Miss Maudie- To kill a Mockingbird

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Personality

Role

  • Kind
  • Knowledgable
  • Can be stern
  • She is a religious person
  • She is racist, like most people in Maycomb
  • She enjoys being outdoors and doesn't like being inside
  • She acts as company towards Scout during chapter 5 when Jem and Dill start to leave her out of their games
  • She also helps to educate Scout on Boo Radley by correcting what she had been told by Jem

Development (Growth & change)

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  • Miss Maudie's character doesn't change much
  • She does however help Scout's character develop by giving her advice and helping her make sense of whet she has been told by other people
  • "Jem and I had considerable faith in Miss Maudie"-  showing how important she is to Jem and Scout
  • "That is three-fourths coloured folks and one-fourth Stephanie Crawford"- showing how although her kindness extends to Jem and Scout, she is still a racist and has what Attius would call "Maycomb's usual disease"
  • "Miss Maudie's voice was enough to shut anyone up"- shows how Miss Maudie is stern and that she may appear scary to some people
  • "She loved everything that grew in God's Earth, even the weeds"- shows how Miss Maudie likes being outdoors and also shows her as a religious person by using "God"
  • "Miss Maudie hated her house: time spent indoors was time wasted"- further demonstrating her love of the outdoors, adn also showing how she may feel there is nothing interesting that can be done indoors

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