While examining the term‚ "the end of innocence"‚ Scout’s viewpoint on Boo throughout the novel can be an indication of Scout’s own "end of innocence." <br> <br>Scout opens the novel with a naive viewpoint on both the world and Boo Radley. At the start of the novel‚ Scout interprets a raiding on the jail‚ through an adolescent standpoint. Scout sees the circumstances of the attack from the perspective of a young child. Scout’s responses to situations‚ such as the one at the jail‚ attributes to the
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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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idea is shown many times throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ through the many experiences that the main characters go through. There are many things that Scout must learn to see through the hardship of the court case her dad called Atticus agrees to fight. A black man named Tom Robinson is accused of raping a 19 year old girl by her dad‚ called Bob Ewell. There are many other experiences that are eye opening to both Jem and Scout. In her novel‚ it shows the idea of growing into
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To Kill A Mockingbird In To Kill 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
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To Kill a Mockingbird “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around it” says Atticus.(Lee‚ 30) In Harper Lee’s‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ racism is shown as a big part through the eyes of a modest little girl named Scout. Scout learns numerous things by trying to learn something from another person’s perspective. She tries to think of things that could have happened if racism didn’t exists and how people would
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To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee wrote the book To Kill a Mockingbird‚ which she based on people she knew from her hometown in Alabama. During the time this book was written many people were racist towards each other. She wrote this book based on a court case so she could show how hard it was for civil rights in the south for everyone. Scout and Jem finch are siblings that are alike and not alike. When comparing and contrasting Jem and Scout‚ there is a big difference in their coming of age‚ while
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be applied to To Kill a Mockingbird. This book tells a story of the children growing up and their lives changing so we can observe the ascension of them through morality levels and the events that cause or show this. 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
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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD WHAT LESSON SCOUT LEARNS In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird the main character Jean Louise Finch (AKA Scout) learns a lot of lessons. But I think the lesson she learns can be categorized in 3 categories‚ which are life‚ people and society. Scout learns 3 important things about life in the book. One thing she learns is that life is unfair. She experiences this in a court case with her dad defending a black man named Tom Robinson who is accused for raping
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Innocence to Experience "Maycomb was an old town‚ but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks‚ the courthouse sagged in the square."(Lee 9). This environment‚ as Scout Finch accurately describes‚ is not conducive to young children‚ loud noises‚ and games. But‚ the Finch children and Dill must occupy themselves in order to avoid boredom. Their surroundings are their boundaries‚ but in their minds‚ they
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Scout Finch‚ or also known as Jean Louise Finch is the narrator in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird. In the beginning of the novel‚Scout is five years old‚ the daughter of a prominent lawyer Atticus Finch. Jem “Jeremy Finch” is Scouts older brother. The family lives in a small town called Maycomb County in the city of Alabama. Scout has grown up without a proper mother by her side‚ throughout the book she develops a certain character which shows that she is not like most girls that wear
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