In Chapter 3, Scout begs Atticus not to send her back to school. Atticus uses this moment to introduce one of the motifs of the novel. He tells Scout, “You never really understand a person until you walk around in their skin,” indicating to Scout to consider things from the other person’s point of view.

Atticus proposes a compromise: Scout will stay in school, but they will continue to read at night just they always have. Of course, they need not tell Miss Caroline about their agreement.

After explaining the Ewell family to Scout, Atticus offers her a compromise. He says, “If you’ll concede the necessity of going to school, we’ll go on reading every night just as we always have.” Scout accepts the offer. The compromise offered by Atticus shows that he is willing to listen to Scout’s side of a story.

In chapter 3 Atticus tells Scout, “if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view–until you climb in his skin and walk around in it.”

Scout’s main conflict with Miss Caroline is that her teacher does not try to understand her or Maycomb before making a judgement. Miss Caroline’s problem with Scout is that she doesn’t understand her, and she is in way over her head. She is a new young teacher, “no more than twenty-one,” and she is new to Maycomb too.

After Dill returns to his home in Meridian, Mississippi, in early September, Scout begins first grade. She is six years old and has been looking forward to the first day of school for a long time. This is Scout’s first day of school, and she is in the first grade.

Jem is ten years old at the start of the book, four years older than his sister Jean Louise “Scout” Finch. In the book, his age ranges from ten to twelve. Jem is also the son of lawyer Atticus Finch. One day, Jem learns that Atticus has taken a case defending a black man named Tom Robinson who has been accused of rape.

Jem died of a sudden heart attack at age 28. After Jem’s death, Atticus took Henry in as his new law apprentice, having known Henry from his childhood friendship with Scout and Jem (though Henry was apparently out of town during summers, perhaps explaining his absence from the events of Mockingbird).

During lengthy descriptions of her ancestry, her father’s career, and the death of her mother, Scout reveals that Jem is four years older than she is. They meet Dill for the first time in chapter one, which covers the summer before Scout enters first grade in the fall.

Jeremy Atticus “Jem” Finch is something of a typical American boy, refusing to back down from dares and fantasizing about playing football. Four years older than Scout, he gradually separates himself from her games, but he remains her close companion and protector throughout the novel.

Jem (Jeremy Atticus Finch) Scout’s older brother who ages from 10 to 13 during the story. He is Scout’s protector and one of her best friends. As part of reaching young adulthood, Jem deals with many difficult issues throughout the story. Aunt Alexandra Atticus’ sister.

Bob Ewell dies as a result of being stabbed in the ribs with a kitchen knife. When Bob Ewell attacks Jem and Scout on their way home from the Maycomb Halloween festival, Boo Radley intervenes and ends up saving the children by fighting Bob Ewell.

Jem is put to bed with a broken arm and their attacker is revealed when Bob Ewell is found dead by the sheriff Heck Tate, a knife through his ribs. Scout is amazed to discover that the man who rescued her and carried Jem back to the house is Boo Radley. Atticus tells her that Boo’s real name is Arthur.

In this story of innocence destroyed by evil, the ‘mockingbird’ comes to represent the idea of innocence. Thus, to kill a mockingbird is to destroy innocence.” ‘Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy…but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

2018

‘ A haunting portrait of race and class, innocence and injustice, hypocrisy and heroism, tradition and transformation in the Deep South of the 1930s, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird remains as important today as it was upon its initial publication in 1960, during the turbulent years of the Civil Rights movement.

To Kill a Mockingbird taught us about bravery, injustice, inequality, poverty, racism, corruption, hatred, oppression, how we should judge people by their character and nothing else, how the people we are scared of are often not very frightening at all and how those we view as superior or in charge are sometimes the …