Every time her uncle and aunts go visits her she always gets sad when they have to leave because of the goodbyes. Although most of the time his flights are delayed, she decides to stay home instead of going along to drop him and leaves, her father tells her that her uncle said he will never forget them. Furthermore, she talks about the day she turned fifteen and how they did not have enough money to celebrate like most girls with a quincenera but instead they have a gathering of 6 people to celebrate. Their budget is tight but her mom still decides to buy what her daughter deserves and nothing lower. She has a fun memory despite the struggle of being poor.
T-They went to the theme park and thats when she told john she liked him. Then they started to hold hands and she said she dont want to let go. I-Mr. Peterson found out that brooke IQ scores is way over the genius level.Her old teacher told he and he looked at her files. V-when she visited her family in new jersey wshe was missing scott and the whole time they were on break she was looking for scott a good gift. W-warm fizzy is a little letter you send to people and brooke sends scott one saying that she care about him.
Her maturity is proven by the end of the novel when the children lose interest in Boo Radley. Scout learns that “Most people are [real nice], when you finally see them.” and that she shouldn’t “try to understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (281, 33). These quotes are important because, over the course of the novel, these are the main lessons she learns up until the trial and afterward. However, Scout is still incredibly confused and is still trying to understand everything. The verdict of the trial is the beginning of her transformation but she does not fully become mature until closer to the end when she fully understands the reasoning behind the outcome of Tom’s
No one knows for sure if this even actually happened as Boo has been kept inside for decades now, and there is no proof which supports this rumour and the other crazy lies being spread around. Atticus has real respect for Mrs. Dubose Shortly after Mrs. Dubose passed away Atticus attempts to explain to Jem that “She was a great lady” (149). Atticus believes that she had the utmost courage to stay on morphine to try to fight the disease even though her odds were slim. Atticus was glad that Jem had been able to see what real courage was – “It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do” (149).
In spite of the situation Janie marries Tea Cake in Jacksonville, Florida. Shortly thereafter they then move to the Everglades after he is stabbed over a gambling dispute. While there they rented a two room house and he worked as a bean picker. At this point it is late summer which is hurricane season in the Everglades.
To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960 although it portrayed certain behaviors of people in the 1930’s. According to, To Kill a Mocking Bird “The novel replays three key years in the life of scout finch, the young daughter of an Alabama town’s principled lawyer. Scouts narrative relates how she and her elder brother Jem learn about fighting prejudice and upholding humane dignity through the example of her father” (1960). The novel begins with Scout as a grown women and she is reflecting on her childhood years. Scout lived with her father Atticus Finch, Brother Jeremy, and also their house keeper Calpurnia who handles the children and she also happens to be black.
During the trial of Tom Robinson, Scout notices that even if Mayella was lying in court during her testimony, “she must have been the loneliest person in the world” (191). Mayella always asked Tom Robinson to come over to her house and help her fix things or chop things down just because she wanted a friend. She was always lonely in the house since her siblings were too young to be her friend and no one in Maycomb wanted to be her friend since the Ewells had a bad reputation. Furthermore, Scout got to literally put herself in Boo Radley’s shoes; a man who stayed in his “haunted” home all day. When she was leaving Boo Radley’s house from walking him home because he had saved her life, she noticed “to her left of the brown door was a long shuttered window.
In addition, don’t wait for others to progress society, take initiative. The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a simplistic view of life in Alabama during the great depression. The story is told through the eyes of a young girl, Scout Finch and her brother Jem. In the novel the desire for change is put to the test many times. Although, none compare to the challenge of Atticus Finch
Catherine Sherry English 122 – Professor Blansett December 12, 2010 To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a coming of age story about Scout Finch and her brother Jem in 1930’s Alabama. They live with their father, Atticus Finch who is a lawyer. Through their adventures and their father, they learn to understand that life is not always fair and that prejudice is a very real part of their world no matter how hard it is disguised. During the summer when Scout was six and Jem was ten, they met a young boy named Dill who was spending the summer with his aunt who lived next door to the Finches. Dill and Jem became curious about, their reclusive neighbor Boo Radley, that they made it their mission to get him to come out of his home.
Or, rather, it did have, but “Our mother died when I was two,” says Scout, “so I never felt her Absence”. (Charles J. Shields 42) Moving out of Monroeville, Harper attended Huntington College for Women. After one year she’d had all of the proper etiquette she could take and moved to the the University of Alabama, where she became the editor of the “politically satirical student newspaper”(George Marotous). Harper’s father and sister, Alice, were lawyers, and with her drive for civil rights, she tried to follow suit, but dropped out 6 months before graduation. Numerous unrewarding jobs kept her writing confined to weekends until a friend who believed in her work leant her the money to be able to write full time.