Essay On Scout's Change In To Kill A Mockingbird

In the beginning of the novel, Scout is just a regular 5 year-old girl who has no knowledge with the crisis and reality of the world. Later in the novel Scout changes, she sees/experiences racial prejudice but Atticus teaches her that you can change evil to good if you just

<br>Later in the book, however, Scout changes. She now tries to control her temper, and is somewhat successful. One example of this is when Cecil Jacobs, another of Scout's classmates, insults Atticus by saying that Atticus defended Niggers. Scout remembers that she shouldn't fight, and walks away. "Cecil Jacobs made me forget. He had announced in the schoolyard the day before that Scout Finch's daddy defended niggers… ‘You gonna take that back boy?' ‘You gotta make me first!' he yelled… ‘I drew a bead on him, remembered what Atticus had said, then dropped my fists and walked away, ‘Scout's a cow-ward!' ringing in my ears" (80-81). Scout also learns to respect and value

Everyone changes over time. Whether you are introduced to a new group of people or go through a new situation, we all change. In "To Kill A Mockingbird," Scout goes through many changes throughout the course of the book. She experiences what life is like with bullying, racism, and our legal system. Scout watches as a man goes on trial for sexual assault and her father gets harassed for becoming his defense attorney in rural, racist Alabama.

An example of Scout maturing was when she learned how to treat a guest. When Walter Cunningham came over for dinner, Scout had embarrassed him by calling out that he poured a lot of syrup on his food. She didn’t realize he did that because he didn’t know when or where his next meal would be coming from. Before, she didn’t know that it was rude to judge a guest. Scout and Jem want to believe that there was no prejudice in the world and that their little town of Maycomb was perfect. Innocence perishes based on experiences. Witnessing the trial, and all the hate people had towards black people showed them the bitter truth of the world. Even though they see the world as it is, they don’t agree with it. "If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other?” (259). Jem couldn’t understand why people were so hateful because of their skin color. “It couldn’t be worse. The only thing we’ve got is a black man’s word against the Ewells.” (116). Tom was a kind man who didn’t do anything wrong. Atticus knew that Tom had no chance against a white man, as he couldn’t be told he was lying. “...They couldn’t be fair if they tried...the white man always wins” (295). Killing Tom, was like killing a mockingbird, and thus a sin. Why kill something that doesn’t bother

She would get a better understanding of this as the novel progresses. Scout also learns more about maturity when she experiences hypocrisy from her teacher, “Over here we don’t believe in persecuting anybody. Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced. Pre-ju-dice,” She is contradicting herself, saying that it is acceptable to persecute blacks but not Jews. It dawned on Scout that people are hypocrites and have double standards when it suits them. The biggest step the children took towards growing up was during the Tom Robinson trials. There, the children received full exposure to the evils, malevolence, prejudice and sorrow of the cruel world as a white man accuses an innocent black man for raping when all Tom ever wanted to achieve was to help others. The children understood what was going on completely and was therefore changed because of it. At the unexpected climax of the novel, the children have an unpleasant encounter with Bob Ewell who wanted to take revenge on Atticus for humiliating him by killing his children. This was an absolutely outrageous act of insanity but also taught the children how dangerous reality could be, finalizing their journey into adulthood.

Scout is the misunderstood tomboy of the well known Finch family. She didn't grow up with a motherly figure, inheriting many traits from her brother and her father. Thus, making her quite the outcast from the many girls at her school. This was a time where being very ladylike meant a lot, wearing dresses, make up, cross your legs, and biting your tongue. The many qualities a lady should have back then, but she lacked many of those which is why she stood out.

He would be called names and much more but he made sure Scout did not all under those influences. There were three ways Scout developed over the book. The three significant ways on how Scout develops over the novel are being tough, maturing and most importantly learning to treat everyone equally.

In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the events before, of, and after the trial of alleged rape are forcing Scout to be changed by society into a more mature and less innocent young lady. For instance, after the incident with Mr. Ewell, Scout tells Atticus on page 375, “‘Atticus, I wasn't scared… Jem wasn't scared. Asked him and he said he wasn't.’” In other words, despite her near death experience, Scout still is not scared. This information suggests that Scout is being forced to become stronger and braver under these circumstances than a young girl normally would; becoming more dependent on herself than others. Another example would be on page 331, when Scout asks her brother, “‘Jem, how can you hate Hitler so bad an’ then turn around

To begin with the level one preconventional stage that Scout was in the begin of the book is usually associated with children, while they are being taught that bad actions have consequences. The people that present this type of level conduct according to socially acceptable standards, because they have been set by someone of a higher authority (Robert N. Barger,.) Between the beginning of the book and the middle of the book she went through a series of different events like the trial of Tom Robinson that directly impacted her dad Atticus which as a fact was his lawyer defending the case. This situation had a huge impact on Scout because not everyone in that town thought the same way Atticus did; in defending human rights. When a person is in this level the moral values that they have at that moment of their life is more of the discipline action. They have been taught that bad behavior will not be rewarded. In addition Scout knew that fighting would lead to Attius being really upset with her, and she

Scout rigorously was able to progress and mature, as well as adapt to new situations, visually changing her morals and outlook on her life. Scouts moral growth took off at the very beginning of the novel, early on during her issues at school with her teacher, Miss.Caroline. Scout professes her concern to Atticus on her learning, and her personal belief regarding Miss.Caroline's lack of teaching things of those similar to what Scout was learning at home. Scout felt although she was progressing more educationally at home when reading and writing with Atticus. After Scout talked to Atticus she truly realized Miss.Caroline’s point of view. In the text Atticus handled the situation with Scout by saying, “you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view….until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” (Lee 39) Scout definitely was able to gain new insight from this experience and from talking with Atticus. Atticus was as well able to accommodate Scout in learning these new skills. Scout additionally accomplished moral growth in her experience bothering Boo Radley. Scout and her rather childish ways began back at the beginning of the book when Scout took interest in Boo Radley and his life. Scout, being intrusive and invasive at the beginning, took concern in his life, which soon she quickly learned was not proper. Atticus provided the following saying to teach Scout the importance of developing and maturing from her preprosperous ways. “Furthermore had it never occurred to us that the civil way

Scout Finch is an unusual little girl. She’s overall intelligent, confident, and thoughtful. Scout Finch is strongly affected by the social force of gender, scouts appearance is irregular and her style does not follow the typical expectations of a girl in the 1930’s. Scout Finch is identified as a tomboy. She has short hair with bangs and chooses to dress in overalls instead of the stereotypical dresses.

You’re not the same person you were yesterday. You changed, you grew. Be it physically, mentally, or emotionally. And just like you change, so do characters in books. Take Scout Finch from Harper Lee’s fictional novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. At the beginning of the story, she’s 7 and just learning how the world works. She's scared of her reclusive neighbor and never wants to become what society expects her to be: a lady. At the end of the novel, 4 years later, she realizes that her reclusive neighbor is nothing to be afraid of and being a lady doesn't mean that you aren't strong. Scout changes by learning what real courage is, by walking in others shows, and by learning that things aren't always as they seem.

In To Kill A Mockingbird I found that Scout was very harshly judged on they was she acts and dresses. “What are you doing in those overalls? You should be in a dress” (page 135) This scene was when Mrs.Dubose was screaming at Scout for not wearing a dress. I see that not only kids are telling Scout to change but that almost every adult is telling Scout to change and that she shouldn't be wearing that i the first place. Even if it's a different time period, and every girl was expected to be wearing a dress at all times, Scout at a young age of 6 is confident enough to keep on wearing a dress after everyone told her to change how its not ladylike. “If your scared go home, Scout when did you start acting like such a girl.” (Movie) This is when Scout and Jem were Going to Boo Radley's house, Scout was scared and Jem sees Scout are more like a boy than a girl, so when 6 year old scout got afraid Jem's first reaction wasn’t to go comfort her but to ask her when did she start acting like such a girl. I see this as the opposite of Mrs.Dubose, because instead of someone telling her to be like a girl it so someone telling her to be more like a boy. This puts a lot of pressure on Scout, who is only 6 years old! Weather it being make almost everyone in the town happy with her decision and make Jem sad, or make Jem happy and almost the whole town sad and maybe even a little

How Scout Develops from a Tomboy to a Young Lady in To Kill a Mockingbird

Scout’s personality begins as coarse; she wants to control with her fists and is easily provoked. However, through her interactions with those in her community, her personality becomes more refined. One example of her lack of self-control is shown when she gets into a fight with her cousin Francis. In her rage, she decided to take out her anger on him, “‘He is not!’ I roared. ‘I don’t know what you’re talking’ about, but you better cut it out this red hot minute!’I leaped off the steps and