In S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, the characters demonstrate friendship. The gang members help each other out when their buddies are hurt. Furthermore, they stick up for each other when times are rough. Hinton’s novel demonstrates generosity and kindness all throughout the book.From helping each other out with murder, to just being there for each other, the characters in The Outsiders show a theme of friendship. Dally shows a sense friendship to Ponyboy and Johnny. When Johnny kills Bob, he goes
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Power is often misunderstood. Many people in power are not as powerful as they think they are. People who think they are powerless do have power even though they may not realize it or know the source of their power. To Kill a Mockingbird explores the power relationship between the antagonist, Mayella Ewell, her father Bob Ewell, Tom Robinson, and the citizens in the town of Maycomb, Alabama. This story of power is told in two different perspectives of Scout Finch, as a child, and as an adult (Jean
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In Peekay's life, Mrs. Boxall plays the role of someone whom he can trust to be honest, fair, and someone who won't look down on him. After Doc was in a dispute with the soldiers who were attempting to take him away to prison, Peekay gets caught up in the trouble and is kicked in the jaw. Peekay is than unable to speak as his jaw is broken and the townspeople believe Doc attempted to inflict serious harm upon Peekay. Unable to talk due to his jaw, but wanting to clear up the confusion with Doc, he
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Courage is the strength to do things that you fear. Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird is packed full of examples of courage and bravery. Some subtle some very direct. One of the many examples being Boo Radley's house. Many of the direct examples of courage was seen there. Harper Lee uses courage to create rising action and to develop or further a character's motives and beliefs. Like in the beginning of the book they showed Dill running to Boo Radleys gate and touch it at a time when most
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Moral Courage in To Kill a Mockingbird People have different point of views and ideas on what moral courage is. In the story To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout's point of view on moral courage changes throughout the story. At the beginning of the story Scout was naive and did not know much about how the world really worked. By the end of the book, Scout started to realize how things really are. She started to realize racism and prejudice. This causes Scout to change her point of view on what moral courage
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The highly praised novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is a story about racism and stereotypes in the deep south told from the perspective of a little girl named Scout. Harper Lee, the author of the novel, uses symbolism to show a character's personality or to relate to an event in the story. Some symbols used in the story include a roly-poly, a rabid dog, and a mockingbird. These things, if looked into deeply, give the novel depth and meaning. Harper Lee uses a roly-poly as a symbol in her novel. The
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Throughout the book many people go through social justices . The main two people are Atticus and Tom. The one I am going to be focused on is Atticus and how it effects his life. In to kill a mockingbird Harper Lee use the character of Atticus to revel ideas of social justice Atticus Finch is a man who believes in doing what is right. When he gets a case where he has to defend a black man he faces many problem with social justices. He believes that if he did not take the case he states “I couldn't
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To Kill a Mockingbird “Well it’d Be Sort Of like Killing a Mockingbird Wouldn’t It”. The character motivation of Atticus, Scout, and Jem were Racism and stereotype. I personally like the movie better than the book because you can see the actions and hear the tone and witness the mood so we will know how to actually take it instead of jumping to conclusions. Beginning with Atticus Finch when he had to Face the actions of being called a “Nigger Lover”, is a form of hate and racism
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In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout Finch Lives in Maycomb County, an imaginary town in southern Alabama during the 1930’s. She lives with her father Atticus and her brother Jem. The story is set in the great depression which affects the lives of the all the characters throughout the story. Scout has many teaches throughout the book which include Atticus, Calpurnia, and Miss Caroline. All of these character play a huge and effective role in Scout’s life. Atticus Finch is a
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In a time of extreme prejudice, it takes courage to stand up and defend those who deserve better treatment. Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, young bodies are able to experience first hand living and growing up among those who were being treated unfairly in the common theme of prejudice. The Finch children were raised among their black family cook, Calpurnia, and it was set into their minds to treat her with respect as they grew up. Calpurnia was strict with the children, leading to them seeing
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