to the kitchen and tells her to let Walter enjoy his food however he chooses to do so. When Scout argues with Calpurnia she says "Hush your mouth! Don't matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house's yo' comp'ny, and don't you let me catch you remarkin'…

Our whole lives we are taught don't steal, don't cheat, don’t lie, don’t be ungraceful, keep your promises, and don't judge, for this reason one of the most important themes of To Kill a Mockingbird is the book’s moral nature of human beings. Whether people are evil or good is based on the morals we were taught when we were young. Scout and Jem’s perspective is of childhood innocence, in which they predict that all people are good because evil has never affected them. If the story were told from…

The Unknown Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel filled with the persecution of innocent people represented as mockingbirds. The Author, Harper Lee, created a community of people who are persecuted, judged, and attacked despite their innocence. Lee uses the mockingbird as a symbol of innocence. In the book she says mockingbirds are innocent and commit no evil act. The birds only sing their songs for people to hear. The people of Maycomb are no exception, they live out their days…

argumentative, factual, non- fiction, fiction, etc. Authors develop themes to make perception about life or human nature. In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, the audience reads the novel living through the life of a little girl named Scout. Scout learns about life through a few major milestones and how harsh society can be with equality issues. Another book where the author develops many themes is the novel, The Help, by Kathryn Stockett you live through the lives of two black…

storyline which keeps it interesting for the reader. A lot of the main characters in this book are witnesses of the hypocrisy. Scout is a witness to various forms of hypocrisy, most of them have been from the women in Maycomb. Scouts teachers are both guilty of hypocritical words and actions. Miss Carolina unfairly punishes Scout. Even though Scout was trying to give the inexperienced teacher who is new to Maycomb an understanding of the people in the town. Miss Caroline believes in…

social classes depending on a person’s family line, as explains Jem to his younger sister Scout, "there 's four kinds of people in the world. There 's the ordinary kind like us and the neighbors, there 's the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods, the kind like the Ewells down at the dump, and the Negroes." (Lee, 226) Those in the Cunningham family line are honest, fair men who always keep their promises unlike the lying, ignorant Ewells characterized as “white trash.” When Lee adds the…