Differences In To Kill A Mockingbird, By Harper Lee

Scout begins to notice the change in Jem’s personality and feels offended because she doesn't quite understand. On page 153 the text reads, “Over night, it seemed, Jem had acquired an alien set of values and was trying to impose them on me: several times he went so far as to tell me what to do.” Jem gets older and begins a long path of puberty. This, Scout does not understand yet. Jem moving towards a more adult like personality upsets Scout. Jem’s loss of innocence is a change but also begins to creates a new daily understanding for both Jem and Scout.

The book "To Kill a Mockingbird" is a story of life in an Alabama town in the 30's. The narrator, Jean Louise Finch, or Scout, is writing of a time when she was young, and the book is in part the record of a childhood, believed to be Harper Lee’s, the author of the book..

Jem and Scout, throughout “To Kill A Mockingbird,” learn to consider things from other people’s perspectives. Atticus, Jem and Scout’s father, says “you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – until you climb into his skin and walk around in” (Lee 39). They learn this through experiences with their neighbor Boo Radley as they mature beyond their years. At the beginning of the novel, Jem and Scout make fun of Boo and assume that all of the rumors going around about him are true. However, later on in the story the children grow an admiration for Boo and learn to understand him. As they matured, Jem and Scout naturally learned many life lessons of appreciation, respect, and courage

Harper Lee is best known for writing the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller To Kill a Mockingbird. The novel takes place during the depression in Alabama with the main character, Scout, viewing her lawyer father, Atticus, defending a wrongly accused black man of rape. The reader gets to understand Scout’s childhood view of this controversial situation. Scout’s character in to Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is really the author’s own life playing out in the novel, which is most likely why this novel is thought to be one of the best American Novels of the 20th century.

During the 1930's prejudice and racism was spread through the U.S. For example in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird, the small town of Maycomb struggles with these aspects. Each character of the novel has a strong personality. Scout Finch is tough, always has an opinion, and is a tomboy. On the other hand Boo Radley stays hidden most of the time, but we all know he is actually a friend to Jem and Scout. Then there is Tom Robinson, a hardworking, strong, and innocent man. But what do all these characters have in common? They can all be analyzed as "mockingbirds". Throughout the novel each of their innocence is destroyed in some way. In Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird several of these characters become a symbolic mockingbird including

Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” is set in a small Southern United States community called Maycomb during the Great Depression era. The whole book primarily revolves around segregation and racism and how it relates to Maycomb’s history. It eventually leads to the trial of Tom Robinson where he is accused of beating up and raping Mayella Ewell. Even though it was clear that Tom Robinson did not do anything wrong he was convicted by an all white jury simply because he was black. The trial of Tom Robinson and its verdict shows an example of how segregation in the court system prevents fair trials from occurring.

In, To Kill A Mockingbird, we often see examples of racism in Maycomb as well as other misconceptions about those are not of a minority. The first example in the book is seen on page 16. In this excerpt, Jem describes how he imagines Boo Radley looks, based off of stories he has heard. He describes Boo as being six feet tall, having yellow teeth, having pooped eyes, he often drools, and that he eats squirrels and cats. As we see later in the story, these misconceptions cause the children to want to see Boo more and more, causing them to see him as a freak and not a person. The second example on page 267 comes from Scout about Mr. Dolphus Raymond, a man who is said to be half black. He calls Dill over to calm him down and Scout narrates by saying,

To Kill A Mockingbird is a highly successful, awe inspiring novel written by Harper Lee. It guides the reader through the complex structures of the small town mentality in 1930’s America, which is all written through the mainly objective perspective of a young girl named Scout. The major draw factor of this novel is the eloquent yet sometimes brutally upfront way in which it portrays not only racism, but the theme of appearances versus reality too. The choices Harper Lee made in terms of setting, character choice, and language technique cleverly influenced my reactions to the latter theme.

Although Scout starts off being insensible towards others, she begins to grow and unmask to readers that innocence slowly disappears from a child. Jem and Scout meet Dill, a soon to be best-friend, and Scout asks Dill about his father. “I asked Dill where his

Not only can it be difficult to see the world from another perspective other than your own, but people can be held back from their limited views of the outside world. Small town people, such as the people in Maycomb County, can have inflexible opinions about the outlooks of other people; therefore, this can cause several of the misunderstandings in this book. Understanding the perspectives of alternative ideas of people can be a topic that is brought up more often as we grow up making it a strenuous topic for narrow minds to grasp. Scout, who lives her life as an acutely black or white person, was never taught how to view the world from a “grey” perspective. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout discovers precious life lessons, views

Scout sees Jem, Dill, as well as herself playing, going to school, and growing up to be mature and respectful individuals. Scout puts herself in Boo Radley’s shoes and this gives her an understanding of how his small, lonely world is like. Scout expresses empathy for Boo Radley, who got to learn of laughter and joy through herself, Jem and

redujice is not something we are born with; it is something that we grow to learn from who and what surrounds us, things that help to form our identity. Prejudice is an integral theme in Harper Lee’s, To Kill A Mockingbird. Prejudice is evident throughout the novel, not just in the appalling racism but also through, prejudice against different sexual orientations, gender constructs and feminism. Society had certain constructs that had to be met. Throughout To Kill A Mockingbird, Lee breaks the bounds to overcome barriers, and challenge social constructs.

When real life problems are seen from the perspective of a child, they often change the child in dramatic ways. Such is the case in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, a story narrated by a young girl living in Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression. The young girl, Scout, lives with her brother and father, a lawyer who is defending a black man accused of raping a woman from town. In the beginning of the story Scout spends her time playing silly games around the house and yard with her brother Jem and neighbor Dill. As she becomes more aware of the social bias and racial tensions that are building in the small town, Scout and her world begin to change. Although Scout may not fully understand the ins and outs of the real world, she

Scout and the other children were determined to learn more about Boo Radley, despite being told horror stories about Boo. ""Arthur Radley just stays in the house, that's all,' said Miss Maudie. "Wouldn't you stay in the house if you didn't want to come out?" "Yessum, but I'd wanta come out. Why doesn't he?"" (58 Lee) Scout's childhood curiosity causes her to want to know the truth about Boo Radley. The rest of the town is content with allowing Boo continue to stay within the confines of his house. The rest of the town is also okay with not knowing the true story about Boo. However, this is not the case for Scout. Scout's inner curiosity allows her to ask questions that many others would not ask, or do not care to ask. Due to this the reader is provided with extra information about Boo Radley. This information was obtained by Scout who was not content with the horror stories that she was told. Overall, Scout's youthful curiosity allows her to obtain information on the characters around her for the

But years after they sat through popcorn readings of a book they did not care about, they will remember that growing feeling. They will remember that justice does not always win. They will remember that the world is not fair, that no amount of righteous anger can guarantee anything will change, and that morality does not always defeat evil. Scout and Jem’s innocence will come to mind, how it was slowly being tarnished by a world of injustice and fading to a shell of evils quickly becoming familiar. How it was no longer as pure as it was when they planned games in the yard with Dill, creating stories to wile the summer away. Years since students first groaned at the title of the book they had to read in class or over the summer, they will feel the weight of the things they always knew but never put words