lessons Scout learns is to look at things from other people’s perspectives. He teaches them so many lessons here is an example how he helped Scout. "’First of all‚’ he said‚ ’If you can learn a simple trick‚ Scout‚ you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-’ ’Sir?’ ’-until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.’"(p30) Scout learned an extremely good lesson from what Atticus said. Scout pays a
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Everybody changes. It is an almost universal fact. The protagonist in a very famous Southern literary novel‚ “To Kill A Mockingbird”‚ Jean Louise “Scout” Finch‚ has changed very much in a span of just three years‚ certainly a short time to mature. The book starts out with an innocent Scout‚ 6 years old‚ and progresses through the common and controversial acts of the Great Depression to 9 year old Jean‚ very mature in her perception of discrimination and progressing faster than most kids. So‚ what
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The main characters of this book were Jem and Scout who we first meet with morality levels 0 to 1. It is their experiences which cause them to ultimately arrive at a high level of morality and exhibiting characteristics of level 6. Early in the story Jem and Scout act with a level of 0 and 1 in my opinion for many reasons. The first indicator is their bluntness when they first met Dill. They don ’t meet a whole lot of kids their age except at school for Jem‚ so when they talk to Dill they don ’t
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characters Dill‚ Scout‚ and Jem in the book " To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee live a somewhat diverse childhood as they become aware of the prejudice in their hometown Maycomb and "learn to climb into other people’s skin and walk around in it". In the story the children behave as a child would at their time‚ but their childhood evolves from playful innocence to realizing the pressures of living in a timeframe where prejudice is all around them. Scout‚ a 6-year-old tom boy‚ Jem‚ Scout’s older
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A Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ Jem and Scout change a lot during the course of the novel‚ and also learn many things throughout this book. Scout and Jem have many differences and similarities in this book and are very important characters in this novel. Scout learns about racism and how to be more polite. Jem learns about being more kind to others. He becomes more mature and courageous throughout this novel. Some examples of Jem being courageous is when Jem goes to read to Mrs. Dubose after
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relationships in the book. Throughout the novel we read about Jem and Scout at many ages. We read about Jem from when he’s a child to a young adult and about Scout when she’s a child. We see them grow all throughout the course of the novel. In the novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird the author shows how Jem matures. He is still a boy at this point (chapter 16-20) in the book but is reaching manhood. This shown through his reaction to the trial of Tom Robinson. Jem actually starts to cry because the court made an injustice
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What do Jem and Scout learn during the course of the novel? Jem and Scout are two caring siblings who look out for each other. At the start the children are not aware of a few things such as what real courage was. Boo Radley‚ to them a very strange man‚ lived at the corner of the street in a shabby house with his father and mother. The children’s assumptions about Boo were very strange‚ they thought that “he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch” and that “his eyes popped and he drooled
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Kill A Mockingbird Essay It catches my attention how Jem and Scout change during the course of the novel. Jem’s the brother of Scout‚ and is also the oldest. In the begginning of the book‚ Jem’s first thought of bravery meant being able to touch Boo adley’s house‚ only because in his whole life he has never backed down from a dare. As the story progresses on‚ he slowly starts realizing there is more to that than just touching Boo Radley’s house. Jem realizes true bravery through his experienc with
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Change is a very common part of life. However‚ there are always people who change more than some due to one thing or another. The character the changed the most throughout the book To Kill a Mockingbird‚ written by Harper Lee‚ is Jem‚ which can be seen mostly through his attitude change towards his sister and the world. In regards to the attitude he has towards his sister‚ the book To Kill a Mockingbird‚ written by Harper Lee‚ first presents a typical older brother mindset‚ with Jem being the
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Scout is one of many brave children in the novel. For example‚ Scout isn’t afraid to stand up to people who might hurt her or her family‚ and she doesn’t let anyone or anything change the way she does things‚ as well as‚ not letting the kids at school get to her and being able to control her emotions and actions. The role of Scout being brave is talked about in the novel. This happens in the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The book focuses on how the separation of blacks and whites used
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