To kill a mockingbird

    After reading the first half of To Kill A Mockingbird I'v learned so much about the character and her surroundings.  The main character goes through many challenges as she grows.  In her life there are many people that have bad and good influences on her.  I think that everything in the story plays a potential role in her life.  As she grows everything around her grows in a certain way too.  As she grows she becomes more mature then her brother.  

  I think that a big part of Scout's life is the setting in the book.  I think that the setting takes big part in the growing up because there are some thing that they do to help her that they wouldn't really do now at days.  I also think that the time period takes a big part in how mature she is because people behave differently now then they would back then.  I think that people back then had more respect for each other then they do now at days.  I also think that the setting is a big part in it because the way they did things were different and because of that Scout acts they way she does.

  The second thing that I was talking about with my group was how I felt about the protagonist.  To tell you the truth I have mixed feelings about her.  I feel like at times she can be a good person but at other times she might make the wrong choices I think that this goes more into who really influences her.  I also think that the main character knows that she is doing something wrong at times but does it anyways.  I feel like if she decided to do the right thing and stick to the rules she would not be getting in as much trouble as she is getting into now.  I would consider Scout as a little socially awkward because she really doesn't have friends of her own, she hangs out a lot with her brother and his friends. 

  The last topic that we talked about was who influences our main character and are they a good or bad influence.  I think that some of the people in Scouts life are a good influence but others may be bad ones.  One person that is a good influence on her is her father Atticus.  I think that he is a good influence on her because he is always the one to tell her that she can't give up and that she should always try her hardest no matter what.  I thin that if we all had people  like that in our lives we would never be giving up I also think that with that positive influence she is becoming a better person not just on the outside but on the inside too.  Although she has a positive influence in her life she also has a couple of bad ones like her brother Jem and his friends.  I think that they are a bad influence because they are always the ones to get her into trouble.  If it wasn't for them I think that she wouldn't behave as bad.

  Overall I think that Scout the main character is a good person but with a little more positive influence in her life she would not get into trouble as often as she does now.  I also think that without Atticus she would be a little lost in her life and wouldn't really know which way to go.  I really hope that over the course of the book I hope that Scout will grow as a person and realizes that she is with the wrong people and that she should start to make her own decisions.  

As Ms.Robbins says:"Don't let others do your thinking for you".