where they are coming from. In order to understand a person you need to understand how their life began, and how it unfolded to become the person they are today. Harper Lee, the author of To Kill A Mockingbird, brought two characters named Scout and Arthur Radley to life. They are two very unlikely people to become friends, but Harper Lee shows how you can be friends with anyone as long as you understand how they started out. Would you ever empathize for a person you never knew? The book To Kill A
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The award winning book, To Kill A Mockingbird written by Harper Lee in 1960 won many awards such as the Pulitzer Prize. The mockingbird plays a large role in the book, it symbolises peace and hope, some of the characters that are mockingbirds are Tom Robinson, a Negro accused of a raping, Atticus Finch a lawyer and the seclusive Boo Radley. The way Lee portrays Tom as a mockingbird is a work of art, she portrays him as soft, gentle person that has harmed no one. Like Tom, Boo is shown to be mockingbird
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doesn’t understand it, Reverend, she ain’t nine yet” (Lee, Page 232). This quote supports the thesis because Jem thinks that Scout can’t understand what’s going on in the trial because she is younger than him, but she does in her own way. Scout also understood that Boo Radley is like a Mockingbird. “Well, it’d be
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The novel To Kill A Mockingbird written by Harper Lee contains a character who is very kind-hearted, Atticus Finch. Atticus is a white lawyer who has two kids, Jeremy “Jem” Atticus Finch and Jean “Scout” Louise Finch. Atticus Finch was put on a trial to fight for a black man, Tom Robinson. Atticus was called many names like “nigger lover”. It does not phase him, but it phases his daughter, Scout. She got into a fight with Cecil Jacobs in chapter nine, for calling Atticus a “nigger-lover”. Atticus
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Atticus Finch is a lawyer in Maycomb County and the father of Jeremy (aka. Jem) and Jean Louise (aka Scout). Atticus grew up in Finch's landing in Mobile, Alabama, with his younger sister and brother, Alexandra and Jack. After leaving his home, to go to law school he settled in Maycomb county. He is a widower and very kind man. Atticus is one of the very few people unaffected by racism, which is one of the numerous reasons why he agreed to defend Tom Robinson. Atticus is average height, with black
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In the novel to kill a mocking bird there is many examples of discrimination. Discrimination is the injust treatment of a person based on their appearance, race, sexuality, class, or gender. There are three main types of discrimination found in this novel and these are racism, which is the main form of discrimination found in this novel; sexism; and classism. These forms of discrimination put together form the main plot of this book. Racism is a belief that all members of a particular race possess
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he says, "if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. 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” (Lee, 39). Atticus’ conversation with Scout reveals his sympathetic and tolerant nature. These qualities in Atticus are further illustrated through his defense of Tom Robinson, in addition to his forgiveness towards Bob Ewell. Atticus’ compassion is shown
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Phoebe Sanders English 9 Period 1 Who can be considered a Mockingbird? When thinking back to “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee it makes people think of many characters. When answering the question who could be considered a mockingbird, people may think of three characters. Those characters are Atticus Finch, Boo Radley, and Tom Robinson. Readers can see this through the towns people actions, and beliefs. Many believe and consider it a sin to kill a mockingbird. This is because mockingbirds
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was calling Atticus very rude names. Jem snapped and with a baton “ran flailing wildly up the steps to Mrs. Dubose’s front yard . . . [and] he did not begin to calm down until he had cut the tops off of every camellia bush Mrs. Dubose owned . . .” (Lee p. 102-103). After this incident Atticus gave a month long punishment that brought Jem and Scout to the conclusion that Mrs. Dubose wasn’t absolutely horrible. Because of Atticus’s teachings, both children have grown to understand society and dare
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Atticus presents this in his closing argument,“ The state has not produced one iota of medical evidence… It has relied instead upon the testimony of two witnesses whose evidence has not only been called into serious question on cross examination…” (Lee 271). Tom’s left hand is disabled making him inconveniently incapable of beaten Mayella on the right side of her face. Having his impairment accounted for, the occurence of events claimed by Mayella and Bob Ewell, and the injuries sustained from the
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