Book Analysis: To Kill a Mockingbird
By: Samuel Lloyd
To Kill a Mockingbird
Experiences Have a Strong Effect on the Perception of Reality
ELA 10-1 Written response
In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee readers should learn that the effect an individual’s experiences can have is very strong and quickly changes their perception of reality. Because experiences can provide different perspectives and change how an individual has to react in different situations. Resulting in an individual having a new angle of how to perceive the world around them.
Experiences have a strong ability to influence and effect an individual’s perception of reality very quickly. This can be due to many things it can be seen in the book in the passage where Scout rolls in a tire when she stops she is right in front of the Radley steps and she has a perspective that only she gets witch she mentions in the passage “there was more to it than he knew, but I decided not to tell him. (pg. 38)” we latter find that she heard someone laughing from inside the house. She then perceives that she is very unsafe and decides to leave the tire and then runs back to Jem and Dill. There is also the ability for an experience to change someone’s view of reality over time we can see that Scouts view is changed over a long period of time in the way of how she witnesses over time that most of the people in the town disapprove of Atticus’s choice to defend tom in court because time after time she hears people refer to her father as a “nigger lover” and many other very insulting terms and names. And eventually in the most extreme case is when Bob Ewell attempts to murder Jem and Scout on their way home late at night after the pageant. We also see that sometimes people never see the reality until they are told about it. This can be seen when Jem and Scout go to read to Mrs. Dubose for a month for two hours a day. And she would have these strange fits every once in a while, they are later told by Atticus that Mrs. Dubose probably never heard a
To Kill a Mockingbird
Experiences Have a Strong Effect on the Perception of Reality
ELA 10-1 Written response
In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee readers should learn that the effect an individual’s experiences can have is very strong and quickly changes their perception of reality. Because experiences can provide different perspectives and change how an individual has to react in different situations. Resulting in an individual having a new angle of how to perceive the world around them.
Experiences have a strong ability to influence and effect an individual’s perception of reality very quickly. This can be due to many things it can be seen in the book in the passage where Scout rolls in a tire when she stops she is right in front of the Radley steps and she has a perspective that only she gets witch she mentions in the passage “there was more to it than he knew, but I decided not to tell him. (pg. 38)” we latter find that she heard someone laughing from inside the house. She then perceives that she is very unsafe and decides to leave the tire and then runs back to Jem and Dill. There is also the ability for an experience to change someone’s view of reality over time we can see that Scouts view is changed over a long period of time in the way of how she witnesses over time that most of the people in the town disapprove of Atticus’s choice to defend tom in court because time after time she hears people refer to her father as a “nigger lover” and many other very insulting terms and names. And eventually in the most extreme case is when Bob Ewell attempts to murder Jem and Scout on their way home late at night after the pageant. We also see that sometimes people never see the reality until they are told about it. This can be seen when Jem and Scout go to read to Mrs. Dubose for a month for two hours a day. And she would have these strange fits every once in a while, they are later told by Atticus that Mrs. Dubose probably never heard a