Believes In Maycomb
November 14, 2012
People’s Believes in Maycomb In the novel by Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, she gives a detailed insight into human nature and its consequences. She focuses on a specific time period, the 1930’s. In the novel, she makes me feel the cruel reality of that time period. However, it also gave me a bright perspective of how they kept their spirits alive. Through Harper Lee’s novel, she showed us the power of human will to survive in such a segregated time period. As I was reading this novel, I learned that some of the most important things that the characters had were deep faith, imagination, and self-control in order to keep their spirits alive. Throughout this novel, deep faith was really important to some of the characters in this book. During the Great Depression African American people weren’t treated right. Meanwhile, the black community attended a church on Sundays called “First Purchase.” Like other African American in town, Calpurnia attended every Sunday to church. One …show more content…
Atticus is defending Tom Robinson’s case of raping a white woman in the town. Even though many people in town were against Atticus and his children, they learned to maintain self-control in themselves. For example, Scout gained self-control by avoiding a fight with Cecil Jacobs. Therefore, Scout says, “Atticus had promised me he would wear me out if he ever heard of me fighting any more: I was far too old and too big for such childish things, and sooner I learned to hold in, the better off everybody would be. I soon forgot” (Lee 99). A similar example happened when Big Bailey spit in Atticus’ face. Atticus showed an immense self-control by walking away, getting in his car, and going home. While Scout and Jem are growing up, Atticus teaches them how to control themselves and do the right things, whether the community thinks wrong or
People’s Believes in Maycomb In the novel by Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, she gives a detailed insight into human nature and its consequences. She focuses on a specific time period, the 1930’s. In the novel, she makes me feel the cruel reality of that time period. However, it also gave me a bright perspective of how they kept their spirits alive. Through Harper Lee’s novel, she showed us the power of human will to survive in such a segregated time period. As I was reading this novel, I learned that some of the most important things that the characters had were deep faith, imagination, and self-control in order to keep their spirits alive. Throughout this novel, deep faith was really important to some of the characters in this book. During the Great Depression African American people weren’t treated right. Meanwhile, the black community attended a church on Sundays called “First Purchase.” Like other African American in town, Calpurnia attended every Sunday to church. One …show more content…
Atticus is defending Tom Robinson’s case of raping a white woman in the town. Even though many people in town were against Atticus and his children, they learned to maintain self-control in themselves. For example, Scout gained self-control by avoiding a fight with Cecil Jacobs. Therefore, Scout says, “Atticus had promised me he would wear me out if he ever heard of me fighting any more: I was far too old and too big for such childish things, and sooner I learned to hold in, the better off everybody would be. I soon forgot” (Lee 99). A similar example happened when Big Bailey spit in Atticus’ face. Atticus showed an immense self-control by walking away, getting in his car, and going home. While Scout and Jem are growing up, Atticus teaches them how to control themselves and do the right things, whether the community thinks wrong or