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    To Kill a Mockingbird Essay Jacob Salazar 5/17/11 3rd Pd. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird there are a lot of interesting people with different characters. There are those who are brave and those who are cowards. For example Atticus is the bravest character and his son Jem is also brave. On the other hand there are the disgraceful people like Bob Ewell who is the coward. There are several events that take place in the book that show the characteristics of each of these three characters

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    TITLE: To Kill a Mocking Bird AUTHOR: Harper Lee TYPE OF BOOK: Novel‚ Fiction‚ Social Drama The MAIN CHARACTER of the story is Jean Louise "Scout" Finch. Scout Finch is the narrator and protagonist of To Kill a Mockingbird. She often comments about how she didn’t understand something when she was younger‚ but now‚ having grown up‚ she does. From being sensitive‚ she became so senile. Scout is considered smart for her age‚ and loves to read. She remains naive and idealistic‚ despite an increased

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    In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ Jean Louise Finch‚ also known as Scout‚ has a particularly innate personality. Scout always does what she is told‚ unless she is with her brother Jem. When they are together she does whatever comes naturally to her. Scout is especially good‚ unusually intelligent‚ and remarkably unselfish. Scout has good intentions when planning her actions‚ most of the time. The one exception was when she acted profanely towards poor little Walter Cunningham

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    learning.”--Atticus (pg. 76) It was times like these when I thought my father‚ who hated guns and had never been to any wars‚ was the bravest man who ever lived. ~Harper Lee‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Chapter 11 I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks. ~Harper Lee‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Chapter 23‚ spoken by the character Scout "As you grow older you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life‚ but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it— whenever a white man does that to a

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    In the novel‚ To Kill a MockingbirdScout learns valuable lessons on the evil of prejudice present in her Southern town of Maycomb‚ on the true nature of courage‚ and on the dangers of judging others before "...climbing into their skin and walking around in it." Set in the mid 1930s‚ Scout Finch is a young girl living with her older brother‚ Jem‚ and her lawyer father. Being a kid‚ Scout has the simple duties of a minor‚ to have fun and to stay out of trouble. But along the way‚ she also learns

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    “act responsibly?” Explain what a person needs to do to “act responsibly” in the 1930’s in Maycomb‚ Alabama? Acting responsibly basically means that you have to do the right thing no matter what the situation‚ and you have to be mature and act your age even when you might not like doing so. In the 1930s in Maycomb‚ Alabama if you were a woman‚ for example‚ you would need to stay home and cook the food and clean for the family. You would just always have to know your place and what was morally correct

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    TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD ESSAY Within the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ courage is represented in a number of ways from a range of characters. The novel follows families in the town of Maycomb and shows the different ways they stand up for or against racism. A court case with one of the white men in the town defending negro man ‘Tom Robinson’ challenges the values and attitudes of many of the people living in Maycomb. In the novel courage is presented as people not only being able to fight

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    To Kill a Mockingbird In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ Lee takes you back to the 1930’s in the Deep South where color of skin mattered and when a white man’s word went against the word of a Negro‚ prejudice wins. Harper Lee articulately created a portrayal of a small town where nobody was exactly good or evil. Atticus shows us what real courage and goodness looks like. His character’s core values remain the same during the whole story and are unchanged throughout the entire book. When

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    much suffering and unhappiness. To Kill a Mockingbird is a classic novel written by Harper Lee. It was written in the early 1960’s about a young girl named Scout and her family about the racism that was provoked in the town. Harper Lee‚ in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ illustrates three main lessons with the Tom Robinson trial: Stand up for what you believe in‚ racism is painful and avoid mob mentalities. One of the most important lessons in To Kill a Mockingbird is to stand up for your beliefs

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