Summary:
The main characters in To Kill A Mockingbird is Scout, Atticus, and Jem Finch. Scout, Jem and Atticus all live in Maycomb, Alabama. Scout Finch is not and ordinary girl, she is a tomboy and Scout seems to handle her life as a tomboy pretty well. She lives with her brother who is Jem Finch and her father who is Atticus Finch. Since Scout Finch is a tomboy she can do what Jem and Dill do. Scout got her tomboy status from her father, Atticus Finch. Atticus taught her how to be a tomboy. Scout is smart but she usually doesn't figure things out with her head, she usually goes for a more "hands on approach" but Scout does remember when Jem broke his arm and how that changed the events overall. Although Scout Finch is an intelligent girl, she doesn't like to show it much.
Atticus Finch is Scout and Jem's father. He became a lawyer in the town of Maycomb with his brother, Jack Finch, who wanted to go to Boston and go to medical school there. Atticus' sister, Alexandra Finch, stayed at the house. In this book, Atticus looks like he has been respected by everyone including the poor people. Even in this book now they're being racist. Francis called Atticus a " N Lover"(pg. 86) because Atticus tries hard to stop a racial prejudice. Atticus is a non racial person who doesn't care of what nationality or what colored skin you are. He knows that everyone is created equally. Atticus teaches good things to Scout and Jem and never holds grudges against the townspeople. At the beginning of this book, Scout and Jem do not look up to Atticus.
Jem Finch is the son of Atticus Finch and the brother of Scout Finch. During the trial with Tom Robinson, who is black, and Atticus Finch, who helps defend Tom Robinson at the case, Jem starts to go through his puberty. This moment for Jem is a big change because it can get hard for him and complicated. Jem is a person that with hope in him. Atticus tells Scout to have Jem figure out on what he is learning. When Atticus is teaching Jem all this stuff, he believes that Jem will eventually know what is going on and follow the process of what he learned from this. In the beginning of Chapter 25, Jem tells Scout after he stops her from killing it,"Reckon you're at the stage now where you don't kill flies and mosquitoes..."(page 239). Jem told Scout this because the roly-poly bug never did Scout any harm and Jem was probably thinking "what was the point in killing it anyway". Jem has become protective in this part of the book. He probably thinks that you shouldn't hurt anything if it didn't do anything to you. Jem has matured too because it's how he speaks to Scout on page 239 about the roly-poly bug.
My Reflection:
In this story, To Kill a Mocking Bird has to do with the presence of good and evil the social inequalities. I've noticed that Jem and Scout have only seen good but hardly any evil. Tom Robinson and Boo Radley are not ready for their future, soon enough they find evil and then they are both killed. Even Jem notices after the trial about racism and how evil it is to people that don't quite fit in. Scout, on the other hand, seems to notice everything that is going on here but she doesn't really make a big deal about it and manages to keep herself steady from evil. Jem's faith is dieing down because of Tom's conviction and Jem is reacting to this by entering a disillusion state. Atticus eventually keeps cool about the evil that is going on and he also keeps his faith so his mind won't do berserk. Scout is also the same way like Atticus. The reason why Jem reacts to it, it is because he is young and he doesn't know what is going on so I think he is kind of confused in my opinion. Most of these people in this story have been both good and evil towards one another. The way people treat each other is the result of the good and bad situation that is happening in this story. They need to treat each other with more sympathy so they won't have to do through anything evil again. Scout's character growth has to do with the teachings that Atticus taught her. Scout gradually develops and understands what Atticus wants her to do. Near the end of the book, Scout finally looked through Boo Radley and saw him as an ordinary person. Since Scout is learning most of this from her father, she is also losing her innocence to the people.
The Social Inequalities in this book are from people just being mean to each other to people being racist to other people. This also has to do with the social classes in Maycomb, Alabama. All of this racist talking and yelling at each other isn't setting a good example to the children, especially Jem since he is going through puberty. The Cunninghams are near the bottom of the social classes because they are farmers who are ignorant to other people. The people that are a lower class in the social classes are the Ewells but even now there are some people even lower than that. Tom Robinson is below Ewells and just because Ewells is not that much higher of a social class than Tom Robinson, Ewells thought he could prosecute him but apparently Ewells did prosecute him. This confuses Scout because she doesn't understand why her Aunt Alexandra wouldn't talk to Walter Cunningham. Lee uses the children's own confusion to at the layering Maycomb to the roles of the society and human interaction. The way I think these people can work out these social classes is not to fight a lot on what social class you are in. This book's descriptive text had a major impact on people in here because lots of people changed the way they acted, some are growing up, and some are still the same. Between the three main characters, Jem and Scout were the ones who grew up and kind of knew what to do because they learned it from Atticus. Atticus, pretty much, focused on his children because he wants them to be taught well in the future. I also think why Atticus Finch teaches his children like this is because when they get older they are probably going to experience this same criteria in several years or maybe even a couple of decades. When his children get to about his age they might even experience the same thing too. This is only my opinion about the book's good and evil situation and the social classes situation.
---Daniel Miller
1140 words
The main characters in To Kill A Mockingbird is Scout, Atticus, and Jem Finch. Scout, Jem and Atticus all live in Maycomb, Alabama. Scout Finch is not and ordinary girl, she is a tomboy and Scout seems to handle her life as a tomboy pretty well. She lives with her brother who is Jem Finch and her father who is Atticus Finch. Since Scout Finch is a tomboy she can do what Jem and Dill do. Scout got her tomboy status from her father, Atticus Finch. Atticus taught her how to be a tomboy. Scout is smart but she usually doesn't figure things out with her head, she usually goes for a more "hands on approach" but Scout does remember when Jem broke his arm and how that changed the events overall. Although Scout Finch is an intelligent girl, she doesn't like to show it much.
Atticus Finch is Scout and Jem's father. He became a lawyer in the town of Maycomb with his brother, Jack Finch, who wanted to go to Boston and go to medical school there. Atticus' sister, Alexandra Finch, stayed at the house. In this book, Atticus looks like he has been respected by everyone including the poor people. Even in this book now they're being racist. Francis called Atticus a " N Lover"(pg. 86) because Atticus tries hard to stop a racial prejudice. Atticus is a non racial person who doesn't care of what nationality or what colored skin you are. He knows that everyone is created equally. Atticus teaches good things to Scout and Jem and never holds grudges against the townspeople. At the beginning of this book, Scout and Jem do not look up to Atticus.
Jem Finch is the son of Atticus Finch and the brother of Scout Finch. During the trial with Tom Robinson, who is black, and Atticus Finch, who helps defend Tom Robinson at the case, Jem starts to go through his puberty. This moment for Jem is a big change because it can get hard for him and complicated. Jem is a person that with hope in him. Atticus tells Scout to have Jem figure out on what he is learning. When Atticus is teaching Jem all this stuff, he believes that Jem will eventually know what is going on and follow the process of what he learned from this. In the beginning of Chapter 25, Jem tells Scout after he stops her from killing it,"Reckon you're at the stage now where you don't kill flies and mosquitoes..."(page 239). Jem told Scout this because the roly-poly bug never did Scout any harm and Jem was probably thinking "what was the point in killing it anyway". Jem has become protective in this part of the book. He probably thinks that you shouldn't hurt anything if it didn't do anything to you. Jem has matured too because it's how he speaks to Scout on page 239 about the roly-poly bug.
My Reflection:
In this story, To Kill a Mocking Bird has to do with the presence of good and evil the social inequalities. I've noticed that Jem and Scout have only seen good but hardly any evil. Tom Robinson and Boo Radley are not ready for their future, soon enough they find evil and then they are both killed. Even Jem notices after the trial about racism and how evil it is to people that don't quite fit in. Scout, on the other hand, seems to notice everything that is going on here but she doesn't really make a big deal about it and manages to keep herself steady from evil. Jem's faith is dieing down because of Tom's conviction and Jem is reacting to this by entering a disillusion state. Atticus eventually keeps cool about the evil that is going on and he also keeps his faith so his mind won't do berserk. Scout is also the same way like Atticus. The reason why Jem reacts to it, it is because he is young and he doesn't know what is going on so I think he is kind of confused in my opinion. Most of these people in this story have been both good and evil towards one another. The way people treat each other is the result of the good and bad situation that is happening in this story. They need to treat each other with more sympathy so they won't have to do through anything evil again. Scout's character growth has to do with the teachings that Atticus taught her. Scout gradually develops and understands what Atticus wants her to do. Near the end of the book, Scout finally looked through Boo Radley and saw him as an ordinary person. Since Scout is learning most of this from her father, she is also losing her innocence to the people.
The Social Inequalities in this book are from people just being mean to each other to people being racist to other people. This also has to do with the social classes in Maycomb, Alabama. All of this racist talking and yelling at each other isn't setting a good example to the children, especially Jem since he is going through puberty. The Cunninghams are near the bottom of the social classes because they are farmers who are ignorant to other people. The people that are a lower class in the social classes are the Ewells but even now there are some people even lower than that. Tom Robinson is below Ewells and just because Ewells is not that much higher of a social class than Tom Robinson, Ewells thought he could prosecute him but apparently Ewells did prosecute him. This confuses Scout because she doesn't understand why her Aunt Alexandra wouldn't talk to Walter Cunningham. Lee uses the children's own confusion to at the layering Maycomb to the roles of the society and human interaction. The way I think these people can work out these social classes is not to fight a lot on what social class you are in. This book's descriptive text had a major impact on people in here because lots of people changed the way they acted, some are growing up, and some are still the same. Between the three main characters, Jem and Scout were the ones who grew up and kind of knew what to do because they learned it from Atticus. Atticus, pretty much, focused on his children because he wants them to be taught well in the future. I also think why Atticus Finch teaches his children like this is because when they get older they are probably going to experience this same criteria in several years or maybe even a couple of decades. When his children get to about his age they might even experience the same thing too. This is only my opinion about the book's good and evil situation and the social classes situation.
---Daniel Miller
1140 words
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