In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ I believe courage is a main point in the story. Courage is strength in the face of pain or grief. Sticking up for others‚ helping others that are in danger‚ and sticking up for yourself. To Kill a Mockingbird‚ has many examples of courage and they all show different meanings of what courage can do and how people show it during different events that happen. Having courage can cause something very succesful to happen without you knowing. Sticking up for
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The novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ written by Harper Lee signify an important message throughout its chapters while the symbolism of a mockingbird appears from time to time. The mockingbird symbolizes one´s purity of true kindness to do something and receive nothing or something worse‚ in return. This symbolic bird develops the theme throughout this book by establishing the actions of a mockingbird onto the innocence population of Maycomb. Within this naive population‚ two characters can be considered
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In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ the mockingbird has come to symbolize many people‚ especially Tom Robinson and Arthur (Boo) Radley. Although they are often blamed for the misfortunes of others‚ both Arthur and Tom only intend well for the community and have made efforts to contribute to the well-being of others. Although he is feared by many children and adults in the town he has done many good things for the finches. He continually gave gifts to the children through the hole in a tree‚ with
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Bob Enyart said‚” It is not a justice system. It is just a system.” In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird‚ a coming of age novel about the adventures and experiences of a young girl‚ Lee plunges into trialing times of being black during the 1900s and the injustices of racial discrimination. Through the use of symbolism and court evidence Lee shows the inequality the court presents through discrimination. Through the use of symbolism Lee connects the innocence of a mockingbird to Tom Robinson to show
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Black Hurricane This is the story of the infamous black hurricane.He was called this because he had the power to make a black hole over himself transporting him to anywhere he wanted and getting there in no time at all (literally). This also meant he could put black holes over anyone he chose and transporting them to any jail based on the seriousness of the crime. He gained his power from how his parents genes mixed creating a human looking mutant and his responsibilities were the usual keep the
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In “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee‚ there are many instances where the people that Scout and Jem interact with impact their life. For example‚ in TKAM‚ Atticus is Scout and Jem’s dad. And he teaches them about life throughout the story. Especially when he is telling Scout about how the different people in Maycomb struggle with everyday things. He tells her‚ “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
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In the play "Our Town"‚ by Thornton Wilder‚ a character by the name of Simon Stimson makes a very insightful statement about people and their lives. Simon is dead and buried‚ as well as several of the play’s other characters‚ when a newly-dead young woman named Emily joins their ranks and begins to realize the triviality and ignorance of her existence‚ as well as that of every living person. The dead are discussing this insignificance and unawareness of the living when Simon comments with disgust
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In Harper Lee’s "To Kill A Mockingbird‚" the author portrays killing a mockingbird as a sin and a moral. The author describes how the characters are introduced to evil and are convicts of evil. Scout and Jem are very clueless to all evil in the world. They do not understand because they have never seen evilness go on‚ they expect everyone to be good in society. Atticus‚ the father‚ is a guide for his children. He tells them right from wrong and he helps them know that evil does not win goodness
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Gabriel Austell Ms. Chapman LA8-1 4 April 2016 The Changes of a Boy In the novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee shows life in the south and how children’s lives change as they mature. The book follows the lives of a father named Atticus‚ and his two children‚ Jem and Scout who live in a town called Maycomb. In the beginning‚ Scout and Jem meet Dill‚ and the three of them take interest in their sketchy neighbor‚ Boo Radley. As the book goes on‚ Jem‚ being a ten-year-old boy‚ goes through many
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For my final project‚ I decided to create an art piece that represented what makes people evil. I chose to show Clay Derby from Copper Sun‚ Bob Ewell from To Kill a Mockingbird‚ and a character from The Lottery to show this. These three people all showed a lack of empathy and I drew a head that was split into the three people. The blindfold that is covering their eyes symbolizes the blindness to others’ feelings. Their selfishness is something that you don’t just see in books‚ but it relates to real
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