"Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts." - Chapter 7 of To Kill a Mockingbird Scout realizes she is not always right about the things she says. 7. "With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable." - Chapter 12 of To Kill a Mockingbird Scout realized she couldn’t live without him and that she needed somebody to be with her.
ringing in my ears. It was the first time I ever walked away from a fight.” (9.30-31) Walking away from Cecil Jacobs was a large change in character for Scout; her fighting shows that Scout has a quick temper and lack of self-control, yet she went against her own appeal because of Atticus. Scout also states, “I could take being called a coward for him [Atticus]. I felt extremely noble for having remembered, and remained noble for three weeks.” This shows that Scout is feeling great for her self-control to make things right. Another example of morality occurs when Atticus reveals he would rather do right by him, then to keep others happy.
Also as a child she encounters a passionate love affair, which can be somewhat comparable to her relationships even in old age. • The story-within-the-story aspects reinforces the interesting outlook on life that Alice posseses. It shows how competent she still as a senior, and disproves the mellow life she lives in a retirement community. Her blatant telling of her memories from childhood disturbed most of the other listeners in the writing club, and through this Lee reveals the blinded life that a majority of people carry with them until death. It is a natural defense mechanism to deny troubling truths that one doesn't want a face, and I commend Lee Smith for being one of the brave individuals who can look past their unconscious regulations.
When Atticus fails to understand that Boo was the one who killed Bob, Scout explains Atticus a lesson which is usually visa versa, that you must never kill a Mockingbird and by exposing and giving him the negative publicity towards Boo it would be like killing him in a way. This is the major turning point in Scouts maturity because she finally sees Boo not as evil but as a gentle creature just stuck in a bad situation. Although Scout matured drastically she still managed to be daddy’s little girls when she falls asleep on Atticus’ lap when he reads to her. This is only normal because even though Scout learned so much she is still so young and has a lot more to learn in
I noticed something bizarre though, that the more things I did to impress my mom, the more things she said about the Boogeyman. Each thing I did she said something darker about him, so my plan was a fiasco. My mom was insidious, her skills were impressive and very sneaky. She knew exactly what I was doing and how to stop it. Yet it made no sense, why would she want to scare me even more, its only going to make me go back to my old ways.
Just a knighthood, of course.” He says this because he knows that Gerald Croft’s mother doesn’t like them because she has a higher social class and thinks that Gerald can do better for himself than marrying Sheila Birling – Arthur Birling’s daughter. Priestly has portrayed Birling in such a way that the reader doubts what he says and is weary that the things he comes out with are usually wrong. When Birling talks about the Titanic he says “unsinkable – absolutely unsinkable” Priestley uses dramatic irony here because the reader knows that the Titanic sank.
True Bravery Atticus has taught me many things. One of the more important lessons was that of true bravery. I used to think bravery meant doing things you are scared to do (like approaching the Radley house), but I now realize that that was foolish. Atticus says true bravery means "when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what" Mrs. Dubose, Atticus, and even Scout were able to show true bravery. Mrs. Dubose, of course, wanted to quit her morphine addiction, even though it would kill her.
An example of point of view in treating people equally occurs with Miss Caroline Fisher. After Miss Caroline asks Scout to read The Mobile Register she says “… tell your father not to teach you anymore” (Lee, 19). When she gets home, Scout tells her dad this and that she doesn’t want to go back to school. Atticus says “You can never really understand a person from their point of view until you climb into their skin and walk around in it” (Lee, 33). Another example of point of view in treating people equally occurs with Arthur (Boo) Radley.
This occurs when she accuses Atticus of knowing nothing because he is deemed too old from her perspective. Ageism is also apparent when Scout’s Uncle Jack would not explain what a whore-lady is because he thought she would be too young to understand. Oppression is also evident in different modern societies today. For instance, there is great depression in the Dominican Republic. We were taught
However, Helena should take more blame for causing these infirmities and being a selfish mother to bring her son such a life. First of all, Kingshaw should take part of the responsibility because he lacked enough confidence to challenge Hooper. Kingshaw had chances to take away Hooper’s dominance, yet he didn’t make use of them. For example, when the thunder came in the woods, Kingshaw comforted Hooper who was afraid of the deafening sound, and took care of him, witnessing Hooper’s hidden fear. He could have mocked Hooper the same way Hooper used to call him ‘scaredy-baby’, hence taking revenge.