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Analysis Of To Kill A Mockingbird By Eudora Welty

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“A lady knows that one can trap more flies with sugar than with vinegar”, this quote as a metaphor it is saying that one knows that people enjoy being with someone who is kind and sweet like sugar instead of someone who is cruel and sour like vinegar.One can agree with this because they like kindness better than cruelty. Kindness plays a important part in our life,Imagine if we didn’t have it.The world would go mad, nobody will socialize with each other and we will eventually get really depressed and fade away. A Example of this is about how kindness saved this man’s life.This storie is about a jew named Spilman and a German soilder.”In 1994,he was discovered by a German officer,captain Wilm Hosenfeld.Szpilman expected to be turned in,but in act of kindness,Hosenfeld did the exact …show more content…

One doesn't like people who are rude to them. Everyone in the world would like to be treated with respect and kindness so let's just make the world easier and just be kind. An example of this is in the book To Kill a Mockingbird there's a character named Bob Ewells he is a very rude person and a drunk “I don't know any landowner around here will begrudges these children any game their father can't hit “,Atticus Finch( because they are always negative and they cannot cooperate. One now can see what I mean everyone doesn't like that one person.Imagine if you

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Summary and Analysis The novel is divided into two parts where the first part has eleven chapters and the second half has 20 chapters. Introduction to the Story The story started with a childhood incident of Jem, the brother of Scout. The scout narrates that the elbow of the Jem badly got hurt when he was 13th and it was a frightening incident for him.

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To Kill A Mockingbird Literary Analysis Throughout To Kill A MockingBird, by Harper Lee there are many acts of courage. This is shown in Atticus Finch, Jem Finch, and Boo Radley. Atticus shows the most courage in the book but all three of these characters show true courage in some way, shape, or form. Boo Radley showed a lot of courage, but he was not in the storyline as much as Atticus. Throughout To Kill A Mockingbird, courage is defined as standing up for people and doing what’s right.

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Remember that special bird that always seems to be belting its cheerful tunes? Has anyone ever told you to appreciate the bird’s special knack for singing? Or rather, to do no harm to the frail animal since, after all, “It's a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Lee, pg.119). Harper Lee took this aphorism and turned it on its head: she gave this phrase a new meaning by creating the critically acclaimed novel, To Kill A Mockingbird starring the brother sister duo, Scout and Jem, both of whom constantly finding themselves in the most unlikely but simultaneously relatable predicaments. The audience follows the pair through their highs and lows in a key coming of age story.

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In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee reveals that when you understand other points of view yours can be broadened or changed. In the book, Harper Lee teaches us about understanding people's perspective through Scout and Atticus. Harper Lee explains this when scout is getting mad at her teacher, and Atticus told her, “You never understand a person unless you consider things from their point of view. Until you climb into his skin and walk around in it”(Lee 33).

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“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ”-Helen Keller. Helen Keller’s idea about how only with suffering will someone grow up, is relevant to the characters Jem and Scout in To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Scout and Jem are siblings growing up in the same county at the same time.

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