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    The Courage in To Kill A Mockingbird Bam! Bam! Bam! “Order in the court! I find the defendant guilty of all charges. You will be hanged for this offense.” This was the sentence for Tom Robinson‚ a courageous black who stood up to defend himself in court. It took great courage to stand up for blacks back in that time. Atticus Finch was very courageous to stand up for a man who had done no wrong; many people gave him grief for doing his job. There is indeed great courage in this story‚ not only Atticus’s

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    Have you ever been or known someone who has been misjudged or misunderstood? The novel discusses characters who have been in a situation like that. In the book‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee uses Mr. Raymond‚ Boo Radley‚ and Tom Robinson to show that people believe they are evil‚ but rather they are just people who are victims of liars who accuse them of doing the unthinkable by misjudging them. First of all‚ in the novel‚ we are led to believe that Mr. Raymond is a man who got married to a

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    There are many themes in the book To Kill a Mockingbird. Deceptive appearances are one of them and that is what I will prove. People like‚ Dolphus Raymond‚ Lafayette Dubose‚ and Boo Radley. These characters may be portrayed as drunks‚ mean old spirited‚ or psycho‚ but that may not be what they truly are. Deceptive appearances are presented plenty of times; they are usually people who want to be different from the population without being judged. In chapter twenty‚ one appearance of deceptive appearances

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    In To Kill A Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee illustrates determination through Atticus Finch’s ability to do what is right at all costs because he wants to set good examples. First of all‚ Atticus defends those who aren’t able to speak for themselves or for those who aren’t understood. Evidence of this assertion from the book is‚ “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.”- (pg. 39) Atticus defended Miss Caroline

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    man you are‚ and this is the example you want to set for your children. Again‚ trying because it was the right thing to do no matter what the circumstances were. This theme affected me a great deal and Harper Lee did a great job expressing it in “To Kill a

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    Maycomb has fallen into the norms of segregation‚ steeped in prejudice‚ violence and hypocrisy — the mere‚ simplistic idea of status and power‚ where your socio - economic class solely determined who you were. I had already entered the war‚ when I took the case of a negro‚ when I decided to bypass the status quo. Tom Robinson — a black man charged with the rape of a white girl‚ in a town blindly divided by race‚ which story is the jury going to believe — one that falls into the town’s notion and

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    look at you the same way anymore. Most people would run away from their problems‚ most people would not even look twice without walking away. If most people run than what do others do? Well I am here to tell you. Tell you that not just in To Kill A Mockingbird there are people that do the right thing. To show you that there are many people in the real world that do the right thing. Bullies are the hardest people to stand up to because they are not just your peers‚ they are sometimes your friend or

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    world without racism; what would our economy be like‚ our history‚ our society‚ what if racism never existed? Racism has been used around the world. People were tortured‚ put into slavery‚ and even killed because of racism. In the story “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee‚ A character named Atticus fights for his beliefs against racism while everyone else doesn’t agree with him. People in Maycomb are racist because Society tells them to use racism‚ and people’s usage of racism is stronger than

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    To Kill a Mockingbird and Injustice In her novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee tells the story of Scout and her father Atticus who is a lawyer. Atticus is a southern caucasian lawyer in the 1930s trying to represent a wrongly accused African American Tom Robinson. While racism was quite common in the 30s‚ Harper uses the trial of Tom Robinson to demonstrate the unjust treatment of African Americans Atticus is a white lawyer who was assigned the case of an African American Tom Robinson

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    To Kill A Mockingbird Timed Write Why does our surrounding matter depending on what we want to be or who we want to be? The character is saying that wherever we are‚ weather if it’s school‚ work‚ or even at home we are still being surround. That leads to those people changing our lives in many different ways‚ physically and emotionally. No one will really know what’s going to happen tomorrow‚ next week‚ or even next month. Overall if we want to find out what we want to be or who we want to be‚ we

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