A mockingbird is a quiet animal that does does a better job at listening than other birds. In Harper Lee’s Coming-Of-Age fictional novel To Kill A Mockingbird, I feel like the mockingbird symbolizes Boo Radley and Tom Robinson the most, who were both peaceful people who never wanted to hurt anybody or anything. To harm an honest person or creature would be a sin. Scout's dad, Atticus, tells Scout and Jem, "Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird
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Atticus A week after dill’s arrival, a group of men led by the sheriff, Heck Tate, come to my house in the evening. As Tom Robinson trial is moving he will be moved to the Maycomb jail, and concerns about the possibility of a lynch mob have arisen. I hear that jem tells scout that Me and Alexandra have been arguing about the trail, she almost accused me of bringing disgrace to this family. The next day I take the car into town. I went to town to sit in front of of the Maycomb jail, where Tom Robinson
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Tom Robinson should be acquitted because he is innocent and there is no medical evidence suggesting Tom actually beat or raped Mayella Ewell. The evidence actually suggests that Bob Ewell, her own father beat her. She has bruises on the right side of her face, which could only come from a left hand. Tom Robinson's hand was torn up in a cotton gin, he can only use his right hand now. The jury has an unfair assumption of African Americans and bias opinions of them. This is not fair to Tom who is innocent
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-Summary for Ch. 11-15 (AT LEAST FOUR SENTENCES): Jem and Scout think that Mrs. Dubose is a very mean neighbor. After she says something about Atticus that upsets Jem, he stops at her house and tramples her camellias. Atticus found out before he got home from work and now the children are in trouble. Jem is made to go to Mrs. Dubose and read to her everyday for a month, and Scout has to join him. A month after his punishment is over, she passes away. Calpurnia took Jem and Scout to her church one
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"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." In chapter three Atticus tells this to Scout because his complaints about his teacher. Atticus is trying to teach his kids that it isn’t good to judge a person by the way they look or act because you do not know what they are really going through. Life is never going to be the way you say it is. Life can be difficult but it doesn’t mean to give up or take
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Robinson are both symbolized by the mockingbird. Boo Radley is the neighborhood shut in. Nobody has seen him for years. The reader knows this due to Scout and Jem have never seen him in their life. He is also supposed to be crazy and murderous, according to the town gossip Miss Stephanie. A mockingbird is a bird that Jem and Scout can’t kill due to them only wanting to please people with their songs. The reader know this considering Atticus tells them it’s a sin to kill them and Miss Maudie says they
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example of when Atticus presents his humbleness and belief in God is when he is approached by Bob Ewell, the person Atticus is trying to prove guilty with the Tom Robinson case. “Mr. Ewell approached him, cursing him, spat on him, and threatened to kill him….Atticus didn’t bat an eye, just took out his handkerchief and wiped his face and stood there…Atticus’s peaceful reaction…put his hands in his pockets and strolled on…” (pg., 291). Atticus’s counter reaction of being spat on the face is remarkable
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What characteristics that are most common in Atticus are? He is calm, protective, also include caring. Theis characteristics will show you how Atticus is a very special person. The characteristics that describe Atticus more are calm, protective, and caring. My first characteristics of Atticus is he is very calm in situations. Well my First, quote is “That plus Atticus’s peaceful reaction probably prompted him to inquire” (291). He did not do anything when Mr.Ewell spat in his face and insulted him
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what is the right way to respond when injustice knocks on their front door? From a small unfairness to enormous discriminations, standing up to injustice and dealing with it proves considerably more difficult than most people assume. In the book To Kill a Mocking Bird, the writer, Harper Lee, depicts several interesting themes. One of them: injustice – problems and evils that cause readers to think for themselves and create their own standards of right and wrong. Harper Lee composes three interlinking
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Mockingbird Representation The mockingbird is a bird that represents innocence because all it does is sing to please people. Two kids only have there father now he takes good care of them but he is given a case that changes how people think of the finch family the kids grow up faster that they should haves to. The children in the macomb county are like a mockingbird innocence and try not to bother anyone but end up having to grow up fast because there fathers job. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird
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