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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own families‚ problems at work‚ and the loss of a loved one. Through experiences‚ people learn important lessons that impact the way they think‚ act‚ approach situations‚ and treats others. This lesson is called moral growth. In the novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee‚ Jem loses his innocence and matures through three stages of morality in Maycomb‚ Alabama in the early 1930s. Jem‚ a naive boy‚ reveals
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wandered if he was still alive. While Mayella was outside all the time doing house chores‚ she did most of the work for her family and had to look after all of those children. Mayella had a big responsibility around the house and Boo sat inside doing what we don’t really know. These are the differences between Boo Radley and Mayella Ewell as victims in the
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point in life where we go through many stages of growing up and realizing that all things don’t come easy‚ and sometimes even though you know it’s the right thing it still doesn’t happen to be what you thought. In the book “To Kill a Mockingbird”‚ the young girl scout experiences this throughout the whole book and learns that innocent people are sometimes destroyed by evil. She is just a young girl finally noticing the real world‚ and how you don’t know anything until you’re in it’s place realizing
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are “what we do”. In the end‚ the only people who are actually aware of “what we think”‚ or more importantly “what we believe”‚ is our ourselves. One’s beliefs and ideals may fade‚ but the only legacies that can never be erased is our deeds. Great men and women are never remembered for beliefs or thoughts‚ for “only consequence is what we do.” The beliefs that humans hold so dear‚ are meaningless without actions to back up them up. For example‚ in Harper Lee’s Novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ the
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In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird‚ the symbolism of the “mockingbird” plays a significant role in the story. The mockingbird comes to represent the idea of true goodness and innocence. In the novel‚ the theme of the symbol is used to exemplify the innocent ones who are injured by the evil of human nature. Tom Robinson and Arthur (Boo) Radley are the examples of that. Atticus tells Scout and Jem‚ “Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” (103). Because Scout did not understanding this‚ Miss
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the story To Kill A Mockingbird don’t really pay attention to who’s actually who. They overlook people who don’t need to be overlooked.They overlook the quiet ones like Arthur “Boo” Radley and they think he’s a creepy middle aged man who has no life and lives in the dark. They all think he’s a bad guy because of the bad childhood he had in the past. Just because someone is quiet or different compared to others doesn’t mean you need to overlook them or listen to rumors about them until you know the truth
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In life people prejudge other by their appearance or by what they’ve heard. We all know that it’s best to get to know a person before judging them‚ this is a very well known saying‚ but a lot of people tend to forget about it. Rumors spread like a wildfire and will fool anyone who hears them‚ and sometimes rumors last for years‚ they will trick people into thinking that you’re something you’re not. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ there is a character that has been judges his whole
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father‚ Atticus Finch‚ is a lawyer chose to defend a black man who was falsely accused of 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.
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he lays out the familial roles of every person in the town of Anatevka. Tevye embraces these defined roles‚ content to adhere to the status quo‚ until his daughters grow up and feel the pull of modernism. At this point‚ torn between his family and his customs‚ Tevye decides to let his children do what they believe is right‚ not what everybody else does. Tradition and the norm are two powerful forces that have shaped decisions throughout time. These issues are explored further in other works of contemporary
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