Moshe Bensalmon December 15‚ 2014 To Kill a Mockingbird Essay Test In To Kill a Mockingbird‚ the author‚ Harper Lee‚ uses Atticus to teach the reader a lesson. One of these lessons is that ‘most people are finally good when you finally see them’. The characters that the book focuses on with regards to this lesson are Bob Ewell‚ Mayella Ewell and Aunt Alexandra. Atticus keeps telling
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I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and I am on page 207. These six chapters are about Jem‚ 13 and Scout‚ 9 dealing with the effects of Atticus’s case. Jem and Scout have always believed that Atticus is extremely boring‚ but he is actually quite the opposite. He could shoot really well and demonstrated his ability by shooting down old Tim Johnson. Furthermore‚ Atticus was gone and he didn’t want to leave the children home alone‚ so Calpurnia brought them to church. When they went to
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To Kill A Mockingbird Essay Throughout To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ there have been hidden meanings and rules of society. What are all the hidden messages throughout the story? What are the rules of society? To Kill A Mockingbird started out about a little girl named Scout with her brother Jem. Atticus is their father who is a lawyer and is very wise. Scout was a complete tomboy and was a very adventurous little girl. With learning “what it means to be a lady”‚ she honestly does see what
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What is courage? In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee describes courage as continuing to do something even when one knows the outcome is not going to be the way one wants it to be. Courage is not always about winning and losing. It is about being able to finish what one starts and doing what one thinks is right when others might think it is wrong. As Atticus stated‚ ‘’Simply because we were licked a hundred years ago before we started is no reason for us not to try to win‚ Atticus said’’(pg
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eat up people’s gardens‚ don’t nest in corncribs‚ they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” said Miss Maudie to her six year old neighbor‚ Scout. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ killing a mockingbird is a symbol of the destruction of innocence. To Kill a Mockingbird is a memorable novel in American literature history. You may ask why this story is memorable. Because To Kill a Mockingbird is a story about human rights.
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In the story To Kill a Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee‚ there is a character by the name of Scout. Scout is a young girl in a small town of Maycomb county. She is a tom-boy and would rather dress in overalls than a dress. Scout’s situation is similar to mine. We are similar in the sense that I am different than most people my age. What I mean by that is that I like different music than others‚ I have different aspirations‚ and my likings are very unique. In some situations‚ Scout acts differently
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For some people‚ maturing can be a hard concept. It takes a level of focus to become mature and to be capable of going through things that eare hard to overcome. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee‚ Scout shows that she is capable of becoming mature and overcoming everything that she faces. Over the book Scout faces being bullied because of her dad defending an African American person‚ going through the trial and losing‚ and almost getting killed by Bob. Also she faced something that
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power of education can make a human being to become wiser as well as intelligent. It creates more opportunities for new perspectives and eliminated prejudices. As children‚ we look up to our parents for moral life lessons and influence us as grow up. Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird clearly demonstrates Atticus’s moral lessons of prejudice; empathy and true courage have shaped Jem and Scout in their childhood. Atticus decided to accept the challenge defending for Tom Robinson‚ a black
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It is courage that helps society today in eliminating negativity and taking risks in order to pursue one’s ideal lifestyle‚ as well as in the novel‚ To Kill A Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee. Throughout the story‚ the main characters‚ Atticus Finch‚ Jean Louise “Scout” Finch‚ and Jeremy “Jem” Finch‚ test their bravery with events that challenge their weaknesses‚ which later become their favorite victory‚ by the help of important others
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Scouting for the Truth in To Kill a Mockingbird Have you treated someone differently because of who they are or what they looked like? Well in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird has been presented these actions with a list of events of real-life situations. The central theme of her novel is that people should not be judged according to what they look like no matter the circumstance. While instead‚ people should be judged upon their actions and behaviors‚ without the exception of what they
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