Do any of the characters feeling change as you’ve read? Explain why or why not.
The three main characters all experiance change during the course of the story. The story takes place over three and a half years and the characters all experiance growing up. One of these characters is Scout. She is six years old at the beginning of the book and grows up to nine years old. At the beginning of the book she is carefree and happy. The main thing the book and her are focused on is trying to see Boo, a neighbor they have never seen. She does not know the dark side to some of the people that are her neighbors. In the second half of the book, the main thing she and the book are focused on is the trial of Tom Robinson. Scout sees the bad side to some of her neighbors. She bacomes much more mature in this part of the book. There is a great difference between her happy, carefree attitude at the beginning of the book and her no-nonsense, tough attitude at the end.
Another character that experiances change is Jem. Throughout the book Jem changes from a boy to a man. At the beginning of the book Jem is very close to his little sister Jem. He enjoys playing childish games with her and does not mind playing with someone who is not very mature. He does silly things like tries to get Boo to come out by using a fishing pole to give him a letter. Later in the book he stops doing childish things. He stops including Scout in the things he is doing. He and Dill, who is more mature then Scout, do things on their own without Scout. He starts thinking and acting more like an adult. He even grows chest and armpit hair.
A final character that experiances change is Atticus. At the beginning of the story he is cheerful and happy. He plays with Scout and Jem. This is very different from his personality at the end of the book. At the end of the book he is grim and isolated. This is because of the trial of Tom Robinson. He was appointed to represent a black man. Because of this many people in the town began to dislike him. He also had to do some things he did not want to do. One of these was to shoot a dog. He was upset that he had killed another creature. Also many bad things had happened to him. The two main ones were that Tom Robinson was killed and Scout and Jem were attacked by Bob Ewell. Bob was killed while doing this and Atticus was convinced that Jem or Scout killed him. This is why Atticus experianced change.
Well done with analyzing the characters throughout the book. I chose a similar prompt except I showed more of how their mindset changed, rather than showing what they did. Also I like that you chose Atticus because I chose Boo as my third character because I felt like I could describe him. I found really interesting how you show that Scout goes from care free to more depth in thinking.
ReplyDeleteI do like how you included the three most important characters of the story especially Jem. When you analyzed Jem, I think you did a great job by including numerous events from the story. I liked how you included detailed descriptions of Atticus's feelings because he does seem to have changed towards the end of the story. I would have never imagined Atticus saying thanks to Boo Radley I feel like that truly topped the story. Great Blog Post.
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