What are your thoughts about Scout? In what ways does she conform to how we would expect a young girl to behave in society? In what ways does she challenge our ideas of how young girls are to behave in society?
Scout challenges our ideas of how a young girl is to behave or act in society by her choice of clothing. Usually a girl would wear a dress or something appropriate you would see a young girl wearing. Scout also seems to act more like a Tom-Boy because she hangs around with Jem and Dill a lot. In the text it states "what are you doing in those overalls? You should be in a dress and camisole, young lady! (Pg.135)" This tells me that people would expect something different from a girl by the way they dress, look, or act.
I agree with you (darnesha) because Scout does act like a Tom boy will she is a Tom boy because she hang out with a lot of boys and do things that boys love to do which make people believe in that she want to be a boy.
I agree because the way she dresses is also something I wrote in my post and I just think that is a main thing of how she challenges societies idea of how girls are suppose to act
Scout is a tomboy & adventurous. In the text it stated(On pg.153) " It's time you started being a girl and acting right!" Scout is different from any girl because she doesn't wear fancy dresses or hair bows. Scout is adventurous because she keeps wondering about Boo Radley. Scout is challenging our ideas of how young girls behave in society because Scout is acting like a boy instead of a girl. In the text it stated( On pg.133) " Don't you say hey to me, you ugly girl."
I agree, I also used the example of scout challenging of what people would expect. When u said she's a tomboy. I said she dresses like a boy, and be around boys a lot.
We'll I say Scout is a great person & also a demanding person. She is different from others she acts like a young lady but she acts more like a boy at times. I think that she sound act how girls she act because she can set a good example of It. Scout is demanding because she's not trying to be like everybody else on the way how she dresses & acts different from a little girl.
The ways she would conform how we would expect a young girl to act in society is to not play like a little boy & act like a young lady wear dresses not boy cloths & act rough all the time act like how a girl is supposed to act at all times.
Scout, we'll where do I start, Scout shows everything by the way she carry her self she dress like she a boy and she play with boys you will not find her with no girls she always be around boys everyday. To be direct in chapter 6 on page 69 " Scout, I'm telling you for the last time, shut your trap or go home I declare to The Lord you're getting more like a girl every day!" When she use the declare which means the opposite. When she dresses like a boy that means she is challenging how society thinks a girl suppose to dress. I think this have a lot to do with how Scout grew up some kids don't grow up the same way people raise they kids differently for a reason. So I will consider Scout different from other because just being me I would not go outside and play with a bunch of boys because in real life situation the girls stick with the girls and the boys stick with the boys. Then if you think about it when Scout enter middle school Jem didn't even want her around him so my opinion is they don't treat Scout fairly when she hang out with them which giving you clues that she need to go around girls that got a lot of things common with her.
I agree. I think your post is very strong. Thomesha comment is great as well. her comment makes me think that scout should have used school to meet new people. Girls at that. She does hang with the boys to much.
As you might have guessed, Scout doesn't have much interest in girl things, like dolls and dresses. Her tomboyish nature drives prim Aunt Alexandra crazy, and Aunty comes to stay with her brother and his family in part to try to make a proper little girl out of Scout.by Alexis woodfork
My thoughts about Scout are very conflicted, because she both challenges and conforms to how society thinks girls should behave. She conforms it because of the connection that she and Dill both share. It's clear to me that she has a crush on Dill and that's very girly. Like in chapter 12 on page 154 it says "summer was Dill's eyes alive with complicated plans to make Boo Radley emerge, summer was the swiftness with which Dill would reach up and kiss me when Jem wasn't looking." The fact that she was thinking about him, means she was missing him and that conforms to how society thinks a girl should behave. Even though she has a crush on Dill, when she hangs out with them and plays with them, she acts like a boy and dresses like a boy. She was acting like a boy when she decided to get into that tire in chapter 4. So that challenges how society think a girl should act. Society thinks a girl should act lady like and not do something that involves dirty things such as a tire that they found. She also challenges society because she was always hanging around with the boys such as Dill and Jem. Those were the people she hung out with during summer and that all stopped when part two came.
Your comment is really interesting, and has a lot of dimension to it. I hadn't really considered the fact that her crush on Dill is evidence of her conforming to gender roles society has established for girls. Also, continue to closely read how the dynamic between the three of them (Scout, Dill, and Jem) changes as we move through Part 2.
Scout is a very strange and curious girl in her town Maycomb Alabama. Scout is curious when it comes to Boo Radley who's considered to be scary and hateful. On the other hand Scout is strange, in a way that it challenges how u would think a little girl would act. In the text it says " catching Walter Cunningham in the schoolyard gave me some pleasure".(chapter 30, pg.30) In most situations, You wouldn't expect a girl to be fighting a boy; when she has a a older brother and a father. Scout Is strange in ways she dresses like a boy, plays with worms in dirt, and hang with boys. In this case it disputes how someone would opine a girl to behave, play and dress. So, it would be highly unusual for someone to conform to scout as being feminine or girly.
I disagree because she's not strange because for any thing some girls wasn't meant to be girls because the act like boys so to me I don't think it's strange I will only think its strange when she's the only one in this world acting like a tom boy
Starr, your argument doesn't makes sense in away your changing my definition of strange. I said strange in a way it challenges what one will think of how a young girl will act. Example she act like a boy;plays with boys:dresses like a boy. Also viewing your post u also says is challenges what one would expect a girl to behave.
I agree with you (Joshua) because it's like only a hand full of girls that act like Tom boys but it's a lot of people that Girly type like me so to sum what I'm trying to say up yes it is strange because why are you trying to be something you can't be.
Well Joshua if you take the time to explain your definition of strange I would maybe understand but under my circumstances I found myself disagreeing with your comment and made my OPINION In, In this world sorry Joshua but minds matter
Both of y'all make sense. So I agree with both because Starr has a point but then again it does sound like you are trying to change his definition of strange so I also agree with Joshua
If u would have found yourself clearly reading my post, you would find yourself understanding my definition of strange clearly. I said she's strange because she challenges what one would expect a young girl to behave. And yes, your opinion do matter but so do mines.
Okay Joshua at the end of the day you have you in opinion and so do I Your not making Any changes of My opinion because in life there are different strange so maybe I understood it wrong but Joshua sometimes people are going to disagree with you and you have to learn to accept in life or else you will find your self doing this in life
In the story Scout is contemplate as Challenging because Scout is not a lover to me, but she is a fighter. I would say Scout is just like me because I'm not a lover I'm a fighter as well as she is. At the beginning of To Kill A Mocking Bird in Chapter 3 Page 30, fighting is her everything she goes after Walter Cunningham after she gets in trouble on the first day of school, she beats up Dill when she thinks he's not paying enough attention to her. When news of Atticus's defense of Tom Robinson go down to the schoolyard, Scout never responds with words she always respond with her fists to the kids at her school. Then scout is also known as a boy and also dresses like one on the Image on the front of the book.
I disagree and agree with you post because I would say she is a lover because has her little crush on Dill and They talking about getting married. But then I also agree with the idea about her being a fighter.
Scout has challenged the ways that society expects girls to be because she hangs with Jem and Dill and gets in a situation were she ends up rolling in a tire when girls typically play with dolls and have tea parties. In other words, she acts the way boy are seen to act. In the text it says " Catching Water Cunningham in the schoolyard gave me some pleasure, but when I was rubbing his nose in the dirt Jem came by and told me to stop" (30).She is again Challenging the ways society expects girls to be because by getting into a fight she is being Barbaric and boys are usually seen to be Savage. So by doing this she is going against what society has expected girls to do.
I agree with you Jabari because I also had the idea of her rolling in the tire as her acting like a boy. You will see that if you look at me post. We had the same ideas
I agree, with you. Because in my post I also use the example/evidence that she fights with boys when she a girl. Generally speaking girls wouldn't be fighting boys with older brother that can handle that. She challenges what one would expect
Scout conforms and challenges our ideas of how a young women should act in society. She challenges our thoughts of how she is supposed to act when she plays with the older boys. Her playing with boys challenges our mindsets on what we presume her behavior in society should be. She hangs with Dill and Jem. On Page (61) it states " Next morning when I awakened I found Jem and Dill in the back yard deep in conversation. When I joined them, as usual they said go away. "Will not. This yards as much mines as it is yours, Jem Finch. I got as much right to play in it as you have." Dill and Jem emerged from a brief huddle: " If you stay you've got to do what we tell you" "I'm In". This challenges how a lady should act because she wants to be in with Dill And Jem. The way it challenges is On page (80) it states " Jem looked from the girl doll to me. The girl-doll wore bangs. So did I." Her And Dill also kissed a couple of times during the summer. So these lady like actions conforms how our ideas of scout in society should be.(Kiwahn Dumas)
I agree with you ( Kiwhan) in life you have to set your path for yourself you can't set anything for nobody but you so you can't be nobody else but you
I agree because when girls are mother less they have so many siblings of boys that makes her wants to hang around boys and makes her act like one so I Agree
Scout challenges the way a girl is supposed to behave in society.
Scout challenges the way a girl is supposed to act because in the story numerous times Scout is scolded or told that she needs to be more like a young lady and do the things girls do. Like not to play in the dirt with the boys and to start wearing dresses more like girls, Aunt Alexandrea came to live with them, especially to teach Scout the proper etiquettes a young girl should posses (ch.13) and now that Jem is 12 and even when he was younger he stretched the fact that Scout should stop hanging around with the boys and act more like a women. (Kayla Safforld)
Scout challenges our ideas of how a young girl is to behave or act in society by her choice of clothing. Usually a girl would wear a dress or something appropriate you would see a young girl wearing. Scout also seems to act more like a Tom-Boy because she hangs around with Jem and Dill a lot. In the text it states "what are you doing in those overalls? You should be in a dress and camisole, young lady! (Pg.135)" This tells me that people would expect something different from a girl by the way they dress, look, or act.
My thoughts on Scout is that she's kind of like Jem. She acts exactly like a boy even though she shouldn't...she's a girl she should act like a lady. To me she doesn't act like a girl, because she doesn't wear skirts,dresses or anything that girls should wear. She's always outside playing in the dirt (just like a boy). She challenges society and ideas of how girls should act. Now, it is wayyyyyy different because if some of the girls in our time acted like Scout,our world would be better because if a girl wears her clothes half off of them there attention would be on there body not how smart or intelligent they are,but if a girl wears like shorts or jeans or something there attention would be on how nice or how respectful they are for them self...
I think Scout is a really great person even though she is challenging how girls should act today in society. The reason I say Scout is great is because she is different from everyone else and that she accepts herself the way she wants to be. The reason I think Scout is challenging how a girl should act is because most girls wouldn't want to be dressed like a boy, fight a lot, and hang out with boys. "What are you doing in those overalls? You should be in a dress and camisole, young lady!..... This is how Scout was dressing like an boy. "This time, I split knuckle to the bone on his front teeth....." Scout beat up Francis for calling Atticus for calling him a nigger lover. "I declare to The Lord you're gettin' more like a girl every day!"
I agree with what you are saying because Scout is very different from other girls I see in this world. Most girls try to be perfect (everyone isn't perfect)
Scout is like the tom boy type . In the text jem states 'that you should start acting like a girl " Scout is challenging what people think about girls . Scout is different she does not wear dresses or do any thing a girl does But scout wears the things her brothers wears , she climbs trees and hangs around boys . and does everything that a boy does
Scout acts like a tom boy and hangs around boys named Jem and Dill . Also she dresses like a boy. Scout is challenging expectations of a young girl's behavior in society. On page (135 ) it says that Mrs. Dubose asked Scout "what are you doing with those overalls on?"
Scout is curious and adventurous. She challenges my ideas of how young girls should behave in society because she loves going on adventures, and she dresses like a boy. She loves to play and invent games that her, Dill, and Jem play during the summer. She would rather wear baggy pants or shorts, than a fancy dress and skirts. In the story, it says "'Jem please.' 'Scout, I'm tellin' you for the last time, shut your trap or go home-- I declare to The Lord you're getting more like a girl everyday!' With that, I had no option but to join them." From this, it tells me that Scout denies the fact that she acts like a girl, but she also wants to be adventurous at the same time.
Scout is curious and adventurous. She challenges my ideas of how young girls should behave in society because she loves going on adventures, and she dresses like a boy. She loves to play and invent games that her, Dill, and Jem play during the summer. She would rather wear baggy pants or shorts, than a fancy dress and skirts. In the story, it says "'Jem please.' 'Scout, I'm tellin' you for the last time, shut your trap or go home-- I declare to The Lord you're getting more like a girl everyday!' With that, I had no option but to join them." From this, it tells me that Scout denies the fact that she acts like a girl, but she also wants to be adventurous at the same time.
It is interesting to read all of your responses. Kudos to T. Campbell for thoroughly answering both questions. Mr. C also asked, "In what ways does she conform to how we would expect a young girl to behave in society?" Many scholars focused solely on the ways that Scout challenges your idea of how girls behave. I think her style of clothing was a big focus for many of you. What other ways does Scout challenge the stereotypical girl?
ReplyDeleteScout challenges our ideas of how a young girl is to behave or act in society by her choice of clothing. Usually a girl would wear a dress or something appropriate you would see a young girl wearing. Scout also seems to act more like a Tom-Boy because she hangs around with Jem and Dill a lot. In the text it states "what are you doing in those overalls? You should be in a dress and camisole, young lady! (Pg.135)" This tells me that people would expect something different from a girl by the way they dress, look, or act.
I agree, I also used scout way of dress to help improve my opinion. Scout disputes the way of would think of a young girl to act.
DeleteI agree with you (darnesha) because Scout does act like a Tom boy will she is a Tom boy because she hang out with a lot of boys and do things that boys love to do which make people believe in that she want to be a boy.
DeleteI agree, your textual evidence matches your claims. Way to go
DeleteI agree because she do act like a tomboy
DeleteI agree because the way she dresses is also something I wrote in my post and I just think that is a main thing of how she challenges societies idea of how girls are suppose to act
DeleteI agree... Scout dresses differently from other girls around in that time
DeleteScout is a tomboy & adventurous. In the text it stated(On pg.153) " It's time you started being a girl and acting right!" Scout is different from any girl because she doesn't wear fancy dresses or hair bows. Scout is adventurous because she keeps wondering about Boo Radley. Scout is challenging our ideas of how young girls behave in society because Scout is acting like a boy instead of a girl. In the text it stated( On pg.133) " Don't you say hey to me, you ugly girl."
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DeleteI totally agree. Great evidence
DeleteI agree
DeleteI agree
DeleteI agree because her acts prove everything you say.
DeleteI agree, I also used the example of scout challenging of what people would expect. When u said she's a tomboy. I said she dresses like a boy, and be around boys a lot.
DeleteI don't agree with that she is adventurous but agree she is a tomboy
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ReplyDeleteWe'll I say Scout is a great person & also a demanding person. She is different from others she acts like a young lady but she acts more like a boy at times. I think that she sound act how girls she act because she can set a good example of It. Scout is demanding because she's not trying to be like everybody else on the way how she dresses & acts different from a little girl.
The ways she would conform how we would expect a young girl to act in society is to not play like a little boy & act like a young lady wear dresses not boy cloths & act rough all the time act like how a girl is supposed to act at all times.
Scout, we'll where do I start, Scout shows everything by the way she carry her self she dress like she a boy and she play with boys you will not find her with no girls she always be around boys everyday. To be direct in chapter 6 on page 69 " Scout, I'm telling you for the last time, shut your trap or go home I declare to The Lord you're getting more like a girl every day!" When she use the declare which means the opposite. When she dresses like a boy that means she is challenging how society thinks a girl suppose to dress. I think this have a lot to do with how Scout grew up some kids don't grow up the same way people raise they kids differently for a reason. So I will consider Scout different from other because just being me I would not go outside and play with a bunch of boys because in real life situation the girls stick with the girls and the boys stick with the boys. Then if you think about it when Scout enter middle school Jem didn't even want her around him so my opinion is they don't treat Scout fairly when she hang out with them which giving you clues that she need to go around girls that got a lot of things common with her.
ReplyDeleteI agree because I don't think she should be around boys that much, I think she should find someone her own gender to hang out with
DeleteI agree, you used very clear evidences.
DeleteI agree because people should expect a girl to act a certain way
DeleteI agree because she act like a boy instead of a girl
DeleteI agree because u used very good textual evidence that was very clear
DeleteSanwon, I agree with you. You used good evidence and u put your opinion and facts in your post.
DeleteI agree with your claim because your evidence it read helps to support your claim very well
DeleteI agree. I think your post is very strong. Thomesha comment is great as well. her comment makes me think that scout should have used school to meet new people. Girls at that. She does hang with the boys to much.
DeleteAs you might have guessed, Scout doesn't have much interest in girl things, like dolls and dresses. Her tomboyish nature drives prim Aunt Alexandra crazy, and Aunty comes to stay with her brother and his family in part to try to make a proper little girl out of Scout.by Alexis woodfork
ReplyDeleteI don't understand, but then I agree with you that Scout is a tomboy
DeleteI agree with this because Scout does not like girly things and she did drive Aunt Alexandrea up the wall with her tomboyish nature
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ReplyDeleteMy thoughts about Scout are very conflicted, because she both challenges and conforms to how society thinks girls should behave. She conforms it because of the connection that she and Dill both share. It's clear to me that she has a crush on Dill and that's very girly. Like in chapter 12 on page 154 it says "summer was Dill's eyes alive with complicated plans to make Boo Radley emerge, summer was the swiftness with which Dill would reach up and kiss me when Jem wasn't looking." The fact that she was thinking about him, means she was missing him and that conforms to how society thinks a girl should behave. Even though she has a crush on Dill, when she hangs out with them and plays with them, she acts like a boy and dresses like a boy. She was acting like a boy when she decided to get into that tire in chapter 4. So that challenges how society think a girl should act. Society thinks a girl should act lady like and not do something that involves dirty things such as a tire that they found. She also challenges society because she was always hanging around with the boys such as Dill and Jem. Those were the people she hung out with during summer and that all stopped when part two came.
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I agree
DeleteYour comment is really interesting, and has a lot of dimension to it. I hadn't really considered the fact that her crush on Dill is evidence of her conforming to gender roles society has established for girls. Also, continue to closely read how the dynamic between the three of them (Scout, Dill, and Jem) changes as we move through Part 2.
DeleteI strongly agree with this
DeleteI agree, you got real deep explanations and that help me understand more. You proved your claims right with great evidence.
DeleteScout is a very strange and curious girl in her town Maycomb Alabama. Scout is curious when it comes to Boo Radley who's considered to be scary and hateful. On the other hand Scout is strange, in a way that it challenges how u would think a little girl would act. In the text it says " catching Walter Cunningham in the schoolyard gave me some pleasure".(chapter 30, pg.30) In most situations, You wouldn't expect a girl to be fighting a boy; when she has a a older brother and a father. Scout Is strange in ways she dresses like a boy, plays with worms in dirt, and hang with boys. In this case it disputes how someone would opine a girl to behave, play and dress. So, it would be highly unusual for someone to conform to scout as being feminine or girly.
ReplyDeleteI agree with this because she is very strange to me to because of the way she acts.
DeleteI disagree because she's not strange because for any thing some girls wasn't meant to be girls because the act like boys so to me I don't think it's strange I will only think its strange when she's the only one in this world acting like a tom boy
DeleteStarr, your argument doesn't makes sense in away your changing my definition of strange. I said strange in a way it challenges what one will think of how a young girl will act. Example she act like a boy;plays with boys:dresses like a boy. Also viewing your post u also says is challenges what one would expect a girl to behave.
DeleteI agree with you (Joshua) because it's like only a hand full of girls that act like Tom boys but it's a lot of people that Girly type like me so to sum what I'm trying to say up yes it is strange because why are you trying to be something you can't be.
DeleteStarr I also disagree with you because that is strange if a girl acts like a boy at times
DeleteWell Joshua if you take the time to explain your definition of strange I would maybe understand but under my circumstances I found myself disagreeing with your comment and made my OPINION In, In this world sorry Joshua but minds matter
DeleteBoth of y'all make sense. So I agree with both because Starr has a point but then again it does sound like you are trying to change his definition of strange so I also agree with Joshua
DeleteIf u would have found yourself clearly reading my post, you would find yourself understanding my definition of strange clearly. I said she's strange because she challenges what one would expect a young girl to behave. And yes, your opinion do matter but so do mines.
DeleteI agree because most girls that are different have different personalities
DeleteOkay Joshua at the end of the day you have you in opinion and so do I Your not making Any changes of My opinion because in life there are different strange so maybe I understood it wrong but Joshua sometimes people are going to disagree with you and you have to learn to accept in life or else you will find your self doing this in life
DeleteIn the story Scout is contemplate as Challenging because Scout is not a lover to me, but she is a fighter. I would say Scout is just like me because I'm not a lover I'm a fighter as well as she is. At the beginning of To Kill A Mocking Bird in Chapter 3 Page 30, fighting is her everything she goes after Walter Cunningham after she gets in trouble on the first day of school, she beats up Dill when she thinks he's not paying enough attention to her. When news of Atticus's defense of Tom Robinson go down to the schoolyard, Scout never responds with words she always respond with her fists to the kids at her school. Then scout is also known as a boy and also dresses like one on the Image on the front of the book.
ReplyDeleteI disagree and agree with you post because I would say she is a lover because has her little crush on Dill and They talking about getting married. But then I also agree with the idea about her being a fighter.
DeleteScout has challenged the ways that society expects girls to be because she hangs with Jem and Dill and gets in a situation were she ends up rolling in a tire when girls typically play with dolls and have tea parties. In other words, she acts the way boy are seen to act. In the text it says " Catching Water Cunningham in the schoolyard gave me some pleasure, but when I was rubbing his nose in the dirt Jem came by and told me to stop" (30).She is again Challenging the ways society expects girls to be because by getting into a fight she is being Barbaric and boys are usually seen to be Savage. So by doing this she is going against what society has expected girls to do.
ReplyDeleteI agree
DeleteI agree because Scout really does hang around more with boys
DeleteI agree with you Jabari because I also had the idea of her rolling in the tire as her acting like a boy. You will see that if you look at me post. We had the same ideas
DeleteI agree because when people like Scout hang with boys they are called "Tom boys"
DeleteI agree, with you. Because in my post I also use the example/evidence that she fights with boys when she a girl. Generally speaking girls wouldn't be fighting boys with older brother that can handle that. She challenges what one would expect
DeleteScout conforms and challenges our ideas of how a young women should act in society. She challenges our thoughts of how she is supposed to act when she plays with the older boys. Her playing with boys challenges our mindsets on what we presume her behavior in society should be. She hangs with Dill and Jem. On Page (61) it states " Next morning when I awakened I found Jem and Dill in the back yard deep in conversation. When I joined them, as usual they said go away. "Will not. This yards as much mines as it is yours, Jem Finch. I got as much right to play in it as you have." Dill and Jem emerged from a brief huddle: " If you stay you've got to do what we tell you" "I'm In". This challenges how a lady should act because she wants to be in with Dill And Jem. The way it challenges is On page (80) it states " Jem looked from the girl doll to me. The girl-doll wore bangs. So did I." Her And Dill also kissed a couple of times during the summer. So these lady like actions conforms how our ideas of scout in society should be.(Kiwahn Dumas)
ReplyDeleteI agree with this and you have great textual evidence to support your claims 👍 .... Good job
DeleteI agree because I fill that you have good textual evidence that supports your claims.
DeleteI agree with you ( Kiwhan) in life you have to set your path for yourself you can't set anything for nobody but you so you can't be nobody else but you
DeleteI agree with your claim because of the great evidence you used, it helps me to better understand what you are saying.
DeleteI agree because when girls are mother less they have so many siblings of boys that makes her wants to hang around boys and makes her act like one so I Agree
DeleteScout challenges the way a girl is supposed to behave in society.
ReplyDeleteScout challenges the way a girl is supposed to act because in the story numerous times Scout is scolded or told that she needs to be more like a young lady and do the things girls do. Like not to play in the dirt with the boys and to start wearing dresses more like girls, Aunt Alexandrea came to live with them, especially to teach Scout the proper etiquettes a young girl should posses (ch.13) and now that Jem is 12 and even when he was younger he stretched the fact that Scout should stop hanging around with the boys and act more like a women. (Kayla Safforld)
I agree because Scout has been told multiple times to behave lady like
DeleteI also agree because she has been told but won't act like one
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ReplyDeleteScout challenges our ideas of how a young girl is to behave or act in society by her choice of clothing. Usually a girl would wear a dress or something appropriate you would see a young girl wearing. Scout also seems to act more like a Tom-Boy because she hangs around with Jem and Dill a lot. In the text it states "what are you doing in those overalls? You should be in a dress and camisole, young lady! (Pg.135)" This tells me that people would expect something different from a girl by the way they dress, look, or act.
I agree because her clothing choices are the total opposite of what a girl is suppose to wear.
DeleteMy thoughts on Scout is that she's kind of like Jem. She acts exactly like a boy even though she shouldn't...she's a girl she should act like a lady. To me she doesn't act like a girl, because she doesn't wear skirts,dresses or anything that girls should wear. She's always outside playing in the dirt (just like a boy). She challenges society and ideas of how girls should act. Now, it is wayyyyyy different because if some of the girls in our time acted like Scout,our world would be better because if a girl wears her clothes half off of them there attention would be on there body not how smart or intelligent they are,but if a girl wears like shorts or jeans or something there attention would be on how nice or how respectful they are for them self...
ReplyDeleteI agree
DeleteI disagree with this because further in the book Jem becomes distant but Scout is still trying to get closer to Jem and she's open
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ReplyDeleteI think Scout is a really great person even though she is challenging how girls should act today in society. The reason I say Scout is great is because she is different from everyone else and that she accepts herself the way she wants to be. The reason I think Scout is challenging how a girl should act is because most girls wouldn't want to be dressed like a boy, fight a lot, and hang out with boys. "What are you doing in those overalls? You should be in a dress and camisole, young lady!..... This is how Scout was dressing like an boy. "This time, I split knuckle to the bone on his front teeth....." Scout beat up Francis for calling Atticus for calling him a nigger lover. "I declare to The Lord you're gettin' more like a girl every day!"
ReplyDeleteYes this is true I agree.
DeleteWhat do u mean by nigger lover
DeleteI agree with what you are saying because Scout is very different from other girls I see in this world. Most girls try to be perfect (everyone isn't perfect)
DeleteHe's defending a colored folk named Tom Robinson and other colored folks
DeleteI agree because scout do act like a boy
DeleteI agree with this. I also used the same evidence you did.
DeleteScout is like the tom boy type . In the text jem states 'that you should start acting like a girl " Scout is challenging what people think about girls . Scout is different she does not wear dresses or do any thing a girl does But scout wears the things her brothers wears , she climbs trees and hangs around boys . and does everything that a boy does
ReplyDeleteI agree but I feel that there is a lot of key concepts that you could have included
DeleteI agree because scout is a tomboy
DeleteScout acts like a tom boy and
ReplyDeletehangs around boys named Jem and Dill . Also she dresses like a boy. Scout is challenging expectations of a young girl's behavior in society. On page (135 ) it says that Mrs. Dubose asked Scout "what are you doing with those overalls on?"
Great right there work. You should find deeper thoughts though. You need more evidence but it's great that you have a understanding. Good work.
DeleteI agree with you, I also used that example of her being a tomboy.
DeleteScout is curious and adventurous. She challenges my ideas of how young girls should behave in society because she loves going on adventures, and she dresses like a boy. She loves to play and invent games that her, Dill, and Jem play during the summer. She would rather wear baggy pants or shorts, than a fancy dress and skirts.
ReplyDeleteIn the story, it says "'Jem please.' 'Scout, I'm tellin' you for the last time, shut your trap or go home-- I declare to The Lord you're getting more like a girl everyday!' With that, I had no option but to join them."
From this, it tells me that Scout denies the fact that she acts like a girl, but she also wants to be adventurous at the same time.
Jordan I agree with you. We also used the same work curious. She like to explore different things and learn new things.
DeleteScout is curious and adventurous. She challenges my ideas of how young girls should behave in society because she loves going on adventures, and she dresses like a boy. She loves to play and invent games that her, Dill, and Jem play during the summer. She would rather wear baggy pants or shorts, than a fancy dress and skirts.
ReplyDeleteIn the story, it says "'Jem please.' 'Scout, I'm tellin' you for the last time, shut your trap or go home-- I declare to The Lord you're getting more like a girl everyday!' With that, I had no option but to join them."
From this, it tells me that Scout denies the fact that she acts like a girl, but she also wants to be adventurous at the same time.
It is interesting to read all of your responses. Kudos to T. Campbell for thoroughly answering both questions. Mr. C also asked, "In what ways does she conform to how we would expect a young girl to behave in society?" Many scholars focused solely on the ways that Scout challenges your idea of how girls behave. I think her style of clothing was a big focus for many of you. What other ways does Scout challenge the stereotypical girl?
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