Throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout Finch, the main character and narrator, has gone through many moral growths to help create her path. Throughout the novel, Scout and her brother Jem are both growing up with each other's mistakes. Scout has to deal with different obstacles, like witnessing first grade students, negros, and manslaughter, all of this right in front of her face. Atticus Scout’s father teaches Scout about blacks like Maggot Stern's Mother did with her. Scout’s intellectual growth expanded from pivotal moments in her life, to help shape her moral decisions throughout the novel. Scout is able to understand more about life from just a small snippet of experiencing school and her father, Atticus. …show more content…
Atticus I didn’t feel very well and didn’t think I'd go to school anymore if it was all right with him.” (Lee.39) Scout and Atticus have many fights about Scout going to school, for example this is a fight they had one night after school. Atticus and Scouts fights usually consist of Scout not wanting to go to school anymore, Scout would use Atticus as an example. Atticus didn’t have to public school, the fights would also consist of her classmates and what they say or do. Scout was still hung up on how much she hates school, she starts yelling at Atticus “I don’t have to go to school! I was bursting with a sudden thought. Burris Ewell, remember? He just goes to school the first day.” (Lee.40) Scout is having a fight with Atticus about how the Ewells bend the rules to fit around their work and needs. The Ewells bend the rules in a way like the finches did when Atticus was a little boy, the Finches would homeschool their kids unlike the Ewells who will have many first days of first grade. When it comes to teaching Scout about the blacks Atticus is almost like the mother of Margot Stern “The mother who taught me what I know of tenderness and …show more content…
Calpernia was getting the kids ready for church on Sunday, Scout is confused as to what she is wearing. “It’s like we're going to mardi gras,” (Lee.157) Scout is experiencing first hand what the negros wear to religious gatherings. When Scout finds out that she is going to the negro church she then realizes why Cal is so stressed out; Cal wants to make sure that the kids are put together so that she won’t be made fun of for taking Atticus Finch's kids to the Negro church. When Cal and the kids arrived at the church the blacks talking we in complete shock until one lady decided she needed to stand up for her non-existent rights. “Standing in the path behind us was a tall woman.” (Lee.158) Seeing how the Lulu reacted helped Scout understand how the blacks feel about the whites. The blacks are accepting in some ways, but when it comes to religious gatherings, they are not very keen on the intrusion. “Brethren and sisters, we are particularly glad to have company with us this morning. Mister and Miss Finch.” (Lee.160) What the priest said shows Scout that even if the blacks aren’t particularly happy that they are in their church, they are still acknowledging that they are present. This also proves to Scout that blacks are more accepting than at first glance and first thought. After visiting Calpurnia's
In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout Finch tries to please her father, but living with no mother it’s hard to know how to act. It’s natural to follow Jem, her brother, when that is her only friend through out the years. Imagine hearing gossip about your father from friends, neighbors, and even your own cousin. Scout had to push through all of the gossip and believe in her father. Throughout the novel Scout shows how social she can be. To Kill a Mockingbird is a great novel that keeps you reading. Scout has a positive effect on events such as at the jail, she was the reason that the mob left. She also always curious so she is more mature than most kids her age. Through the journey of the trial she shows how hot-tempered, tomboyish, and mature she can be.
Childhood is a continuous time of learning, and of seeing mistakes and using them to change your perspectives. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee illustrates how two children learn from people and their actions to respect everyone no matter what they might look like on the outside. To Kill A Mockingbird tells a story about two young kids named Scout and her older brother Jem Finch growing up in their small, racist town of Maycomb, Alabama. As the years go by they learn how their town and a lot of the people in it aren’t as perfect as they may have seemed before. When Jem and Scout’s father Atticus defends a black man in court, the town’s imperfections begin to show. A sour, little man named Bob Ewell even tries to kill Jem and Scout all because of the help Atticus gave to the black man named Tom Robinson. Throughout the novel, Harper Lee illustrates the central theme that it is wrong to judge someone by their appearance on the outside, or belittle someone because they are different.
Have you ever put yourself in somebody else’s shoes? How did you feel? In the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout finally realizes that people go through stuff and that it can affect someone physically and mentally. As she grows up mentally she figures out what she needs to be doing and what she doesn’t need to be doing. Scout grows up and she matures by her relationship with Boo, her family, and other female influences.
Calpurnia had thought Scout some lessons in life to, Scout once had invited one of her classmate she got in a fight with to eat at her house. Scout had insult the boy because of the way he ate and Calpurnia told her “Theres some folks who don’t eat like us, but you aint called to contradiet ‘em at the table when they don’t. That boy’s yo’ comp’ny and if he wants to eat up the table cloth you let him, you hear” (24). Calpurnia was trying to tell Scout not to judge the boy because they all had different lives. Scout also had Aunt Alexandra to teach her about life because she was also like a mother to Scout. Aunt Alexandra acts a little more like a high rich standard she talks about how to act and pick her friends.
Atticus Finch has become a role model to many throughout the years. He has become revered throughout generations for being so progressive ahead of his time. What most don’t tend to realize, though, is that Atticus is not always steadfast in his character. In fact, he is very dynamic throughout the book and begins to show subtle flaws as the story progresses. This renowned story, Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird. is unique in its narrator: a young girl called Scout. She narrates the whole novel over the course of many years of her young life and we can see her grow throughout, thus becoming a very dynamic character. We can see even more her descriptions and perceptions of her father, the man many have looked up to throughout the years. These
...s theme when she stands on Boo’s porch. She put herself in Boo’s shoes and views Maycomb from his point of view. This is a fundamental point in Scout’s life as she is able to understand Atticus’s life lessons.
Harper Lee’s classic novel,To Kill a Mockingbird, has warmed people’s hearts for over fifty years. Arguably the most touching part of the novel is the close relationship between Atticus, the father of the two main characters,and his children. Over the course of the novel Atticus is able to teach his children,Scout and Jem, many important life lessons. Atticus successfully teaches Scout and Jem empathy, courage and to be true to yourself. These three characteristics shaped Scout and Jem into admirable people.
Over all, the characters in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee have grown and matured throughout the whole novel. Boo’s maturity development is shown when he faces his fear of being with the outside world, Aunt Alexandra having some difficulties facing prejudice but, becoming more accepting of others, and Scout developing and learning lessons that she could apply to her everyday life. It shows that no matter whom the person is or what their troubles are, they all grow and mature in their own unique ways.
The importance of adults teaching their children life lessons is very important. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee explores the lessons Scout learns. Lee introduces Scout as very naive and not understanding the world clearly around her as others in a town in Alabama during the 1930’s. As school and the trial comes into her life she later realizes many important things about life. Scout later changes to understanding, most of all understanding lessons she has learned throughout the novel. She comes to the understanding that the world isn’t fair. Scout has learned lessons from her father, Atticus and her neighborhood around her. Lee conveys the lessons of empathy, courage and prejudice that Scout learns throughout the novel.
One of the life lessons that Atticus taught his children was that you can’t understand a person and their choices until you have walked through the same situation as they have. By Atticus telling his children this he is teaching them not to judge. He is telling his children that you shouldn’t judge choices because you don’t know what circumstances they were under. In part of the book Scout was having a lot of confrontations with her teacher, Miss Caroline, and complaining to her dad, Atticus, why she should not be teaching them. Atticus replied with “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.” By tellings his daughter this, he acknowledged the fact that you never know what is happening in another
The younger the kids are, the more they learn. Harper Lee shows Scout and Jem learning lessons from their father, Atticus, all throughout the book To Kill a Mockingbird . In this novel of Harper Lee's it shows what someone teaches their children carries on, and that society should not judge others because of their name. Friends of Scout and Jem tell them that they need to stand up for what they believe in, and that no one really understands someone until you see things from their point of view.
Scouts journey to maturity is based upon the many lessons that she learns throughout the novel. The notion of conscience is displayed through the themes empathy and the binary of justice versus injustice. Atticus Finch is Scout’s unconventional father, considered the moral backbone of Maycomb and is accepting of everyone. On Scout’s first day of school she was reprimanded
When I was 5 years old I was an adventurous, outgoing little girl. Somehow this all changed when I reached my sixth year of age. It was as if my personality drifted far away from me, across the oceans, to somewhere I didn’t know. It all started on the first day of 1st grade. My teachers were not the type of people that I was used to having in my life. It was like a huge barrier had been put between the world I knew, and the world I was thrust into. As for my teachers, they shut me out. They put a huge clear wall between myself and them, and I ran smack into it, not knowing what was coming my way. As the years went by, the wall began to crumble. Slowly crumble, as if it would never fall. The unexpected came out of nothing, but let me tell you,
Scout is a very intelligent young girl, and understands a lot about adult situations and the confusing world around her. As Atticus talks with Uncle Jack after the family party about the Tom Robinson and Bob Ewell court case, about how it is a black man’s word against a white man’s word. Atticus hopes that Jem and Scout will be able to get through all the awful things that are coming their family’s way while still keeping their pride. Scout starts to listen to their conversation and doesn’t think anyone knows she is there, but at the end of the conversation, Atticus tells Scout to go to bed which indicates that he
No matter where or who a person is, they are always learning something, either about themselves or about the environment around them. In Harper Lee's heartwarming novel titled To Kill A Mockingbird, the main characters Jem and Scout grow and mature throughout the story as they learn both more about themselves and the world around them. As the story progresses, they learn many life lessons including those about prejudice, people and how they have been categorized and judged, and, last but not least, gender issues.