These choices also cause Huck to go through many moral changes as he develops into a young man. We can clearly see a difference in Huck Finn’s character from the beginning of the book to the very end of the book. Upon the arrival of certain individuals along with the onset of specific situations in Huck’s life, it is obvious that his opinions and thoughts about what is right and wrong begin to change. Life events allow us to grow in our understanding of moral, conscience decisions and ideals. This is what Mark Twain strives to teach the reader in this story.
The next stage that greatly influences Idgie’s life is when Ruth is asked to come and stay at Idgie’s home by her mother. Idgie is cautious and reluctant to Ruth in the beginning. Idgie blames her for Buddy’s death and tragedy was all she saw when she saw Ruth. Idgie taunts Ruth’s proper ways by incessantly challenging her to a battle of the wills. The moment of truth comes when Idgie dares Ruth to jump off a moving train.
It includes pretending with objects, actions and situations. As children grow, their imaginations and their play become increasingly complex. Children use their developing language to move from thinking in the concrete to thinking in the abstract. They make up stories and scenarios (Crowther, 2011; Slade & Wolf, 1994). Johann Pestalozzi (1746-1827) said that it is important that children have that “natural education” where children learn about the world through exploration, self-directed curiosity and play (Degotardi, 2012).
Throughout the novel Jem has a difficulty with understanding what courage is. Jem starts with thinking that courage is somehow associated with childish acts. As an example, Atticus tells Jem to leave Boo Radley and their house alone, but one night Jem ignores his father’s rule and runs to the Radley’s house and touches the front door. Jem sees this as an act of courage, of first disobeying his father and secondly braving the Radley house that is scary to the young minds of Jem, and their friend Dill. Further along in the novel, the incident with the mad
By doing this essay, looking at how children at this stage trying to make friends, but some children are usually a little shy and hold back until the right timing, till they are comfortable to interact with other children. The research consists of why some children are more open to a friendship and why some do not interact with others. In the essay, the major subjects are the two main theorists that involved the children developing their friendship at different stages and how children attach to one another when place in an environment is set right. Firstly, Mary Ainsworth researched on the “strange situation and how her attachment theory was successful. The second theorist is Erik Erikson; he had a theory of psychosocial development.
“’Scout, I think I’m beginning to understand something. I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up in the house all this time… it’s because he wants to stay inside’”(227). This proves that Boo stays inside so he can stay away from the prejudiced town, but he faces that fear and always finds a way to make Jem and Scout stay safe and feel happy. Additionally, when Bob Ewell attacks the children, Boo shows up to help them and attack Bob himself, kills him in result. “All he wanted to do was to get him and his sister safely home’” (275).
These characteristics can influence the opinions and even the interpretations of a reader which is why the author’s decision is vital in how he or she wants the story to be viewed. There are many reasons why authors choose child narrators when writing story. There is usually a lesson to be learned when writing a short story or fiction. What better narrator to use than an innocent child, right? Children’s inexperience to life is a great way for authors to create lesson learning, life-like situations for readers by demonstrating bad decision making.
Along the course of the novel, Jem grows from a precocious young boy who drags his unwilling sister along as a co-conspirator to his nefarious schemes into a maturing young man who helps Scout better understand the problems and events that rage through their childhoods. Jem and Scout both learn to look at the good in human nature, as well as the bad, but it is Jem, not Scout, who faces the role of precursor to his more fragile-bodied and -minded younger sister, with only his father as anchor. In comparison to Scout’s still very childish perspective, Jem’s more mature understanding of the world, along with his pervading sense of justice, make themselves evident from as early as the book’s first chapter. Despite his apparent maturity, however, Jem still retains the innocence of a child, who views the world through eyes that have had little experience beyond the pages of his beloved sports magazines and adventure novels. Old enough to understand the ways of the world, he is yet unprepared to face the evils and prejudice that rove through the quiet Summer air.
Reading Your Baby’s Mind, by Pat Wingert and Martha Brant present and summarize current research that prove psychologist William James’s notion outdated and conflicting to new research. In fact, “Science is giving us the picture that long before they (infants) form their first words or attempt the feat of sitting up, they are already mastering complex emotions-jealousy, empathy, frustration-that were once thought to be learned much later in toddler hood” ( Wingert, Brant 2005, 72). Empathy is one of the first complex emotions that babies show toward each other. To show empathy is to identify with another’s feeling. Empathy is to emotionally put yourself in someone else’s shoes and experience or feel the way they do.
Her husband is again forced to go steal some of the plant from the garden next door in order to satisfy his wife. This time the man is caught by a wicked witch of a woman that owns the garden. She knows he had stolen her plants and she agrees to let him take more for his wife, but as punishment she tells him that once his child is born it is to be turned over to her. After the baby is born she is turned over to the evil woman. She locks the child, Rapunzel, away in a tower on her twelfth birthday once she begins maturing.