In this paper I am typing right now I will explain to you why I believe Atticus Finch is courageous. You see courage isn’t this noble and dangerous and fantastic thing. You can be courageous just by playing a simple game against someone better than you. It could be standing up for someone even if it means getting pushed into your locker that's crowded because you're not organized. That was a little to specific. What is courageous? Well Atticus’s definition of courage is knowing you're licked before
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To Kill A Mockingbird Out of the Radleys, Boo enhances the story To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee the most. He’s very easily judged by most people who see him, because he appears scary and so different to everyone. To Kill A Mockingbird is set in a town called Maycomb, Alabama, where prejudice is very common. Prejudice is shown by how people treat Boo Radley so horribly. The kids although, are extremely facinated with him. This lets readers know his story is important throughout the whole book
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“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle” -Napoleon Throughout Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, the characters face many struggles. The story takes place in a small Alabama town called Maycomb in the 1930’s, where everybody knows everybody. This can be a problem, because word spreads like wildfire in the town. Word spreads about Scout and Jem’s father, Atticus, and how he’s defending a black in a court case. The story follows this case and how it affects the
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but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can get 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mocking bird." Mocking birds mimic sounds and create wonder music. It wouldn't be fair for somebody to go around and kill them for pleasure. The book relates the mocking bird to the innocent. "It's a sin to kill a mocking bird." Is just like saying, "it's a sin to kill someone who did nothing wrong."Atticus also says, "simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started
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During the 1900’s, there were many standards that limited minorities, women, etc. Scout Finch has endured standards such as femininity, appearance, and speech, but those have not stopped her from being herself. In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, the main character, Scout Finch is the opposite of what one would think of as a small town girl in the South. Her attire, femininity, and speech deviated from the normal stereotypes and standards that existed. Scout’s appearance was different
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very nice guy. He help Scout read, and and he help defend Tom Robinson. Everyone in Maycomb Alabama didn’t want him to defend Tom Robinson. In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the character of Atticus Finch represents Lee’s idea of social justice by demonstrating heroism, righteous. and compassion. In To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee present heroism, by teaching others to read even though the teacher condone it. For example the Novel says “Atticus has to been teaching Scout to read
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acting but you don’t know why. During the time period in To Kill a Mockingbird everyone ( The Townsfolk) looks at everyone and if you do something wrong you're going down for it. During To Kill a Mockingbird throughout the book scout gets criticized by wearing what she wants and to other people's point of view she needs to act and look like a girl. Scout struggles with this because she wants to act and look her own way. In To Kill a Mockingbird no one will get in scouts way to be herself. Atticus has
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To Kill A Mockingbird is a literary phenomenon, which touches upon the racist treatments of blacks in society. Similarly, The Help a movie created much later still has the same problems and issues with racism. Harper Lee and Tate Taylor use characters to show how racism results in unfair treatment of people based solely on appearance. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird there were many events in which blacks were treated unfairly based on their appearance. As Atticus says, "She was white, and she
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In “To Kill A Mockingbird” Mayella Ewell disrupted the town of Maycomb, Alabama using her power based from her class, race, and gender. Even though Mayella was lower class she was still considered a higher class than Tom Robinson, an African-American man. Since Mayella was a white female, and Tom was a black man, Mayella held power over Tom. Though males usually had the advantage, Mayella held the power now because she is white. As a result of being a white woman in the segregated 1930’s, Mayella
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As the article above states, the Tom Robinson and Mayella Ewell Trial has concluded in sentencing the black, guilty man to death. He was dispatched to the county jail, just to later attempt to escape. The guilty man was shot dead while escaping. I, being a qualified editorial writer, think that it was incredibly ignorant and egocentric act. He was proven guilty, and sentenced to time in jail. I, and many others, believe that he should have paid the price for his expensive and abusive crime. The fact
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