To kill a mocking bird is about growing up. The main character is about a girl named Scout Finch who was about to turn six when the book began and eight when it ended. The book was about what she learnt about people and about life over the course of three years. The book took place between 1933-1935 in Maycomb, a small sleepy town of Alabama in the Deep South. Scout’s father Atticus is a lawyer, but they don’t have much money because his clients were poor due to the effect of The Great Depression. Scout lived with her father, her brother Jem and their cook Calpurnia. During the summer a friend named Dill came to stay next door and he spent the summer playing with Scout and Jem. Scout learnt four main lesson during the course of the book. She learnt them partly from her father and partly from her own experiences. Lesson 1- You cannot really understand a person unless you put yourself in their shoes. The first part of the book shows that she takes quite a while to master this lesson. Across the street from where scout lives is the Radley’s house. The Radley’s are not very social and the son, Arthur Radley is a man in his thirties who have not been outside in years. The children in the town refers to him as Boo Radley as if he was a ghost. They have a horrible picture …show more content…
When Atticus gives the kids air riffles for christmas, he told them that they are allowed to shoot at any birds if they can, but to remember that it is a sin to kill a mocking bird. Scouts neighbor Miss Maudie told her that Atticus was right because “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us”. Mocking bird in the book also has a metaphorical meaning, anyone who is weak or defenseless. To kill a mocking bird in that sense is to take advantage of someone weaker than you. Lesson 3- Never give up even if you know you are going to
What are three qualities every person should have? Empathy, tolerance, and courage. From a young age, Scout and Jem Finch were able to display these qualities better than most adults in their hometown due to their father’s lessons. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee displays the story about an innocent man named Tom Robinson, who was accused of Rape. Atticus Finch takes the case to defend him and goes out of his way to win. During the time of the case, his children Scout and Jem learn a lot of valuable lessons as they grow up. Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus teaches his children to show empathy, tolerance and courage through the example he sets.
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..
The title of the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee holds a great deal of symbolism with several of the characters in the story acting as mockingbirds, characters who don’t do anything to bother the people around them. Harper Lee explains to the reader what a mockingbird is by making Atticus, and then Mrs. Maudie explains it to Scout. “Atticus said to Jem one day, ‘I’d rather you shoot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.’ That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. ‘Your fathers right,’ she said. ‘Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music
To Kill A Mockingbird is a great American novel and movie that teaches its audience about compassion and forgiveness, justice and judgment, racism, fear, and the importance of youth. The movie takes you through a specific time in young Scout Finch 's life. She is a young girl and is growing up without her mother, left only to her slightly older brother, Jem, and her father, whom she calls Atticus. Scout is quickly forced to grow up when things take an unexpected turn in her town.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a fictional novel about a young girl named Scout Finch. The story revolves around Scout and her family as they face prejudice and discrimination in Maycomb County. At the beginning of the novel, Scout is an innocent girl who hasn't come into contact with the evils of the world. At the end of the novel, Scout develops with understanding of that good always wins over evil no longer is always true. The events Scout saw made her knowledgable and aware of the human nature around her to mature with understanding of the world.
Chapter 1 begins as a flashback told by the main character and narrator, a young girl named Scout. This retelling of the story continues through the entire book. the author of this novel, Harper Lee, characterizes scout the narrator as an intelligent tomboy who is not so sure she wants to deal with the Radleys. Scout always hung around her older brother Jem and Dill, a boy who visited Maycomb every summer. She was always up for whatever they did and really did not like it when they called her girly. Dill became fascinated with the Radleys and their mysteriously hidden son Boo. Scout urged Dill to let the Radleys keep to themselves, but her harassing of Dill did nothing. Even though Scout is a clever girl, Lee makes it obvious that Scout still
only raise their joyous song for pleasure, they are hunted because they can be preyed upon by those who are stronger. As a metaphor to true life, people like this, the innocent "mockingbirds", are constantly being harassed and prosecuted for all the wrong reasons. When Scout, wondering why her father says it is a sin to kill a mocking bird, her neighbor, Miss Maudie explains, "Mockingbirds don 't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don 't eat up people 's gardens, don 't nest in the corncribs, they don 't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That 's why it 's a sin to kill a mockingbird."(90) It is wrong to harm them because they never did anything to deserve their punishment. Yet even though this may be true, there is no such thing as a
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a book following the life of a young girl named Scout and her many adventures through her eyes. Set in the 1930s in the state of Alabama, this book portrays how she navigates the world from her own view and learns many life lessons about injustice, inequality, and loyalty. One of these lessons comes from Atticus, Scout’s father, about real courage. As Atticus describes courage, he says, “It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes, you do.
To Kill a Mockingbird takes us through a story of a girl maturing into a young woman. We are taken on a journey of emotion and curiosity as we are told about her coming of age and the trials she faced within. The three years we are taken through of Scout Finch’s life consisted of many changes in her as well as her family's personality, attitude, and outlook on the world they lived in. We are put into the eyes of a six year old and shown how she views people, the changes and events she's facing, along with the way they grow and develop.
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, is about Scout, a young white girl from Maycomb County, Alabama during the depression, experiencing mysteries, conflicts, and wrongdoing all around her. She learns many lessons such as that most people are nice, everything is not what it seams, and through this she no longer needs to be interrupted when she does not get the basics of her society. Scout grows up as she experiences a loss of innocence, which is illustrated through the lessons she learns, and the evolution of her conversations throughout the novel.
“To Kill a Mockingbird” is a novel written by Harper Lee. It is set in America in the 1930s during the Great Depression, a time of economic decline after World War II. The novel follows a young girl called Scout Finch and her brother Jem as they learn about the prejudice and racism within their society of Maycomb County. The children and their widowed father, Atticus have a unique relationship that includes the teaching of valuable life lessons and unusual, maternal nurturing.
A mockingbird means no harm to no one. As Miss Maudie once said, [¨Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us¨ (Lee 119)]. This is why Boo Radley, Mayella Ewell, and Tom Robinson are considered to be mockingbirds. As Atticus said, [¨It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird¨ (Lee 119)].
"No matter who tries to teach you lessons about life, you won't understand it until you go through it on your own." Lessons are an important part of everyday life. They help people learn through tough times or teach them how to avoid terrible situations. Lessons can be passed down from adults to their children, or other important people in their lives. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout understands not everyone is fortunate, there is more than meets the eye, and that you can not trust rumors.
Every story has a moral, and every character gets a moral. Some morals are educational, even with children on how they learn and what they learn. In this case is scout already being taught. Calpurnia is the reason why scout has been taught to read. “Calpurnia was the blame for this… She would set me up a writing task from the bible,” Scout explained to Atticus. Scout may learn educational morals, but Calpurnia is the moral of not to go ahead and go with the flow.
To Kill a Mocking Bird is a written narrative by Harper Lee. The story is a linked sequence of conflict as seen through the eyes of a little girl named Scout. It looks back at a time when social injustice of prejudice was prevalent. The story if full of interesting characters, some good and some bad, but each very important to the plot of the story. It is very important to understand each of character’s views and the plot of the story as it plays an important role in the overall theme of the story.