good.” Paul wrote these words to the Thessalonians nearly 2000 years ago, but this question remains: do these words still apply nowadays? Is it still important to do what’s right, no matter how large the opposition? Harper Lee, in her book, To Kill a Mockingbird, does a beautiful job of illustrating the importance of perseverance. Perseverance can be defined as a steadfastness in a specific course, while paying little heed to the trials and difficulties along the way. In the book, Atticus, Jem, and
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To Kill a Mockingbird Trial Organizer Make a copy and then fill out with as much information as possible. You may need to add more rows for each witness. Heck Tate Quote from the witness What evidence it presents “he said, it was her right eye mr.finch she was bunged up on that side of her face” (pg 168). That shows she was hit by a left handed person “Id say they were all around me finch”(pg 169). Someone who had two hands had to
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Truth in Equality The idea of equality throughout all men and races plays a major role in Atticus Finch’s ideology. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch is portrayed as a trusted, respected, high integrity person who will always do the right thing to keep a moral authority over others in his County, state, or even to the whole world. In the defense for Tom Robinson, Atticus summarizes his case by creating a strong sense of equality in hopes to sway the jury for a hope
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Atticus is one of the main characters in To Kill a Mockingbird. He plays many roles in this story, for example a parenting roll. Atticus has two children whom he is a devoted and insightful parent to. We learn about Atticus from his daughter’s point of view, Scout. We learn how important of a father he is to Jem and Scout, we learn how they run to him when they are in need and how they protect his good name. Atticus also plays the role of a defense attorney. We see how he is set apart from others
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The “Good” People of Maycomb County Harper Lee’s narrator, Scout, in to Kill a Mockingbird becomes aware of the causes and effects of prejudice and intolerance. Prejudice and intolerance are shown throughout the whole book from the layout of Maycomb county to the guilty trial of Tom Robinson. As Scout ages she looks back on her time in Maycomb and apprehends what was going on during those times because of that she realises the causes and effects of prejudice and intolerance through the trial of Tom
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, focuses around the idea of how good and bad coexist with each other. This book shows how cruel and merciless life is, and how it revolves around the Jim Crow Era, giving African-Americans their rights, though limited and allowing through laws a more segregated lifestyle in the south. It follows the character Scout, the narrator, through her journey of growing up in a small, racist town in Alabama with her father Atticus and brother Jem. She matures, and learns
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The classic To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, is told from a first-person view from Scout, a six year old tomboy who lives with his father Atticus Flinch, a lawyer, and her brother Jem, who is ten years old, in small town in Southern Alabama called Maycomb. The story takes place in the 1930’s, where segregation was in play and the Great Depression just happened. Atticus was appointed to be a lawyer for Tom Robinson, a black man accused of a crime he insisted he didn’t commit, and the jury comes
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Racism According to the Dictionary, racism is “prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.” Harper Lee’s, 1960 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird takes place is the early 1930’s during the Great Depression in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama. The town of Maycomb has shown its racism in many different ways. Racism is shown through the Tom Robinson case, Bob Ewell’s actions, and the actions of Aunt
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This a paper is over a scene over the movie “ To Kill a Mockingbird” this is where Atticus a character speak on behalf of another character who is black, and his name is Tom Robson. Tom was accused of raping a White women mind you Tom went over to this ladys house to help her with things around the house because she had no one to help her and she has kids running around the house. Atticus feels the petty put on this women but Atticus is also very educated and is going to bring justices and or
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What if everything you lived for and loved all burned to the ground? How would you react and what would you do? In chapter eight of To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Miss Maudie, who is a family friend of the Finches, was found staring at her charred azaleas the same morning her house and garden burned down. In this passage, Lee uses the literary elements of conflict, tone, and foreshadowing to develop the theme that you have to keep your head up and continue looking ahead even during the hard
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