Uncle Jack And Atticus Relationship

<br>Later in the book, however, Scout changes. She now tries to control her temper, and is somewhat successful. One example of this is when Cecil Jacobs, another of Scout's classmates, insults Atticus by saying that Atticus defended Niggers. Scout remembers that she shouldn't fight, and walks away. "Cecil Jacobs made me forget. He had announced in the schoolyard the day before that Scout Finch's daddy defended niggers… ‘You gonna take that back boy?' ‘You gotta make me first!' he yelled… ‘I drew a bead on him, remembered what Atticus had said, then dropped my fists and walked away, ‘Scout's a cow-ward!' ringing in my ears" (80-81). Scout also learns to respect and value

She would get a better understanding of this as the novel progresses. Scout also learns more about maturity when she experiences hypocrisy from her teacher, “Over here we don’t believe in persecuting anybody. Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced. Pre-ju-dice,” She is contradicting herself, saying that it is acceptable to persecute blacks but not Jews. It dawned on Scout that people are hypocrites and have double standards when it suits them. The biggest step the children took towards growing up was during the Tom Robinson trials. There, the children received full exposure to the evils, malevolence, prejudice and sorrow of the cruel world as a white man accuses an innocent black man for raping when all Tom ever wanted to achieve was to help others. The children understood what was going on completely and was therefore changed because of it. At the unexpected climax of the novel, the children have an unpleasant encounter with Bob Ewell who wanted to take revenge on Atticus for humiliating him by killing his children. This was an absolutely outrageous act of insanity but also taught the children how dangerous reality could be, finalizing their journey into adulthood.

In chapter 3, the relationship between Scout and Atticus is presented through the way Scout has been taught. As Scout is educated by Atticus empathy is shown from Scout as her father explains to her why she should show empathy towards others. By Atticus saying “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view ... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” (Page 33) Scout realises that she should try to see things from other people’s point of view to understand what they are going through. This significant part of conversation from chapter 3 shows Atticus giving Scout moral advice that takes control of her development for the rest of the novel. Lee tries to develop the character of Scout as he feels like she should be mature when facing the trial

In this scene, Scout gets in a fight with Francis, who calls Atticus mean and derogatory names, which offends Scout. She then punches him, resulting in a punishment by Uncle Jack, who did not bother to listen to both sides of the store. In this scene, the Finch family spend their holiday at Finch’s Landing, an old country house where Atticus’s sister, Alexandra, and her husband live. Scout is forced to spend time with Francis, Alexandra’s boring grandson. Francis, after calling Dill a runt and Atticus a “nigger-lover”, is cursed and beaten up by Scout. Francis immediately told Uncle Jack and Aunt Alexandra that Scout hit him, and Uncle Jack, without hearing Scout’s side of the story, spanked her anyway (Lee 110). Scout decides to tell Uncle Jack what Francis said when they came back to Maycomb and Jack becomes very angry at Francis and himself. Because Scout does not want Atticus to find out about why she actually beat up Francis, she makes promises Jack not to tell Atticus about the whole situation. Scout did not want Uncle Jack to tell Francis because “ he asked me one time not to let anything I heard about him make me mad, an’ I’d ruther him think we were fightin’ about somethin’ else instead” (Lee 114).

Scout is a very strong and independent character who believes in who she is. She does not allow anyone to push her around even if that means she has to settle an argument in an immature way such as fist fights. Scout is unlike many girls in her town. She likes to play outside,wear pants and she doesn’t like to play with teasets or dolls. This appalls many adults who are not understanding of why Scout is different from the other girls. Many neighbors and relatives put the blame on Atticus for “not raising her right”. Atticus is often criticized because he took a different role in life than his siblings and left the Finch landing. The Finch Landing is a huge farm run by workers paid slim to none. Atticus’s siblings, Alexandra and Jack stayed at the farm and took in the money and watched the workers work. Generations and generations of Finches had done this with the exception of Atticus. Instead he felt there was more to life and decided to go to school and become a lawyer. He is now raising Scout and Jem. With Scout’s mom dead, many people feel they need to intervene with Atticus’s parenting to play a mother figure. Alexandra plays a big part in this and sits Scout down to chat. Alexandra tells Scout that she

If Scout and Jems Mother were still alive, How might the following people be different: Atticus, Scout, Jem, Calpurina, and Aunt Alexandra?

Chapters 2-4 (homework): This section of the book begins by Scout telling of Dill’s leaving is September, and the start of school. Scout develops a dislike for her teacher, Miss Caroline, when she tells her that Atticus can no longer teach her any further because he’s already caused enough “damage.” Jem tells Scout not to worry about it, though. Before the students are dismissed for lunch, Miss Caroline corners Walter Cunningham in an awkward position when she offers him money for his lunch.

In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout’s maturity level grows from the ages of six to nine, heavily impacted by her growing attempts to live up to the expectations of Atticus Finch. At the age of six she feels like she has to physically defend her father whenever he is criticized even though she does not understand why he is being criticized. However, as she matures she starts to understand that even though her beliefs about the family and her father’s activities differ from her Aunt’s, she must still love and respect her because she is family. By the age of nine Scout has a more loving view of Alexandra when she helps her after the attack, and shows her father what he previously taught her, that people like Boo Radley should be protected. Scout goes from wanting to make Boo

Throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Jem and Scout come to understand and admire their father Atticus. He taught them courage through many different lessons. They came in situations that caused them to see him in a better light. When Atticus shoots a rabid dog, Mrs. Dubose dying free of morphine addiction, and perhaps most importantly defending Tom Robinson.

Atticus teaches scout a day that she did not want to go to school, that she should not judge others without even trying to see the situation for the person's point of view. later, she realizes that the mistakes of Miss Caroline were not ill, and that she was not supposed to know everything on your first day. scout learn a lot from the Tom Robinson's trial, her father Atticus, is defending him with a lot of courage, because no one would take the case to defend a black man, and he is doing everything possible to show the innocence of his client. Scout and her brother Jem, watch the whole trial, and from the beginning they can see the segregation, blacks had to wait all white people come, for them to sit on the balcony.

A pivotal moment in the novel takes place in Chapter nine. After a fight with Cecil Jacobs Scout asks Atticus why Cecil called him a nigger lover. Atticus explains how he is “simply defending a Negro”(Lee 77). Atticus later explains why he is doing this and Scout’s eyes begin to open to the fact that people are looked at differently and it isn’t fair. After all her father was being made fun of for simply defending a Negro. Imagine the treatment actual Negroes get.

Martin Luther King Junior powerfully states, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” Would you have the courage to be the light in darkness and the love that drives out hate? To Kill a Mocking Bird is beautifully written by Harper Lee. This story takes its place in the 1930’s in the small town of Maycomb Alabama.

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

Lastly, Scout Finch is a very innocent young lady. Many things in the world are not known to her in full context, but she will eventually learn, and gain experience. An example of Scout’s innocence would be when she invited Walter Cunningham to dine with them. She observed how he poured syrup over his food and then asked him why he did so, followed by “But he’s gone and drowned his dinner in syrup” (Lee 32). She is then told by Calpurnia that you are not to comment on how other people eat. This is the transition from Innocence to Experience, and her innocence is

This demonstrated the emotional journey that the kids are going through realising that they don’t have a mum and the fact Atticus feels a sense of despair and sorry as he listened to their conversation. In the end Scout has grown matured and has overcome the prejudice and has understood the neighbourhood gossip does not necessarily tell the truth judging by her self-experience.