After reading the article, named “The Truth about Lying” by Judith Viorst, I was wondering whether these lie is a protective lie or a trust-keeping lie. I tell this kind of lie not to protect myself because I know she won’t scold me or give me any punishment for being late. I tell these lie to keep my mother away from worrying about me. Again, my mother trusts me a lot. She believes that I can never lie to her, I can never do anything wrong behind her back.
She notices problems in herself and is taught the most important lesson that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird. Scout learns the facts of life and the rudiments she needs to progress in life. She demonstrates this when she remarks “there wasn't much for us to learn except possibly algebra”. In the book Scout learns an undeniably important lesson of prejudice. Scout begins in the book as a girl with a prejudice towards blacks, highly because of the white people of the town.
There mom and aunty never get along with each other. The next thing you know, aunty came from India to their house. There aunty made their dad to say “NO” to whatever they ask there day for. Auntie said, “Jazz is to little to pierce her ears so please don’t let her pierce it.” She also bossed them around: example- going to sleep early. Aunty said, “You guys should go to sleep early because I said so.” This conflict is person vs. person because there aunty came from nowhere and be bossy to them.
Essay How Scout is influenced Throughout the Novel. Scout a young girl in the novel “To kill a Mockingbird,” has been influenced by many people. Scout is most influenced by Calpurnia. Calpurnia is the maid of the Finch house and a caring mother. She taught her life lessons that would help her change and mature.
“Over here we don’t believe in persecuting anybody. Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced.” However, her attitude towards the whole Tom Robinson case says the complete opposite. Scout even hears her say after Tom's sentence "it's time someone taught 'em a lesson, they were gettin' way above themselves, an' next thing they think they can do is marry us. " Scout does a lot of "growing up" in this novel. She doesn't understand much about the world in the beginning, and by the end she understands a little too much.
When Barbara introduces Verge to Den she simply says “this is Virginia”, Verge is strongly upset by this introduction and says “Verge. Verge. Verge. ‘Your daughter’, say.” After Verge and Den are introduced she says “Everyone else has got these mothers.” To Den, this statement clearly shows that Verge has a longing to have a closer relationship with her mother like other people have. When Barbara says that she will take her back to sunshine hostel Verge says “I don’t belong there.” She then goes on to say “I belong with you” while sitting down on her cases to indicate that she is not going to leave.
Scout learns how people aren't always what they seem. Miss Giates brings up the word “Democracy” and the class starts to have a discussion about it. Miss Giates talks about acts similar to Hitler towards the Jews. Miss Giates says acts similar to Hitler are acts towards the other people at her home. This is an example of Irony, because Miss Giates is saying she doesn't like Hitler when she acts similar to him.
While Melinda takes her anxiety out on her lips, her art is symbolic of how she feels about herself after Andy Evans raped her. The trees she draws for Mr. Freeman depict her emotional state in the aftermath of a numbing, traumatic experience. Melinda’s lips are mentioned when she is extremely uncomfortable and wants to disappear. For example, when Rachel/Rachelle is called up to help Melinda with an algebra problem. In this passage, Anderson writes “I pull my lower lip all the way in between my teeth.
One of the differences Charlotte and Jean have is that Charlotte is more mature and thoughtful than Jean especially when her teacher Ms.Hencock dies in a tragic accident.” When I heard it, I felt as though my chest and throat were constricted by a band of dry ice.”(pg78 “The metaphor”)Another big difference Jena and Charlottes has is that Jean’s grade1 teacher was more strict and punished the grade1 students harshly.” Jean Louise, I’ve had about enough of you this morning.”(pg28”To kill a mockingbird”) Charlotte’s teacher’s personality is very different than Jean’s teacher. Charlotte’s teacher is way too nice to punish the students although she is treated with disrespect and taunted every time by her group of gr10 students. Jean and Charlotte both treats their teacher with disrespect but later on realized that what they had done was wrong and felt bad for the teacher. Although Charlotte’s teacher had a tragic ending and Jean was more immature they had both felt bad and saw the teacher being frustrated and
Scout as a Good Samaritan Through out the story To Kill A Mockingbird Scout grows from a young tomboy to a compassionate young lady. When Scout is introduced in the novel she is described as a rude and quick-tempered young lady who feels as though there is nothing wrong with beating someone up. She is seen as unsympathetic human, which makes her similar to the preist in The Good Samaritan story. As she begins to grow she is still rude and quick-tempered but manages to restrain herself from using physical violence to solve her problems. Scout also learns many valuble lessons about how the people living in her town are biased and racist.