To Kill A Mockingbird Lady-Like Quotes
Have you ever found a character, maybe in a tv show, or book, that you can relate to the most (especially by a landslide)? Some people could say yes to the moon and back, while some people have never related that much to a character in their life. For me, I’m more of the former, and I found a character to relate to in To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee; Scout Finch. To explain, Scout and I take longer than others to understand things, which could cause frustration in others (mainly peers), and we’re both put under at least some pressure to be more “lady-like”. There’s other similarities too, but they’re either not as significant or I couldn’t find as much quotes to support them. Scout and I both take longer time than others to, y’know, put two and two together. Of course, because of this slower speed, we may cause frustration in our peers, or even ourselves. Scout causes
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Not only the pressure, but we also don’t have any interest to be lady-like; “‘You want to grow up to be a lady, don’t you?’ I said not particularly” (Lee 79). I haven’t felt the need to be a lady in a long while, despite all of the prodding from my mom and grandma. Speaking of prodding from my mom and grandma, “Aunt Alexandra was fanatical on the subject of my attire. I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches; when I said I could do nothing in a dress, she said I wasn’t supposed to do things that required pants. Aunt Alexandra’s vision of my deportment involved playing with small stoves, tea sets, and wearing the Add-A-Pearl necklace she gave me when I was born...that I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year” now, when I first read this segment, it gave me a huge sense of familiarity; my mom and grandma keep looking in disappointment upon my outfit choices, and sometimes I feel like I’m not being what they want me to
Not only the pressure, but we also don’t have any interest to be lady-like; “‘You want to grow up to be a lady, don’t you?’ I said not particularly” (Lee 79). I haven’t felt the need to be a lady in a long while, despite all of the prodding from my mom and grandma. Speaking of prodding from my mom and grandma, “Aunt Alexandra was fanatical on the subject of my attire. I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches; when I said I could do nothing in a dress, she said I wasn’t supposed to do things that required pants. Aunt Alexandra’s vision of my deportment involved playing with small stoves, tea sets, and wearing the Add-A-Pearl necklace she gave me when I was born...that I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year” now, when I first read this segment, it gave me a huge sense of familiarity; my mom and grandma keep looking in disappointment upon my outfit choices, and sometimes I feel like I’m not being what they want me to