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    Olivia Clark To Kill a Mockingbird essay Language A. Period 3 The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ is about two innocent‚ young children‚ Jeremy “Jem” Finch and Jean Louise “Scout” Finch. Scout and Jem‚ are brother and sister who are living in the South during the Great

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    experience. This is an action that is often used today. Society comes up with opinions about people they have heard from someone’s personal experiences. They choose to judge people or things without knowing anything themselves. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird‚ Atticus Finch defends a black man‚ Tom Robinson‚ when he is wrongly accused of raping a white girl. When he takes this job the Maycomb community instantly criticized Atticus for helping Robinson. Atticus’ two children‚ Scout and Jem‚ are also

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    leveler. This is because people still get treated unfairly. Some examples are portrayed in real life cases such as the Scottsboro Trials. Also‚ they can be portrayed in novels such as To Kill A Mockingbird. The judicial system was not a “great leveler” during the time it was created. In the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird

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    | To Kill a Mockingbird | Prejudice | | | Prejudice In To Kill a Mockingbird you can see the terrible effects prejudice can have on people. In the story even the main characters Atticus Finch‚ Arthur Radley‚ and Tom Robinson receive prejudice from almost everyone in Maycomb‚ Alabama. “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 it.” In the Beginning there is the everlasting town

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    Before I get into telling you about courage in To Kill a Mockingbird‚ I would like to tell you what courage means. Courage takes many forms. For example‚ courage can be a person with a gun in their hand or a person that wants to finally do the right thing even though there are several difficult obstacles in the way. Individuals may demonstrate courage in a way that helps other people or in a way that benefits them. It can even take the form of a personal or family goal. A whole country could even

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    in different ways and take extreme measures to get a point across‚ targeting certain individuals or communities. For instance‚ in the book to kill a mockingbird bird‚ Harper lee writes about the small town of Maycomb during the 1930’s and how prejudice has lasting implications on the lives . Characters Boo Radley‚ Tom Robinson and Atticus finch in to kill a mocking

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    It was after the pageant‚ which almost the whole town went to‚ when I noticed the Finch kids walking on the street; I was drunk and had my switch knife in my pocket. I didn’t know what I was thinking‚ but I followed them down the street heading to their house after they had declined an offer for a ride‚ it was incredibly dark and I could barely see anything except the outlines of two children. I then got out of my thoughts and heard them talking about the girl’s shoes‚ they were going to start heading

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    To Kill A Mockingbird: Courage In the novel‚ "To Kill A Mockingbird"‚ we were presented with several displays of courage. Some of the courage in the novel were displays of physical courage. However‚ physical courage was not the only type displayed‚ we also saw examples of moral courage. I saw several examples of physical courage in this excellent novel. One example of courage however insignificant to me or you is Jem’s courage to run up to the Radley’s house‚ now to me or you that is nothing

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    Conscience is the voice viewed as a guide to the rightness and wrongness in one character and behavior‚ and in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ the brother of the narrator‚ Jem‚ changes throughout the story and realizes that the conscience of plenty of the residents in Maycomb is disturbing and wrong. When Atticus said “…before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience” (105). Jem represented the theme

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    raping a white woman. This white woman made this accusation to cover up the fact that she came on to a Negro during the racist times of the Great Depression. Harper Lee creates a “timeless classic of American literature” in her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird through her use of a white man defending a black man and Heck Tate’s experience of protecting Arthur “Boo” Radley to demonstrate good and bad role models. Atticus Finch followed through and came close to winning the case‚ but unfortunately

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