there to save them from Mr. Ewell, who ended up dying. Everything went back to normal in Maycomb. People stopped paying attention to the Ewell’s or Tom Robinson’s death or anything else. A common theme that continued to appear in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird was that racism is always against human rights, and should not happen. This theme showed up many time in the book, the main part being when Atticus chose to be Tom Robinson’s lawyer, even when the town advised him not to because he was a man
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In the stories “Jumping Tree” and “The Ravine” the characters had to make a decision.Vinny is the character from “The Ravine” and Rey is the character from “Jumping Tree”. They both had to make a decision either to follow their friends and be a follower or follow his heart and be a leader. I think Vinny had made the best decision. A example of Vinny being caring is when he told Starlene please please don’t jump I don’t want to see you to die.He carried for his safety and his friends safety
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Considering the danger she faces, Dana commits to teaching Nigel and Carrie to read because she believes in equality. Dana is in the past time period, living in Rufus’s household with her husband, Kevin, and doesn’t like how things are being handled during this time period. Knowing how to read is a big deal during this time frame because it shows how intelligent you are. Most blacks don’t know how to read, but in unusual cases, such as Dana, blacks know how to read and write equally or maybe even
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In the book “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien it featured a character named Mary Anne Bell going through a transformation into a new character called the Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong. Mary Anne Bell was a very friendly girl, straight out of Cleveland Heights Senior High whereas the Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong, a character more determined and adapted to war decided to join the Green Berets because she loved the feel of the ambush and wore her human tongue trophies threaded along a copper
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“Don’t trust white people because they mean us no good and don’t trust anyone darker than you because their hearts are as Black as their faces (And where did that leave me, the darkest one?)… And how can we expunge these messages from our consciousness without first recognizing what it was they were saying, and how destructive they were,” (Lorde 165). Since a very early age, children of any race, are taught what is considered to be “good” and what is considered to be “no good” or “bad.” Parents
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To achieve Liberty Paints' Optic White color, the narrator “measured the glistening black drops, seeing them settle upon the surface and become blacker still, spreading suddenly out to the edges.” When the paint batch is mixed properly, the results are a glowing, bright white color. The symbolism in Liberty Paints' signature color represents the importance black individuals play in America's past, present and future. It's only when black is added to the paint mix that the purest, most ideal, paint
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Historical Influences on To Kill a Mockingbird During the 1930’s America’s worst depression was in effect (McCabe 12). This inspired Harper Lee to write her most famous novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Many real life events were used to inspire Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Some of the events she used are the Jim Crow laws, mob mentality, and the Scottsboro trials. The first influence on Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird was the Jim Crow laws. The Jim Crow laws are a set of laws that were
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From the start of the novel, Atticus has a surplus of ideas that the rest of society does not agree with. One day, Scout comes home from school upset, she was being ridiculed by her fellow classmates because Atticus is defending an African American. Atticus finds her on the porch and explains to her that he is “simply defending a negro- his name’s Tom Robinson.” (Page 123) Most Caucasian men believe they are superior to African Americans, and deem it unnecessary to reference them by name. Thus,
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In the town of Maycomb, Alabama, as children roam free, underneath this joy, there’s so much hate and prejudice. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout learns about cruelty and courage. Most importantly, compassion. In this book, Atticus, Tom Robinson, and Boo Radley show most compassionate to me. They seem to really care about people, even if they’re not good at showing it. This famous quote reminds me of their actions throughout the story. “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion
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It’s not right to judge someone on how they look many people may have looked bad, but are really good and have done many admirable things in their life, should people have to look good just to be able to be good? Harper Lee demonstrates the belief that it is wrong to judge someone by their appearance she proves this belief through showing how segregation makes a huge difference in people's lives and how it was normal to dislike someone because of their race and how many people don’t know, but they
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