One of the main lessons that Scout learns in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is that you can’t fully understand who someone is until you walk in his shoes‚ a lesson that Scout learns while standing on Boo’s porch and seeing from his point of view. When Scout gets home from her first day at school with Miss Caroline‚ she recounts the “crimes” of her day. Scout sits on Atticus’s lap and tells him about Miss Caroline’s notion that he shouldn’t have taught Scout to read‚ and after some contemplation
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Character analysis of Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird Scout is a very unusual little girl‚ both in her own qualities and in her social position. She is unusually intelligent in many ways that is far more advanced than the other children who she associates herself with for example she learns to read before she is anywhere close to beginning school‚ and she is unusually confident for her age as you can see from the story she never backs down when it is time for her to fight boys without fear or remorse
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Graham ENG2D May 23 2013 The Mockingbirds of Maycomb County To Kill A Mockingbird‚ a novel by Harper Lee‚ is the story of a young girl named Scout‚ growing up in Maycomb County‚ Alabama‚ in the 1930’s. Scout is forced to mature quickly when she father takes on a job defending Tom Robinson‚ a black man accused of rape‚ in court. As a result‚ Scout is mocked and discriminated against by a society that believes a black man is always guilty. Scout comes to realize that her small‚ safe town is not the tranquil
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The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is split into various themes. One of the numerous themes is the moral nature of people‚ good versus evil. In the novel‚ we find lots of righteous characters. Some of the righteous characters are in the black community. The black community keeps faith in God and practice their virtue every chance they get. The black community illustrates our school motto: to act justly‚ love tenderly and walk humbly with our God. In Maycomb the black community was treated
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me in a different direction‚ or taught me life lessons. There are also many books that have helped me express my own thoughts to find my voice. One major book that has impacted me is To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The main character‚ Atticus Finch illustrates moral courage‚ where it has taught me to do the right thing despite the risk of hostile consequences. To Kill a Mocking bird showed me potential of moral courage. I was assigned to read To Kill a Mockingbird. It took me two hours to finish
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November 18‚ 2012 Early society’s project For my project I had made a tepee from the Early Native American tribes. A tepee was a home to the Native Americans. A tepee was built like a cone with lumber to make its shape and covered with animal skin and fur that was hunted. The fur was very helpful to them because during the winter the fur kept the tepee warm. The purpose of my item I constructed serve how the Native Americans lived. Also it shows how these people used their resources to live
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Lessons Learned Over Time In this class‚ we read different epic tales and watched one considered to be a modern day epic tale. Each story had a “hero” who proceeded on a journey to find their happily ever after. In the Odyssey‚ we meet Odysseus who takes 25 years to get home. We meet Dante from Inferno who is trying to get to heaven. Finally‚ we meet Arthur who becomes king of Camelot due to a sword in a stone. Three episodes that teach us life lessons are watching Odysseus patiently waits for the
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Scout is a very unique character in more ways than one. She shows many traits throughout the whole book of “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Some specific traits that she shows include being clever‚ acting loyal‚ and even being defiant at sometimes. Scout is a very loyal person. She shows that through many of her words and actions throughout the book. One example being when she had defended Atticus against many of the people who had disagreed with him taking up the case against Tom Robinson. She had
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* Life Lessons * * Life lessons is about setting boundaries‚ on your life‚ your career‚ love‚ relationship‚ etc. Setting higher standard on your life and its expectations. It’s wanting to succeed Putting value on the most important things in life. Becoming your own person. Not having any quorums and hang-ups. It’s when you what acceptance from your social surrounding‚ the people that you network with on a daily basis. * We human are attention seekers‚ we want to show other constituent’s
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First Draft In Harper Lee’s award-winning novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ various valuable moral lessons are revealed through the characters and the plot line of the story. Among the variety of lessons taught is compassion. All people are equal‚ regardless of race or social class‚ and they should be treated that way. One of the biggest illustrations of this in the book is the Tom Robinson case‚ which is assigned to Atticus. Atticus supported Tom Robinson in the trial‚ even when everyone else despised
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