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To Kill A Mockingbird Essay

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To Kill A Mockingbird The movie To Kill A Mockingbird is a 1962 film that expresses racial slurs and shows the reality of sexual assault. Jean Louise “Scout” Finch is one of the main characters in this film and is an outstanding person. She was a little quick to judge but then learned that not everything is as it seems. She is also a tomboy who is learning to grow and become a woman. Scout's character displays positive traits such as being very intelligent, confident, and innocent.
She expresses confidence by standing up for her family when other kids call the family bad names. Scout also expresses innocence when she is in the courtroom and learns what sexual assault is. Scout has given a large amount of confidence in To Kill A Mockingbird, confidence is being able to do things on your own. For example trusting yourself, Scout began the movie with being scared of Boo Radley mainly because of all the rumors going around of how psycho and scary looking he was. She also would run every time he passed Boo’s house hoping to not get caught. She described Boo as six-and-a-half feet tall with bloodstained hands and his eyes popping while he was constantly drooling. After finding …show more content…

Likewise she started to get into fights with kids at her school because they were calling her family names. She learned that people are going to be mean and say rude things. She just had to let it go. Her dad told her why he was doing the things he was doing, and she figured out that he was doing the right thing. Walter Cunningham Jr. was a poor kid who lived on a farm, his dad would take Atticus turnip greens. She invited Walter to eat with Jem, Atticus, and herself, when he got his food he poured syrup all over his food. Scout thought that it was weird and nasty so she decided to comment on it, Calpurnia had taken her into the kitchen and told her why he did

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