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Essay On Scout Growing Up In To Kill A Mockingbird

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To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee about her life in the early 1960’s. To Kill a Mockingbird shows Scouts life and the events that lead up to her meeting Boo Radley. In To Kill a Mockingbird Scout discovers hot to grow up through her life. First off in To Kill a Mockingbird Scout discovers growing up through her life the first character that shows this is Atticus. In Maycomb Scout was having a bad day and her dad teaches her a life lesson “You will never understand a person until you consider things from his point of view until you climb in his skin and walk around in it” (page:39). Scout and her family look up to each other Atticus is always teaching his kids to listen and grow. Atticus gives scout a life lesson basically telling her to never give up. “Simply because we were licked a 100 years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win” (page:101). Therefor it shows how her dad is telling her never to give up. Finally this shows how Atticus helps Scout through her journey of growing up. …show more content…

One day in Maycomb Scout was judging Walter Cunningham for the way he was eating and Calpurnia said “ There's some folks who don't eat like us but you ain't called on to contradict ‘em at the table. That boys yo comp'ny and if he wants to eat the tablecloth you let em you hear” (page:32). Therefor Scout learns from Calpurnia how to grow up. Calpurnia gives scout a surprise after she has been good for a while. “Shut your eyes and close your mouth and I'll give you a surprise”(Page:38). Therefor that teaches Scout hat if you be kind and nice you will be rewarded. Finally this shows that Calpurnia taught Scout to be a young

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This will be explored in greater detail throughout this essay. In Chapter 1, the author describes Calpurnia from Scout’s point of view as harsh and unfair, but it is inferred that, because Scout is a small child whom Calpurnia is reprimanding, Calpurnia really does care what happens to the children and how they behave. Lee writes from Scout’s perspective, “ Our

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Walter lived an extremely different life than Scout, and did things that were foreign and foolish to her. She did learn to respect his ways, but not until after a grand scolding from Calipurnia. After mocking Walter about eating differently than her family did Scout was called into the kitchen to have a little chat with Cal. Calipurnia’s greatest remark was this “Don’t matter who they are, anybody set’s foot in this house’s yo’ com’ny, and don’t you let me catch you remarkin’ on their ways like you was so high and mighty” (Harper Lee 33)!

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When Calpurnia is scared she is still able to comfort Scout such as a mother would to her child by saying, “‘Don’t you fret,’ Calpurnia whispered to me, but the roses on her hat trembled indignantly,” (Lee, 158). When it is clear that Calpurnia and Scout have no relation, whatsoever, she still is able to reassure her. She continually proves her solicitude towards Scout by teaching her about what goes on in the world and by caring about her well being, mentally, emotionally, and physically. Calpurnia knows that they would not be connected other than the fact that she works for them and has to watch over them. Nevertheless, Calpurnia goes above and beyond when she decided to take their own needs before her own, by comforting them and not letting them worry about something, when she is clearly worried herself.

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Her cooking skill, her knowledge, and her love toward Jem and Scout, qualified the standard of becoming a wonderful mother. These characteristics of Calpurnia successfully filled the absence of their mother to Jem and Scout. One pleasant memory that Scout had, appeared when Calpurnia treated her a special meal. After the disappointing first day of school, when Scout gave herself to miserable mood, Calpurnia prepared a surprise for Scout.

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Throughout the novel, Calpurnia interacts with Scout a lot as they live together and have a caring relationship with each other which allows Cal to teach Scout many important lessons including manners, understanding people and most importantly equality, and allowing her rebel against the Maycomb disease. After Scout beats up Walter Cunningham over a small mishap in the classroom she invites him over for lunch but finds herself questioning his eating styles. After making fun of him for it, Calpurnia teaches Scout an important lesson on manners when she says that it “Don't matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house's yo' comp'ny” (Lee 25). Calpurnia shows her understanding of manners and the differences between the Finches and the Cunninghams

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To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel about the child hood of a young girl named Jean Louise Finch. It is about the struggles she faced growing up with racial circumstances in the Southern United States. She is often her referred to as Scout Finch through the novel. Scout lives with her brother Jem and their father Atticus in the town of Maycomb, Alabama. Maycomb is a small town where everybody knows everybody.

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To overcome this ignorant state, they must experience something beyond their idealities and their comfort zone. It is better to be aware about an unfamiliar world rather than to be naive of it. Scout is uneducated about the meaning of rape and is not alert about the consequences and the dangers of it. Since Calpurnia did not inform Scout about what rape is, she decides to ask her Father after returning home from Calpurnia's church. Atticus begins to explain a child-friendly version of what rape is.

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Calpurnia is an ideal influence for Scout’s coming of age moments. She teaches Scout the importance of manners, and treating people with respect. When Walter Cunningham comes to eat lunch with Scout and Jem one day, Scout

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Scout then explains that the Cunninghams are hard workers, they are poor and accept no charity and they can only pay back with hickory nuts and turnip greens. Miss Caroline takes that as an insult towards Walter and punishes her by ordering her to sit in the corner while the other students laugh at her. Scout then pummels Walter to the ground in the playground for embarrassing her in the classroom, but she stopped when Jem pulls her back from Walter. Scout’s father Atticus invites Walter to dinner at the Finch house, and there Scout pulls another disrespectful move on Walter where she explains that he has “ruined” his dinner by pouring all the molasses all over his plate. Calpurnia, Scout’s cook, then calls Scout to the kitchen and says to apologize to Walter and is asked to eat in the kitchen instead of the dinner table as her

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There are many motifs and lessons to be learned from To Kill A Mockingbird. The entire book was written from the point of view of the main protagonist, Scout. The author, Harper Lee, was well beyond the age of an adult at the time of publishing. Throughout the entire book there is a constant motif of symbolism in relation to the title among others, including the injustice of society. Harper Lee chose to write To Kill A Mockingbird through the eyes of a child from the perspective of an adult reminiscing because she wanted to straightforwardly address the injustices of society, justify the reliability of Scout 's accounts, and to implicate the growth and development of Scout first-handedly.

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You're not gonna change any of them by talkin' right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language'" (126). Calpurnia also opens Scouts eyes to a whole new concept of being polite and “ladylike”. Through her interaction with others, Scout appears to understand what Calpurnia means, and uses this newfound wisdom throughout the rest of the story to talk and help other people. Scout tries to cheer up Atticus by, "Atticus looked like he needed cheering up. I ran to him and hugged him and kissed him with all my might. '

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If I reproduced her penmanship satisfactorily, she rewarded me with an open-faced sandwich of bread and butter and sugar.” This part of the text shows Calpurnia as a mother figure and a teacher, and a crucial part of Scout's growth and maturing. Miss Caroline's role is to teach Scout to adapt and transform into society, that when you are in school you are Jean Louis and at home Scout. Something else that shows her coming of age is being disciplined in front of the class for being outspoken and knowing how to read. You see her growth when she continues to read and write (with help from Atticus “If you’ll concede the necessity of going to school, we’ll go on reading every night just as we always have.

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What she learns is slowly taught to her by the people around her and the experiences she has. The first life lesson that Scout encounters is not to judge someone until one really knows them. In this novel the first person that starts to teach Scout a lesson is Atticus,

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Another one of her strengths is that she is courageous. Scout expresses her courage through her strangeness. Scout not once gives up to what others do and withstands the tendency for ‘groupthink’ that is so much a part of Maycomb civilization. When Scout displays this in front of others, it is obvious that there is audacity in her

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