Essay To Kill A Mockinng Bird
The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is split into various themes. One of the numerous themes is the moral nature of people, good versus evil. In the novel, we find lots of righteous characters. Some of the righteous characters are in the black community. The black community keeps faith in God and practice their virtue every chance they get. The black community illustrates our school motto: to act justly, love tenderly and walk humbly with our God.
In Maycomb the black community was treated unjustly, yet they never complained nor turned away from their virtues. They continued to show kindness and respect to others. We see through this quote how Calpurnia, one of the members of the black community, illustrates the Holy Name of Mary motto to act justly:
“Hush your mouth! Don’t matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house’s yo’ comp’ny, and don’t you let me catch you remarkin’ on their ways like you was so high and mighty! Yo’ folks might be better’n the Cunninghams but it don’t count for nothin’ the way you’re disgracin’ ‘em….” (24-25)
In this quote Calpurnia is scolding Scout for the behaviour she presented towards Walter Cunningham. Calpurnia tries to explain to Scout that just because the Cunningham’s are a lower class than the Finches, she has no right to judge them on what they do with their food or how they act. Walter is her guest and he may do whatever he pleases with his food. This goes to demonstrate that granting Calpurnia is black, she tells Scout not to judge people, although the white community judges her kind. She respects all kinds of people and does not think that she has the right to be rude to anyone who is rude to her. Hence, Calpurnia is one of the many black characters that demonstrate justice in the novel.
The black community are also very caring, welcoming people that respected white people coming into their black church. As shown in this quote they treated Jem and Scout the way they wanted to be treated and made them feel at
In Maycomb the black community was treated unjustly, yet they never complained nor turned away from their virtues. They continued to show kindness and respect to others. We see through this quote how Calpurnia, one of the members of the black community, illustrates the Holy Name of Mary motto to act justly:
“Hush your mouth! Don’t matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house’s yo’ comp’ny, and don’t you let me catch you remarkin’ on their ways like you was so high and mighty! Yo’ folks might be better’n the Cunninghams but it don’t count for nothin’ the way you’re disgracin’ ‘em….” (24-25)
In this quote Calpurnia is scolding Scout for the behaviour she presented towards Walter Cunningham. Calpurnia tries to explain to Scout that just because the Cunningham’s are a lower class than the Finches, she has no right to judge them on what they do with their food or how they act. Walter is her guest and he may do whatever he pleases with his food. This goes to demonstrate that granting Calpurnia is black, she tells Scout not to judge people, although the white community judges her kind. She respects all kinds of people and does not think that she has the right to be rude to anyone who is rude to her. Hence, Calpurnia is one of the many black characters that demonstrate justice in the novel.
The black community are also very caring, welcoming people that respected white people coming into their black church. As shown in this quote they treated Jem and Scout the way they wanted to be treated and made them feel at