"Character is doing the right thing when nobody 's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that 's right is to get by, and the only thing that 's wrong is to get caught", said JC Watts, an American politician. Yet many people seek opportunities to do what is right only when they think that someone else will view them favorably because of it; others conform to ideals they do not believe just so they can fit in with the group. A true hero is someone who always follows their morals, no matter what.
In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird the theme is, the world is different in the eyes of a child. Jem says that if he were on that jury then he would let Tom Robinson free and Atticus explains, “‘If you had been on that jury, son and eleven other boys like you Tom would be a free man,’ said Atticus ‘so far nothing in your life has interfered with your reasoning process. Those are twelve reasonable men in everyday life, Tom’s jury, but you saw something come between them and reason…’”(Lee 295). In the quote Atticus explains to Jem why his mind is childlike by telling him that his reasoning process has not been tampered with and that the grown men’s way of reason is more advanced than his.
"It 's a sin to kill a mockingbird. " These words echo through the course of the book 's development. When these words were written, the idea raises that character in the story can be defined as mockingbirds. Looking through the narrative, one could find out the best candidates: Atticus Finch, Tom Robinson, and Arthur "Boo" Radley. The human activity of being a Mockingbird is being pure of spirit, kindness, and reliability; this based off the actual actions of a mockingbird.
Most authors write about characters that can be related to by the reader. To make readers able to connect more, the author has to make the character more realistic which means giving a character a flaw. The following books, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Odyssey and Of Mice and Men, are books we focused on this year and they all represented characters with flaws that the readers were able to identify and relate to. Boo Radley, Odysseus and Lennie were characters in the books that have flaws, but have good intentions. To Kill A Mockingbird, is a book that focuses on a town that faces racism.
Atticus once said, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (Lee 16). The previous line is a perfect definition of compassion, a trait many desire but seem to lack. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a shining example of this solicitude, which she shows through many examples within the novel. Through the plethora of characters a few shine or learn to shine with compassion: Jem, Reverend Sykes, and Heck. Their actions could be comparably small but have a large impact on those around them.
You probably heard of the golden rule” Treat others how you want to be treated” In to kill a mockingbird. That rule is expressed within many characters. To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee is a realistic fiction book. Tkam has many characters.
“It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird,” Atticus Finch (page 119). Scout and Jem learn, from not only their father, Atticus, but also their neighbor, Miss Maudie Atkinson, that mockingbirds are innocent creatures that should never be harmed because all they do is mind their business and create lovely, soothing music. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, many characters metaphorically represent a mockingbird, particularly Tom Robinson, Boo Radley, and Atticus Finch. This story is told from Scout, the main character, over a span of three years, in a first person point of view, intermixing with an older Scout who looks back and tells parts of the story, especially the trial, in further detail. Maycomb, Alabama, where To Kill A Mockingbird takes place, is where Scout, Jem, and their father, Atticus, reside.
Finding out how cruel society is at a young age is a lot to take in but it can give so much in return. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, two characters, Jem and Scout, learn many valuable lessons from the real world that do not necessarily come from school education. The school life of Jem and Scout is not mentioned in the book that much, but from the scenes where they are mentioned, it seems to the reader that the school is sheltering them and holding them back. In real life, Jem and Scout are exposed to numerous events in which they use different lessons from the past and present to deal with these events.
Albert Einstein once said “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” This quote means that we need to learn from yesterday, and that when curiosity comes our way we can learn from what we did in the past. Jem’s inquisitive mind makes him accomplish task that should not be done. Scouts active mind finds trouble but a curious side always sticks with her. Dill runs away from his home to get to Maycomb to spend the summer with his friends.
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of their skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” - Nelson Mandela. Everyday millions of people disdain others due to their appearance. They disregard the feelings of others, they disregard the unequal circumstances of others, and they disregard the fact that many are suffering.
Boo Radley taught them, in the sense, that you can’t Judge a book by its cover. At the beginning of the novel, Jem and Scout pictured Boo to be this “...malevolent Phantom (Lee 10).” that went out at night and looked through people’s windows. But after leaving them gifts in the tree and putting a blanket on Scout while she was standing out in the cold, Jem’s and Scout’s Perception of him began to evolve from a monster to a person.
"It 's not about what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings" stated Eppie Lederer, a former American columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper. In the novel "To Kill A Mockingbird" written by Harper Lee, a small town filled with narrow-minded people, refuse to accept change. When a middle-aged lawyer, Atticus Finch, takes on a controversial case, the town begins to question Mr. Finch and leaves his two children too curious for the town’s comfort. Although some might say Atticus does a poor job raising his children, Lee proves that the best parenting comes from a strong-minded person with integrity, regardless of what others think through Atticus ' empowering advice, strong morals, and his belief in equality.
All parents teach their kids in different ways. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus the father of Jem and Scout raises his kids very differently than other parents would during this time. Atticus is a good parent because he is very busy but still finds time to spend with his kids. He makes sure his kids are making the right decisions and he gives his kids a good example to follow. One way that Atticus is a good parent is how he gives his kids good advice.
Are the aims and goals of a group as a whole more important than one 's own desires and ambitions? The answer to this question can go as far as to define what kind of person one truly is and what culture he or she belongs to; an "individualist" culture, or a "collectivist" culture. The former of the two being the culture most commonly regarded as selfish and self-oriented, and is more prevalent in western societies; whereas the latter is viewed as the more selfless and group- oriented, and is more widespread in Eastern societies, such as that of Central Asia. The texts South to Samarkand by Langston Hughes and Jamilya by Aitmatov, which are both set in Central Asia, seem to have quite contrasting approaches to the raised question.
To Kill A Mockingbird Scout Finch once said “Atticus had promised me he would wear me out if he ever heard of me fighting anymore; I was far too old and too big for such childish things, and the sooner I learned to hold in, the better off everybody would be”. Harper Lee writes in the book To Kill A Mockingbird in the perspective of a young girl named scout who throughout her life grows up in Maycomb, a small city, where racism is big. Scout matures and loses her innocence throughout the story. For starters, she learns how to have self control. Scout had just started school and Cecil Jacobs, a boy at her school, was teasing Scout about calpurnia, the Finch’s cook.
