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Scout's Change In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

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“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”(Atticus Finch) Some ways that Scout Dill and Jem change during the book To Kill A Mockingbird are Scout was innocent in the beginning but learned racism and empathy, Dill becomes very sensitive to different things and finally Jem becomes more quiet and mature .

Scout was innocent in the beginning but learned racism and empathy during the book. A example of Scout's innocence in the beginning is when she says “the world's endin’, Atticus! please do something.” (pg.64) This shows how Scout doesn't really know what's really happening or going on the Maycomb because it was just snowing. A big event that changed Scout was when Bob Ewell tried to kill her and Jem but Boo Radley came out of nowhere and saved them.The way that this event changed Scout is it teachers her not to judge a book by its cover. Because she was judging him the whole time by what she heard and saw. She also learned empathy for Boo.She is finally starting to see the other side of people. …show more content…

He was very happy and outgoing when the book first started but then his mom got a new husband. When she met her new husband Dill's mom started to not focus on Dill and focused more on her husband. Dill felt unloved so he ran away to the Finches house. After this happened anything that would not hurt Dills feeling before know made him cry a lot. Dill starts to care about other people's feeling a lot more an example of this is during the trial and Dill says “I don't care one speck. It ain't right, somehow it ain't right to do 'em that way. Hasn't anybody got any business talkin' like that”(pg 145). This shows that Dill does care about people's feeling and he starts to know what's wrong and

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