How do Jem and Scout change during the course of the novel? How do they remain the same? During the course of the novel, both Jem and Scout changed. Jem and his sister Scout are exposed to a lot of changes that in the end prompt them changing the way they perceive those around them and how life is in general.
We’ve a recording of her family. We have watched them carefully. ”(57) In this society, they spy on families for being different. Which shows how bad they react to nonconformity.
When immediately being introduced to her, she is not the most appealing woman. She is deceitful and callous while also being an obnoxious narcissist and an overall closed minded
She was invited my a old friend that she met on a cruise ship. What she did was kicked her daughter out of her house after being informed her daughter was pregnant. Her daughter, Beatrice Taylor soon after killed herself. Emily Brent was very angry when she kicked Beatrice out. She wasn’t thinking straight because of how angry she was.
“I am loud like my mother. When I holler, you can hear me up and down the streets and around the corner”, “She and her friends run to the other side of the street like they being chased by boys with bricks. I’m right behind ‘em, with my fist balled up”, and “’Oh no you didn’t!’ I say, digging my elbow into some girl’s stomach. Slapping my hand up against another girl’s back, trying to get to the front of this thing,” shows that she’s loud, violent, and rude toward the
Her methods to convey her message are considered to be rough but to the point. Providing harsh
Her granddaughter was not impressed with the idea that her grandmother would like her to marry someone based on their looks or
Dubose openly expresses her hatred and
She seems to look down on them for not knowing as much as she does. Although this might seem as selfishness, it could be considered
Both Emily and Robert are prematurely judged by the narrators in both stories, and the assumptions are so far fetched from the reality. Miss. Emily is perceived to be a lonely old woman, whom nobody ever spoke with. Since they never talk with her or learn anything about what is going on in her life, the townspeople begin to gossip to make up for this. They knew her father had driven away any man from becoming close to her, and they just thought to themselves, “ poor Emily” (32).
It is clear that in her era, Miss Emily was seen as traditional American Southern women, who lived to become an inferior women to man but was later a burden to her society. She was a lady who was secluded from society, lived a psychopathic life, which at the end, and was no secret for the town’s people. While Miss Emily was alive, she lived in a secluded home of a single father, thus leading her to be dependent upon him. She did not have much of a socially engaged life, for her father drove men away. When he finally died, Miss Emily told the townspeople that he was not dead, and finally, on the third day, let the town’s people buried him (William Faulkner 1105).
Emily wasn’t afraid, naturally—none of the Brents were afraid. All her people were Service people. They faced earth unflinchingly.
She is mentally disturbed, and driven to her act by insanity. Miss Emily kills her victim, Barron, to keep him around because she truly loves him and she does not want to let go. Both protagonists have a distorted perception of
She told them her father was not dead. She did that for three days, with the ministers calling on her, and the doctors trying to persuade her to let them dispose of the body." (247) This stubborn act is not only disturbing but displays the true madness of not only Emily but the tradition of the Old South as
