Always Being Intelligent and Curious Being intelligent and curious can be beneficial sometimes. The book To Kill A Mockingbird is by Harper Lee. It is about about a girl named Scout Finch who lived in Maycomb County, Alabama during the Great Depression. She is a very intelligent and curious girl. 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
Dill, also known as Charles Baker Harris, visiting Jem and Scout Finch every summer became an expectation in To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, but as summer approaches, Dill writes Scout to inform her that his plans for the season have been altered. Subsequently following an altercation between Jem and Scout in Chapter Fourteen, Scout retreats to her room for the night and believes a snake slips under her bed after being stepped on, but the so called snake reveals itself as Dill. Dill’s actions throughout the chapter aid in the indirect characterization of his character. For example, when asked about how he arrived in Maycomb, Dill tells Jem and Scout two improbable stories about an abusive new father and traveling with an animal show, as
When Dill runs away from his mother and new stepfather from Meridian, Mississippi to Maycomb County, Alabama, it’s because he never truly felt at home with his parents in Meridian. When he was in Maycomb with the Finches and his Aunt Rachel, he felt like he belonged. Jem and Scout first found Dill hiding under Scout’s bed one night and he told them one of his make-believe Dill-like tales (158), but later that night he told Scout the real reason he ran away. Dill felt neglected by his parents, saying “they stayed gone all the time, and when they were home, even, they’d be off in a room by themselves” (161). Dill tried to get along and spend time with his new father by planning on building a boat with him, but when Scout asked about it, Dill only said, “He just said we would.
Scout Finch changes and grows significantly over the course of Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird. In the beginning of the novel, Scout is a young girl who hadn't thought much of the prejudice in the world and was quick to judge others. Throughout the novel she becomes more aware of the prejudice in her own community, more sympathetic and understanding of others, and learns to stick to her morals. These changes were largely influenced by her father's example, the trial he was a part of, and her experiences in school.
In part one of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, the reader is introduced to Scout, the narrator of the book, her family and other members of the community in which she lives. Scout and her older brother Jem are the children of Atticus Finch, a lawyer in Maycomb County, Alabama during the Great Depression. Scout and Jem meet Dill, a boy spending the summer with his Aunt Rachel. He is between Scout and Jem’s age and becomes a great friend and playmate. He, like Scout and Jem are enjoying the freedom of no school, using their imagination inventing, and playing games throughout the summer. Next door to Scout and Jem, lives a very curious individual whom they have never seen but heard rumors about. This individual has been kept isolated by his father because of some innocent pranks he was involved in over fifteen years ago. Arthur “Boo” Radley is a young man rumored to be root of all evil in the small town of Maycomb. Curiosity is a theme repeated throughout part one as the Scout, Jem, and Dill desire to know or learn more about life and Boo Radley.
In the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” Scout Finch is the narrator (DBQ Project, p.7). She tells about the different things that happened in the town of Maycomb, Alabama during the 1930s (DBQ Project, p.7). She also talked about the people in the town. Scout talked about a specific trial that completely rocked the town. The case involved a white girl named Mayella Ewell and an African American man named Tom Robinson (DBQ Project, p.7). Mayella Ewell had no friends, she was poor, and because of her gender was not looked at as superior, although under those circumstances she was able to have influence within the case based on her class, gender, and race (DBQ Document A, p.13).
She had to face people being racist, and meeting someone-who overran her imagination for so many years-for the first time Scout also made a few new friends who had a major impact on her life. When Scout met her best friend, Dill, her summers were changed forever. Dill, an only child from Meridian, Mississippi, who was spending summers in Maycomb with his aunt, sparked her interest in Boo Radley, a neighbour
To kill a Mockingbird ,Harper Lee. The main idea of this classic novel is that Scout loses her innocence. In fact, scout is very smart at her age she’s advanced because of her father, brother along with others. However with advance knowledge she faces many conflicts. Scout will overcome these struggles with her intelligence.The setting of this story takes place in Maycomb, Alabama.
In the timeless novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the main character Scout Finch transitions from a narrow-minded and oblivious adolescent to an incredibly strong willed young woman capable of understanding the world as it is rather than as it should be.
Scout in the book shows that she is intelligent, but at the same time she acts different then other girls. She is more interested in things that boys do. The most notable characteristic that Scout has is that she believes that everyone in her life is good, but during the trial of Tom Robinson she realizes that people can be bad.
In the book “To Kill A Mockingbird” Scout Finch, a 6 year girl who lives with her brother Jem Finch and her father, Atticus Finch, fantasizes going to school, and always thinks first for herself. As she gets older and starts school she learns to think of how other people see things and to show sympathy. Scout progresses through part 1 of the book by realizing life’s not fair, how her innocence is gone and she isn’t as much of a child anymore.
Jem, Scout, and Dill were three kids raised in the Deep South in a small town known as Maycomb, Alabama in the early 1930’s. These kids grew up around racism and prejudice all their life. Atticus Finch, the father of Scout and Jem, raised the kids by himself with later help by Aunt Alexandra. During this part of the children’s lives, a positive, genuine, black man by the name of Tom Robinson was falsely accused of raping Mayella Ewell. Atticus Finch was the defense attorney of this trial and did everything he could to free him. Most people today would view this way of living as ruthless and wrong, but in these times, it was just another day. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee painted a solid picture of the theme of loss of innocence through Dill, Scout, and Jem and their experiences in the story.
In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout Finch is a young girl who is a positive role model for young readers who are introduced to any type of racism or difficulties at an early age. Scout’s influences on young readers in To Kill a Mockingbird also have to do with how she acts and her personality. Also, her influences has to do with how she wants herself to be noticed and how she wants herself to be seen.
Dill’s life in Meridian, Mississippi is not as great as he makes it out to be, as he feels unloved and insignificant at home. When Dill runs away he is able to make a special connection with Boo because Boo is thought of as insignificant in the town, like Dill is at home. Dill’s naivety is shown when talking to Scout and Jem after riding the train to Maycomb by himself. Dill is explaining to them he has just seen his father, the president of L&N Railroad, “Dill’s father was taller than ours, he had a black beard (pointed), and was president of the L&N Railroad. ‘I helped the engineer for a while’ said Dill yawning. ‘In a pig's ear you did, Dill. Hush’ said Jem” (Lee, 48). Dill’s naivety is shown because he lies to Jem and Scout about his father that he does not have, so he is able to fit in, “Dill’s father was taller than ours, he had a black beard (pointed), and was president of the L&N Railroad.” Dill lies about his father and tries to make his father sound interesting so Jem and Scout think of Dill as a significant person. However, when Dill runs away from home to come and live in the Finch home, Dill’s conversation with Scout shows that he understands how Boo Radley feels and how difficult it is to be ignored and not loved, “ ‘Dill?’ ‘Mm?’ ‘Why do
Harper Lee presents the idea that as children grow up, they learn and experience the harsh truths about the world they once did not understand or question. The novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, encompasses the story of a girl named Scout along with her older brother, Jem, who go through the trials of growing up in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama. Racism is rampant in the mindset of the townspeople, shown when Atticus, both a father and lawyer, takes on the case of an innocent African-American man. Through this, we can see young character development in where main characters Scout, Jem, and Dill undergo the theme of innocence and experience. Lee uses characterization to portray Scout as the embodiment of innocence, and soon after shows the
In “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, there is a six- year old girl named Scout. She lives with her father Atticus, her older brother Jem, and her cook Calpurnia. Scout lives with them in their town Maycomb, located in Alabama. The main idea is how Scout loses her innocence throughout the story.