Living in the sleepy town of Macomb, Alabama, Scout Finch and her brother Jem Finch go on different adventure with there foreign comrade Dill. In doing so they discover Arthur Radley also known as Boo an old man who has never ventured out past his doorstep. There father Atticus, a peaceful and quiet lawyer and their black maid Culperina teache them import lesson about racial equality. During the fall Dill returns home and Scout goes to school. She detests it for she is very smart and to advanced for the class. During school Jem and scout find a hole in a tree filled with gum. They take the gum, but little do they know that Arthur Radley had placed it there for them to enjoy. Later in that year they spy on boo only to discover that he wanted to be left alone. Sumer comes around and Dill returns for more adventures. That summer Dill and Scout make plans to get married, but eventually forget. That summer Jem and Dill start to become more distant from Scout because they claim that she was becoming to girlish. So instead of playing with the boys she stays inside helps Culperina. In doing so she learns and awful lot about the way that other people live. She …show more content…
During the winter, Scout wakes up to snow and is scared for she has never seen it before. Her father reassures her and she goes to play with Jem in the snow. School ends later that year and dill comes to play with them during the summer. During the Summer Atticus accepts to defend Tom Robinson in court. Tom Robinson was a black man who had been accused of raping the daughter of a wealthy man named Mr. Ewell. During the trial Scout learned racial equality was a necessity that people needed to learn for a man with a white skin is just as valuable than a man with a black skin. Atticus does not win the trial, since the jury can not convict a white man against a black. This cause a feud between the Ewells and the
Not only through the use of Tom Robinson as a character and his unjust trial, but also through the use of the Finches coloured housekeeper, Cal, and the prejudice against Boo Radley because of his past crimes. Tom Robinson has done nothing wrong yet is still accused and even Atticus Finch, Tom’s lawyer, knows nothing can be done to defend a black man against two dishonest whites. The children’s naivety plays an important role in presenting the theme of prejudice in the book, especially the narration and how Scout, Jem, and Dill did not truly understand what was happening at the time, which creates an almost dramatic irony in the fact that the reader is able to comprehend more than the characters created by Lee.
Scout is the main character of the story who lives in a small town in Alabama called Maycomb. She lives with Jem, her brother, and Atticus, her father. It took place during The Great Depression, many people were affected and a lot lost their jobs but the Finch family weren’t affected that much because Atticus was a lawyer. Dill who came to Maycomb for the summer hangs with Jem and Scout and they make games up about Boo Radley and talk about him. Jem leaves when school starts and comes back next summer, they try to go inside of Boo Radley’s house but get scared when someone shoots and they run away. After that was over the case of Tom Robinson starts. Tom Robinson was a colored person that was accused of hurting a white women and Atticus
In the courtroom, where the jury is deciding who is truly guilty of beating Mayella Ewell, Scout begins to change her viewpoint and views the case from an adult’s perspective. In the early stages of the trial, Atticus Finch is having a conversation with his brother, Jack, involving the negativity to come. He says, "It couldn 't be worse, Jack. The only thing we 've got is a black man 's word against the Ewells’” (100). The entire town assumes Tom Robinson beat Mayella simply based on the color of his skin. Maycomb is filled with racism; it runs through the town’s veins. However, Scout chooses to look beyond the given facts and discover the truth. Alongside her brother, she decides to dig deeper into the case after meeting Dolphus Raymond. The man inspires her to never give up and keep fighting for what she believes in. Later on, Scout and her friends hear the news concerning the trial. Bob Ewell, Mayella’s father, proves to be the culprit, but Robinson is found guilty. Scout’s opinion on racism evolves during the trial, and she learns that the world is not as perfect as children assume it to be.
Initially, Scout Finch is introduced as a young, somewhat self-centered five-year-old. She is uninterested in adult problems and happy to continue her carefree young life as most five-year-olds would. Scout learns to thrive without a maternal influence that most children receive. The discovery of Dill in the collard patch marks the beginning of a long friendship-and an early engagement. Dill's persistent attempts to catch a glimpse of Boo Radley draws Scout into the mix. Scout attempts to solve a problem by first taking action, an approach that often gets her into trouble. As an example, Scout recognizes that the Cunningham’s are poor when she defends Walter Cunningham Jr for not having a lunch at school, but she doesn’t understand his poverty till later in the book. When Scout first truly witnesses someone else’s hardship, in the form of the Cunningham’s poverty, she is confused. While eating dinner at Scouts house as a guest, Walter douses his food in syrup. Perplexed and confused, Scout calls him out on it. Not realizing that to Walter, syrup is a treat, Scout demonstrates her innocence and ignorance to the poverty around her.
n To Kill a Mockingbird, children live in an inventive world where mysteries abound but little exists to actually cause them harm. Scout and Jem spend much of their time inventing stories about their reclusive neighbor Boo Radley, gleefully scaring themselves before rushing to the secure, calming presence of their father, Atticus. As the novel progresses, however, the imaginary threat that Boo Radley poses pales in comparison to the real dangers Jem and Scout encounter in the adult world. The siblings’ recognition of the difference between the two pushes them out of childhood and toward maturity—and as they make that transition, Boo Radley, their childhood bogeyman, helps serve as the link between their past and their present.
Scout is the five year old daughter of lawyer Atticus Finch. While she and her brother Jem are raised by their black housekeeper, Calpurnia, Scout gets an education in school and is taught how to be a lady. Meanwhile, Atticus is assigned the case for Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a white woman. Through seeing adult’s good qualities, bad qualities, and the social customs of the time, Scout gains a new and different outlook on life.
“Finch knows from the first that he cannot win the case, but he is glad to have made what he calls ‘the shadow of a beginning’ (235) toward justice under the law” (Hall 140). This trial of Atticus’ was one he knew he would not win, but he still fought for the truth. Despite the fact that the man did not rape the woman, because of the color of his skin, and the fact that it was during the 1930’s he would without a doubt be the one convicted. Throughout this court case, Jem and Scout are forced to see first hand the injustice in this world. While most everyone accuses the black man, Scout sees the man for his true character.
Scout almost starts a fight after a kid say to Scout that her dad is defending a black man charged with raping a white women. There is no way Atticus can win this case. Scout gets angry about that because Atticus can’t do anything about that. Christmas time, Scout curses in front of her Uncle Jack. Atticus decides to take the whole family to Finch Ranch. Scout did not like the place, and she didn’t have a good time. One night, Francis tells Scout that Dill is a runt and then calls Atticus a “N word-lover.” Scout curses him and beats him up. They get back. Scout is disappointed that her father is older than other fathers and sits inside with his glasses and reads. While the other fathers go in hunt and do fun stuff. One day the sheriff comes, and there is a
One day, Atticus got a job to defend a black man. This brings condemnation on himself and his family. At that time, defended a black man rated as inappropriate acts. However, Atticus stated that for justice, no matter the background or the color of his skin. Atticus defends Tom Robinson is a black man accused of raping a white man. There are several reasons used to defend Tom Atticus, one of which is that Atticus believes Tom is innocent. Handle this case, so draining attention and Atticus mind, causing her sister, Alexandra decided to stay at home Atticus. Alexandra also has a mission to change the behavior of Scout that is tomboy and inappropriate for a girl.
When Atticus decides to defend Tom Robinson, a Black man falsely accused of raping a white woman, the white population of the town is baffled as to why Atticus would defend somebody whom they believe is surely guilty. The information spreads that Atticus is defending Tom, and Cecil Jacob, one of Scout’s classmates, announces in the schoolyard that Scout’s father defends “niggers”. Scout fights Cecil at first, but when Cecil again brings up that topic the next day, Scout “...drew a bead on him, remembered what Atticus had said, then …walked away”(102). Although there will inevitably be some name calling directed at Scout after this incident, Scout is undeterred and backs down from the fight, knowing that the insults will not affect her in the long term. This shows that Scout has the courage to know that unimportant matters are not worth fighting
Scout and her sibling Jem are raised by their dad and by Calpurnia, who is an African-American maid who lives up to expectations for the gang. Scout and Jem meet and get to be companions with a seven-year-old Dill Harris, which is a kid who has touched base in Maycomb to stay with his close relative for the late spring. Lee has expressed that the character of Dill is in view of youthful Truman Capote, a no doubt understood Southern author and youth companion. Together with Dill, Scout, and Jem make a session of watching "Boo" Radley, a town hermit who has stayed inside his home for a long time, (somewhat insane wouldn 't you say?) ,attempting to incite him to come outside. Neighborhood myth holds that Boo eats live squirrels and sneaks the avenues during the evening, and the youngsters ' impression of him is hued by such stories. In the fall, Dill comes back to his family in the North and Scout enters the first grade. Scout and Jem start to find odd articles, intended to stimulate the inquisitive its of kids, covered up in a tree on the Radley property.
Part one of the book focuses mostly on the adventures of Jem, Scout, and Dill as they become intrigued upon hearing the town gossip about their neighbor Boo Radley. The kids end up creating a game based on Boo’s supposed story and begin to dare each other to touch his house and reenact his story based on rumors circulating through the town. Their father catches them, prompting them to conceal their activities. Scout later learns Boo’s true story from information relayed to her by Miss Maudie, one of her neighbors. Scout learns that Boo’s parents locked him in the house after had terrorized the community. Soon, summer fades away and Scout starts her first day of first grade where she meets her new teacher, Miss Caroline, who doesn’t allow Scout to read at home, despite this being one of Scout’s favorite activities. Atticus makes a compromise with Scout that they will
Throughout the novel, Scout begins to learn and understand the true realities of the world around her, which causes her to grow and mature as a person. For example, Scout sees as how her community is inequitable and unfair towards the trial of Tom Robinson and Mayella Ewell, as he was accused of rape. As Atticus is talking to Scout and Jem after the trial he says, "There 's something in our world that makes men lose their heads --they couldn 't be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it 's a white man 's word against a black man 's, the white man always
In the beginning, the story starts in a small boring tired old town which is Maycomb in Alabama where there is nothing to do or to buy. Jem who was 10 years old and his little sister Scout who was 6 years old were living with their old satisfactory father whose name is Atticus Finsh in their small house. Since Their mother died when they were little, Calpurnia who considered as their housemaid takes care of them, she almost like a mother for them. Scout is the narrator of this novel, she seemed so nostalgic thinking about her childhood, taking the readers to the root of the human behavior by showing us specific details and emotions. Once in the summer, when Jem and Scout were playing in the back yard, they met Dill, who was a very confident neat boy that looked smaller than his real age. Dill was staying at his aunt house which is next door to Jem and Scout Finch 's house. In that summer, Dill
Living in a small town in Maycomb, Alabama, Atticus Finch, the father of Jem and Scout Finch, all survive the struggle of the great depression. Scout, Atticus Finch’s six year old daughter, lives her brother Jem and father Atticus. While Atticus Finch spends his long days working as an attorney and state legislative representative, he tries his hardest to control and protect his two children. When the struggle becomes too much for Atticus to handle, suddenly calls his sister Alexandra to help maintain the children while he is at work. The children's aunt Alexandra is very concerned about Scout not having a feminine influence to follow.