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Scout For The Greater Test O Courage
734 wordsOne of the principal aims of To Kill a Mockingbird is to subject the narrator to a series of learning experiences and then observe how much she profits from her experiences. There is rarely a chapter that does not teach Scout something new or does not build toward a new learning experience. So, one rewarding approach to the novel is throughout an examination of these experiences. In the largest view, Scout learns about (1) justice and injustice through the Tom Robinson trial; (2) pre justice and...
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Later On Scout And Jem
816 wordsBy: Adam When Scout is six years old she meets Dill who is visiting his aunt there in Maycomb for the summer. Scout and her brother Jem play with Dill and try to figure out ways to catch a glimpse of their weird neighbor Boo Radley. Boo is mysterious to them because he always stays in the house and they have never seen him before. After the summer is over, school is about to start and Dill goes back home to Mississippi. This is Scouts first year of school and on her first day she gets into troub...
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Jem And Scout To Social Prejudice
1,302 wordsThe Mortal Mockingbird A songbird's melody can evoke happiness in anyone, as can the smiling face of a child. The mockingbird sings for the sake of singing, and an innocent child possesses an innate joyfulness, as natural as instinct. Yet a mockingbird's song dies as easily as innocence. In the beginning of the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, Scout and Jem are portrayed as innocents, uncorrupted by our world of prejudice and racism. Their world is simple, sensible, a child's world. However, by the...
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Atticus Relationship With His Children
429 wordsAtticus Finch represents the rational man ina world of highly emotional people. Atticus is a stable and mature figure who is able to cope with the unreasonable and highly emotional element of the town. He can handle the prejudiced white masses and still deal justly with the underprivileged Negro population. He is one of the few people of the town who understands the individual worth of a person regardless of the color of skin. He is able to defend Tom Robinson solely on the basis of justice and ...
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Atticus
1,262 wordsShow Atticus is a role model as a father, a lawyer and a person. Everybody needs a role model to look up to. This person teaches morals and lessons to life. Atticus Finch is a perfect example of a role model in every way of his person: as a lawyer, as a father and as a person in general. Throughout Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird, there are so many examples of this that they fill this masterpiece with lessons to be learned and morals that one should live by. Firstly, Atticus proved hims...
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Atticus And His Children Of Being
1,155 wordsCompassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, Harper Lee's, To Kill a Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior, to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, and the struggle between blacks and whites. Atticus Finch, a lawyer and single parent in a small southern town in the 1930's, is appointed by the local judge to defend Tom Robinson, a black man, who is accused of raping a white woman. Friends and neighbors object when Atticus puts up a strong and spirited...
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Their Father Atticus
850 wordsIn Harper Lee's timeless novel "To Kill a Mockingbird", the descriptions that Scout and Jem impart to us of their father Atticus lead us to believe that he is not a very idolized man. We are shown, through the qualities that Atticus reveals throughout the course of the novel, that he does not need to have rippling muscles and a perfect smile to be the ultimate "hero". He shows us that even though he may come across as a frail fifty year old man, underneath thrives a strong, wilful personality, a...
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Scout And Jem
1,160 wordsAnalysis of Major Characters Scout - Scout is a very unusual little girl, both in her own qualities and in her social position. She is unusually intelligent (she learns to read before beginning school), unusually confident (she fights boys without fear), unusually thoughtful (she worries about the essential goodness and evil of mankind), and unusually good (she always acts with the best intentions). In terms of her social identity, she is unusual for being a tomboy in the prim and proper Souther...
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Scout's Views On Aunt Alexandra Change
1,632 wordsAs girls grow in life, they mature and change into women. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Scout, the main character, begins to mature into a woman. In the beginning of the book, she is a tomboy who cannot wait to pick a fistfight with anyone, but at the end, she lowers her fists because her father, Atticus, tells her not to fight. Scout's views of womanhood, influenced by how Aunt Alexandra, Miss Maudie, and Calpurnia act, make her think more about becoming a woman and less of...
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Walter Cunningham And Jem And Scout
1,398 wordsThe book 'To Kill a Mockingbird' is a story of life in an Alabama town in the 30's. The narrator, Jean Louise Finch, or Scout, is writing of a time when she was young, and the book is in part the record of a childhood, believed to be Harper Lee's, the author of the book... The story begins as Scout describes her family history and her town, Maycomb during the time of the Great Depression. Atticus is a prominent lawyer and the Finch family is reasonably well off in comparison to the rest of socie...
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Scout's Courage
1,342 wordsTo Kill A Mockingbird In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, a character Atticus states; "Courage is when you know you " re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what". Throughout history, there have been many courageous people who have strongly demonstrated the quality of courage. Courage is a reoccurring theme that Harper Lee chooses to emphasize throughout To Kill A Mockingbird that many of her characters pursue as a strong quality. However, courage is prove...
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Scout Of Their Opinion Of Atticus
1,139 wordsThe idea of the journey is a recurring theme within American literature. The novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a piece of literature that addresses the theme of the journey (though it is more of a psychological and emotional journey than a physical one). In To Kill a Mockingbird, the journey takes the form of a young girl's (Scout s) realization that the world is not as nice of a place that she thinks it is. Scout's self-enlightening journey begins when her father, Atticus takes Tom R...
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End Of The Novel Scout
1,135 wordsIt's interesting to see the ways different authors depict how a character matures, a stage that many of us have been through. In Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mocking Bird we can easily see how she chose to do it. The novel is set in Alabama in the 1930's, while black vs. white racism was a big issue and problem for many. Atticus is the father of Scout and Jem, young children who witness the discrimination first hand when their father, a white man, defends a black man in court. Lee does a great ...
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Scout
594 wordsScout Finch is not the stereotypical girl from the 1930's. Agents the wishes of everyone around her, she grows up in overalls instead of dresses. Scout plays in the dirt and sand, instead of in the kitchen. In the novel To Kill a Mocking Bird, by Harper Lee, Scout is the wild spirited narrator, growing up in the small town of May comb. As she gets older, she learns mostly from her father Atticus how to interact with people. Scout learns to show dignity and respect to everyone, under any circumst...
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Hard For Scout
858 wordsIn To Kill A Mockingbird Scout is a young girl and daughter of a respected lawyer named Atticus. With her older brother Jem, she enjoys participating in many activities which are mainly masculine ones. Without a mother to teach her the ways of a woman, she lives as a tomboy (much to the displeasure of her aunt). As Scout grows, she learns new things, feels new emotions, and begins to mature into bright young woman. Scout is learning that things are not always what they seem. She and Jem always b...
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Atticus A Nigger Lover To Jem
581 wordsThe definition of a good father is as individual as the individuals involved themselves. A good father is able to support his childrens strengths, along with being able to help them overcome their weaknesses. He is able to do this without appearing to be a know-it-all. The ability to show by example how to live life, while not being afraid to make mistakes and not to be perfect all the time are also very important characteristic. Atticus was by that definition a very good father. Whenever Scout ...
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Scout And Jem
1,491 wordsExploration the Theme of Prejudice in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird is set in Maycomb county, Alabama during the 1930's. The main theme is in the form of prejudice; age, gender, race, and the classification of people according to their social class. Prejudice is very well explored in this novel, especially racism. During the 1930's blacks were highly discriminated and life was also hard in those days, due to high levels of poverty. Lee uses each character ...
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Chapter 13 Aunt Alexandra
701 wordsChapter 12 Jem and Scouts visit to the first purchase church was in total contrast to what they are used to in their normal visits to church. Scout is surprised to see no hymn books or decorations in the church, which is what she is used to. Scout learns that the black community is worse of than her and live their lives in poverty. She was particularly surprised to learn that many black people could not read. Especially as she has been reading since she was born. Scout learns that Calpurnia taug...
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Scout And Jem About Atticus
1,225 wordsEssay? First Draft [Don, Eugene] To Kill A Mocking Bird In the harsh human society, there are many struggling conflicts that the humans face which is not easy to revolutionize to once it has happened since the past generations to until now. According to history, and even presently, one of the cruelest discrimination every occurred in human society is prejudices. Prejudice. What do you think of it? Most people know what it is, or heard of it, however they cannot explain the word in an exact way n...
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Most Bold Examples Of Scout's Maturity
979 words"There is always a possibility of richer maturation - taking of more and more responsibility for yourself and your life". This quote from an anonymous source explains that a person can continue to strive to become more and more mature throughout their life, no matter how old one gets. The novel To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, takes the reader on a journey of maturation for three children. However, one of the three children's maturation process stands out the most. The young tomboy,...
