Page115 “its time you start bein a girl and actin right!”
(Scout is held responsible to act a certain way due to her gender)
Page52 “I declare to the Lord you’re getting more like a girl every day!”
( Jem makes being a girl a bad thing)
Ch. 4
“I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that's why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.”
(This quote shows how everyone treats scout differently because of her gender)
Chapter 14 “I felt the starched walls of a pink cotton penitentiary closing in on me, and for the second time in my life I thought of running away. Immediately.”
(In this quote scout feels like she is being locked in by the rules of being a lady)
Chapter 12 “seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl”
( before scout had thought that being a girl was a bad thing but seeing Calpurnia she realized that it is not necessarily a bad thing)
(Scout is held responsible to act a certain way due to her gender)
Page52 “I declare to the Lord you’re getting more like a girl every day!”
( Jem makes being a girl a bad thing)
Ch. 4
“I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that's why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.”
(This quote shows how everyone treats scout differently because of her gender)
Chapter 14 “I felt the starched walls of a pink cotton penitentiary closing in on me, and for the second time in my life I thought of running away. Immediately.”
(In this quote scout feels like she is being locked in by the rules of being a lady)
Chapter 12 “seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl”
( before scout had thought that being a girl was a bad thing but seeing Calpurnia she realized that it is not necessarily a bad thing)