Scout is referring to Francis, one of her distant relatives. He's not distant enough as far as she's concerned, given that he's such a frightful bore. Francis is Aunt Alexandra's grandson, and he has clearly been spending a lot of time round his granny because he's picked up on her disapproval of Atticus's representing Tom Robinson in court. When Atticus takes his children to Finch's Landing, Scout's not exactly thrilled to see Francis there. She's even less thrilled when Francis starts taunting her. Not only does he call her good friend Dill a "runt," for good measure he also says that Atticus is a "n****r lover" on account of his agreeing to be Tom Robinson's defense attorney.
Scout doesn't take this lying down. She curses Francis and proceeds to give him a well-deserved pasting. She's so mad at him that she has to be pulled off by members of the family. The whole episode illustrates once again just how hard it is for Scout to control her temper. It also shows us that she won't tolerate insults against the people she cares about most.
Thursday, July 25, 2019
Who is Scout describing in the quote "he was the most boring child I had ever met"?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Why is the fact that the Americans are helping the Russians important?
In the late author Tom Clancy’s first novel, The Hunt for Red October, the assistance rendered to the Russians by the United States is impor...
-
The poem contrasts the nighttime, imaginative world of a child with his daytime, prosaic world. In the first stanza, the child, on going to ...
-
There are a plethora of rules that Jonas and the other citizens must follow. Again, page numbers will vary given the edition of the book tha...
-
The given two points of the exponential function are (2,24) and (3,144). To determine the exponential function y=ab^x plug-in the given x an...
-
Robinson Crusoe, written by Daniel Defoe, is a novel. A novel is a genre defined as a long imaginative work of literature written in prose. ...
-
Hello! This expression is already a sum of two numbers, sin(32) and sin(54). Probably you want or express it as a product, or as an expressi...
-
The title of the book refers to its main character, Mersault. Only a very naive reader could consider that the stranger or the foreigner (an...
-
The only example of simile in "The Lottery"—and a particularly weak one at that—is when Mrs. Hutchinson taps Mrs. Delacroix on the...
No comments:
Post a Comment