In the award winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch is just an ordinary lawyer and unanticipated hero. However, the actions he demonstrates prove there is more to him than meets the eye. The story takes place in the nineteen-thirties when racial equality was nonexistent. Atticus’s client Tom Robinson has been accused of raping a Caucasian female, which Atticus knows is not true. Since Atticus possesses unwavering morals, he defends this case because he believes Tom is truly innocent and
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Brittney Garrison Mrs. Easton English 3-4 Period 7 9 June 2015 To Kill A Mockingbird Everyday people’s lives are judged by others. Why? Because most think they understand what the other is going through when they have no clue. The idea of walking in someone else’s shoes teaches that everyone has things, big or small, going on in their lives and that you should not judge a person until you know the full story. Like in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird, a few of the main characters begin to
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There are many examples of evil, hypocrisy, and injustice in “To Kill A Mockingbird” and even throughout the world. These examples include Tom Robinson’s death, Bob Ewell’s attempt on the children’s life, the ministry circle, the class discussion in Miss Gates class, Tom Robinson’s trial, the treatment of Boo Radley, and the mass rape spree that recently happened in Germany. These are all examples of evil, hypocrisy, and injustice in “To Kill A Mockingbird”, and our world today. The examples of evil
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In the story by Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird, Scout matures throughout the story as she learns many morals and new values through experience and practice. To grow into the person Scout became by the end of the book, it wouldn’t have happened without Atticus Calpurnia and all their friends, family and neighbors. She observes behavior that quite often bewilders her, as she goes through a series of maturing experiences. She begins to comprehend that not all people act, or have the same beliefs
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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Analysis of Atticus’ Closing Argument Using the Rhetorical Devices The purpose of this writing assignment is to analyze Atticus’ closing statement and identify the three approaches – ethos, logos, pathos—he uses to persuade the jury. This approach to rhetorical analysis will help you question a text, explore your responses to it, and prepare an analysis on the thoughts and ideas of the novel. INTRODUCTION: Paragraph 1: Introduction Catchy beginning – usually a quote from
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I believe in the book, “To Kill a Mockingbird”, that Boo Radley symbolizes the Mockingbird mostly because he does nothing wrong but help people. For Example “A Mockingbird does nothing but sing its heart out for us to enjoy.” My first piece of evidence is Boo Radley gave them two carved dolls, a ball of twine, a spelling-bee medal, a broken pocket watch with an aluminum knife attached on a chain to it, two pieces of gum, and two pieces of gum. My quote to back up my first piece of evidence is
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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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One of the most crucial lessons that Calpurnia taught Scout was how to write. In chapter two, Scout says, “She would set me a writing task by scrawling the alphabet firmly across the top of a tablet, then copying out a chapter of the Bible beneath” (Lee 18). In this quote, Scout explains how Calpurnia taught her how to write by having her copying chapters from the Bible and writing the alphabet. The fact that she can write, causes Scout to stand out because during her first week of school, her teacher
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In To Kill A Mockingbird, a novel by Harper Lee, Walter Cunningham is a farm-savvy young pauper who has high morals, and is friends and classmates with the protagonist, Scout. After school one day, Jem and Scout invite Walter over for a meal at their home. Walter, at first, rejects their invitation, but then as Scout and Jem walk home, Walter reluctantly gives in to the temptation of getting to eat a delicious warm meal. While being served food, to the amazement of both of the Jem and Scout, Walter
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In to kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee the main character Scout is a young girl in 1993 Alabama. Her father, Atticus Finch, is a successful lawyer defending a black man accused of rape. Scout’s brother, Jeremy Finch, who is four years her senior is her companion throughout the story. The main idea of this story would about scout losing her innocence. In the first chapter of this story Scout recalls the summer when her brother broke his arm and she looks bad at the incidents that lead up to the
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