...wrote a spectacular novel, To Kill A Mockingbird , that includes multiple examples of injustice and unfairness. Injustice appears many diferent times in the book through the deceptive rumors made against Boo Radley, Scouts school experiences, and the unfairness shown towards Atticus. Maycomb county would never admit it, but the injustice they show toward Boo that seems harmless, is quite unfair. Imeadatly after any crime, all fingers point to the Radley place, simply because the town has no idea what the hermit does inside all day. Unjustly deciding that Boos actions are evil, all of a sudden a man secluding himself in his home becomes a terror of the town and his reputiation, unfairly, becomes destroyed. "Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom. People said any stealthy small crimes commited...
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..."Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope” (National Legal Aid & Defender Association). To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee follows Scout, a young girl growing up in the middle of The Great Depression and seeing an incredible amount of injustice in her southern town. During this time period, segregation was still legal and the US was even deeper immersed in racism than it is today. Justice rivals fairness in To Kill A Mockingbird because of deep rooted prejudice in the novel’s society. Prejudice is evident throughout the novel, one specific example would be that Tom Robinson is not given the benefit of the doubt when he dies. This...
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...Gas Chambers. Concentration camps. Murder. During World War II Hitler and his nazis behaved with great evil toward Jewish people and others including gypsies and homosexuals. This was a wicked time in European history. While these terrible events were occurring, other people began to step forward as leaders. For example, many non jews gave up their lives to protect others. There are always people who show this kind of courage during harder times. Challenging times brings out the best in certain people. As Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird illustrates, when times are dark and people behave with injustice, others step forward and show tremendous courage. Although Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930’s is a racist town, some characters such as Atticus...
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...made their paths crooked, Whoever treads on them does not know peace." Injustice comes in many forms. The world is broken, and until the Lord returns, there will be sin and injustice. Racism, prejudice, false judgment, and stereotyping are all skewed perceptions and with that, unjust. In the award winning book 'To Kill a Mockingbird' by Harper Lee, the theme of injustice is rampant throughout in the cases of Boo Radley, Tom Robinson, and Calpurnia. The false judgment of Boo Radley perpetuates injustice. People made up stories and spread rumors about him. He was seen as a monster who ate raw squirrels and had bloodstained hands. Not just kids gossiped about Boo, but also the adults joined in. Miss Stephanie Crawford, who was the towns main busy-body, told the children tales about Boo. Jem told Scout, " She woke up in the middle of the night one time and saw his looking skull at her." No one deserves to be gossiped about, and Boo Radley did not deserve to be treated unjustly. The case of Tom Robinson exhibits injustice through racism and lies. Falsely accused, Tom symbolically portrays the image of an innocent mockingbird killed. When Bob Ewell lies about Tom, most of the town...
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...To Kill a Mockingbird is a classic novel written by Harper Lee, educating readers of the racial injustice in the small town of Maycomb. Set in the 1930’s and narrated by young Scout Finch, Lee has incorprated erudite language features and strutural elements to create a sense of suspense to evoke feelings of nervousness and empathy into the reader. Lee’s writing style emphasises the audience’s nervousness and continues to build a sense of suspense through language features and strutural elements to expose Maycomb’s hidden injustice caused by racism. Mayella’s initial hostilty is presented through her dialoge with Atticus and is heightened by Mr Ewell’s foreboding actions presented through short, structured syntax. ‘He sat up straight and waited...
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...of a novel is an important asset for the author to present their story in a way they see fit. By allowing the author to express their emotions, the title remains a significant feature. When examining the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the reader can see that the mockingbird is a metaphorical symbolization of the theme of innocence, or the loss of. Published in 1960 by Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird has become a literary classic. This essay will explore the significance of the title “To Kill a Mockingbird” and will endeavor to explain to the reader why Harper Lee’s novel is called To Kill a Mockingbird while also touching on some of the themes that are connected to the title, such as the loss of innocence and injustice. Revolving...
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...It’s A Sin To Kill A Mockingbird Life isn’t fair. Everyone has heard this phrase at least one time, and most absolutely agree. Our world is far from perfect, it always has and always will. Harper Lee’s, To Kill A Mockingbird, is a great example of this. This is an amazing story of a small-town girl named Scout Finch back in the 1930’s. She lives with her older brother (Jem), her father (Atticus), and her black maid (Calpurnia). Atticus is a well known and respected lawyer, who is appointed to a case he takes personally. A black man named Tom Robinson is accused of rape. A white racist man named Bob Ewell claims he raped his daughter. The case has gotten the whole town’s attention, and the Finch’s who are one of the most respected families...
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...father’. There is also a lot of repetitions of the world ‘old’, or references to oldness, both of Atticus and the people in their neighbourhood. For example Scout refers to Atticus as ‘feeble’, ‘nearly fifty’ and ‘nearly blind’, which can all be associated with agedness. Miss Maudie also talks about ‘your father’s age’, because he is older than other father’s in town. The neighbourhood and its habitants are also portrayed as quite aged: ‘old’ and ‘settled’ neighbourhood, ‘the folks on our street are all old’, ‘Mrs Dubose is close to a hundred’, ‘Miss Rachel’s old’, and Miss Maudie says she is not ‘being wheeled around yet’...
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...While To Kill a Mockingbird is a story of Scout Finch’s childhood, Harper Lee draws the reader’s attention to the justice, morality, and ethics Scout witnesses along with her older brother Jem. Scout’s pure thoughts during calamity are evidence of her ethics. During Tom Robinson’s court trial, Jem’s morality shine’s on his tears as he tries to understand the shallowness of the townspeople of Maycomb. Justice, as well as injustice, is served time and time again in this novel. An example of both is shown as Scout pummels her cousin’s face when he disrespects her father, consequently, Scout receives punishment. This is a book rich with symbolism and moral testing. After Bob Ewell shatters Jem Finch’s arm, Arthur “Boo” Radley (the town’s recluse) saves the children by knifing Bob under the ribs, killing him. Jem is unconscious in bed while his father, Atticus, argues with Sheriff Tate over how to report the incident. Atticus is a lawyer, an advocate for truth, but Sheriff argues to protect Arthur from the spotlight by reporting that Bob fell on the kitchen knife. Scout, knowing Arthur is introverted, realizes the dilemma of bringing him to court. Then, Scout reveals...
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...The Help and To Kill a Mockingbird both have many similarities in how prejudice and empathy were displayed throughout the story. Both of the stories were set in the time of segregation in the Southern United States. It also shows the similarity of African-Americans as caretakers or housekeepers – Calpurnia in To Kill a Mockingbird and Aibileen is only one of the examples in The Help. The settings were also similar, a part of a town was where whites lived and part of a town was where African-Americans lived, but there was a twenty-year difference of when the books took place. Prejudice was mainly shown throughout the storied by the way whites treated the African-Americans. In The Help, there were multiple examples of prejudice: African-Americans were not allowed to us the same bathroom as whites and how African-Americans could not use the same plates as whites. The acts of prejudice often stemmed from the fact that whites believed that African-Americans contained diseases, a statement that was supported by no facts. In To Kill a Mockingbird, the main example of prejudice was when Tom Robinson was convicted of raping a white girl when...
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...“To Kill a Mocking Bird”: Teaching Tolerance Through Empathy Mary Ellyn Fogarty December 8, 2012 America in the mid 1950’s and 1960’s was undergoing a profound social metamorphosis. Events such as, in 1954, the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, with the Supreme Court ruling public school segregation illegal, which many believe sparked the civil rights era, in 1956 Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white man, “precipitating the Montgomery bus boycott, led by Martin Luther King Jr.” (To Kill a Mockingbird: Civil Rights Era, 2012), in 1957 federal troops were sent to Little rock Arkansas to protect nine African American students who were going white high school, per the court ordered desegregation of school, were challenging and for some forcing the way in which Americans lived, their beliefs and their treatment of African Americans that had been indoctrinated into their consciousness from the time they were born and many did not understand why this treatment was inappropriate, prejudice and unconstitutional. For some these changes were viewed as not an intrusion or criticism of their way of life but as...
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...The books, Tangerine and To Kill a Mockingbird, are very similar yet they are also very different. They have similar themes and meaning but the setting and people could not be more different. They have almost the exact same styles beside one thing. Along with the setting, characters like Paul, and Erik make Tangerine so good and characters like Scout and Jem to make To Kill a Mockingbird so good .In this essay, I will go over the differences starting with settings and conflicts and from there I will go to theme, and finally with styles. First, The settings in these books are quite different. Tangerine is located in Florida and in present time but their still isn't equality, it's just a different type. But it's totally a different story for...
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...Growing up is a major struggle for many as it is a time where one loses their innocence and starts to question their beliefs, values, and morals. Growing up is when one starts to face the harsh realities of society and starts to build an understanding of right versus wrong. In the three years covered by To Kill A Mockingbird Scout, Dill, and Jem grow from being naive, immature, and impulsive to being mature and understanding. In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the destruction of innocence is used to depict the characters’ growth and development as well as their new understanding of the injustice in society surrounding race. The destruction of innocence is a major theme which illustrates growth and development within the characters of...
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...Injustice is defined as “the lack of fairness or justice”, while boundaries are physical or social limitations which can lead to unfairness. For example, Harper Lee’s not-so talked about character, Tom Robinson faces a huge injustice in chapter 21 of To Kill a Mockingbird: He’s found guilty of raping Mayella Ewell. In The Untold Story of Emmett Till, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam are found not guilty of the murder of Emmett Till even though there is some pretty damning evidence against them. In A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon, Carolyn Bryant’s home life is riddled with little gender boundaries. The difference between boundaries and injustice aren't that different from each other when living down South. Being Black in the South, especially in Alabama, in 1935 is bad enough, but when you throw being accused of raping a White woman on top of it you’re already dead. Tom Robinson’s verdict is one of the biggest disappointments in the book, even though it’s known from the get-go. The jury chooses Bob and Mayella Ewell’s word over Tom’s even though they are seen as the scourge of the town, as implied when Atticus Finch tries to sell his...
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...“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.”-Maya Angelou In chapter 10 of the Southern Gothic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, the main character, Scout, assimilates memorable concepts from Mrs. Maudie and Atticus Finch about social prejudices that take different forms. For instance, in the end of chapter 10, Atticus summons enough courage to shoot a mad dog that has been limping through the streets resulting in the people of Maycomb to panic. The symbolism of the mad dog, mockingbird, and even the bluejays, that are expressed throughout chapter 10, contribute to the the that rumors and social prejudices are spreading through the town of Maycomb similarly to that of a disease. In the beginning of chapter 10, when Scout and her brother, Jem, are given air rifles, Atticus informs them about the types of birds they can and cannot shoot. For example, he reminds them them to “Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but...
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