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    To Kill A Mockingbird Empathy You can’t just open a book and judge the story on the random chapter you happened to end up on‚ you start from the beginning and read the full story. Empathy is just like that. Empathy is like reading someone else’s story: being one with the characters and events and feeling the emotions of the main character‚ observing‚ listening‚ and understanding. When you read someone’s story is when the solution of racism and prejudices within communities is really possible

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    Throughout to kill a mockingbird‚ Harper Lee communicates on numerous occasions the importance of compassion‚ as taught to jem and scout through the book‚ empathy is one of the most critical traits in a respectable human being. In the fictional town of Maycomb‚ Alabama‚ poverty is a common disease. Though poor‚ Scouts family is better off than most of the people in Maycomb. That includes the likes of walter cunningham‚ a son of a farming family that was hit hard by the depression. Scout learns her

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    TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD ESSAY A true gift is‚ in one sense‚ an unexpected blessing bestowed by a person –or even‚ perhaps‚ by fate. In the book‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee gifts are used as symbols of the people’s character and also help the reader understand the book better as it unfolds. One of the gifts in the book was given to Miss Maudie. One night during the snow storm her house caught fire. The neighbors put the fire out but she needed a place to stay. Miss Maudie stayed with Miss

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    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 the injustice and inequality towards

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    to spiral them into a struggle in which they must overcome. In To Kill A Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee conveys the theme that someone must have the willingness proceed spite of fear‚shows courage through her inspiring use of setting‚ conflicts and events as literary elements. Harper Lee conveys courage and the willingness to proceed spite of fear with her setting of To Kill A Mockingbird. Firstly‚ the time in which To Kill A Mockingbird takes place in adds to the reasons why the characters of the book

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    Dill Empathy Writing You know something? These past three years summers in Maycomb have been pretty amazing. The Finches have helped me learn a lot of things‚ and I only thought that being able to read was learning a lot! I can remember in the court room that Mr. Gilmer‚ the prosecutor in the Tom Robinson trial‚ was speaking horribly to Tom. It just made me sick and I started crying‚ so Scout took me out. But outside‚ we met Dolphus Raymond‚ who I thought was dangerous at first‚ but turned

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    Feminism and Anti-Feminism in To Kill A Mockingbird. Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird presents two types of women in the Depression era south. There are the women who support the feminist movement‚ and those who are the standard Southern women that society expects them to be. Some women revolt against the standards inadvertently‚ they are just being themselves. This contrast represents changing attitudes toward traditional roles. Scout Finch and Miss Maudie are two women who are supporting

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    next step would be to put yourself in their shoes. Throughout Part 1 in To Kill A Mockingbird‚ this idea is shown in various scenarios‚ to prove that empathy is the solution to racism and prejudice. One of the ways the author‚ Harper Lee‚ had shown that empathy was the solution to racism and prejudice‚ was Jem and Scout was prejudice towards Ms. Dubose because of the way she acted towards them‚ but later on they showed empathy for her and she was no longer judged by them. “..We would be raked by her

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    How does Harper Lee bring out different aspects of Atticus? The main theme of “To Kill a Mockingbird” is racial prejudice. It is a story told by Scout later on in her life when she is an adult telling the story of her childhood in Maycombe and the conviction of a Negro (Tom Robinson) accused of raping a white girl. He was defended by her father who is a Lawyer‚ Atticus‚ and he is one of the central characters in the novel. Atticus is a decent character‚ not only is he a knowledgeable lawyer‚ he

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    TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Very few authors able to introduce real life themes like Harper Lee. The Los Angeles Times calls Lees Pulitzer Prize winning novel‚ To Kill A Mockingbird‚ “Memorable… Vivid… a gentle persuasive‚ humor and a glowing goodness.” This is entirely true because Lee is able to introduce various conflicts that happen in present time. In To Kill A Mockingbird‚ Lee denounces prejudice and racist people. Lee tries to open humanities eyes so it won’t make the same mistakes it made

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