but a great deal more to stand up to your friends.” (Dumbledore from Harry Potter). Courage was used in the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. For example‚ Scout Finch and Jem Finch had to stand up to their friends and say what they thought was right even when people didn’t want to listen to what they had to say. Atticus had to stand up to the whole town and defend a black man even when he knew that there was no hope for Tom Robinson to be proven not guilty. As sick as Mrs. Dubose was‚ it
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Atticus Finch Character Analysis Atticus Finch is one of the major characters in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Atticus is a lawyer in Maycomb‚ the representative of Alabama in state legislature‚ the defendant of Tom Robinson‚ and the father of Jem and Scout Finch. Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Atticus is portrayed as a man of integrity‚ great courage‚ and a parent who is determined to show his kids what is right and what is wrong. Atticus Finch shows integrity and good morals in many
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shown when Dill dares him to touch Boo Radley’s house. According to Scout‚ "In all his life‚ Jem had never declined a dare." This also shows that he has a lot of pride. Jem also chose to defy Atticus’ order to go home that night at the jail cell‚ standing his ground. This prevented any possible injuries to Atticus. Jem is really protective of Scout. When Jem makes his first visit with Scout to Mrs Dubose’s house‚ Mrs Dubose greets him with "so you brought that dirty little sister of yours did you?" to
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through the story of a wrongfully accused black man. However‚ she also affirms the inherent goodness in human kindness through the story of the protagonist‚ Atticus Finch and his daughter‚ Scout. In this story‚ Atticus benefits from the racist Maycomb jury‚ who was admired and respected‚ ever since the discovery of the wrongdoings of the jury. Atticus‚ a small town lawyer‚ decides to defend Tom Robinson‚ a black man who was wrongfully accused for raping a white woman‚ Mayella Ewell. He does this despite
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Sometimes kids can be too innocent‚ but not with this little girl named Scout Finch. In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Scout Finch is the protagonist. She lives in a town called Maycomb. Scout is a young girl who has a brother nicknamed Jem‚ and a father named Atticus. Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee shows Scout Finch as literate‚ curious‚ and violent. The first trait scout is portrayed to be is literate. She is above her peers expectations when it comes to her literacy
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In the rural and old-fashioned town of Maycomb‚ was a secret hidden from most. Only a few people knew the truth‚ and soon Jem Finch would stumble across it as well. School went by slowly as usual. Jem hated spending his precious time at such a dull place. He wanted to race the streets of the town‚ embark on an adventure or discover something new. Jem‚ trying to distract himself from falling asleep‚ stared out the window. He thought of the one thing that interested him: Boo Radley. Jem had always
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Angel Arriaga Dr.Mink ELA 12‚November‚2015 Jem Finch Jem is the far oldest child in the finch family‚ since he has a sister named scout who is the narrator of the the whole book and is 4 years younger than him ‚but jem plays an important role in this story. Through his years he starts to change and become more sensitive than he was before. When he was thirteen he had a injury on his left. scouts says in the book “My brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.” (Ch 1 Pg.1). He had a fear
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people. Due to these beliefs in stereotypes‚ people end up developing prejudices against others. Most of the time things really aren’t what they seem. The novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ is a significant example of this. Jem and Scout Finch grew up in the 1930’s‚ in Maycomb‚ a town that’s extremely prejudice towards a lot of different people‚ but also a town that was oblivious to the fact that people are much different from the interior than they are on the exterior. Jem and Scout‚ and
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back in the 1930s were very different from parents today. But Atticus Finch is on a whole different level of parenting. Atticus does not act like a normal father. His parenting style is much more different than the other parents in the 1930s. If you misbehaved back in the 1930s your parents might beat you but Atticus never beat his children. Atticus almost treated his children like adults which was very unique for that time period. Atticus intellectually challenges his children‚ shows them how to be
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One of the most widely read novels in the past fifty years is To Kill a Mockingbird‚ which was written by Harper Lee in 1960 (Bernard 8). The story is about Atticus Finch’s defense of a wrongly accused black man while the story is told through the perspective of his daughter Jean Louise Finch‚ called Scout‚ and about her life as she grows up in a close together but racist community (Bloom 11). Since it is told through a young girl’s perspective‚ it is a story about a trial‚ yet also a childhood and
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