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Boo Radley Heck Tate
2,063 words
... away from fishing to accompany him to Helen
Robinson's house, and how Helen collapsed at the
news. Meanwhile, the news occupies Maycomb's
attention for about two days, and everyone agrees
that it is typical for a black man to do something
irrational like trying to escape. Mr. Underwood
writes a long editorial condemning Tom's death as
the murder of an innocent man, and the only other
important reaction comes when Bob Ewell is
overheard saying that the death makes "one down
and about two more...
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Jem And Scout Scout And Jem
483 words
To Kill A Mockingbird is a novel of many lessons,
by Harper Lee. Scout and Jem are the main
characters about six and ten at the beginning. One
of the lessons they learned was about judging
people before you really know them. 42 A lesson
Scout learned from Boo was about judging people.
All the kids in the area thought Boo was very mean
and hurt people. Boo was a really nice person but
Scout didnt think this. He saved their life
risking his own. He put gifts in a tree so Scout
and Jem could find t...
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Home From School Jem And Scout
1,700 words
To Kill A Mocking Bird The Narrator of the story
is Scout Finch, a five year old girl who lives in
a small southern town called Maycomb, Alabama. She
lives with her older brother Jem, and her father
Atticus, and the black family cook, Calpurnia.
Atticus is a well-liked man in the This summer,
her and her brother found a new kid in town named
Dill Harris, who would spend summers next door at
his aunts house. During most of the summer, Jem,
Scout, and Dill play in a small area near their
homes. A ...
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Jem And Scout Jem And Dill
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... use. Scout gets him some cornbread to eat and
notes mentally that he is now "home. " Jem says
that Dill should let his mother know where he is,
then he "broke the remaining code of our
childhood" by calling for Atticus. Atticus is
lenient, however, and calls Miss Rachel to ask if
Dill can stay the night, and Scout gets him more
food. Miss Rachel appears on the scene and
reprimands Dill but allows him to stay. Dill and
Jem sleep in Jem's room, which adjoins Scout's
room. Late at night, Dill w...
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To Kill A Mocking Bird Journals
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CHAPTER 1 - 3 To Kill a Mocking-Bird (TKMB) by
Harper Lee starts off by introducing the
characters and the town of Maycomb. Characters
including The Radley's, especially Boo Radley, and
Dill Harris and in less detail the immediate
family of Scout, who is narrating the story. Scout
is a girl, she would be about six years old but is
in the first grade. I find it amazing that she has
such a wide vocabulary for a girl so young. Scout
is the troublemaker of the class, but does not
come out that way t...
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Jem And Scout Kill A Mockingbird
4,365 words
Chapter 1: To Kill a Mockingbird begins, "When he
was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm
badly broken at the elbow... When enough years had
gone by to enable us to look back on them, we
sometimes discussed the events leading to his
accident. I maintain that the Ewell's started it
all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said
it started long before that. He said it began the
summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us
the idea of making Boo Radley come out" (9). Only
after one fin...
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Jem And Scout Scene Of The Crime
4,318 words
... ake's the children to her church one Sunday
morning. They first face Lula, a black churchgoer
who does not want white people in her church.
Fortunately, though, the rest of the congregation
rally around the group and escort them into the
church. Jem and Scout find the services quite
similar to those of their own church with the
exception of one thing, "linin'. " To sing the
hymns, the people, most of whom cannot read,
"line" the words by repeating them after one
person first reads them. When...
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End Of Innocence Boo Radley
580 words
While examining the term, "the end of innocence",
Scouts viewpoint on Boo throughout the novel can
be an indication of Scouts own "end of innocence.
" Scout opens the novel with a naive viewpoint on
both the world and Boo Radley. At the start of the
novel, Scout interprets a raiding on the jail,
through an adolescent standpoint. Scout sees the
circumstances of the attack from the perspective
of a young child. Scouts responses to situations,
such as the one at the jail, attributes to the
fact tha...
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Kill A Mocking Bird Aunt Alexandra
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In Harper Lees novel, To Kill A Mocking Bird we
see that maturation of some of the characters is
clearly evident, particularly Scouts. We see this
by the way she acts in front of Miss Maudie,
Calpurnia and Mrs. Alexandra Finch. Beside her
father, Scout probably respects and likes the most
is Miss Maudie. The two of them have a great
relationship and they both love each other very
deeply. When Scout first introduces us to Miss
Maudie (in chapter 5), she tells us all the nicest
things about her. S...
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Scout Jem And Dill Boo Radley
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As people grow in life, they mature and change.
The main character matures as the novel, To Kill a
Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, continues. Scout is
childish and disrespectful at the beginning of the
novel. She is learning from her experiences
throughout the novel. By the end of the novel she
has come to have a strong concern for the feelings
of others, and understanding the world around her.
She learns this through her own experiences. Scout
matured a lot throughout the novel. Scout shows
childis...
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Jem And Scout Scout Jem And Dill
1,217 words
... ce show Jem and Scout more pieces of reality
and push them closer and closer to the adult
world. Jem and Scout continue to ascertain lessons
of respect and understanding through relatives,
Atticus, and Mrs. Dubose. As the trial creeps
closer, Scout and Jem each have to test their
self-control in accepting or ignoring the
multitudes of "nigger-lover" comments coming their
way, by adults as well as children. Scout loses
all control when she beats up her cousin Francis,
but she does not complet...
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Jem And Scout Scout And Jem
2,460 words
Innocence To Experience, In Harper Lees To
Innocence To Experience, In Harper Lees To Kill A
Mockingbird Innocence to Experience " Maycomb
was an old town, but it was a tired old town when
I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets
turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks,
the courthouse sagged in the square. " (Lee
9). This environment, as Scout Finch accurately
describes, is not conducive to young children,
loud noises, and games. But, the Finch children
and Dill must occup...
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Jem And Scout Scout And Jem
2,431 words
11 / 27 / 98 To Kill A Mockingbird By, Harper Lee
Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old
town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the
streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the
sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square.
(Lee 9). This environment, as Scout Finch
accurately describes, is not conducive to young
children, loud noises, and games. But, the Finch
children and Dill must occupy themselves in order
to avoid boredom. Their surroundings are their
boundaries, but in their...
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Scout Learns Miss Maudie
874 words
Although most children dislike the trials and
troubles connected with learning life lessons,
they eventually realize the importance of such
experiences as they grow and mature. The six-year
old tomboy, Scout, of Harper Lee? s novel, To Kill
a Mockingbird, learns her life lessons while
growing up in her Alabama home. Throughout the
course of the novel, Scout not only learns life
lessons from her father, but from her community
members as well. Atticus, in addition to being a
father and a lawyer, i...
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Aunt Alexandra Miss Maudie
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Scouts relationships with the adults shes
surrounded by all differ in different ways.
Whether those relationships are positive or
negative, depends on how long Scout has known
them, what kind of people those adults are, and
their background. Beside her father, the adult
that Scout probably respects and likes the most is
Miss Maudie. The two of them have a beautiful
relationship and they both love each other very
dearly. When Scout first introduces us to Miss
Maudie (in chapter 5), she tells us a...
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Kill A Mockingbird Scout Jem And Dill
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Early Life Born in Monroeville, Alabama, on April
28, 1926, Nelle Harper Lee is the youngest of
three children of Alaska Coleman Lee and Francis
Lee. Before his death, Miss Lees father and her
older sister, Alice, practiced law together in
Monroeville. When one considers the theme of honor
that runs throughout Miss Lees novel, it is
perhaps significant to note that her family is
related to Confederate General Robert E. Lee, a
man especially noted for his devotion to that
virtue. Miss Lee receive...
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Scout And Jem Kill A Mockingbird
2,658 words
To Kill A Mockingbird To Kill A Mockingbird is a
story about racism, ignorance, fear, intolerance,
hate, injustice, learning, heroism, and growing
up. It is set in Maycomb County, an imaginary
district in Southern Alabama. The time is the
early 1930 s, the years of the Great Depression
when poverty and unemployment were widespread in
the United States. The Finch family contains of
Atticus (The head of the household), Aunt
Alexandra (Atticus sister), and (Jem) Jeremy (The
older of Atticus two chi...
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Jem And Scout Kill A Mockingbird
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To Kill a Mockingbird was written by Harper Lee
and was published in 1960. To Kill a Mockingbird
won many awards, they are; Pulitzer Prize, 1961,
Alabama Library Association award, 1961,
Brotherhood Award of National Conference of
Christians and Jews, 1961, Bestsellers? paperback
of the year award, 1962. Harper Lee was born on
the 28 th day of April in 1926 in southwest, in a
small town called Monroeville. Harper Lee went to
Huntingdon College from 1944 - 45, from 1945 - 49
she studied law at th...
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Kill A Mockingbird Jem And Scout
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Scout s Introduction to the Real World It is a sin
to kill a mockingbird because they do nothing but
make music for us to enjoy{Lee 90 }, this line
Spoken by Atticus can sum up the heart of the
novel. This was quoted from To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee, a creative novelist. Miss Harper
Lee has chosen Scout as a first person narrator in
this story. This narrative technique has much
strength and some weaknesses. Scout for all her
intelligence, she is still a child and does not
always fully un...
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Scout And Jem Jem And Scout
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A Untitled The Mortal Mockingbird A songbirds
melody can evoke happiness in anyone, as can the
smiling face of a child. The mockingbird sings for
the sake of singing, and an innocent child
possesses an innate joyfulness, as natural as
instinct. Yet a mockingbirds song dies as easily
as innocence. In the beginning of the novel, To
Kill A Mockingbird, Scout and Jem are portrayed as
innocents, uncorrupted by our world of prejudice
and racism. Their world is simple, sensible, a
childs world. However...
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