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To Kill A Mocking Bird

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(Jem And Scout)

To Kill a Mockingbird: Character Analysis

Imagine just two young kids maturing within a matter of years. Imagine that same two kids, experiencing or understanding things that they aren't meant to at a young age. Jem and Scout were just like that. They have experienced many things that they shouldn't have at their age. Scout on the other hand, seems to be the one maturing the most. Throughout this whole essay, you will learn about Jem and Scout's attributes, personality, and how alike or different they are from each other.

Jem and Scout are two siblings. They love to have fun, be with their father, and try to understand many things that are going in their lives. An example is Scout. She is a very unusual little girl, she is unusually smart and unusually worries about the goodness of evil and mankind. "I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks." The quote illustrates that Scout thinks that, everyone in the world is the same. Even though their skin colors or their lifestyles are different, they are all the same. Jem is a boy who is not without hope. He is also like Scout, although he has some doubts over what Scout may think. "If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they get out of their way to despise each other?" What Jem is trying to say in the quote is that, if people are all the same, why do they still discriminate each other? Jem and Scout are two siblings who just want to figure out many things they cannot understand.

Scout can be considered the new southern woman. She is strong willed, opinionated, and accepting. The attributes of Aunt Alexandra such as racism is not in Scout. ""Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer

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