The townsfolk in 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
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Hypocrisy in To Kill a Mockingbird Hypocrisy is when somebody claims to live by certain morals and standards‚ or they teach these beliefs‚ but their own behavior does not uphold what they preach. Often a hypocrite will look down on other people or accuse them of things that they themselves are doing. We all can be hypocritical at times‚ but certain people and characters in To Kill a Mockingbird exemplify this negative trait. Sometimes these people do this unintentionally‚ other times they are fully
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heroes have to be brave‚ strong and smart. Even in Winnie the Pooh‚ they understand that heroism has changed. “Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe‚ and stronger than you seem‚ and smarter than you think.” (A.A. Milne‚ author of Winnie the Pooh) Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird” is not so different‚ it also has a pretty obvious example of a modern hero. The novel takes place during the Great Depression and is about two young children (Jem and Scout ) who are exposed to
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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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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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follow your own intuition. This is exactly what Atticus teaches his children in the novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In the novel‚ Atticus shows his children that even though everyone may be against your belief or stand on something‚ continue to think for yourself even though others may disagree. For example‚ when Scout and Atticus were talking about the summer ahead of them before the trial‚ Scout had said “Atticus‚ you must be wrong… most folks seem to think they’re right and you’re wrong”(pg
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To Kill A Mockingbird “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.”(39) In this quote Atticus is trying to give Scout‚ the main character in To Kill a Mockingbird‚ that some advice about having a general code of moral ethics. This novel is the recollection of events that happened when the author was a young girl. It tells the story of how she grew up in a town called Maycomb with her older brother
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To kill a mockingbird Essay Scout is quite a character in the book to kill a mocking bird. She goes through many adventures‚ yet many tribulations. She learns a lot of lessons‚ and is taught some values in life on what to do‚ and‚ what not to so. With her being a character with importance in the novel‚ it would be necessary for some of her character traits to be gone over. These are some traits that describe scout. Tomboyish‚ anyone who has ever read to kill a mockingbird knows that scout is
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and Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird. The Finch family lives in Maycomb‚ Alabama during the Great Depression. The kids spend much of their time playing with their gregarious neighbor‚ Dill‚ and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor Boo Radley. When their father‚ Atticus‚ who is a widowed man and a respected lawyer‚ defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges against a white girl‚ he is in/at a detriment. The trial‚ events following and the people they have interactions
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To Kill A Mockingbird Essay In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird a major theme is the loss of innocence. Whether from emotional abuse‚ racial prejudice or learning‚ Boo‚ Tom‚ and Scout all lose their innocence in one sense or another. The prejudice that each character endures leads to their loss. Through the responses of Boo‚ Tom‚ and Scout‚ Harper Lee shows how each character responded differently to their loss of innocence. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird the character of Boo Radley is the
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