Scout succumbs to Aunt Alexandra’s urgings to be less of a tomboy and wear a dress. She witnesses the hypocrisy and racism of some of the members of the ladies’ Missionary Circle. Her return to school prompts reflections on Hitler, democracy and dictatorship, and the last part of the novel concerns Bob Ewell’s attempts to wreak havoc: his attempted burglary of Judge Taylor’s house and his attack on Jem and Scout after a Halloween pageant. Jem breaks his arm but is carried home. Bob Ewell dies of a knife wound.
Labeling and stereotyping. They don’t seem like a big deal until it causes chaos in the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In Maycomb, this is a big issue in the community. Scout is watching and understanding this world differently, being young and very influential racisms changes her, in maturing and her personality. Scout is the main character, she is the reason the Finches get in all these dilemmas.
Saikali 1 Ricardo Saikali Mrs. Rose ENG2DR October 29, 2014. The Evolution of Scout Imagine someone being to change to someone completely different, just because the world has many lessons to be learnt. In Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird, readers see that changes can happen to anyone. Scout changes from a violent and prejudice girl into a more understanding and wise person from learning from what others say and what she see's herself, throughout the novel. She changes from violent to calm kid, a innocent child to a kid aware of the evil in the world, and from a prejudger to shoe walker.
Courage The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Nelle Harper Lee was written in 1957. The novel is about a family living in Maycomb County. They go through a lot of trouble, like how Scout interrupted a feud and how she short of protected Tom. Also towards the end Scout and Jem almost died because of Bob Ewell. In To Kill a Mockingbird Scout, Atticus, and Boo show courage.
In To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Scout must face the world and their uncovered obstacles while becoming older. She understands that foolish conduct is inappropriate and disrespectful when irritating her neighbors. With help of Aunt Alexandra, Scout also ascertains how to become a formal woman. Lastly, she witnesses a type of hate, new to her, through Tom Robinson’s trial. Scout comes to the conclusion that a world of pressure weighs down on her shoulders.
He illustrates this point by creating a Mexican playboy, starred as himself, who has many phobias such as: commitment, heights, flying, learning English, getting a job, wolves, and spiders. Making his character, Valentin, the most unlikely father figure ever. However, when Julie, a old past girlfriend drops her baby off at Valentin’s house all of his fears become a reality. Derbez displays Valentin like this to show the irony in everyday life. The rest of the movie builds on the contrast of Valentin’s earlier displeasure of meeting his daughter to his later endless adoration to Maggie.
He seems very queer sometimes, and even Jennifer has an inexplicable look.” (246), “I know she was studying that pattern, and I am determined that nobody shall find it out but myself!” (247) Her obsession with the wallpaper gains momentum because she wasn’t allowed to change it. At the end, John faints when he breaks into the room and sees his wife in the psychotic
In part one, Scout is terrified of Boo Radley because of stories Jem and the other kids in town talk about him. They have never seen or talked to him and yet they are still afraid and believe most of the things they hear. The stories about “Boo” Radley eating squirrels and cats were enough to frighten them up. Scout and her brother
The Brownie’s plan of attacking the other troop falls through. It’s on the way home from camp that the girls are discussing the things that happened on the duration of their stay. They are poking fun at the girls who were different from them, making wise cracks and poor imitations of Troop 909. After her fellow Brownies bore of the subject of Troop 909, Snot tells the story of a Mennonite family who once did work for her father. She remembers her father saying “it was the only time he’d have a white man on his knees doing something for a black man for free.” Though she doesn’t agree with what her father did, she begins to understand his reasoning behind it.
In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the narrator is six year old Jean Louise Finch – who is known throughout the book as Scout. She presents a different point of view from a normal first-person book, as she is a young child, looking in on the dramas of the novel. This can be both a positive and a negative thing for the book, as Scout is naïve and sometimes does not understand what the adults in the story do. It is important to know that in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, there are two Scouts present – the adult Jean Louise who is recounting on her events of the 3 years, and the child who is experiencing the story. Scout is the observer and also the questioner in the novel, and acts far older than her young age.