How Does Jean Louise Change In To Kill A Mockingbird

As I read through the beginning of the book, I was continuously vexed by how careless Julio and Romiette behaved around gangs. By analyzing the pair's’ actions, we can infer that they don't see The Devildogs as a serious threat. This excerpt is a magnificent example of that. This passage describes how Julio and Romiette respond to a potentially dangerous situation with careless actions. The duo is stared down by potentially dangerous gang members, and they reply by loudly dancing on the table. Not only would common sense tell them this is not a good idea, but also the fact that Julio moved away from Texas to escape gangs. You would think that these combined factors would encourage Romiette and especially Julio to take gangs as a serious threat.

Alternatively, Elijah Whiskeyjack is another character that has a notable connection to storytelling and words throughout the novel, albeit in a much more selfish capacity. To Elijah, words are tools that he manipulates to create alternate realities and inflate his importance through tales of his wartime escapades. Elijah’s superiority and sense of worth stem from his relationship with words and stories. What separates him from Xavier in the army besides brutality, is not military skill but his ability to “out-talk even the officers with his nun’s English” (65). While men of Indigenous descent typically experience discrimination, Xavier describes being perceived as “something less than them” (13), while “they are drawn to Elijah and his easy

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Throughout the book, Brent kept his feelings in and never talked to anyone about them before and after he attempted to commit suicide. Doing so, this messed with his emotional development. Emotional development involves learning what feelings and emotions are, understanding how and why they happen, recognising one's own feelings and those of others, and developing effective ways of managing them. He needs these things but in incapable of recognizing, understanding and managing his own feelings. The first quote that shows this is, “Before everything, I used to do this thing when I was upset-I used to take all my feelings and push them down inside me. It was like

How does Xavier differ from Elijah based on their melee combat skills and what does it show?

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them”, says Maya Angelou, an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. This quote reflects to Sarah’s journey in the novel Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay, since the main character, Sarah, faces events that affect her well being, as they make her both weaker and stronger. These events causes her to lose her innocence, makes her persistent, and then eventually drives her to be pessimistic. Sarah experiences traumatic events through her journey, which leads her to change both in a positive and negative way.

Jean Louise Finch responds to her own acts of courage by finding her righteous moral ground. The young Finch girl stepped between a potentially violent conflict, between Atticus and a group of male residents of Maycomb. Scout approached the conflict frightened, and

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In Go Set A Watchman, Jean Louise is disappointed by Atticus and his drastic change. When Jean Louise was younger, her father was kind and wise. He also put his reputation at risk when he defended an a black man who was falsely accused of raping a white woman in a town full of racist and prejudiced people. When Jean Louise returned to Maycomb she was disillusioned by Atticus. In chapter eight, she finds a pamphlet called “The Black Plague” among the papers beside Atticus’s chair.

Helen Keller all of a sudden started learning words for everything around her. In a brief timeframe, her insight into dialect equalled and after that outperformed that of most observing and listening to people. After the illness, Helen turned into a troublesome youngster. She had fits, breaking lights and dishes. She threatened neighbors and going to individuals from her more distant family.

Jean Louise ‘Scout’ Finch is the main character in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and is the narrator of the story. She starts the novel at the age of six, and over the course of the novel, grows to be nine. Racism affects Scout throughout the story mainly because of her father, Atticus Finch, being involved with defending a black man in court that was accused of raping a white woman. Scout also resides in a small Alabama town called Maycomb. This also leads to much prejudice throughout the book.

On a Sunday afternoon, Henry and Atticus leave to go to a meeting at the courthouse. While they are away, Jean Louise discovers a pamphlet called “The Black Plague” in the living room. She goes to the courthouse meeting to see what Henry and Atticus are up to, and she finds that they are part of the Citizen’s Council, a group of men that discuss their racist beliefs. Jean Louise cannot believe Henry is a part of this and it makes her feel sick. “She felt sick. Her stomach shut, she began to tremble. Hank. Every nerve in her body shrieked, then died. She was numb.” (Lee 111). As it turns out, Henry is not ashamed of his decision at all, as he saw her at the meeting and waved. He said, “You in a snit about something? I waved at you in the balcony yesterday but you didn’t see me.” (Lee 147). Henry sees no problem in being part of the Citizen’s Council, and this makes Jean Louise frustrated with making a major life decision, to marry him. She insists that she cannot marry him because of his decisions, but Henry simply says “We all do things we don’t want to do, Jean Louise.” (Lee 228). This response from her life-long friend surprises her immensly, causing her to lose faith and trust in

Having responsibility and high expectations, being a member of the Finch family grants you more freedom and privileges than other families do not have. Being a Finch sets the bar high in the southern town of Maycomb, who are noted to have social guidelines and being civil. We see these high standards throughout the book when Jean-Louise’s Aunt Alexandra fortifies the importance of dressing properly. “Her aunt sniffed. ‘I do wish you 'd try to dress better while you 're home. Folks in town get the wrong impression of you. They think you are—ah—slumming.’ Jean-Louise had a sinking feeling” (21). Aunt Alexandra is worried about Jean-Louise’s social figure, she is concerned that Jean-Louise will destroy the strong reputation the family holds. To emphasize the Finch’s social status, Aunt Alexandra is strongly against Jean-Louise to marrying Henry Clinton, who is not as well-mannered as the Finch’s are. “We Finches do not marry the children of rednecked white trash, which is exactly what Henry’s parents were when they were born and were all their lives” (36). Through Aunt Alexandra’s eyes, marrying Henry Clinton would ruin the years of respect the family has obtained. Lastly, being a Finch earns you great freedom and privilege. We see the freedom the Finches have in chapter 16 when Jean-Louise saw Atticus and Henry at a council meeting. “ ‘I Mean there are some things I simply can 't do that you can.’

Jean louise and atticus got into a big fight then she turned her back on him. Later they come to a truths.

This takes place in a consecutive manner signifying Jean Louise’s over reliance on her father and fiancée, and subsequent shock followed by coming of age realization. The patriarchal figure in Go Set a Watchman, Atticus proves to be a man more responding and tending to the demand of his time and social set-up than to the ideology Jean Louise expects of him (Fields). Fields also states that the Scout of To Kill a Mockingbird has turned to be a grown-up, independent as well as cosmopolitan in thinking of and regarding people irrespective of all negligible differences. Jean Louise not just understands the ever existing disparity in the society, she stands bold and protests the anomaly courageously. Harper Lee’s young protagonist, Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird and adult one, Jean Louise in Go Set a Watchman stands to be a gigantic resistance to the prevailing color-caste conflict and inferiority taboo in American culture (Clukey). She gets the sense that she being a woman is not supposed to talk about these male-oriented issues. Nonetheless, she emerges and fights for her impeccable ideology. Clukey (705) brings to the front that Jean Louise has to fight against the long set codes for women in general to face the obstructing challenges deployed by the society, in other way mechanized by the patriarchal mind-set to be able to come out as a free entity. On her pursuit for