Analysis Of The Book ' Scout Arrives '

Atticus chooses to listen and understand what Scout was upset about instead of scolding her. Atticus’s wisdom is shown once again when Scout overhears people at school calling her father a name, so she asks Atticus about it and if it is true. When Scout asks if the derogatory racial slur they call him is true, Atticus replies, “I certainly am. I do my best to love everybody..." (144). This quote shows that Atticus cares for others and that he doesn't mind what other says because of that. Atticus cares for the rights of black people and minorities even though it is not a popular opinion in Maycomb. A last example is when Atticus finds Jem, Scout, and Dill trying to deliver Mr. Arthur Radley a note through the side window. Scout is indirectly quoting what Atticus told them: "How would we like it if Atticus barged in on us without knocking, when

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view-until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” (p.30) The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee includes a plethora of essential themes that make one think deeply. The story takes place in the 1930’s when segregation tensions were high. The narrative is told through the eyes of a young girl, Jean Louise (Scout) Finch. Scout’s father, Atticus is a lawyer fighting a case for an African American man named Tom Robinson. Throughout the novel, both Scout and her older brother Jeremy (Jem) Finch learn many life lessons that are crucial for all children to learn about. One fundamental lesson learned by the children, is the lesson of having empathy.

In the country town of Maycomb, people were easily influenced so prejudice was shown by most. The citizens knew that the colour of your skin determined your place in life and that Negroes were to be treated differently. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, there was only one true character that portrayed the true essence of tolerance. Atticus Finch stood on his own two feet, and never formed an opinion unless he had prior knowledge on the particular person or situation. Throughout the entirety of this novel, it was Atticus alone who not only was tolerant, but set an exemplarily example to his children, and the town, of how knowing before judging is not only important, but vital to society. “First of all…if you can learn a simple trick Scout, you’ll get along better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person till you consider things from his point of view…until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (p.33). This is a perfect example of how Atticus passes on his knowledge to his children, and educates them on how respect

Scout empathizes with Walter Cunningham during school at the beginning of the novel. Her teacher Miss Caroline offers Walter a quarter because he has no lunch. Walter’s family can’t afford lunch so he says he has forgotten his lunch money. He declines her offer, Miss Caroline can’t see why so she continues

In this quote, Scout is kind of oblivious to what is going on. She isn't realizing that she just had walked into a lynch mob that was trying to hurt Tom Robinson. Atticus had told her not to come out and stay at home. She let her curiosity get the best of her. Having been that little she is able to not get hurt by the mob, but if she is older they might have hurt her or Atticus in some way. This is one way that her ignorance protects her in the beginning of the book.

Atticus Finch’s wisdom and understanding of the human nature truly shows when he teaches us how to empathize. Atticus gives Scout and readers, a whole other way of seeing peoples perspective. Scout, who is upset that Miss Caroline put her “responsible” in explaining why Walter Cunningham cannot accept any money, complains to Atticus about that matter; saying she refuses to go to school. Atticus, who realizes that Scout is failing to understand things from Miss Caroline’s perspective says, “You never really understand someone....... until you crawl into his skin and walk around in it.”pg 33. Scout grapples with this idea of

In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee chooses to narrate the book from the perspective of Scout, who is a child. One of the themes of the book is growing up, and questioning the ways of the people in Maycomb. Scout always thought that the people in Maycomb were the best until she started to realize that a lot of them were very racist when the trial gets closer. Because she is a kid, her opinions can change more easily than those of an adult. Because she hasn’t known the people in Maycomb for as long as the adults, she can more easily accept that they have bad views, while people who have known them for a while would deny that because they’ve always thought they were a good person.

Already knowing how to read, Scout is punished when her teacher says her father should not “teach you any more. It’s best to begin reading with a fresh mind. You tell him I’ll take over from here and try to undo the damage- [...] Your father does not know how to teach” (Lee 23). School said that Scout’s knowledge was damage, and wanted to cast her behind instead of throwing her ahead. The teacher made Scout ashamed of knowing how to read, instead of celebrating it. Later during that day, Scout learns a real lesson from her cook, Calpurnia. After Scout was being rude to a boy asked over for lunch, Cal declared “That boy’s yo’ comp’ny and if he wants to eat up the table cloth you let him, you hear? [...] Yo’ folks might be better’n the Cunninghams but it don’t count for nothin’ the way you’re disgracin’ ‘em” (Lee 32-33). Cal teaches Scout a vital lesson about treating others, one that school would ignore. Kids must learn when they are young that everyone deserves respect, and that it does not matter who they are, or else they could cause problems to others later. School is a place that parents send their students to learn. But when Atticus sent Scout to school, she is embarrassed by her teacher and told that her knowledge is damage. At home, she learns a real lesson after wasting her time in school. Knowing how to treat others will get one much farther than knowing what the capital of Michigan is. Real life

All of these pre-conceived ideas are prevalent around Maycomb, but the compassion of Atticus is able to save Scout and Jem from the influence of these ideas and prevents them from contracting ‘Maycomb’s usual disease.’ Atticus is able to use his considerable wisdom and life experience to remove Scout and Jem from prejudice’s influence. Atticus is able to stop the influence, from small things, “Do you defend niggers, Atticus?" "Don't say nigger, Scout. That's common.” This shows that, in any way, shape or form, Atticus is determined for his children to avoid the disease for a more happy future. This comes at a cost though, with Scout slowly losing her childhood innocence as the book goes on. After she witnesses all of the things that have happened, she understands why her father is protecting her

“She looked at Maycomb, and her throat tightened: Maycomb was looking back at her. Go away, the old building said. There is no place for you here. You are not wanted. We have secrets.” (Lee 111). Scout doesn’t understand how someone like Atticus could change. Atticus has admiration in the community, is wise as well as knowledgeable. Scout had massive respect for him and what she thought he stood for. “The one human being she had ever fully and wholeheartedly trusted had failed her; the only man she had ever known to whom she could point and say with expert knowledge ‘He is a gentleman, in his heart his is a gentleman,’ had betrayed her, publicly, grossly, and shamelessly.” (Lee 113). Scout realized that she was wrong in what she presumed the town would be like. Everything she once knew and once thought she knew, was no longer true. Her father changed, her town changed, but Scout has not changed. Because Atticus stayed in Maycomb, he didn’t know changes like this were happening around him. Things happened slow, and the people changed with the town. To Atticus, his thinking wasn’t wrong because his community also thought the same

One of the first lessons taught in Mockingbird is the power of understanding other people’s perspectives. For much of the novel, Scout has trouble showing empathy towards others. Atticus tells Scout that she'll “get along a lot better with all kinds of folks [if she] considers things from [their] point of view” (39). Atticus is teaching us a valuable lesson-in order to have an open mind; you need to keep an open mind. Atticus wants to see his children to learn how to consider multiple viewpoints before forming opinions and knows that if he fails in teaching them, they will succumb to the prejudice that plagues Maycomb. It proves difficult for Scott to grasp the concept, however. Scout and her friends spend much of the novel tormenting Boo Radley, the town enigma. They try to make Boo come outside-something he hasn't done in decades. When Scout finally meets Boo, she realizes that he is just a normal man, who chooses to stay inside. Standing on Boo's porch, Scout finally learns her lesson. “Atticus was right” (374). For most of the novel, scout learns

Holding prejudices inhibits people, and for Scout, the oppression of Mayella Ewell and the black community teach her that all people are prejudiced. Taking her first steps towards understanding, Scout recognizes the ingrained racism of Maycomb when she reflects on her teacher’s (Miss Gates) hypocrisy.(VB) Though Miss Gates condones Hitler for his prejudices towards Jews, she turns around and believes less of the black community right at home. “I heard her say it’s time somebody taught ‘em a lesson, they were gettin’ way above themselves, an’ the next thing they think they can do is marry us. Jem, how can you hate Hitler so much, then turn around and be ugly to folks right at home” (331).

Scout is a very intelligent young girl, this is because Atticus teaches her to read before she even starts attending school. She also differs from other girls in Maycomb because she does not have any manners, or that she does not wear dresses, which were two usual characteristics of young girls at that time. Scouts perception of the world evolves a lot during the two years, she had not yet seen the great evil that hides in the town, namely racism. Her first contact with the racism in Maycomb is during the trial of Tom Robinson, who was accused of raping a white girl named Mayella. Scout and Jem was sure Atticus would win because Atticus made Bob Ewell look like a fool, but because a white jury would never let a black man win against a white

Scout does not want to be seen as a girl because “Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that's why other people hated them so…” (Lee 54) Whenever her brother accuses her of being a girl she denies it and tries to prove him wrong by going along with him and Dill. As a result she hates dressing in ‘girly’ clothing or doing what the others girls did. Though a main part of the story springs from prejudice “around here once you have a drop of negro blood, that makes you all black.”(Lee 216) This part of the book would imply that the racism in their town is based off their moral beliefs instead of social. However Atticus in his finishing statement said the barriers between races is a “time-honored code of our society, a code so severe that whoever breaks it is hounded from our midsts as unfit to live with.” (Lee 272) Atticus is trying to convey that society pressures people into believing in the hierarchy in maycomb, where your race or who mingle with is what you are to be judged by. Someone growing up in a town like that would most likely developing those same prejudices and beliefs from their peers and close-knit society around

Atticus Finch the father of the main character Scout says you never really understand a person...Until you climb into his skin and walk around in it. Atticus is the voice of wisdom. He teaches scout dill and Jim many life lessons. This quote is also similar to walk a mile in my shoes which means you can't criticize someone until you have been through everything that they have