Test Question 1
As readers, we saw Scout mature and grow as our narorater and as a person. She learned many things, but also lost many things. As she grew up and changed, she began to see how things really were, and gained the knowledge of the pure hate that one man can show another.
Scout lost her innocence when she found this out. She began to see how cruel the world can be to someone who is a little different or strange. She saw this in the prejudice that was shown to Tom Robinson, Walter Cunningham, Miss Maudie and even herself.
She gained the wisdom of the world outside her back door and began to see how society works. Although this may not have been a ...view middle of the document...
If she had just been able to keep the innocence of childhood that she lost, she would have been much better off. We cannot let children face the ugliness that Scout learned of. It was too much, to fast, even for someone so smart. We must show love to everyone so that our children will show love.
To Kill a Mockingbird Test Question 2
The author, Harper Lee, picked an interesting person to narrate the story. This had some advantages and disadvantages as the story progressed. This writing technique is a very versatile one. When the author uses Scout as the first person, she opens the reader’s eyes to the way children think and act. She also offers an unbiased opinion of the affairs of Maycomb, and doesn’t dwell on adult matters and make it boring.
Some disadvantages of picking Scout for the first person viewpoint were that even though she was smart, she didn’t really understand what all the fuss was about. She was too innocent and young to really grasp the point sometimes and tell us, the reader, about it.
The author did an excellent job of making the story somewhat easy to understand and fun to read. By picking a child to tell the story, it was easier to read between the lines and find the real meaning of what was being said.
If Lee had picked, say Atticus, we would not have heard the funny stories or about maybe even not have known who Boo Radley was at all! He would have dwelt on the trial part of it and used big words and made it boring! It would have been the same with any of the other characters, excepting maybe Dill and Jem.
But even Jem might have been too old to have ‘Childish Innocence”. The author, Harper Lee did an excellent job of picking the right person to narorate this great masterpiece.
To Kill a Mockingbird Test Question 3
‘ It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew.’
This touching paragraph touches on the meaning of courage. There were many people who showed different kinds of courage. Atticus, for one, was probably one of the bravest people in the story. He stood up for a black man who was going against a white man in court. He knew he didn’t have a chance, but he did it anyway. A lot of people disagreed with him, and one went so far as to spit in his face. But he pressed on against all odds.
Tom Robinson also showed great courage. He went up in court against a white lawyer, an all white jury, all white witnesses, but remained truthful and humble through out the entire trial. He dared to say he felt sorry for Mayella Ewell. He didn’t have to say he felt sorry for her; he could have made up a different reason. But it was the truth. He just told the simple truth and it...
