...in one way or another. A hero is a role model, a leader, someone you aspire to be like, someone who helps others and fights for a higher good. By definition a hero is “a man of distinguished by courage or ability, admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities (Dictionary.com, 2015).” There are three main types of literary heroes archetypal, tragic and anti. These heroes have been shown in the form of characters such as Hamlet and Atticus finch. Literary heroes teach us right from wrong through the words and morals of their stories; whether they inspire...
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...Out of all of the attributes any one person could have, courage should be considered to be the most important of them all. The reason courage is so important is because it drives a person to do things that not every average person would do. It is what usually separates the main character from the rest of the characters in a story and makes him seem like a hero. No real person is a hero they just have hero like attributes that make them seem that way. Courage is one of those, because again it drives people to do things they normally wouldn’t. Courage is having no fear, and courage is having the desire to do something despite the obstacles that may come before. Most of all, courage is the most important attribute because it gives a character...
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...At the end of the book There is a trial Were Atticus is defending an African American named Tom Robinson against the Ewell family. The Ewells are poor and extremely rude. Atticus loses to the ewell’s but during the trial Atticus also embarreses the family. In revenge Bob tries to kill Atticus’s kids. Boo Radley hears the children screaming and comes to the rescue. Arthur carries Jem home (he got knocked out) and Scout runs home. Atticus then talks to Arthur Radley and says “Thank you for my children Arthur.” in Atticus’s eyes (and the children’s) Arthur Radley is a hero. For saving them the children are no longer scared of Boo Radley. Now they are extremely grateful for what Arthur did. In conclusion, the theme rumors do not define a person is supported with Boo radley and his relationship with scout and Jem. Along with how their relationship changes from the beginning to the end of the book. Their relationship changed because Scout decided to not listen to the rumors and instead based her judgement on real life...
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...Mockingbird, End of Book Assessment - Argumentative Essay Atticus takes a Stand “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” (Lee 39). This Quote by Harper Lee, is an illustration on reaching tolerance. Atticus believes that part of the reason why there is prejudice is because people don't understand each other. However, many people in Maycomb are misunderstood, avoided, or discriminated by the town people, including Boo Radley, the Ewells, and all black people. Atticus like a father teaches these words to Scout and Jem. In the middle of the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus decides to take on a case involving a black man named Tom Robinson who has been accused of raping a very poor white girl named Mayella Ewell one of the children of the unresponsible Ewell family who most of Maycomb society that people call "trash." The Finch family faces harsh criticism in...
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...They are dirt poor, lives in garbage. Her mother died when she was young.her father is an drunk. He uses all the food stamps on liquor.Mayella has been getting raped by her father since she was young. Because of this, Harper Lee uses Mayella Ewell as a mockingbird, She was in love with a african american man and she had “merely broken a rigid and time honored code of their society”. She was afraid of what her father and what he would do. Atticus Finch is a lawyer who has 2 children named Jem and Scout Finch. He is defending a black man who is accused of rape.” Atticus asks,Did you scream first at at your father instead of at Tom Robinson …… who beat you up? Tom Robinson or your Father”(Lee 187).Atticus wanted Mayella to tell the truth about what really happen and who really beat her and raped her. this quote show that she is an innocent girl who deep down in side scared. She didn’t deserve to get raped or beat and she lied because she was terrified of her...
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...Journal 1: There’s a part at the beginning of chapter fourth goes like this “don’t eat things you find, scout” “it wasn't on the ground it was on the tree.” says scout. That part really reminded me of my childhood and when I used to not really grab stuff off the ground out of curiosity to see how it tasted but at the same time I would get caught by like my mom and or brother and they would tell me to not do that again because it’s gross and unhealthy. journal 2: There’s a part in the book where Atticus said: “you’re not afraid of the crowd are you?”. That made me think of a time I had at school where me and a group of people had to present a slide show to the whole classroom and while we were in front of all the students my friend that was...
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...just that of color, as her ‘mocking birds’ which must not be harmed because they do none, suffer from the cruelty and ignorance of those around them. The story is told through the eyes of the child narrator, Scout, who lives along with her brother, Jem and with their father, Atticus, the town lawyer and destined to represent Tom Robinson. They also have a housekeeper named Calpurnia, to whom they have a very close relationship. In his attitude to Calpurnia, as to much in his life, Atticus challenges the contemporary view because though Calpurnia is black, she is treated as a member of the family, much to the annoyance of his sister, Alexandra. Atticus is in fact the means by which Lee examines much that is wrong with Maycomb society, from his lack of prejudice, to his defense of Mrs. Dubose and Boo Radley and his skillful means of challenging the education system which denies Scout the freedom to read by simply ignoring it. The motto by which he lives is that, “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” (quote from the book) and this is being passed on to his children. However, Lee is keen to avoid making Atticus appear patently and self-consciously...
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...The Coexistence of Good and Evil “Where there is much light, the shadow is deep” (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe). This quote can be interpreted as a metaphor for the fact that good, the light, cannot exist without evil, the shadow. This is shown in Christopher Nolan’s film “The Dark Knight” in which, the protagonist Batman attempts to defend the City of Gotham from his rival, The Joker. This film proves that good and evil must always co-exist. Good and evil are subjective terms; the concept of being virtuous is a matter of perspective. Batman is considered to be the hero of the film, but one could argue that The Joker is the true, misunderstood, hero. At the beginning of the film, The Joker robs a bank and kills his crew members, which is a violent crime justified with good intent. The bank he robbed was operated by a mafia, and by causing this destruction, he was able to draw the mafia members out of hiding, and decrease the crime rate in Gotham City. Similarly, Batman is not as innocent as he seems. The Joker illustrates this by provoking Batman with a difficult choice. The Joker states that for every day Batman does not reveal himself that people will die, Batman refuses regardless, and becomes seen as an enemy of the city as a...
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...The Man in the Moon (1991) Review/Film; A New Boy In Town Captures Her Heart Everything about "The Man in the Moon," Robert Mulligan's effortlessly old-fashioned family drama set in a small Southern town, has a rosy glow. It's a reminder that Mr. Mulligan, a seasoned film maker whose credits include "To Kill a Mockingbird," "Summer of '42" and "The Other," can direct with real tenderness and without fake emotion. His latest film unfolds gently and gracefully, in a climate where the warmth isn't merely a matter of weather. Until its final reel, when it strains badly to accommodate an almost biblical stroke of retribution, "The Man in the Moon" is a small, fond film that achieves a kind of quiet perfection. The story concerns two sisters, and Mr. Mulligan can find something evocative even in the way the elder braids the younger one's hair. The latter, 14-year-old Dani (Reese Witherspoon), is just on the verge of real beauty, while the slightly older Maureen (Emily Warfield) has already gotten there. The girls' family, which is beautifully evoked, exists at all different stages of development, from their toddler sister to their pregnant mother (Tess Harper) and the father (Sam Waterston) who is wary of his daughters' prospective suitors. In his or her own way, each member of this family longs for a boy. When one arrives, in the form of a handsome teen-age neighbor named Court (Jason London), he affects the girls' family in powerful ways. The coltish Dani becomes smitten with...
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...home with her brother Jem they hear some weird noises. They are soon attacked by none other than Mr.Ewell. During this event Jem is knocked out cold and then Scout is attacked. Then they are saved by an unsuspected hero. Boo Radley. Now when you are saved from getting killed you would normally tell everyone that that person saved you, and that they should be praised by everyone. In this case they wanted to keep it a secret. Boo doesn’t need the recognition because he is more of a stays in the shadows person not a i’m gonna go outside and hang out with a bunch of people person. So Scout said,”Well, it’d be sort of like shootin’ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?’ Atticus put his face in my hair and rubbed it. When he got up and walked across the protch into the shadows, his youthful step had returned. Before he went inside the house, he stopped in front of Boo Radley. ‘ Thank you for my children, Arthur,’ He said” (Lee,370). After they walked into the room Boo pet Jem. He cares so much for these children and just wanted to be there for them. But then it was time for Boo to go home. ,”Will you take me home?’ He almost whispered it , in the voice of a child afraid of the dark” (Lee, 372). “Behind every mask there is a face, and behind that a story”(Marty Rubin). These quotes are showing that Boo may seem like a really scary person when really he is just a scared person who had a hard childhood. Prejudice is to blame, just by looking at him people make judgements about him and they haven’t...
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...In this essay I will be exploring the relationship between Jem and Scout in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Throughout the prose we, as readers see Jem and Scout mature and grow. They live in the Southern American town of Maycomb “ladies bathed before noon, after their three o’clock naps, and by nightfall they were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum”. This quotation portrays Maycomb as luxurious but also boring especially for the two main protagonists Scout and her brother Jem. Lee lived in Alabama as a child in a town called Monroeville, her father was also a lawyer with this in mind I helps the reader to view the novel as realistic. Throughout the prose Lee presents that Jem’s moods and emotions change and fluctuate “Jem stayed moody and silent for a week.. So I left Jem alone and tried not to bother him.” This quotation presents Jem as temperamental. In addition Lee highlights Scout as mature and polite as she respects Jem’s privacy and sees it right to leave him as it will cause them to argue. Lee uses this lexis so Scout and the reader can reflect on how bored Scout was and how much she needs Jem in her daily life. The context of the quotation presents Scout as being older than her years as many ten year olds would annoy their brothers to spite him. Whereas she does not showing that she has an abundance of respect and love for her older brother. Lee presents the relationship between Jem and Scout in many different ways including...
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...iaJasper Jones Reading Guide S.A. Jones v2 April 2010 http://www.sajones.com.au Synopsis .................................................................................................................................................. 3 About the Author .................................................................................................................................... 3 Edition Used ............................................................................................................................................ 3 Morality and Ethics ................................................................................................................................. 3 Moral Duality ...................................................................................................................................... 3 Scapegoats .......................................................................................................................................... 5 Morality versus Ethics ......................................................................................................................... 5 Responsibility and Culpability ............................................................................................................. 6 Atonement .......................................................................................................................................... 9 Law and Legality .............................
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...ENGLISH HANDBOOK -“Welcome to my evil lair…” -Mr. Braiman Brooklyn High School of the Arts www.mrbraiman.com http://handbook.mrbraiman.com “EVIL” Welcome to my evil classroom lair. In order to become full-fledged evil “minions,” you need to read this handbook carefully. It explains everything you need to know. “English,” as you may know, is shorthand for “English Language Arts.” Being that we are in an Arts school, but one where academics must and always do come first, it is important that we approach the subject as what it is: an art form. How does one study the arts? What exactly do we do when we study drawing, sculpture, music, or dance? Well, anyone who has studied the arts will tell you that studying the arts essentially involves two things: • Learning about, and developing an awareness of and appreciation for, existing works of art in that particular form; • Developing the skills and techniques associated with the art form, in order to create our own works. In the case of language arts, much like any other art form, we will be studying existing works of art (i.e., reading books, stories and poems), and developing the skills to produce our own (i.e., writing). That’s what English Language Arts is. We will also be preparing ourselves for New York State’s Regents Comprehensive Examination in English, which we’ll all be taking in June. This two-day, six-hour, four-part exam requires no specific knowledge or content, but it does require the skills to listen, read,...
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...parallel to his thigh. He couldn’t have cared less, so long as he could pass and punt. When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. I maintain that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before that. He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out. I said if he wanted to take a broad view of the thing, it really began with Andrew Jackson. If General Jackson hadn’t run the Creeks up the creek, Simon Finch would never have paddled up the Alabama, and where would we be if he hadn’t? We were far too old to settle an argument with a fist-fight, so we consulted Atticus. Our father said we were both right. Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings. All we had was Simon Finch, a fur-trapping apothecary from Cornwall whose piety was exceeded only by his stinginess. In England, Simon was irritated by the persecution of those who called themselves Methodists at the hands of their more liberal brethren, and as Simon called himself a Methodist, he worked his way across the Atlantic to Philadelphia, thence to Jamaica, thence to Mobile,...
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...L OE B CLASS ICAL LIBR ARY 2013 Founded by JAMES LOEB 1911 Edited by JEFFREY HENDERSON NEW TITLES XENOPHON Volume IV. Memorabilia. Oeconomicus. Symposium. Apology AND SALLUST Volume I. The War with Catiline. The War with Jugurtha TRANSLATED BY J. C. ROLFE REVISED BY JOHN T. RAMSEY Sallust, Gaius Sallustius Crispus (86–35 BC), a Sabine from Amiternum, acted against Cicero and Milo as tribune in 52, joined Caesar after being expelled from the Senate in 50, was restored to the Senate by Caesar and took part in his African campaign as praetor in 46, and was then appointed governor of New Africa (Numidia). Upon his return to Rome he narrowly escaped conviction for malfeasance in office, retired from public life, and took up historiography. Sallust’s two extant monographs take as their theme the moral and political decline of Rome, one on the conspiracy of Catiline and the other on the war with Jugurtha. For this edition, J. C. Rolfe’s text and translation of the Catiline and Jugurtha have been thoroughly revised in line with the most recent scholarship. Vol. I. ISBN 978-0-674-99684-7 LCL TRANSLATED BY E. C. MARCHANT O. J. TODD REVISED BY JEFFREY HENDERSON This volume collects Xenophon’s (c. 430 to c. 354 BC) portrayals of his associate, Socrates. In Memorabilia (or Memoirs of Socrates) and in Oeconomicus, a dialogue about household management, we see the philosopher through Xenophon’s eyes. Here, as in the accompanying Symposium, we also obtain insight on life...
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