To Kill A Mocking Bird Evaluation

Scout’s conversation attempt makes the men go away. Because she does this, Mr. Walter Cunningham is reminded of his own child and wonders what will happen if they kill Atticus. They then go away.

I am reading the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In the first three chapters of the book we were introduced to many characters, we found out about the Radley house, and we learned about the Ewell family. In the second chapter, Dill had dared Jem to touch the Radley house, which Jem accepted because Jem never says no to a dare, and in the third chapter, we met Burris Ewell and Jem was told that she could not read any more by Miss Caroline. In this journal, I will be predicting the kids will not meet Boo because he is locked up and they are scared.

Scout in her childhood faces many adversities a child should not have faced. Her mother died when she was two and lived with only male influences, Jem, 10 and

Scout, Jem, and Dill are very complex characters. At first, I thought they were very old; Jem and Scout seem much too intelligent to both be under the age of ten. My first impressions of Scout, Jem, and Dill are basically the same as they are now. I still think Scout is sassy, passive aggressive, and impulsive. She is also a tomboy. At first, Jem seemed almost angelic, like he could do no wrong. He always played with his sister, tried to be a gentleman, etc. Jem is a good kid, but he tends to show off and is sometimes mean to Scout, like when he and Dill refused to talk to her. Dill is a small boy with a huge imagination. “Dill Harris could tell the biggest ones I ever heard.” (Ch. 5, pg. 52). I can relate to Scout the most. I also have an older brother that I used to play with all the time, but he was sometimes rude and called me names, much like Jem when he calls Scout too much of a girl. Though I may not have been as intelligent or sassy, I was definitely a tomboy.

Scout, Jem, and Dill work many summers to try to get Boo to come out of the Radley house for the first time in many years. Jem had been told many things about Boo in his short years in Maycomb, and he tells his sister Scout about the ‘monster’, saying, “Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that’s why his hands were bloodstained—if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time” (chap. 1). Jem’s ideas about Boo are very biased toward rumors that can be heard around Maycomb. This shows how Maycomb’s people often judge before they know, seeing as no one has seen Boo Radley in over twenty years and people are prejudiced to believing the unknown is always bad. Prejudice and rumors can often not be trusted and Boo Radley is no exception. After Miss Maudie’s house catches fire and half the town rushes outside to watch it burn, Atticus tells Scout, “someday you should thank him for covering you up” then Scout asks, “Thank Who?” And gets a response from Atticus, “Boo Radley. You were too busy looking at the fire, you didn’t even notice when he put the blanket around you” (chap. 8). Boo Radley is not really a bad person, he

Within Lee’s novel Jem and Scout live in a community that is evidently divided by social status. Jem and Scout must endure the ridicule of other children as their father, Atticus, defends Tom Robinson, innocent black man.

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.

Scout hung out with friends/people her own age. She mostly hangs out with people older than her. This is the first step of Scout becoming independent. She doesn't always need Jem around. Since she’s going to start hanging out with other people than her brother she will learn to protect herself and learn from life on her own. She will have more people she can rely on and come to when she needs help or feeling

Atticus asks where the kids were and Dill says they were playing poker and he won the pants and then later Jem went to go get his

The school year went on. Scout was privileged with leaving school thirty minutes before Jem. Frightened by the Radley's place, Scout flashed by the house as fast as she could run everyday. One day, something grabbed her attention. Scout built up the nerve to check it out.

the brother to Scout and son to Atticus Finch. Jem is the type of young man who is

Angie Lopez Mrs. Milon English I (H) 18 August 2014 To Kill a Mockingbird Critical Thinking Questions- Part One Chapter 1 1. The narrator of the novel is Jean Louise, aka, Scout, who is a 5 year-old little girl. The type of narration that is used is in first person. 2.

Boo Radley, even though he is not in the book that much, plays a very important part in developing Scout into the person she is at the end of the book.

Jem and Scout start out with a relationship that is more like best friends than siblings. They spend the summer engaging in activities together and enjoy each other's presence. As the story goes on, however, Jem becomes more aware of the fact that Scout is his little sister and little sisters are not usually best friends to big boys. Jem’s actions show this indefinitely.

he has to play with Scout all the time and tries to get Dill to hang around him and exclude Scout.