Examples Of Silence In To Kill A Mockingbird

To Silence a Mockingbird The quietest people are often the most powerful because a person's facial and body motions can, for the most part, speak louder than words. For example, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas hasn’t spoke up once during verbal arguments in the past five years. This shows that even the quietest people can still make a change and be powerful. Some other examples are in the book, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, characters like Atticus Finch and Boo Radley both show that sometimes quiet people are powerful.
The first example is when Scout, Atticus’s daughter, is about to fight someone when she remembers what her dad told her.“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 the sooner I learned to
“ “Mr. Bob Ewell stopped Atticus on the post office corner, spat in his face, and told him he’d get him if it took him the rest of his life." (Lee, 247) “”I wish Bob Ewell wouldn’t chew tobacco.” (was all Atticus said about it.) (Lee, 248) This part of the text shows how Atticus doesn’t like to fight back and create a lot of ruckus when he can gently “lay low” and still get his point across. This example shows how in tough situations sometimes it’s better to be quiet and powerful then being loud and power.
The other side is that the loudest people are often the most loudest. In the book it does give some examples of this, too. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view … until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” (Lee) This is an example of the loudest people are the most powerful because Atticus is speaking this to Scout and it has a meaning that no body movement or gesture can explain. Sometimes words are stronger, more powerful, than