To Kill a Mockingbird

people and see things from their point of view. Scout learns and understands this lesson firsthand

During this time, Scout was able to see how unfairly some people were treated. She was able to see how a white persons word almost always was greater than a black persons word. I think being able to sit through the trial; Scout was able to see how racists some people were acting and how some adults were acting. Scout learns to deal with others and that some things aren’t always going to go the way she intends. Scout was always taught from her father, Atticus, that you should treat everyone with respect and you should tolerate everyone. Even though you may not like someone or they may not be your best friends you should still treat them just like anyone else and be fair towards

Characterize Miss Maudie Atkinson (characterization = personality traits, actions, thoughts/feelings, other people’s points of view). How typical is she of Maycomb’s women? What do the children think of her?

These ?pretenses? may be misleading, consequently Scout is basing her beliefs about prejudice on the conceptions of others instead of what Scout truly believes. Although Scout?s perspective starts as childish innocence it soon develops in order to become aware of the racial judgments she is exposed to.

Evidence: An example that demonstrates Scout being immature is when she gets into a fight on her first day of school, “ Catching Walter Cunningham in the schoolyard gave me some pleasure, but when I was rubbing his nose in the dirt Jem came by and told me to stop. Let him go, Scout. Why?. He didn’t have any lunch” (30).

Scout also learns to control her anger and to not react when people tease her. She learns this lesson when Cecil Jacobs says “Scout Finch’s daddy defends niggers” and that he is a “disgrace”. Atticus says “Scout got to learn to keep her head” meaning she needs to control her anger. She puts this advice into practice when Cecil Jones has a go at her again. She “dropped (her) fists and walked away…” because “if (she) fought Cecil (she) would let Atticus down” This shows that she had learnt to control her anger and that she has reached a level of maturity.

In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird events and conflicts take place causing changes in characters. Some of the characters that are changed include Mrs. Dubose, Jem, Scout, and even Mr. Arthur Radley. Each of these events has a background to help change the characters. Mrs. Dubose is helped to change her charter in the novel by Jem reading to her, Aunt Alexandra comes to live with Atticus, Jem, and Scout changing Scout’s character, and Arthur Radley’s character is changed by the event of Jem and Scout being attacked by Bob Ewell.

In conclusion, throughout the novel Scout learns important things about life, people and society. There were many other things Scout learnt in this book

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.

Atticus Finch belongs to a very, very small minority. He is one of the very few human beings who does not hate Hitler. Of course, he does not like the universally hated historical figure, but merely dislikes him. This is a major theme of Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird. One can never, without exception, hate a man. Harper Lee promotes the idea that hatred is never acceptable by creating situations with literary devices like characters, settings, and plots that demand empathy.

8. Why won’t Walter Cunningham, Jr. take Miss Caroline’s quarter? Because he doesn’t want everyone to know that he can’t afford lunch

Scout helps Lee show how deceiving appearances are viewed through the eyes of a child. For example, when Scout thinks that her father is boring, she is

Scout is able to prevent a lot of violence from happening that night in front of the jail, when Mr. Cunningham and his gang were clearly looking to hurt Atticus and Tom. After Scout tries to start up a casual conversation with Mr. Cunningham, she begins to help the man understand that although Atticus had different opinions than him, they had more similarities than differences. “That proves something-- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they’re still human” (157). By focusing less on the differences between the family’s stereotypes and focusing more on the similarities between the two individuals, Scout brings out the good in the gang. The innocent mind of an eight year old child was able to see past the inaccurate labels of Mr. Cunningham and understand him as a neighbor instead of an enemy.

Scout’s symbolic purpose is to represent innocence and the purity of children’s mind and how they are unaffected by the towns narrow-minded as well as questioning ways. Although the story takes place over the course of three years, Scout learns a lifetime's worth of lessons in that span. To Kill a Mockingbird is

To begin with the level one preconventional stage that Scout was in the begin of the book is usually associated with children, while they are being taught that bad actions have consequences. The people that present this type of level conduct according to socially acceptable standards, because they have been set by someone of a higher authority (Robert N. Barger,.) Between the beginning of the book and the middle of the book she went through a series of different events like the trial of Tom Robinson that directly impacted her dad Atticus which as a fact was his lawyer defending the case. This situation had a huge impact on Scout because not everyone in that town thought the same way Atticus did; in defending human rights. When a person is in this level the moral values that they have at that moment of their life is more of the discipline action. They have been taught that bad behavior will not be rewarded. In addition Scout knew that fighting would lead to Attius being really upset with her, and she