An Experiment In Love Analysis

Love has been interpreted as, “an intense feeling of deep affection,” although in To Kill A Mockingbird (TKAM), when asked to describe the book, the author, Harper Lee had said, “It’s a love story, plain and simple.” Though the story is about kids in the middle of the Great Depression, where segregation and “white superiority” had taken over, a black man was accused of raping a white girl. The love that Harper Lee had called TKAM was a different kind of love that had been interpreted in the Ancient Greek Notation of “Agape.” Agape is goodwill and love for everyone, it is an understanding of someone. Agape is put into further exegesis in Martin Luther King Jr,’s (MLK) "An Experiment in Love", where he explains the Six Pillars of Nonviolent Resistance. To Kill a Mockingbird and MLK’s "An Experiment in Love" has described the essence of love in a different way that portrays life’s deeper meaning of understanding people. In "An Experiment in Love", MLK had the six pillars that represented different things that TKAM had intertwined in the deeper meanings of the book. The

We must control our actions and not give into the evil and bitterness that comes with causing pain or dismay among others. We must hold our turn our cheeks and take the high road because if we choose not to fight we end the fight by not fighting. This is an example of agape because it shows a comprehension of how we understand something, while never eliciting violence on others. In TKAM this was exemplified when Atticus had lost the trial he had exposed many secrets of another and that person had spit in Atticus’s face but Atticus never fought back because that would bring moral shame and go against his beliefs of nonviolence. Agape can be shown in different but still mean the same thing, Atticus had avoided violence because it would only shame himself than the other