School was coming to an end and I thought about how Scout’s teacher didn't want her to read. I couldn't stop reading I enjoyed it too much and so did scout, I wondered if I would have reacted the same way scout did. One day after coming home from school, I saw scout with a Big stash of gum. After she told me how she got it, I started thinking the worst since I am her older Brother. I knew to scout was stubborn and wasn't going to get rid of it so I threaten her by telling her that I would tell Cal which is a fight scout wasn't up to fight. Why would there be gum in a tree and why was it out of all places in the Radley tree? We waited until what was forever for school to be over and for Dill to come. After all Dill had become a close friend …show more content…
I felt brave,courageous,fearless compared to Dill and Scout. We snuck around the backyard and looked in the first window with no luck. Then we headed to the back window to see if we could see better. We saw a shadow of a man and could believe our eyes. I ran to get out of there but when I tried to get out my pants got stuck. I was dead for sure. I couldn't help think what will happen if I escape but also what will happen if Atticus found out. I lost my pants but I made it out and we had to make up a story of why I don't have my pants. When I went back to get my pants they were neatly on the fence and the hole was fixed. It was weird but I wanted to know if It was Boo. After this I guess in my mind a near death experience I went silent for awhile. I needed to think about what could have happened to me. When I finally decided to tell scout I think we were both think about the same thing. While walking past the tree where we found all the items we found another thing waiting for us. There was soap figures that looked just like Scout and I. But soon after we found out the secret spot was covered with
Scout’s innocence and naivety push her to act the way she does, and also allow her to begin her own journey down the path to adulthood. Her immaturity becomes exceptionally clear in the middle of a neighborhood crisis. When her neighbor’s house catches on fire all Scout is worried about is retrieving a book because she is scared that her friend, Dill, will get mad if it burns in the fire. When she hears that her house might burn down her only words are, “That Tom Swift book, it ain’t mine, it’s Dill’s” (Lee 93). This quote shows her juvenility because when her whole house is threatened by a perilous fire she only says that she has to get Dill’s book. Such a...
We stood and watched as the dark figures got out of the dusty cars and moved towards Atticus and Tom Robinson’s cell. I had a theory of what they were trying to do: kill the accused. It’s not common for a group of men to be going to the jail in the middle of the night dressed in such a way. I was sure that they wanted to commit an act of lynching when they put the sheriff into this. The men wanted Atticus to draw back, but I knew he isn’t that kind of person.
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.
Scout Finch, the youngest child of Atticus Finch, narrates the story. It is summer and her cousin Dill and brother Jem are her companions and playmates. They play all summer long until Dill has to go back home to Maridian and Scout and her brother start school. The Atticus’ maid, a black woman by the name of Calpurnia, is like a mother to the children. While playing, Scout and Jem discover small trinkets in a knothole in an old oak tree on the Radley property. Summer rolls around again and Dill comes back to visit. A sence of discrimination develops towards the Radley’s because of their race. Scout forms a friendship with her neighbor Miss Maudie, whose house is later burnt down. She tells Scout to respect Boo Radley and treat him like a person. Treasures keep appearing in the knothole until it is filled with cement to prevent decay. As winter comes it snows for the first time in a century. Boo gives scout a blanket and she finally understands her father’s and Miss Maudie’s point of view and treats him respectfully. Scout and Jem receive air guns for Christmas, and promise Atticus never to shoot a mockingbird, for they are peaceful and don’t deserve to die in that manner. Atticus then takes a case defending a black man accused of rape. He knows that such a case will bring trouble for his family but he takes it anyways. This is the sense of courage he tries to instill in his son Jem.
2. As Jem and Scout were walking home from school (it was the last day), they noticed something inside an oak tree near the Radley Place, which, upon closer inspection, revealed to be two Indian-head pennies. As Jem pocketed the two coins, he looked at the Radley Place, and, as Scout states, “He seemed to be thinking again.” Indeed, he was thinking about who the pennies could belong to, why someone would hide them in such a place, and, most importantly, what to do with them
Halloween night didn't feel any different. Scout and Jem went off together to the pageant at school, but they almost didn't come back. The thought of almost losing them that day scares me to this day. I try to completely balance my duties and attitudes as a lawyer and as a father, and I would like to say that I remained calm and composed that night. But in reality, I was torn. I thought I knew what this case would cost me. My reputation, for at least a few weeks, Scout's innocence, Jem's faith, at least for a while, but I never thought that it would almost cost us our lives. This would sure go down in the Finch's'
Its summer in Maycomb, Alabama when Scout and Jem get a new next door neighbor Dill , who lives with his aunt during the summer. The three children become interested in Boo Radley, who was a neighbor who had gotten in trouble with the police when he was young and his father kept him trapped inside the house as his punishment. Later his father died but Boo had still not been out of his home in a very long time. The children do things like dare each other to run and touch the house and peek through the shutters. All of the children's attempts seem to fail but something suspicious does seem to occur. They begin to find treats and candy hidden in the tree outside of the house. On the last night that Dill is in Mayfield for that summer...
A little bit more into the story Scout finds presents from “Boo Radley”, hidden within a knot hole in a tree in front of the Radley property and she begins to think about him more as a human. Throughout the story, Scout progressively gets older as she gets a bit more mature, but
Scout was the narrator of the book "To Kill a Mockingbird" (by Harper Lee). At first she didn't know a lot about Maycomb (the town they live in), the people in the town and life. Through the book she had lots of new experiences and learned a lot. This knowledge caused significant changes in her characteristics and perspective. As the novel progressed, she has grown up. She has become a better person.
In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout learns valuable lessons on the evil of prejudice present in her Southern town of Maycomb, on the true nature of courage, and on the dangers of judging others before "...climbing into their skin and walking around in it." Set in the mid 1930s, Scout Finch is a young girl living with her older brother, Jem, and her lawyer father. Being a kid, Scout has the simple duties of a minor, to have fun and to stay out of trouble. But along the way, she also learns many important things. Although the majority of her hometown is prejudiced, Scout's innocent mind remains non prejudice and caring of others. To her, all is equal, so therefore, should be treated equal. There is no doubt that Scout's character is one whom is an individual, someone whom will stick to her own perspective no matter how cruel and racist other people can be. In her adult world, Scout learns to treat all people fairly with dignity and respect.
...did it to stop us findin’ things- he’s crazy, I reckon, like they say (Lee 72).’ ” After Jem and Scout place their letter in the knot hole in the Radley tree, it was filled up with cement by Nathan Radley. This was done to prevent Boo from having any contact with the outside world, the same reason he is locked up inside his house. Jem and Scout realize this, and they loose their innocence as a result of their realization of the true nature of human beings in the world. Through these three points, it is proved that the world around them strips away the innocence of the children.
As the book comes to a close, readers can see just how mature and empathetic Scout has become. After Scout and Jem, Scout’s brother, are saved by Arthur “Boo” Radley, the town shut-in, Scout walks Boo home and after he walks back into her house, she turns around and just stares out at the street from Boo’s point of view instead of from her own. Her father taught her that you should
Scout starts to understand people’s needs, opinions, and their points of view. In the beginning, Scout does not really think much about other people’s feelings, unless it directly pertains to her. Jem and Dill decided to create a play based on the life of one of their neighbors, Boo Radley. According to neighborhood rumors, Boo got into a lot of trouble as a kid, stabbed his father with scissors, and never comes out of the house. The children create a whole drama and act it out each day. “As the summer progressed, so did our game. We polished and perfected it, added dialogue and plot until we had manufactured a small play among which we rang changes every day” (Lee 52). Scout turned Boo’s life into a joke, something for her entertainment. She did not think about how Boo would feel if he knew what they were doing. Near the end of the book, while Boo was at the Finch house, Scout led him onto the porc...
I saw Jem kneeling very still trying to find me through the window. I went in to try and tap him on the shoulder so they could finally get to see me and get rid of their curiosity. Right as I reached I could hear Scout yell at Jem.
Harper Lee utilised Narrative Voice and Structure through the exploration of Scout’s perspectives and thoughts to portray the loss of innocence.