She is disrespectful towards Calpurnia her maid. Scout suggests to Atticus to have her fired. “‘She likes Jem better’n she likes me, anyway,’ I concluded, and suggested that Atticus lose no time in packing her off” (Lee, 25). When Scout says this after Calpurnia punished her, it shows how inconsiderate and rude she was. The reason Calpurnia punished Scout in the first place was because she had berated Walter Cunningham for having different tastes than her.
In To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Scout must face the world and their uncovered obstacles while becoming older. She understands that foolish conduct is inappropriate and disrespectful when irritating her neighbors. With help of Aunt Alexandra, Scout also ascertains how to become a formal woman. Lastly, she witnesses a type of hate, new to her, through Tom Robinson’s trial. Scout comes to the conclusion that a world of pressure weighs down on her shoulders.
Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced. Prejudice,”(245) which shows that her teacher is against persecution. Later on, Scout over hears her teacher saying that it is a good thing Tom Robinson was being convicted because colored people were getting too “high” and “mighty.” That subject has Scout’s head roaming around thinking how hypocritical her teacher was being. Scout’s view against her father were also changing. Before she thought that Atticus was different from the other fathers in Maycomb because he was too old and couldn’t do anything fun with them.
Scout misunderstands. She thinks the mob is a group of friends, and rushes into it “(2001).Scout is not ready for the seriousness of becoming a women. She is more worried and playing around and enjoying herself as every other child. She also looks up to the only sibling that she have which happens to be a boy. Scout is only following the hand that she has been delt.
Scout is an innocent kid just like any young kids, she then because informed that the world around her is not a nice place sometimes. Racism is a big part of evil in the world. Most kids are like Dill who think that it's unfair “That old Mr. Gilmer doin‘ [TomRobinson] thataway, talking so hateful to him—” However, Scout just accepts it. “Dill, that’s his job. Why, if we didn’t have prosecutors—well, we couldn’t have defense attorneys, I reckon.” Scout learns about the real world, how it's unfair.
He made it sound like were runnin’ a still” (75). Scout was curious why it was a problem if Atticus was defending an African American. She wants to find out the truth behind the things happening around her, which shows maturity. In the first half of the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout shows the immaturity of a six-year-old, but she also shows a lot of maturity because of her desire to learn. Like a typical six-year-old, she believes everything she hears, she is scared easily, and lastly she is ignorant about a lot of things.
In contrast to Cindy’s new found self esteem, her mother seemed to uphold a strong lack of confidence in her daughter and in herself as well. By the same token, in the second article “The Thrill of Victory … The Agony of Parents”, the author presents the opposition through her mother. Jennifer Schwind’s mother appeared as an embarrassment to her publicly and emotionally. “In a voice so screeching that it rivaled fingernails on a blackboard, she told him that he was a disgraceful coach and that he should be ashamed of himself” (Pawlak 3). While in her mother’s eyes, she only supported her daughter and craved the absolute best for her child.
2. Scout gets into three altercations One: Scout usually gets along well with her Uncle Jack, but when he arrives in Maycomb, she begins cursing in front of him. Jack is Atticus’s brother therefore Scout should respect him and make him feel at home, but recently she has picked up the bad habit of cursing which relates back to the disease of Maycomb. Two: Scout attacks Jem because she got angry when Jem started to lecture her on why she shouldn’t annoy Alexandra, Atticus’s sister. In the previous chapters (1-5) Atticus is always telling Scout to relax and to avoid fighting with others therefore Jem is trying to help Scout realise her mistake and change her actions.
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
“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.