To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee: Character Analysis

Jem and Scout, throughout “To Kill A Mockingbird,” learn to consider things from other people’s perspectives. Atticus, Jem and Scout’s father, says “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” (Lee 39). They learn this through experiences with their neighbor Boo Radley as they mature beyond their years. At the beginning of the novel, Jem and Scout make fun of Boo and assume that all of the rumors going around about him are true. However, later on in the story the children grow an admiration for Boo and learn to understand him. As they matured, Jem and Scout naturally learned many life lessons of appreciation, respect, and courage

“Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square. Somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer’s day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. Men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o’clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum...There was no hurry, for there was no where to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb.” (Lee 6) In Harper Lee’s classic story To Kill a Mockingbird,

1. (56-59) Scout admires Ms. Maudie because she’s honest and kind to them, even though they are just children. On page 59, Harper Lee writes, “She had never told on us, had never played cat-and-mouse with us, she was not at all interested in out private lives. She was our friend.”

redujice is not something we are born with; it is something that we grow to learn from who and what surrounds us, things that help to form our identity. Prejudice is an integral theme in Harper Lee’s, To Kill A Mockingbird. Prejudice is evident throughout the novel, not just in the appalling racism but also through, prejudice against different sexual orientations, gender constructs and feminism. Society had certain constructs that had to be met. Throughout To Kill A Mockingbird, Lee breaks the bounds to overcome barriers, and challenge social constructs.

Jean Louise Finch (a.k.a Scout) is a 6-year-old little girl who is full of love and joy. She isn’t the most feminine girl in all of Maycomb County, but she has a heart that’s as large as the world. That is why I choose to include a heart in my illustration. Scout is also a kid, which is why I added the “3 Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf”, and the toy. To show that Scout is a little girl. Yet, she changes throughout the book. That’s why I added a butterfly. Butterflies transform from a caterpillar into themselves. Just like how Scout became more sophisticated across the book. Finally, to show even more change, I included a background of white transitioning to black. To display that Scout has permuted into a young lady in the duration of “To

There are plenty of important characters in the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. The story chronicles life through the eyes of young children, but also shows first hand accounts of racist adults in the small town of Holcomb. This book is so unique because symbolism is avidly used. The main characters in To Kill a Mockingbird are symbolized as mockingbirds. There are many different situations where a character can be categorized as a mockingbird. A mockingbird can be a meek man accused of a crime, or a young child misinformed by a racist community. While these characters are diverse, they have one thing in common: innocence. To Kill a Mockingbird portrays examples of innocence that have been influenced by a negative mentality.

Classic stories have a protagonist who involuntarily steps into struggles, obstacles, and times of self-reflection. The reader envisions the character throughout the plot fighting barriers and instinctively discovers how the character progresses from the beginning, many times having to face personal conflict, to see positive change in the end. In Harper Lee’s, To Kill A Mockingbird, the main focus and perspective are from Scout who comes face to face with challenges along her journey. She must learn to become the person who she wants to be without the negative impacts of the environment and traditional values she succumbs to. Through the significance of the Cunningham’s, Reverend Sykes, and Miss Maudie, the juxtaposition Scout embraces among these characters help her grow to understand the importance of seeing the

“I could take being called a coward for him. I felt extremely noble for having remembered”(102). In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, author Harper Lee, explores the racial predicaments of the 1920’s and how the matter affected the community of Maycomb County.

One should not be judged by their physical appearance but should be judged by their work ethic and response to problems that occur in their life. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird the main character's father Atticus, is a very respectable man with a very good work ethic. Due to this he is a very well known man throughout the town. In the novel Atticus has many obstacles he must overcome and problems he must resolve. Through all the of these times Atticus uses perseverance to get through them, including raising Jem and Scout, his two kids, by himself. Also Atticus used perseverance to overcome the persecution for representing a colored man in court. When characters persevere they are able to create positive changes for others.

In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee addresses many important and sensitive issues. Some of the issues include racism, discrimination and social class. In the early 1900's most of the people were racist and discriminatory, therefore the author trying to show the look and feel of that time.

In Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird,” Mayella Ewell, a young woman as well as the daughter of Bob Ewell, lives a life of insolence and isolation in the town of Maycomb. As a Ewell, which they are familiarized as being vulgar, uneducated, and indigent, Mayella is disrespected by the people of Maycomb as well as by her father. During the court case, Atticus shows courtesy towards Mayella by addressing her as a miss and a ma’am, which is not surprising for his values of equality. Mistaking his manners with sarcasm, she replies with, “Won’t answer a word you say as long as you keep mockin’ me” (pg.181). Harper Lee is demonstrating the amount of disregard Mayella faces in her life, so much that courtesy can’t be identified as just that. Mayella finds that Atticus is ridiculing her for what she doesn’t have, respect from others. With a reputation such as Mayella’s, people treat her like an outcast. Her lonely life can be a reason to explain why she always asked for Tom Robinson’s company, she wanted to experience friendship and perhaps love for the first time. Her loneliness was so clear to see, even Scout, who still has their childhood-innocent mind, can see through it. Scout compares Mr.Dolphus Raymond’s “mixed children” to Mayella because they both don’t know where to stand in their social class, “white people wouldn’t have anything to do with her because she lived among pigs; Negroes wouldn’t have anything to do with her

“Why do you identify as Ethiopian-American?” my 10th grade English teacher asked me, a valid question I would not forget anytime soon. Our class was discussing how the protagonist in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout, struggled to find her identity. To engage the class, our teacher asked what we identify ourselves as and why we labeled ourselves as such. Never the one to miss the chance to boast my east African heritage, my right hand soared up. After I told him, the usual set of questions followed: “Were you born there...but you were raised here?” And then he asked the million-dollar question.

a) Scout Finch (Jean Louise) is the main character of the novel and is known to be a tomboy who gets into a lot of fights to deal with problems at school. She is “betrothed” to Dill who is the nephew of her neighbor, Miss Rachel and throughout the novel learns various life lessons as she is dealt with many difficult events.

Imagine you are a lawyer tasked with an impossible case, and everybody in your community is against you, but still there is a shred of hope you cling to. What might that be you ask? That to which you cling are your morals. In To Kill a Mockingbird Atticus Finch had been given the Tom Robinson case, where a black man was convicted of raping a white woman. As a single father of two children, he continues to reinforce his values throughout the trial and during his daunting task of raising his children. In To Kill A Mockingbird what Harper Lee suggests about the nature of morals is that you should try to stand up for what you believe in even if people oppose or reject your ideals. Even when faced with an insurmountable opposition you should stand up for your morals because in the end if your don't follow your beliefs you are just contributing to the problem. We should try to create a voice for what we believe in and impress that upon the next generation so they can continue to exercise their beliefs to make the world a better place.

All the chaos in the town began refining hearts, by the act of one man’s dignity. That one man is Atticus Finch, he tries to help the obstinate people in his society: who are set in their own ways, acknowledge the morals of right and wrong of racism. In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird written by, Harper Lee is about the roots of human behavior, from innocence, cruelty, compassion, hatred, humor, love, and pathos set in the 1930’s in Maycomb, Alabama. There are four main characters Scout, Jem, Atticus, and Dill. Atticus is a widowed father of Jem and Scout. Jem and Scout are both ornery siblings with the help of their friend Dill. Jem, Scout, and Dill dramatically change throughout the novel into three beautiful Mockingbirds. The life lessons taught in Maycomb, Alabama are the key to change and positive influence.