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As people grow in life, they mature and change in many different ways. Harper Lee is the author of To Kill a Mocking Bird. This book is about Scout Finch and her life in the 1930’s in Maycomb County, Alabama. Harpe, shows how Scout matures and progresses in this book along with many other things. For example Scout, the main character, realizes her town is racist after the Tom Robinson trial. Harper also informs the reader about things Scout does not understand throughout the book. One of the things she demonstrates is the reason why Jem, Scout’s brother, is acting different. She does not know what people act like at that age because she is a lot younger, so all of his behavior is new to her. One of the other examples Harper shows is the very unique relationship between Miss Caroline, Scout’s teacher, and Scout. They would like each other, but Miss Caroline’s teaching strategy is bad for Scout because she is able read.…
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7) Why does Scout explain Walter Cunningham's situation to Miss Caroline? Scout feels that it is her duty, as her classmates were looking at her expectantly. Scout explains Walter Cunningham’s situation because Miss Caroline is not from the area and doesn't understand the "country folk" or the customs of the county and its people. Walter may be poor, but he's not a beggar and refuses to take the quarter from Miss Caroline because he knows that he can't pay it back.…
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Miss Fisher realizes that Walter Cunningham has forgotten his lunch. She gives him a quarter and is expecting a quarter in return the next day. She does not know that the Cunningham’s are very poor. Scout tries to point this out to the teacher, but gets punished.…
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When Ms. Caroline’s failures as a teacher start to discourage Scout, Atticus persuades her to continue going to school with a bargain. He suggests that if she’ll continue going to school, then “[they’ll] go on reading every night, just as [they] always have” (41). He makes reading seem like a privilege—a reward for going to school—and convinces her to continue her education. Also, his use of the phrase “every night” suggests that it will be a long-term commitment. Furthermore, Atticus makes it clear to Scout that school is not optional. When Scout proclaims that she will not be going to school anymore because she doesn’t feel well, Atticus responds with a “dose of magnesia for you tonight and school tomorrow” (39). Atticus shows that he can see through her act, he is also making a point; school is not something Scout escape easily. Whereas “not feeling well” may persuade Atticus to allow Scout stay home from family gatherings and other casual occasions, school is essential to Scout’s education. Lastly, Atticus uses the Ewells as an example for why Scout must go to school if she wants to learn. The Ewells never show “the faintest sign of wanting an education,” which is why they don’t go to school and are content to “live like animals” and be the “disgrace of Maycomb county” (40). The Ewells don’t go to school simply because they don’t want to, but Scout asks…
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In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, the characters in Maycomb, Alabama, illustrate how it takes more than just a father and a brother, but a town, for one child to grow up. Scout is six years old, at the beginning of the book. She is whiney, and fidgety, and can hold a grudge for as long as she can hold her temper. By the end of the novel, Scout is about eight years old, and has moved on from her ways of childhood behavior, into a more adult-like attitude. The plot of To Kill a Mockingbird, really maps out Scout’s changing from a young child to a more structured young lady. It shows the theme of how Scout is taught to move from innocence to adulthood. This theme is shown greatly through the relationship of Atticus and his children, and how he devotes himself to building up a civil mind and attitude in Scout and Jem. The times when the children are at school display Atticus’s effective teaching to his children. For example, in school, Scout is constantly confronted for knowing too much, by the teachers, whose cool attitudes towards the children are dark, and overly judgmental. In chapter two, of To Kill a Mockingbird, Miss Caroline scolds Scout for being able to read when she says, “Now you tell your father not to…
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In the little town Maycomb the commune mindset of people, tents to put women down as inferior. One young girl named Scout, learns the about gender bias from contently being left behind by her brother. One instance where this takes place is in the court house. “Jem scowled furiously at me, then said to Reverend Sykes, “I think its okay, Reverend, she doesn’t understand it.” (231). The action of Jem clamming that his…
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Scout's innocence gives us an uncorrupted view of maycomb county. Her innocence is made very evident early in the novel. Scout tries to explain to Miss Caroline,an outsider, how she is embarrassing Walter by offering him money. Scouts’ straightforward, yet innocent response is taken by Miss Caroline as a condensing response that is trying to undermine her power. Scout does not understand how her views differ from those of adults.…
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sense Mayella is a “rebel”, but she is also a outcast. Mayella is a victim of abuse, and Harper Lee uses this character as a comparison to Scout. He compares a stubborn girl who is not afraid to fight with a young woman who tries to save herself during the Tom Robinson trial. Mayella Ewell can be chracterized as a “sexual predator” when she sends the children out for ice cream, and grabs Tom Robinson by the legs in attempt to kiss him. Lee doesn’t think that Mayella is a predator, but merely just a young, weak woman. Mayella is feeble enough to allow her father, who already has a abusive hold over her, to get away with the truth, and uphold his “reputation”.…
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Secondly, we should see things from others’ perspective. As Atticus says “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.” (Lee, 30). Miss Caroline cannot accept that Scout already knows how to read and write, because it confuses the teaching formula. Instead of learning from her experiences in the classroom and adapting her teaching accordingly, she sticks to a method that she learned from adults. To Scout, this method is dull. Just as Atticus encourages Scout to place herself in another person’s position before she judges that person, Miss Caroline would do a better job like try to think about her students and respond to their needs rather than simply trying to harsh on their education.…
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Scout learns not to judge people in a wrong way before knowing them. Scout judged Boo Radley and Miss Caroline before getting to know them better. It was after the attack by Bob Ewell happened and Scout walked Boo Radley to his house. After meeting Boo Radley she realizes that what she was doing with Dill and Jem like constantly harassing him to come outside was like killing a mockingbird. “Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and a chain, a pair of good luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we have given him nothing, and it made me sad” said Scout (Lee 278). Scout realizes that she should not be afraid of someone before you get to know them; she stepped on Boo Radley’s porch and realized all the stuff he had to go through. Boo did something in return by saving Scout and Jem’s lives .Another lesson was when Scout thought her teacher Miss Caroline Fisher treated her students poorly. Scout thought that Miss Caroline was a mean teacher who had no respect for her students. When Scout went home she told Atticus that she never wanted to go back to school because of Miss Caroline, but Atticus told her “You never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view” (Lee 30). Scout then learns her point of view; Miss Caroline isn’t…
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