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Growing Up

Growing Up. Objective: To understand the theme of ‘growing up’ and its significance to the novel. Key extracts: Chapters 1-11.

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Growing Up

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  1. Growing Up

  2. Objective: To understand the theme of ‘growing up’ and its significance to the novel. • Key extracts: Chapters 1-11

  3. As a starter today, I would like you each to write into your exercise books a key moment in your own life when you have realised that you are growing up. Then I would like you to consider the novel, and give an example of how growing up is shown. You have 5 minutes Feedback

  4. What is growing up, then? • A steep learning curve • ‘To become an adult’ (OED) • Is it just a physical phenomenon? • It is also about learning lessons in life. • Innocence to experience- William Blake- The contrary states of the human soul. • Teacherly bit coming on........ • Blake believed in the innocence of children and recognised that life lessons (and education!) ruined this- children were pure until polluted by the realities of life • Are life lessons

  5. Innocence v Experience • When my mother died I was very young,And my father sold me while yet my tongueCould scarcely cry 'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.And by came an angel who had a bright key,And he opened the coffins and set them all free;Then down a green plain leaping, laughing, they run,And wash in a river, and shine in the sun.Then naked and white, all their bags left behind,They rise upon clouds and sport in the wind;And the angel told Tom, if he'd be a good boy,He'd have God for his father, and never want joy. A little black thing among the snow,Crying! 'weep! weep!' in notes of woe!'Where are thy father and mother? Say!' -'They are both gone up to the church to pray...... 'Because I was happy upon the heath,And smiled among the winter's snow,They clothed me in the clothes of death,And taught me to sing the notes of woe...... 'And because I am happy and dance and sing,They think they have done me no injury,And are gone to praise God and His priest and king,Who made up a heaven of our misery.

  6. Life lessons. Scout. • Experienced voice reflecting on innocence of children- a life in reverse • Scout’s innocence is manifest as she often does not understand what is happening e.g at the jailhouse. Jem • Jem matures with a rapidity not shared by Scout- I feel this shows his sensitivity to the world around him. This also shows the differences in ages. • Scout comments upon Jem’s physical growth. We get a great impression of Jem through the child Scout’s eyes and can perhaps read between the lines as mature observers.

  7. Jem What lessons do you think Jem learns in the novel? How is he shown to be ‘growing up’? Consider: Varied meanings of growth, Jem’s experiences and the events and punishments of his formative years in Maycomb

  8. Growing up quotes • Jem acquires ‘an alien set of values’ (Ch 12 p.127) • Jem breaks ‘the remaining code of our childhood’ (Ch 14, p.44)- turns into a supergrass! • Jem is called ‘Mister Jem by Cal (Ch 12 p.127) However!!! He is still a little boy when he ‘walks like an Egyptian’, he cannot deal with the comments of Mrs Dubose as an adult and reacts with the rage of an upset child. Any more examples...?

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