How is miss maudie like atticus

Miss Maudie always has time for the children and is willing to listen to what they say and engage in conversation with them. She listens to their opinions, invites them into her garden and bakes cakes for them to eat.

Scout is outlining here how generous she feels Miss Maudie is being towards her and Jem. Although she comments that they do not like to talk to Miss Maudie too much in order to keep their relationship a friendly one, this changes as the novel develops and Scout and Jem mature.

When Scout feels that Jem and Dill are playing games she does not wish to become involved with she grows even closer to Miss Maudie. At times, Miss Maudie seems like a surrogate mother to Scout as they talk together about serious issues such as the trial. Unlike Miss Stephanie and Mrs Dubose, she is friendly and tolerant. Miss Maudie is an important role model for Scout, who has no mother. She is described as a 'chameleon lady' , who gardens in her coveralls, but who later appears dressed up as a lady in 'magisterial beauty' Chapter 5, p.

We wonder if Miss Maudie expresses Harper Lee's own opinions, when she indicates that the Bible can't be taken too literally and says that some people are 'so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one' Chapter 5, p.

She is also said to make the best cakes in the neighborhood, which she gave to Scout, Jem and Dill, calling them by their real names. One of the only things Miss Atkinson does for a living is gardening, for she loves planting flowers and wants a large area for her garden.

She is described as being around 50 years old and also likes baking as well, making very good cakes. Wiki Content. Jem and Scout count Miss Maudie as a friend because, unlike most adults, she treats them with respect. Just like Atticus , who she says is "the same in his house as he is on the public streets" 5.

While Miss Stephanie is always poking and prying, especially at Scout, and Mrs. Merriweather can't even speak to children in the same tone of voice she uses for grown-ups, Miss Maudie sees the kids as slightly-less-experienced adults, and treats them like that.

And Miss Maudie's equal-opportunity respect extends to African-Americans, too. When Aunt Alexandra is depressed and bitter over the townspeople's leaving Atticus to do the right thing all by his lonesome, Miss Maudie speaks up for the small group of like-minded people in Maycomb.

Like Atticus's constant advice to Scout to put herself in the other person's shoes, Miss Maudie's respect for others is based on sympathy.