Tomboy

Transgender The social justice topic I have chosen to work on is transgender. The transgender community faces much discrimination and adversity. With this group of people, people do not accept or even understand the concept of being transgender. People do not understand that transgender people face problems with gender identity. They are born into one gender, but they feel like the other gender. People feel like they were born into the wrong body, so they make efforts to transform into the…

Harper Lee was born in Alabama in 1926. She was the youngest of four and considered herself a tomboy (similar to Scout). Her mother suffered from a mental illness and rarely left the house (similar to Boo Radley). Lee studied law (similar to atticus) and then published To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960 during the Civil Rights Movement. Her novel went on to win the Pulitzer Prize a year later. In her novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, the social and gender inequalities are the main issues. Lee approaches…

In the films The Adventures of Félix, directed by Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau, and Tomboy, directed by Céline Sciamma, both protagonists go through a journey of self discovery and identity searching. Though very different in the substance of the story, the theme is relatively similar, covering concepts ranging from prejudice and peer inclusion or rejection to family tensions and romantic interests. Félix’s story follows him on his own, continuously meeting new people with whom he…

In the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” Scout’s life alters from what it was before. Scout was an innocent young tomboy, who had a brother named Jem. This alteration starts when her father Atticus, a lawyer, defends an African American, Tom Robinson, a man who is accused of raping a white woman. In the beginning, Scout was a six-year-old who liked to play with Jem and Dill, who always visited Maycomb, Alabama. When the trial started, she learned many things such as walking away from a fight. She…

Now the real question is, would one have been a tomboy if it were not for the parents pushing for physical activities, having an older brother, and going to a co-ed school where females are seen as a weaker being? Genetics also takes place in gender identity. If altered prenatal hormone exposure can lead…

In the last eight chapters of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the book reveals two moral lessons Scout develops: to not pass judgement on someone without experiencing their dilemmas and also unfolds the awareness of coming of age. The narrator, Jean Louise Finch also known as “Scout” is an adventurous girl in a vast and complex world who begins to understand people and their lives. Scout not only develops moral beliefs through her own encounters but also due to her father who practiced…

you can exist as your own person with confidence in who you are yet still get picked on in hopes of conforming to the beliefs of others personal requirements, just to be seen a certain way in others eyes. One important character named Scout was a tomboy in a time of harsh ridicule. Scout was very comfortable in her choices. She accepts herself as she is not realizing that she happens to star in the spotlight of harassment from female characters such as her own blood, Aunt Alexandra, including…

it would be boring to see everyone wearing the same thing, and you can’t express who you are like you can without uniforms. If you have uniforms you can’t express who you are. When you get to wear your own clothes people know whether they are a tomboy, girly girl, into sports, or even dark & gloomy. People who are for uniforms would say it takes to much time in the morning for kids to pick out their clothes so they are late for school. If they are late for school the child could just pick out…

As any child her age, the start of the novel shows Scout as young and innocent. Scout has her own view on what happens in the world. Scout neither knows nor understands the way of life for the people of Maycomb. She believes that the world should make sense to her own ways. She is especially not compliant with the fact that girls are to wear dresses for everyday activities. On her first day of school, Scout encounters Walter Reed, the son of a farming family that was on the brink of poverty and…

To Kill a Mockingbird Essay To Kill a Mockingbird has many themes, symbols, and literary elements, all fused together to create the great novel that has been read and enjoyed since 1960. The story follows Scout, a tomboy who is being introduced to the real world and recounts the story of how society stole her innocence. Scout and her brother Jem deal with many different conflict but one the most prominent one is the fear of their neighbor and rumored to be murderer Boo Radley. Harper Lee uses…