To Kill A Mockingbird Coming To Age Analysis
Could growing up change how you viewed the world before? Harper Lee’s novel, To
Kill a Mockingbird, shows a young girl named Scout Finch perspective towards events that occurred in her life in Maycomb, Alabama. Throughout the book, Scout goes through a path where she encounters maturity. In this passage, the literary elements characterization, external conflict and voice portray the theme of coming to age.
Calpurnia expresses her characteristics with provocative language when scolding towards Scout. Scout brings over a friend, Walter Cunningham, for dinner as an apology for brutally attacking him in the schoolyard. During dinner, Walter was pouring syrup all over his food. In addition to this, Scout was pointing out his flaws which made him self-conscious about himself. As a result, this lead to Calpurnia giving an infuriating lecture to Scout about disrespecting Walter during dinner. Scout then registers humiliation for being reproached. “Hush your mouth! Don’t matter who they are anybody sets foot in this house’s yo comp’ny, and don’t you let me catch you remarkin’ on their ways like you was all so high and mighty.” …show more content…
In the event that she made a remark about Walter, it not only affected Walter himself but to Atticus and Calpurnia. With Scout’s intention, she obviously did not know how people would react to her comment. To put in another way, think before you speak. “Atticus shook his head at me again. But he’s gone and drowned his dinner, I protested. He’s poured it all over-”, I was then that Calpurnia requested my presence in the kitchen” (32). Significantly speaking, Atticus disapproved of what Scout was saying easily to be heard making Calpurnia eavesdropped and demanded her to come in the kitchen. It was then, Scout realizes that she had done something inappropriate to make her father, Atticus Finch not react the way she wanted him to
Kill a Mockingbird, shows a young girl named Scout Finch perspective towards events that occurred in her life in Maycomb, Alabama. Throughout the book, Scout goes through a path where she encounters maturity. In this passage, the literary elements characterization, external conflict and voice portray the theme of coming to age.
Calpurnia expresses her characteristics with provocative language when scolding towards Scout. Scout brings over a friend, Walter Cunningham, for dinner as an apology for brutally attacking him in the schoolyard. During dinner, Walter was pouring syrup all over his food. In addition to this, Scout was pointing out his flaws which made him self-conscious about himself. As a result, this lead to Calpurnia giving an infuriating lecture to Scout about disrespecting Walter during dinner. Scout then registers humiliation for being reproached. “Hush your mouth! Don’t matter who they are anybody sets foot in this house’s yo comp’ny, and don’t you let me catch you remarkin’ on their ways like you was all so high and mighty.” …show more content…
In the event that she made a remark about Walter, it not only affected Walter himself but to Atticus and Calpurnia. With Scout’s intention, she obviously did not know how people would react to her comment. To put in another way, think before you speak. “Atticus shook his head at me again. But he’s gone and drowned his dinner, I protested. He’s poured it all over-”, I was then that Calpurnia requested my presence in the kitchen” (32). Significantly speaking, Atticus disapproved of what Scout was saying easily to be heard making Calpurnia eavesdropped and demanded her to come in the kitchen. It was then, Scout realizes that she had done something inappropriate to make her father, Atticus Finch not react the way she wanted him to