https://padlet.com/jvchoi/TKAMrevision Themes, Characterisations, Symbols, Narrative Structure en-us 2019-12-03 00:51:02 UTC 2019-12-12 05:20:43 UTC hello@padlet.com 1511112 https://padlet.com/jvchoi/TKAMrevision/wish/423109907 Throughout the book, Scout and Jem make the classic transition from innocence to maturity. Jem leads this change, as he is older than Scout, but both children experience it. At the beginning of the novel, they approach life innocently believing in the goodness of all people, thinking everyone understands and adheres to the same values they and their father do. During Tom Robinson's trial, the children are sorely disappointed when the jury, made up of their fellow townspeople, convicts the obviously innocent Tom Robinson simply because he is a black man and his accuser is white. The realization that there is true evil within their society shakes Jem to the core. He held a strong belief in the goodness of all people, but after the trial must reevaluate his understanding of human nature. The challenge of this struggle causes him great emotional pain as he tries to come to terms with disappointing realities of inequality, racism, and general unfairness. Scout also struggles to understand these things, but even following the trial is able to maintain her belief in the goodness of human nature. At the end of the novel, both children are faced with true evil, as Bob Ewell tries to kill them. True goodness, embodied in Boo Radley, saves them. In this final conflict between these opposing forces, goodness prevails.]]> 2019-12-12 04:47:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jvchoi/TKAMrevision/wish/423109907 1411391 https://padlet.com/jvchoi/TKAMrevision/wish/423110496 Scout's innocence serves as a way to explore darker themes throughout the story, contrasting the moral conflicts of the adults through the innocent viewpoint of a child's.]]> 2019-12-12 04:51:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jvchoi/TKAMrevision/wish/423110496