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The Transformation Of Scout Finch In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

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Scout Finch is an 8-year-old girl from Maycomb, Alabama during the early 1930s where Scout and her brother Jem have to live with a father who works as a lawyer defending a black male accused of rape. To Kill A Mockingbird is about a Family in Alabama in the 30s-racial where a black man was accused of raping a white woman. In the text, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Scout changes physically and Scout mentally changes because of the way she changes how she thinks about different ways to change the outcome of tough situations.

For one thing, Scout learns that most people don't intentionally say something they don't want the people around them to hear. “But I never figured out how Atticus knew I was listening, and it was not until many …show more content…

The line also shows Atticus as controlling his children’s print of him and always being apprehensive of how they perceive him. “I never understood her preoccupation with heredity. Somewhere, I had received …show more content…

“She couldn’t live like Mr. Dolphus Raymond, who preferred the company of Negroes, because she didn’t own a riverbank and she wasn’t from a fine old family. Nobody said, “That’s just their way,” about the Ewells. Maycomb gave them Christmas baskets, welfare money, and the back of its hand.”. Scout is permitting about Mayella Ewell and the way Mayella’s inferior- folk status constricts her socially. All of the agonies of the ordeal and its circumstance eventually trace back to Mayella’s judgment to seek romantic comfort with a black man. Also, Scout realizes that a double standard applies to white people who want to hang with black people. Mr. Dolphus Raymond, who comes from a striking lineage and owns the plot, can reside as he pleases, but for Mayella, who belongs to a lineage that the community looks upon with shame and despisement, no comparable potential at all exists. “Until my father explained it to me later, I did not understand the subtlety of Tom’s predicament: he would not have dared strike a white woman under any circumstances and expect to live long, so he took the first opportunity to run—a sure sign of guilt.”. Scout realizes that Tom Robinson was the victim of injustice long before he got to court. Still, running down made him look ashamed of the crime Mayella criminated him of, If he defended himself against Mayella he would have presumably been killed. In such a circumstance,

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