character Scout is shown growing up. Scout’s personality changes in many ways throughout the book. Scout learns to know people before judging them. When Jem‚ Scout’s older brother‚ hit the tops of all of Mrs. Dubose’s camellias his punishment was to read to Mrs. Dubose‚ this is Scout’s description of her. “She was horrible. Her face was the color of a dirty pillowcase... Old-age liver spots dotted her cheeks... pale eyes with black pinpoint pupils...”(Lee 142). In the beginning Scout though that
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Talk Less Say More As we all go around living our lives we have mottos that we believe and live by every day. James P. Owens wrote a book called Cowboys Ethics‚ in this book it portrays the ten principles that Owens lives by every day. We all live in mottos because of our own personal ethical beliefs of life. The motto that I mostly follow that Owen presents in the book Cowboys Ethics is Talk less and say more. I live by the motto talk less and say more because of these three reasons; you never know
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novel about growing in the 1930s in the Southern United States. Scout Finch lives with her brother Jem and their father Atticus (a lawyer) in the town of Maycomb‚ Alabama. Maycomb is a small town‚ and every family has its social standing depending on where they live‚ who their parents are‚ and how long they have lived in Maycomb. Atticus raises his children by himself‚ with the help of neighbors and a black housekeeper named Calpurnia. Scout is a tomboy who prefers to solve her differences with her fists
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Harper Lee’s protagonist‚ Jean Louise “Scout” Finch‚ in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ “holding two opposite ideas” can means discovering goodness in an evil person: it can also means
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point of view. As a young girl oblivious to the harsh reality of the world‚ Scout only sees the events of her childhood through her own point of view. For example‚ on the first day of school she gets upset with her teacher‚ Miss Caroline‚ but later realizes that she shouldn’t have. As she starts to mature and sees that not everything is what it appears to be‚ she puts herself in Mayella’s shoes at the trial. Finally Scout demonstrates the quality of putting herself in others shoes when she meets her
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songs for the everyday people. Jem and Scout had to restrain from shooting the mockingbirds due to their father’s warning. The novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ written by Harper Lee‚ is written from the view point of a little girl‚ Scout‚ in the 1930’s during the Great Depression. Her father‚ Atticus‚ is assigned a court case where he has to defend an African American that is accused of raping and assaulting a white woman. While her dad is away at work‚ Scout‚ her older brother Jem‚ and summertime
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In Harper Lee’s book‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Scout‚ the main character‚ and her brother Jem‚ learn many valuable lessons. Scout and Jem learn when someone does the right thing they don’t always get rewarded. She learns this in many different parts of the book‚ and from many different people including her father’s client‚ Tom Robinson. In addition‚ Scout and Jem learn to understand empathy. Empathy means they will be able to understand and comprehend other people’s feelings. This is very important
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inspired me through the 11 year struggle to completing Eagle Scout. All the late nights‚ long summer days‚ and hours of constant work has taught me a thing or two. Eagle Scout is no easy thing to get and it required the use of many skills and resources including perseverance‚ an openness to learn‚ and the most important resource of all people. Ask any Eagle Scout and they will tell you that there was a point in their time of being a Cub/ Boy scout where they wanted to quit. A time when they wanted to
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the town of Maycomb and the parent of Scout and Jem‚ whom he treats as if they were adults. Scout‚ who is six years old‚ is the narrator of the story in which we see life in Maycomb through her eyes over a span of three years. Her brother‚ Jem is four years older than her. They see things differently than most children because of Atticus’s unique parenting style. Throughout the novel‚ Atticus instills three important values within Scout and Jem. He instills the value of seeing
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respected and wise‚ strict but fair. Atticus Finch is everything a father should be. A man that is strong and courageous‚ he is Jem and Scouts hero. He is their teacher‚ their proctor and their friend. He is very responsible and cares for them with all his heart. These are the things that make him an excellent and much loved father Atticus’s relationship with Jem and Scout is both equal and respectful. The simple act of calling him by his first name of Atticus and not father‚ bring him to their level
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