Scout's Childhood Analysis

Identify a “significant adult influence” in jem and or scouts life during part one (not atticus). Describe the relationship between the child and adult and analyze the effects upon the child

As scout is getting older she is learning more about what the town is like. She becomes aware of the things she’s done and the effects it has had on her and others around. This quote on page 278 shows her understanding starting to change.

As girls grow in life, they mature and change into women. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Scout, the main character, begins to mature into a woman. In the beginning of the book, she is a tomboy who cannot wait to pick a fistfight with anyone, but at the end, she lowers her fists because her father, Atticus, tells her not to fight. Scout's views of womanhood, influenced by how Aunt Alexandra, Miss Maudie, and Calpurnia act, make her think more about becoming a woman and less of a tomboy.

Harper Lee’s classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird, wonderfully portrays the rises and falls of a close sibling relationship. Jem Finch is ten years old and just beginning to understand and evaluate the world around him, including his sister, Scout. Jem and Scout are close, but then grow apart due to Jem’s newfound independence, but grow close again once they both mature enough. Jem’s evaluations of school, teachers, peers, neighbors, family, gender roles, race relations, and himself greatly affect this change in relation with his sister. Jem’s changing relationship with his sister highlights his changing perception and values.

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird was written by Harper Lee has described life of a young narrator named Finch Louse (also being called as Scout) throughout her life years growing up under a small town called Maycomb. As a little child, Scout has many questions about things that is happening around her making her an objective observer and a reporter in the truest sense. She mostly learned from Atticus perspective, but also learned from the people of Maycomb. Throughout the novel, Scout have improved her acknowledge from experiencing, learned much about justice tolerance and figuring out how to solve her problem; leading her mind of "good" thinking (control over what she is thinking) to become more mature in life.

The character Scout, has been constantly changing. The novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird” by, Harper Lee displays many examples of how Scout has changed over this period of time. Jean Louis, also known as Scout, has grown and matured in concepts such as discipline, courage, and understanding.

The adult world is a cold and terrifying place. There are robberies, shootings, murders, suicides, and much more. If you were to be a small child, perhaps age 5, and you were to look in at this world, you would never know how bad it actually was, just from a single glance. Children have a small slice of ignorant bliss, which helps to keep them away from the harsh of reality. It isn’t until later, when they encounter something that opens their eyes and shows them, that they truly start to understand the world we live it. Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird shows the many differences between the simplicity of being a kid and the tough decisions and problems that adults must face every day.

In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout matured throughout the book. Scout has dark brown hair, and she wears jean blue overalls. She likes to dress more like a boy rather than a six year old girl. Scout is also one of the main characters in To Kill a Mockingbird. Scout lives with her dad Atticus Finch, her ten year old brother Jem, and their housekeeper Calpurnia. Not only is Scout a normal young girl, she can read and write. Scout’s full name is Jean Louise Scout Finch, but she just goes by Scout for short. Scout has changed throughout the course of the story by learning better manners, and becoming more fearless. Harper Lee included Scout in this book because it shows how one can mature over time. Scout is a very knowledgeable,

To Kill a Mocking Bird, is nine by the end of it. The novel, written

There are numerous moments in To Kill a Mockingbird when Scout and Jem learn something fundamental about human culture and in return, something about themselves. Besides race relations and the history of the struggle for equality in the South, the novel is a coming of age text, mostly dealing with Scout's maturation. Lee conveys this theme this by using a variety of literary elements such as symbolism, imagery, tone and motif to express the overall theme. Using these elements, Lee demonstrates character development physically, mentally, and emotionally allowing her to express the increase of maturity displayed from each character. The reader gets an immediate impression of this maturation (Coming of Age) due to Scout being the narrator throughout the story. So even when the subject shifts to topics like equality and justice, the reader still is able to understand what is being mediated through the mind of a young girl who is also in the process of learning what these concepts mean and how society either employs or fails. Throughout this essay I will be specifically discussing the coming of age developed by Scout, giving examples from different scenes, and explaining how she has matured over time.

about the events that set off the rest of the story. In this book Scout matures as she

In To Kill A Mockingbird, we are given the story through the perception of Scout, who is 6 years old at the start of the novel. We see her relationship with her father, Atticus, that seems rather loving despite her statements of his treatment of his kids being of “courteous detachment” (6). He treats with respect and doesn't baby them. Things are hidden by him from Scout and her brother, but at other times Atticus is very direct about the way things are and what is expected of them. This leads to Scout being allowed to act mostly as she pleases rather than forcing her into a gendered role.

In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout is one of the main characters and the narrator. During the time the book begins, she is a little 6 year-old girl who is mature for her age, and she continues to mature as the book progresses. Over the course of the novel, Scout develops an exceptional character which is constantly changing from the effects of different events and characters. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee uses the minor characters Boo Radley, Miss Maudie, and Aunt Alexandra to help develop Scout into a strong and compassionate human being from the innocent child she used to be.

This passage is important because it shows how Scout is different from the other students at school since he can read. To make matters worse, Miss Caroline doesn’t approve of scout being able to read so she tells him to tell his father to “undo the damage” and that he doesn’t know how to teach.

When I asked Jem what entailment was, and Jem described it as a condition of