To Kill A Mockingbird How Does Scout Change

Throughout the story Jem shows a huge amount of maturation. The book starts when Jem is about ten years of age and still acts like a young boy. He loves to play with his toys, make up games to play with Scout and Dill, go on adventures, and many more. As the story develops so does Jem. With each day that passes Jem seems to becoming more and more like his father. “ JEM WAS TWELVE. He was difficult to live with, inconsistent moody. His appetite was appalling, and he told me so many times to stop pestering him I consulted Atticus: ‘Reckon he’s got tapeworm?’ Atticus said no, Jem was growing” (pg 153). As Jem is dealing with more complicated issues, one being puberty, he is starting to grow up and develop a more

I can connect to Scout because I too have felt left out or made to feel unimportant by my sibling. In the book we can see Scout is made to believe that she is too young to play with Jem and Dill because he is older thinks he can boss her around. We see this when Jem and Dill start leaving Scout out of their planning in their treehouse. Also, this causes Scout to feel left out enough that she begins to spend more time at Miss Maudie’s house. Another example from the book where we see Jem leaves Scout out is her first day of school when he tells her to not follow him around during school “Jem was careful to explain that during school hours I was not to bother him” (Lee 20). Another reason that Scout felt unimportant was because Jem was

Scout Finch is not an ordinary girl, and she does not want to be. Everything about her life proves a little bit out of the ordinary, especially the mysteries of her town. Things start to get even more odd than usual when a neighbor’s nephew, Dill, arrives. He has an untamed curiosity that also boosts Scout’s wonder to figure out the truth of the Radley house next door and the mysterious Boo Radley who lives there. While many questions surround Scout, her father takes a case that will change all of their lives. He agrees to defend an African-American man that was falsely accused, something that was unspeakable at the time. In the town of Maycomb, Scout’s traits of curiosity, tomboy personality, and boldness and courage, help her realize that

Learning to be someone different than who you really are, is really hard. It’s really difficult to disagree with other people to do the right thing. Scout learns this lesson from the novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee. Throughout the novel, Scout transforms from tomboy / immature to more ladylike / respectful due to learning from sticking up for other people and doing the right thing.

Atticus Finch said “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). As a result of this quote out main character will change. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee uses the character and characterization of Scout to show how empathy can change someone’s life for the better. Throughout the book Scout changes quite a bit. In the beginning she was very tomboyish choosing to wear overalls instead of dresses, she also liked to beat other kids up. During the middle of the story she began to have a change of heart. She started to hang out with her aunt more and realized it takes a lot of effort. During this time of self discovery she noticed small details about her friends and family. But by the end of the book she starts to see things from others views to give her insight to how others might see things.

Scout was beginning to put away her tomboyish acts and started acting like a young lady, "She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl". This quote can be seen as a point where Scout started seeing being a girl a good thing rather than bad. Her brother Jem used to make fun of Scout when she would act like a girl, saying that girls are weak. Making this change from being a tough tomboy to a tough girl is a pretty big deal. In chapter 24, when Aunt Alexandra is hosting her missionary tea at the Finch’s Residence, Scout is inside instead of being outside to avoid it. She’s also wearing a dress, a pink one at that, in place of her usual shirt and shorts.

My windsock, represent Scout Finch, with the symbol overalls. I chose Scout because she 's the main character and had a big impact on the book. I choose overall for her symbols because she continues to wear them as fighting against people trying to attempt her to be a lady. She 's not the average girl who dresses up and acts nice. She the type of girl who would fight with her fist instead of her mind. This windsock is made out of scrapbook paper for the top half and ribbons to be the streamers which hold the quotes. Most of the streamers will be a different color the represent its quote.

For example, Scout was being considerate when she was calling Boo Mr.Arthur, and also when she was being nice to him by leading him around their house. An example is when she said this, “You’d like to say goodnight to Jem, wouldn’t you, Mr.Arthur? Come right in” (371). Knowing that because of what he did, he must really look out for the safety of the kids, and by letting him say goodnight to him Scout is allowing him to do that. This is a turning point for Scout because this is the first time she really sees the real side of Boo, and she quickly learns that he really is a nice guy. Another example is when Scout is standing on his porch after she walked him home and was thinking, “Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them, Just standing on the Radley porch was enough” (374). While she was standing on the porch, she saw things how Boo would of seen them, and she realizes then that Boo stays inside so he can closely monitor the kids and help them when they need it most. This changed Scout as a character because it makes her think about how she sees Boo and how it’s nothing like how he actually is. By believing the rumors she’s heard, she didn’t give him a chance to prove who he really is as a person, and for that reason, Boo helped Scout change her perspective on people and

Scout matured quickly through her experiences of the real world. She realized many harsh realities at a very young age. Through her journey she learned the terrible effects of people's racism and hate. Many of the things she learned were not for someone of her age but because of the situations in To Kill a Mockingbird. The story was told by an adult Scout,

Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, illustrates how women are restricted by societal expectations. Women and girls are expected to act a certain way, to be feminine and docile. After an argument between Jem and Scout, Jem goes as far to shout, “‘It’s time you started bein’ a girl and acting right!’” (Lee, 153). Jem believes that Scout should be cooperative and malleable to be a typical girl. He wants Scout to change who she is to fit his idea of what being a woman is about. In Jem’s mind, women and girls should not be opinionated and “rough”, they must be feminine and frail.

Lily from The Secret Life of Bees and Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird are two strong, memorable characters who are different, but they have a lot in common. Though they face difficult situations because of the loss of their mothers, they learn to cope with life in the south. The authors of these books created two distinctive characters, with many similarities and differences, both of whom are loved by readers.

Scout is now forty six and living in Colorado, she’s a grammar school teacher and a mother of two. She’s been married for 19 years with Henry Stub, a pediatrician. Living in a country style community she learns to ride horses and raise farm animals. Her two daughters Amilia and Catrina would help in the farm all the time as children but now they are grown with their own lives. Now it’s just the two of them, Scout and Henry and their farm animals.

Throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem and Scout 's perception of courage drastically changes their behavior as they mature. They learn a lot about courage throughout the novel from their father Atticus and what they learn from him influences their choices and opinions. Although Jem is older than Scout, they both experience change in their behavior. At the beginning of the novel, Jem is still a young boy. He is defiant towards Atticus, he plays all the usual childhood games with Scout and Dill, and he engages in the younger children’s obsession with Boo Radley. As the novel progresses, Jem becomes less defiant and more understanding of adults. Jem witnesses the physical and moral courage of his father before and during the trial of

Jean Louise Finch ‘Scout’ is a headstrong young girl who narrates the novel ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’, set in the fictitious County Maycomb over the span of three years. She is often found sporting dirty overalls or breeches and possesses a rather tomboyish personality, much to her aunt’s dismay. It says, “Aunt Alexandra was fanatical on the subject of my attire... When I said I could do nothing in a dress, she said I wasn’t supposed to be doing things that required pants.”(Page 90)

We can prove Scout changes and matures through the book by various events that take place. For instance, when Scout said: “Atticus had promised me he would wear me out if he ever heard of me fighting anymore; I was far too old and too big for such childish things, and the sooner I learned to hold in, the better off everybody would be.” (Lee 9.1) In here, not only does Atticus tell Scout to start maturing and worrying about more relevant stuff, but she also listens, understands and takes immediate action on it. She starts thinking about what her father tells her, and realizes that fighting for such immature and irrelevant things is not worth it. There are much bigger problems in life than that. Scout understands that the less she fights, the better off people would be.