Violet Vs. Finch

Scout Finch, the main character of the book, is a nine-year-old girl who is the narrator of the story. Scout’s Aunt Alexandra stereotypes Scout in

Violet is the popular high schooler, while Finch is the freak. Both had no idea what was going on in each other's lives, but similarly connected in one way, both were on the roof at the same time to commit suicide. Violet was experiencing major depression from her sister's death from a car accident and does not like or feel like herself. Finch thinks about killing himself constantly due to, what we later find out, is bi-polar disorder. He struggles with many things like fitting in and the abusive struggles within his family. Both of them felt uncomfortable and unhappy with themselves, and their surroundings; like high school, didn't help their case. While Theodore was up on the roof, he slowly watched Violet and he talked her out of it before she jumped. It would look bad on her part to commit suicide, so a rumor was spreading that she saved Finch. We later find out that Finch and her share History class together and got assigned to do the “Explore Indiana” project together. Trying to make the situation less worse, Violet agrees because Finch wouldn't talk about the roof incident with anyone, and Finch was just lucky enough to work with a girl so beautiful as Violet

scout and Jem Finch are growing up in the tired old Alabama town of Maycomb. Their father, Atticus, is the local lawyer and as a single parent tries to raise his children with honor and respect to their individualism. With the Depression on times are hard,

Jane and Finch is a small neighborhood in the city of Toronto that many people assume is dangerous and that has a negative image because of the way media is constantly portraying this neighborhood. Although there are many other cities in Canada that have high crime rates and poverty, the media still seems to target Jane and Finch more in some way. Many people from other communities get shocked and terrified when one says that they are part of the Jane and Finch community. However, the people that are part of the Jane and Finch community continue to ignore the media image around them and what others think of their neighborhood and continue to fight for a better life. Actually, the Jane and Finch community is the best community to live in because there are many diverse people, there are community gatherings, and the schools have many more specialized programs and opportunities than other schools.

Atticus Finch’s wisdom and understanding of the human nature truly shows when he teaches us how to empathize. Atticus gives Scout and readers, a whole other way of seeing peoples perspective. Scout, who is upset that Miss Caroline put her “responsible” in explaining why Walter Cunningham cannot accept any money, complains to Atticus about that matter; saying she refuses to go to school. Atticus, who realizes that Scout is failing to understand things from Miss Caroline’s perspective says, “You never really understand someone....... until you crawl into his skin and walk around in it.”pg 33. Scout grapples with this idea of

The circumstances in which Violet and Finch met can be classified as many things, but mostly fate. When the two disband from the bell tower, rumors spread about who saved who. As Violet is living life, happy to be off the roads and out of work, Finch is trying to stay awake. A project arises where Violet and Finch have to team up to travel the dusty, barren landscapes of Indiana, and find incredible miracles in their plain, middle-of-nowhere

Another person in this same social class is Miss Maudie Atkinson. She grew up with the Finch’s and is an old friend of theirs. She is now Atticus’s neighbor and is loved by his

The Finch family is hopeful. Atticus has brought his children up by his values. The children, Jem and Scout, are taught to hope, by their father, Atticus. Both are impacted form the work Atticus has done, he has defended an African American. Jem learns from Atticus to never lose hope, and he does not lose hope throughout the novel. The children also show that there is hope in the future for people to be nonjudgmental. They did not understand how a jury could convict a man whom they knew was innocent and this was astonishing for them. Atticus explains to Jem that it has happened before and will happen again, sadly he also told them,"... when they do it - it seems that only the children weep...” (Lee, pg 232). Atticus is the wise one; he explains the problem to the children. He tells them that injustice will always happen. Atticus tells the children that bad things happen in the world, but only children find it hard to understand. The message of hope carries on in the book, is that despite her debut into the adult world, she avoids absorbing the prejudices of the community around her. Scout becomes our hope for a more tolerant future. However all hope is not lost in the end. As Scout realises that Boo is no one to dread and the two become friends, so too do we realise that the town can likewise learn to shed its bigotry and embrace its subject of unfound malice. Jem and Scout learnt that hope is always there, from there father, Atticus in the novel, To

I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and I am on page 254. This book is about the Finch family which consist of Scout, her older brother, and their father. Calpurnia is the family cook, and she also helps take care of the children. Aunt Alexandra comes and stays with the finch’s. The story takes place during the Great Depression in a small town called Maycomb, Alabama. In this journal I will be explaining the theme and evaluating.

The narrator of the book To Kill A Mockingbird is in first person and her name is Scout Finch. The story begins when Scout is only 5 years old and ends when she is 8 years old. Her father is Atticus Finch, Tom Robinson’s lawyer. When the case started about Mayella I feel as if Scout living with her father got an advantage so therefore she believed in Tom Robinson being innocent. She got all of the unknown details, she got to find about about the case more. I think Scout knowing others opinions on the case gave her an advantage to know more than an average person in the town would. I feel since she got all of those secret details and secrets about the case in both sides she made the readers believe her more and more because she was providing

One of the first major discussions made by the characters in the novel is when Violet accepts Finch’s offer of becoming his project partner. Violet is an intelligent girl who has many friends and normally would not find herself near the delinquent Finch. On that morning, however, he stopped her from committing suicide off of the school’s bell tower, therefore she feels inclined to consider the offer. The risky choice of accepting proves to have a good outcome for her because it is with Finch that she learns how amazing life can be if you look hard enough for it. They go on multiple adventures together that are far outside where she's comfortable and Finch ends up changing her greatly as a person. Instead of going through the motions of life she decides to switch things up so that she actually likes where things are heading for her. Another choice that Violet makes in the novel is to begin driving in a car again which she does for the first time in a year with Finch. One year prior Violet's sister Eleanor died in a car accident by losing control of their vehicle and

First, Harper Lee uses the building of a snowman to foreshadow the loss of innocence. Jem and Scout Finch were two kids living in the tiny isolated town

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

One of the main characters is scout, which is one of Atticus finches children , whom a long with her brother

He asks the students to get into pairs and "wander” the state see the sights it has to offer. Finch,immediately recognizes that this project can be used to symbolize what life is truly like. He tells Violet: "We also have to be willing to go where the road takes us. This means the grand, the small, the bizarre, the poetic, the beautiful, the ugly, the surprising. Just like life." Due to the not so great reputation Indiana has of itself , Finch and Violet don’t expect to have as good of a time as they did. At one point, Finch tells Violet: "I feel like I just walked through the back of the wardrobe and into Narnia." The extraordinary places they visit sound