treats Mrs Dubose when she calls him terrible racial names to his face and to his children. During a time when black people were thought to be lower than white people‚ Atticus defended a black man in court. He said to his children‚ "I’m simply defending a Negro his name’s Tom Robinson‚" (pg. 75). It required a lot of confidence and caring for Atticus to defend Tom‚ and the black community knew that Tom did not stand a chance without Atticus’ help. They respected him and looked to him as a hero
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On 1st September 1939‚ Germany invaded Poland under the false pretext that the Poles had carried out a series of sabotage operations against German targets. Then‚ Britain and France joined the war with the willing of ending the war and keeping the peace. But‚ Germany still occupied Poland and turned to attack France on 10 May 1940 and France only kept 35 days then it was defeated. So‚ I believe that France is forced to enter the war‚ and it’s fight for peace and justice during the WWII. There are
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The wonderful story that is To Kill A Mockingbird has been around for a long while‚ and has a lot to say. There is so much to it such as many themes‚ symbolism‚ and imagery. A world wide phenomenal book which was later turned into a movie. There are many similarities and differences in the book To Kill A Mockingbird and the film that was based upon it. In the movie they almost portray the characters perfectly similar to the book by clothing to dialect‚ but there were a few differences. One was
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often than not when that valued possession is undergoing some form of confrontation‚ we most probably will get defensive. We’re not the only ones. Banjo Paterson and Jack Davis have both composed poems defending that valued possession. Paterson’s poem “In Defence of the Bush” as it suggests is defending our home country. When Henry Lawson writes a poem victimizing Australia‚ Banjo gets a little upset because he feels as though he is being picked on. How would you feel if somebody made a negative
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Tom because he views it as the morally correct thing to do. When asked why he is defending Tom‚ Atticus says “For a number of reasons. The main one is‚ if I didn’t I couldn’t hold up my head in town‚ I couldn’t represent this county in the legislature‚ I couldn’t even tell you or Jem not to do something again” (Lee 75). This quote portrays Atticus’ true nature and his pure morals. Atticus simply knows that defending Tom is the right thing to do and doing so gives him a sense of satisfaction. This
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the stock market crashed causing many to lose their jobs and homes. This plays a major role in the book as it affects the way of how white people viewed the African Americans‚ as less. Atticus‚ the main paternal figure of the book and the lawyer defending a falsely accused African American of rape‚ Jem‚ son of Atticus‚ and Mrs.Dubose‚ an elderly woman who criticizes
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back‚ so they got the UN to ratify a war against North Korea when South-Korea was attacked. This resulted in an American led war against the North Koreans which later on ended up in standstill on both parts. America was the big factor in helping defending the south‚ and to what purpose? South Korea was at this time very un-industrialized‚ and they had no rich mineral resources to pay America later‚ and to this day South Korea hasn’t paid a dime to the US for the war effort. This shows us that America
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court to vote Tom innocent. Attempting to convince that Tom is innocent not raping Mayella he uses ethical‚ logical‚ and emotional appeal to protect him in Atticus’s closing argument. As Atticus is defending Tom he uses ethical appeal to bring out their reasoning of right and wrong. When defending Tom he listens to what the witnesses are saying and piece together the information and he came up with ways to defend Tom to how he can prove Tom is innocent as stated “Gentlemen‚” he was saying‚ “I shall
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am for the prisoners at bar” (93) invoking a line from the Marchese di Beccaria. Adams went on to argue that it was not the soldiers who started the tragedy; it was the mob of people. He portrays the soldiers as the victims who were merely just defending themselves after being howled at by the mob while also having snow balls‚ stones‚
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Mockingbird‚ Atticus demonstrates one of the main themes in the novel‚ which is “courage is doing what is right even when the odds of succeeding are poor”. Atticus does this by defending Tom Robinson‚ a black man who has his odds stacked against him only because of his skin color. Atticus faced much backlash‚ from other whites for defending Tom. Since Tom was a black man‚ Atticus was doomed to lose‚ but Atticus did it anyway because it was the right thing. It took courage from Atticus to take Tom’s case because
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