When Walter Cunningham visits the Finch’s home for lunch, and Scout witnesses Walter’s terrible manners at the table, she blurts out, like any child would do, protesting that Walter is doing something terrible wrong, which in this case was pouring syrup all over his waffles. These incidents reveal her innocence as a young child. She wass just doing what she was told to do, and was told off as a result. Caroline Fisher, and for speaking in Walter’s favour. Her childhood innocence is revealed at her first day of school, when she is scolded for knowing how to read and write by Ms. Her character encounters a number of incidents throughout the novel, showing the steady increase of maturity she is gaining. The structure grows in size, and the vocabulary begins to get very complex, which indicates the growth of Scout and how she is starting to understand more about the world. Throughout the novel, the maturity of Scout is reflected through the language used and the structure of the novel. She sees many things happening in Maycomb County, and cannot understand why or what is happening. As one can see, Jem was beginning to change his attitude, and because of his maturity, he begins to separate from Scout.ĭue to Scout and Jem’s steady parting, Scout becomes more independent and mature. Here, it begins to show that Jem’s maturity is superior to Scout’s, because she still thinks of Boo as a dangerous man. Maudie’s house, and begins to show signs of maturity, this is where he and Scout begin to drift apart. “Overnight, it seemed, Jem had acquired an alien set of values and was trying to impose them on me- several times he went so far as to tell me what to do.” When Jem learns the truth about Boo Radley putting a blanket around Scout during the fire of Ms. Scout sees this as almost instant ‘overnight’ changes, and describes them in her narration. He also begins to develop a supercilious sense of wisdom too, when he reads the newspaper and ignores Scout. Jem begins to show signs of growing up the earliest out of the three, when he started to think of himself as an adult, and told Scout to act more like a girl-the very opposite of what he used to say-that she needed to stop acting like such a girl. Because Scout, Jem, and Dill are at different stages of growth, they each learn and mature at different rates from different experiences. They do not understand the idea of sin, such as the segregation throughout the novel, but where they live, evil comes in many different shapes and sizes, and they each gain separate insights to their society in the small town of Maycomb. As a wise man once said, “Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.” In Harper Lee’s bestseller ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, three children named Scout Finch, Jem Finch, and Charles Baker “Dill” Harris learn very important life lessons that aids them along with their gradual maturity in a way that they wouldn’t experience at school. This is the same with accents, unfair treatment could happen when a POC has an accent even if they speak the language perfectly. A language barrier brings a lot of unfair treatment to POC. This quote is extremely powerful because it explains the linguistic discrimination POC face when they have a first language which isn’t the one spoken in the country they live in. He talks about the trials and tribulations of being a ‘coloured’ child being brought up in apartheid South Africa. This book tells the life story of Trevor Noah being born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa South African mother. A shared language says “We’re the same.” A language barrier says “We’re different.” “Language brings with it an identity and a culture, or at least the perception of it. Thank you to Samihah Mudabbir for collating all the recommendations, and to Shafia Fiaz and Hawwa Alam for producing the graphics. Thank you to all the young people who submitted their favourite books, key quotes from the books, and their personal insights. In a series of blog posts, we will share some of the powerful books that young people speak highly of and want for us all to read. Over the last year, our Manchester Museum Young Collective and their friends have been sharing reading recommendations to inspire their peers and heritage staff who are actively seeking out ways to better understand and act for social justice and social change. ANTI-RACIST EDUCATION SERIES Illustration by FATIMA SHABAN of the MANCHESTER MUSEUM YOUNG COLLECTIVE
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