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Differences Within The Family Tree, By Harper Lee

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Differences Within The Family Tree

Harper Lee writes To Kill a Mockingbird to show the lifestyle, adventures, experiences, thoughts, and struggles of a young girl living in Maycomb, Alabama during the 1930’s. Two particular characters within Harper Lee’s novel, Atticus and Aunt Alexandra, present numerous differences. The major differences, whether their personalities, beliefs, or values, contributed to the main, negative conflicts within the novel. The Finch siblings show very differing personalities, which makes up an immense amount of the conflict between them. Aunt Alexandra, a southern lady, had a very proper and judgemental personality, which reflected on Scout. “Aunt Alexandra’s vision of my deportment involved playing with small …show more content…

In chapter nine of, To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout references what it is like to grow up in a household under their father’s rules and guidance. “The internal arrangements of the Finch house were indicative of Simon’s guilelessness and the absolute trust with which he regarded his offspring,” (Lee 106). Since this establishment was constructed, the family has always looked upon one another very highly. Atticus, unlike his sister, continues his trust in his own children, Jem and Scout, and let them make their own decisions, and come to their own conclusions.. “When Jem an’ I fuss Atticus doesn’t ever just listen to Jem's side of it, he hears mine too…” (Lee 113). Oftentimes throughout the story, Scout and her brother Jem argue amongst each other, in which Atticus steps in, hadleign the situation with a relaxed tone. He listens to his children. Ladies residing in th south are expected to live up to and hold a high standard. “... Aunt Alexandra was one of the last of her kind: she had a river-boat, boarding-school manners, let any moral come along and she would uphold it; she was born in the objective case; she was an incurable gossip.” (Lee 172). Aunt Alexandra, always stayed true to how she was raised, and took pride in herself and her family. Both of the siblings stayed true to how they grew up and how they were

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