ipl-logo

Summary Of The Book 'To Kill A Mockingbird'

566 Words3 Pages

Imagine living in a world where the color of your skin determined solely how people treated you...STOP… you already know what that feels like because sadly racism is still a big problem. I am reading the book “To Kill a Mockingbird.” This book takes place in the 1930s. The setting of the book is in Atlanta and is narrated by Scout. For example, the book states, “His maddening superiority was unbearable these days.” He talks about Jem maturing and he is less childish. Jem even tells Scout that she should be more ladylike in a later chapter. (Lee, p.184) This proves that Jem is maturing and becoming more of a gentleman. He is growing into a young Atticus. Aunt Alexandra's goal for Scout is to have her be more of a lady and wear dresses and not rough house with her brother anymore. This shows how having such a strong influence on someone can influence their whole life. …show more content…

This shows a text to text connection because it reminds me of Boo Radley and how he hides out from the rest of the neighborhood. Bella confronts Edward by saying, “...you don’t go in the sunlight.” (Meyer, movie) This proves that he was a antisocial sociopath because he always hid out. Bella and Scout are surprisingly similar, they both know of someone who hides out all day and is very secretive. Both protagonist suspect things about the others. When people hide out typically have something to keep away from the public eye. The text states that Boo Radley stabbed his father in the leg (Lee, p.1) This is similar to the Collins family secret. Both of the protagonists are aware that opening up the secrets could put them in great

Show More
Related
682 Words | 3 Pages

Chapter 15, pp 199-206: After Dill is permitted to stay the summer with the Finches, all the kids venture out, and follow Atticus to the Maycomb jail. They see a group of men talking to Atticus and wanting to get by him to get to Tom Robinson. Scout could not watch anymore, ran out to Atticus and may have saved him from potential harm from the group of men. The kids later found out that Atticus was protected from all corners. 12.

Read More
300 Words | 2 Pages

To summarize chapter five up Walter had met a famous baseball player. His name was Sugar Ray Robinson, and he was the welterweight champion, Also he met them back when slavery was around .Most of Walters’s life revolved around school and church, but his school was integrated .Even though his church had white people involved in some capacity. He wasn’t aware of the race problem, so in the summer his biological father moved to Harlem. That’s when he knew he was adopted. On pg.

Read More
561 Words | 3 Pages

For example ”We're fighting our friend…” (Lee 102). This explains that Scout is impulsive, sometimes fights to solve problems, and she fights her

Read More
443 Words | 2 Pages

Her school teacher, Miss Caroline, tells her that she cannot read at home because her father doesn’t know how to teach. After confronting Atticus about her problem he says that “[People] never really understand a person until they consider things from his point of view” (39). This is a lesson about considering things from another person’s perspective, which is good for Scout to learn because she tends to judge people based on their looks or ways of doing things. This lesson will help her in real life because before she judges someone, considering their point of view will help her understand other people’s opinions. To end, Atticus teaches Scout a lesson about seeing things from others perspective.

Read More
1792 Words | 8 Pages

I ran to him and hugged him and kissed him with all my might. ‘Yes sir, I understand,’ I reassured him… ‘Well, it’d sort of be like shootin’ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?’” (317). She realizes that not all things are black and white, and though that is not what happened, and Boo Radley would probably not be arrested for killing, she still should keep the secret to protect him and his personal life. To truly protect Boo Radley would be to preserve his lifestyle, and treat him like the mockingbird: an innocent figure, who has done nothing to anyone.

Read More
563 Words | 3 Pages

The readers can infer that Jem and Scout’s Bildungsroman when they shifted from fearing Boo Radley, childhood, to accepting Boo Radley,

Read More
792 Words | 4 Pages

Honestly in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird each one of the characters changed in a certain matter throughout the entire book. All because of the experiences they 've all been through and the natural maturing that occurred in each one of the. However Scout’s character develops more in various ways in matter of time when she attends her aunt Alexandra’s dinner party, the moment when her father Atticus gives her advice on how the behaviour of the other folks and when she gets the opportunity to stand on Arthur ‘Boo’ Radley’s porch. To begin, Scout’s character starts to develop when she joins her Aunt Alexandra and the rest of the women at her dinner party regardless how much she looked down at her aunt and how much she despised wearing dresses

Read More
952 Words | 4 Pages

This is displayed three different ways, physically, mentally, and and socially. Jem Finch matures in all these ways throughout the book, from a nine year old till a slightly stubborn twelve and a half year old. As Jem grew he became smarter and more aware of what was happening around him. For example, he understood what the mob at the jail would do to Atticus, so Jem refused to leave in order to stall for Atticus. He was also very aware that discrimination was bad; because of this he refused to give in to the peer pressure at school, when they wanted him to discriminate against black people.

Read More
1247 Words | 5 Pages

Scout admits she feels fine and Atticus asks her what is wrong. She tells him that her teacher, Miss Caroline, says that they cannot read together anymore because she is too advanced for her age. Atticus responds with, “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). Though Scout does not fully understand the concept of this lesson, it slowly comes to her as the book advances. She is able to make many connections using what Atticus taught her, and she truly understands the meaning of standing in another person’s shoes.

Read More
691 Words | 3 Pages

To Kill A Mockingbird Literary Analysis Throughout To Kill A MockingBird, by Harper Lee there are many acts of courage. This is shown in Atticus Finch, Jem Finch, and Boo Radley. Atticus shows the most courage in the book but all three of these characters show true courage in some way, shape, or form. Boo Radley showed a lot of courage, but he was not in the storyline as much as Atticus. Throughout To Kill A Mockingbird, courage is defined as standing up for people and doing what’s right.

Read More
675 Words | 3 Pages

In chapter 6, after Jem gets his pants caught on the Radley fence and must climb out of them in order to escape when Nathan Radley steps out with his shotgun, he later sneaks off the back porch where he and Scout sleep. He wants to retrieve his pants so that he will not be caught in his deception. As he returns to the porch, Scout imagines what is happening as Lee employs personification: "... Boo Radley's insane fingers picking the wire to pieces; the Chinaberry trees were malignant, hovering, alive." In this part of the story Harper Lee uses personification to convey the theme of the story which also shows that Scout and Jem have disobeyed their father’s orders of not going to the Radley’s place.

Read More
920 Words | 4 Pages

Throughout the novel she personifies a childlike nature, adventurous, curious and courageous. Scout defends her brother against Bob Ewell; although the identity of the attacker was unknown to her at the time, without a second thought, even though she couldn’t see in the dark. Likewise she easily

Read More
1224 Words | 5 Pages

In chapter 12, Jem hits the middle school years and he's moody for no reason. Scout asks Atticus what's wrong with Jem and if she can fix it by beating him up, but they say she should leave him alone. Then to add to all of this, Atticus gets called into a special session and is away for two weeks. While Atticus away, Calpurnia doesn't trust Jem and Scout to go to church by themselves, and decides to take them with her to her church. Calpurnia makes sure the kids look clean the night before so no one thinks that she does not care for her children.

Read More
206 Words | 1 Pages

I heard something but I didn't know what it was. Scout started yelling at Cecil that he is a “big, wet hen” I heard footsteps I turned around and seen a man running I yelled, “Run!”. We started running like no one's business. Scout got knocked down by Bob Ewell. we knocked each other down next to Scout.

Read More
1016 Words | 5 Pages

Scout and Jem both learn most of their knowledge from, their father Atticus, their maid Calpurnia, and their neighbors. The people that are present in their lives shape Jem and Scout into the people they are becoming. Education from school helps Jem and Scout advance, but the information they learn from life allows them to mature. Scout learns a major lesson about empathy towards others when she invites Walter Cunningham, a boy she goes to school with, over to her house. Scout does not realize that she is disrespectful to him when she makes mean comments.

Read More

More about Summary Of The Book 'To Kill A Mockingbird'

Related Topics

Open Document