I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In chapters 10 through 15 the trial becomes one of the main topics and causes many conflicts. Aunt Alexandra comes to stay with the Finch family‚ which leads to some quarrelling. In this journal I will be characterizing Atticus and questioning whether Calpurnia or Alexandra is an excellent mother to the children. As I am further reading To Kill a Mockingbird I begin to characterize Atticus. I characterize Atticus as a caring and wise individual
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The Citizens of Maycomb Was Atticus Finch a leader or a " nigger lover"? In the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ Atticus showed in multiple places how he was a leader and also how he could have been a "nigger lover". For a small town like Maycomb‚ there wasn’t a lot of neighborly friendship going on; between Boo Radley‚ and the mysterious minds of Scout and Jem‚ the town was in circles. The mad dog in the story was a symbol of many different things‚ it was a symbol of the town and
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Quote #1 “The birds did not understand Snowball’s long words‚ but they accepted his explanation‚ and all the humbler animals set to work to learn the new maxim by heart. FOUR LEGS GOOD‚ TWO LEGS BAD‚ was inscribed on the end wall of the barn‚ above the Seven Commandments and in bigger letters (3.10‚ 3.11)” Big words bad‚ small words good: it’s easier to understand rules when they’re simple‚ but simple rules tend to gloss over the complexities of human society. Like‚ "don’t tell lies" is all well
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childish things. Scout demonstrates this by not wanting to stop fighting and Atticus telling her its childish. It is also demonstrated by the children wanting to go into town more often and not worry about what is going on at home. The characteristics of Jem and demonstrates that coming of age means to become more mature and wanting to be more like their parents instead of still being childish. Scout even though she is becoming older she is still being childish in the sense that she is still fighting at
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am white and equal to him in every way‚ I may be the poorest man in Macomb but I am not nearly as bad as those coloured folk. I expected to be a hero after saving all those women from that rapist‚ But instead I lost all of my dignity to Atticus Finch. I still don’t understand what a rich white man‚ with his fancy clothin and that stupid soundin English from where every the hell hes from‚ has to get out of depraving a poorer ‘white’ man such as myself‚ ATTICUS. He’s just as bad as Tom Robinson‚
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who respects others and sacrifices their own safety for others. The heroes in To Kill A Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee‚ are Scout‚ Jem‚ and Atticus. They are reasonable and respectful to all in their town. The setting is Macomb County‚ Mississippi‚ in the mid-1900’s. The heros are Scout‚ Jem‚ and Atticus Finch. The first hero in To Kill A Mockingbird is Jean Louise Finch (nicknamed Scout). Scout is a hero because she is always notices the adults in Maycomb. One example of this is she is always friendly
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cout Finch undergoes changes in the novel‚ To Kill A Mockingbird‚ that allows her to walk freely with Boo Radley. These changes will be explained further with reference to the novel‚ as a whole. In the beginning of the novel‚ we are aware that Scout and Jem Finch as well as Charles Baker Harris and majority of Maycomb’s youth‚ have certain opinions about the “malevolent phantom” (1) also know as Boo Radley. Boo Radley is caricatured to be a man with “yellow teeth” (1) and “breath so bad‚ the azalea’s
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characters Dill‚ Scout‚ and Jem in the book " To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee live a somewhat diverse childhood as they become aware of the prejudice in their hometown Maycomb and "learn to climb into other people’s skin and walk around in it". In the story the children behave as a child would at their time‚ but their childhood evolves from playful innocence to realizing the pressures of living in a timeframe where prejudice is all around them. Scout‚ a 6-year-old tom boy‚ Jem‚ Scout’s older brother
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right‚ you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself‚ and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” -Marilyn Monroe- This quote to me means that everything happens for a reason and it is sometimes for the good and sometimes for the bad. I think that this quote says that Everything that happens in one way or another has a direct impact on who you are. How you look at and react to everything that happens around you goes into defining who you
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given the job to defend Tom Robinson‚ a black man‚ who was accused of rapping a white girl. As a lawyer‚ as good as Atticus was‚ he took the job and took Tom to trial. In this paper you will explore the character Atticus Finch‚ his family‚ job‚ and role in this story. Atticus Finch is a selfless man. Within the story we read the scene where Atticus is willing to stick up for an innocent black man. In that time period‚ the 1930s‚ that was a very uncommon thing‚ even if he was innocent. He sits in front
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