In the 1950’s Harper Lee wrote a novel that would eventually change how people looked at literature. Her masterpiece, To Kill A Mockingbird, started much controversy. Some people looked at it as one of the best novels ever written, while others despised it calling it inappropriate and racist. The arguments dragged on for years and still continue to this day. This novel, which tells a story about a white man defending an African American and his children, goes beyond race. If you look deep enough into the background of the novel you can see a connection with childhood. Not only does it focus on how the children grow up, but it focuses on the connection the children have with the adults. Jean Louise Finch, also known as Scout, is the narrator and protagonist of the novel. She tells the story from first person point of view. She begins explaining how her brother, Jem, broke his arm. The whole novel leads up to this very point. She lives with her dad, Atticus; her brother, Jem; and her black cook, Calpurnia. They live in the small town of Maycomb in the deep south in Alabama. It is said to be a “safe and secure” town in the 1930’s. It’s suffering from the Great Depression and the outlooks people have on society and race. In Maycomb, Scout interacts with people of all age groups. This is where childhood steps in. One summer, Scout and Jem befriend a boy named Dill. Dill moves in next door with his aunt. He has a very active imagination and likes to join the Finch’s on all
Describe the relationship between Dill and Scout. Include how he treats her and how she reacts to his treatment. How is this treatment typical and atypical (not typical) of this setting?
Dill does not have the relationship with his parents that children deserve, thus Dill craves attention and a place he can feel home, only he does not feel at home with the people he should crave attention from. The only consistency in Dill’s life was staying with Miss Rachael during the summer. In the summer, Dill has friends he can depend on; the only relationship Dill can fully trust and accept into his life. While Dill’s parent-child relationship deteriorates, his relationship with Maycomb and its familiar face grows. Maycomb is a place where Dill has a deep connection to. Maycomb is a place to call home.
In the rural town of Maycomb, Alabama, Scout Finch lives with her brother, Jem, and Father, Atticus. Scout teaches many lessons as well as defies stereotypes. Scout gives readers her perspective of things. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses the growth and characterization of Scout to reveal to readers how innocence slowly falls away through Scout’s obliviousness about other people, Scout’s protection towards her family, and Scout’s curious ways.
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.
Dill is a dreamy insecure kid who always returned to Maycomb Alabama then came back to Maycomb for each summer.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee takes place in Maycomb County, Alabama in the late 30s early 40s , after the great depression when poverty and unemployment were widespread throughout the United States. Why is the preconception of racism, discrimination, and antagonism so highly related to some of the characters in this book? People often have a preconceived idea or are biased about one’s decision to live, dress, or talk. Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee examines the preconception of Scouts teacher saying Atticus is teaching her wrong, Aunt Alexandra having views that are discriminating, and Tom Robinson not having a fair trial because of his race. Scouts teacher gets upset with her after Miss Caroline figures out she’s literate and Scout makes it worse by antagonising Miss Caroline by trying to explain things to her. “Teach me?” I said in surprise. “He hasn 't taught me anything, Miss Caroline. Atticus ain 't got time to teach me anything”… “If he didn 't teach you, who did?” Miss Caroline asked good-naturedly. “Somebody did. You weren 't born reading The Mobile Register”… Miss Caroline apparently though I was lying. “Lets not let our imaginations run away with us, dear,” she said. “Now tell your father not to teach you any more. Its best to begin reading with a fresh mind. You tell him i 'll take over from here and try to undo the damage.” “ma’am?” “Your father does not know how to teach. you can have a seat now.” (Lee 22) Scout 's teacher Miss Caroline
The power of childhood innocence reveals the true incompetence of the world around us in a brutal yet fanciful way. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee creates the unjust rape trial of Tom Robinson to shed light upon how the power of childhood innocence reveals the true racially-based corruption of the time period. Through the eyes of a child named Scout and the focus on two other child protagonists, Dill and Jean, Lee highlights the way a child views the world versus those jaded by the depravity of humanity. Harper Lee focuses upon the characterization of Scout, Dill, and Jean to present the idea that childhood innocence is blinded from the true evils of society.
To begin, Dill Harris represents Scout’s phase of childhood innocence. Such is evident as Dill is introduced as a potential instigator of all events, is referred to as “a curiosity” by the narrator, and acts as Scout’s escape from Aunt Alexandra’s presence. To echo on the first example, the story is introduced with the narrator’s recount of Jem stating that all
All through America 's history, individuals have confronted numerous issues. In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows a portion of the issues that America managed in the 1930 's. J.B. Lippincott published the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960. Harper Lee splendidly shows the issues of good training, social disparities, and prejudice in this novel.
Scout Finch lives with her older brother Jem and their widowed father Atticus in the town of Maycomb, Alabama. Maycomb is suffering through the Great Depression, and when slavery was still around. Atticus was a lawyer fortunately and the Finch family was well off compared to the rest of society.
To Kill a Mockingbird is concentrated on showing a child’s point of view in a time where many events were happening like the Crow Laws, Great Depression and very much segregation. Scout goes through this time frame believing that everyone is equal and should get equal opportunities. Even through the hard times like Tom Robinson’s case she keeps moving with a positive attitude that everyone is people ,not labeled black or white just people. This would be told very differently if told by Atticus because it is a much more mature viewpoint of Mr. Bob Ewell that doesn’t believe in equality, These events have definitely impacted how Scout tells the story and the parts that are incorporated into the story to show the impact Civil Rights leaders
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
To Kill a Mockingbird revolves around the time period of the 1930’s in the Southern part of the United States. The protagonist of this story is Scout, a tomboy, who narrates the story from her perspective when she is older. (She was part of this story herself from ages 6-9). The first many chapters of the book is about Scout’s life in school, and how she grows up in her neighborhood streets. She spends her days with her father, Atticus Finch. The main topic and climax of this book is about the court case of African American man, Tom Robinson, who had been accused of raping and beating a poor white girl, Mayella Ewell. Atticus Finch was a lawyer who defended Robinson and was also his alibi.
In the book, To Kill A Mockingbird Scout Finch is an eight year old girl who is very curious. Scout was curious about a guy named Charles Baker Harris who went by the name Dill. She was very curious about Dills life so she asked him “Where did you come from?” (Lee 8). He is a 7 year old boy who lives in Mississippi that goes to the town Maycomb County, Alabama to visit his aunt every summer. Scout wanted to know about everyone who lived by her and
Furthermore, the reader continues to encounter characters whose circumstances mimic those of Harper Lee’s friends and family. As reported by authors at NEA Big Read, “Although [Truman] Capote moved to New York City in third grade…he returned to Monroeville most summers, eventually providing inspiration for Dill” (Harper Lee 1926-2016). The source notes that Capote, Lee’s best friend, is the inspiration for Scout and Jem’s best friend Dill. One could consider this fairly accurate, because Dill’s situation in the book is almost identical to Capote’s. In the novel, when Jem is first introduced to Dill, he asks him numerous questions, and the reader learns that Dill is actually from Meridian, Mississippi, but “[he] was spending the summer with