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Bystander In To Kill A Mockingbird

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If you are a bystander you have to try to help the person getting prosicuted. This can be seen in To Kill A Mockingbird, Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, an Killers of a Dream. If you are a bystander then you´re not innocent because you could be watching someone suffer and in pain. If you are a bystander then you´re not innocent because you could be watching someone suffer and in pain. People in WW11 would watch Hitler Prosicute Jewish poeple but not do anything about it just becuase they were scared. Wiesel says in his speech ¨And thats why I swore never to be silent whenever wherever human beings endore suffering and humiliation¨ (Wiesel 8). Because he has been through the pain of being prosicuted and nobody did anything about it he will never stay quiet, Now he will try to help people and will not just be a bystander becuase he knows its not always the best choice. In his speech he also says ¨One person -a Raol Wallenberg, an Albert Schweitzer, Martin Luther King, Jr.- one person of integrity, can make a difference, a difference of life and death (Wiesel 10). All those poeple he named are people that …show more content…

The truth is that everyone knows what´s right from wrong but they just don´t want to change. ¨We ran away from it but came back like a hurt animal to it´s wound, or a murderer to the scene of the sin (Smith 2). This shows how they knew it was wrong and they tried to change but they always came back because they are afraid of change. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird they ask Atticus if he wants to take Tom´s cas and he decided to take it. The main reason Atticus took the case was because he knew if he said no and became a bystander it would be wrong. He also knew that nobody else in Maycomb would want to take the case and he would end up being alone and end up sent to jail either way. You have to try to help people no matter if it´s affecting you or

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