"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.
"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.
In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, the theme is the more someone understands other people the more they can understand their situation. As Scout talks about Miss. Gates and the courthouse to Jem, he snaps furiously at Scout and being surprised of Jem’s action, indicating that Scout has no clue on Jem’s case. When Scout goes to Atticus, he starts explaining to Scout, Jem’s situation “Jem was trying hard to forget something but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed” (Lee 331).
Ziam Jan August 5, 2014 To Kill A Mockingbird Conflict- 1. Man vs. Man/Group/Society (External) Harper Lee wove Man vs. Man/Group/Society in the novel in many ways. First of all is how Harper Lee creates a trial in which an African American man in the 1960's is accused of rape and the person who accused him of rape is the Ewells. Second of all the townspeople don't believe Tom because of race and Atticus knows that the racist people of Maycomb will never say Tom's innocent just because he is African American.
People always say that you never really know someone until you try to see things from their perspective. Atticus Finch, from Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”, seems to back this statement up. Atticus’s daughter, Scout, soon learns to take her father’s advice. Through the use of character development and imagery, Harper Lee proves that to really understand someone, you have to step back and see things through their eyes. Harper Lee uses the development of one of her characters, Scout, to prove that seeing things through other peoples’ eyes can give you a whole new perspective.
Have you ever sat down and watched a TV show or movie you used to watch when you were a child? Have you realized that you now understand different jokes and sayings that you did not necessarily get back then? As we grow up we get wiser and more educated. As we grow up we are unfortunately revealed to the parts of the world that are not all sugar and spice. As Scout grew up in the novel, she realized that the people of Maycomb County were actually struggling, she discovered the malice given towards African-Americans, and she learned the importance of not judging a book by it’s cover.
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.
The classic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee, isn’t just a book about a Mockingbird. The novel teaches us many life lessons that we can take action. The characters each play a role to teach us something that we can learn from. You could use the term, “They took a bullet for us,” which means they went through tough situations that we most likely won’t have to endure, because we already learned from them. The three characters that went through the toughest times, however, are Atticus Finch, Tom Robinson, and Boo Radley.
One’s education is the world’s most powerful weapon. In fact, Nelson Mandela once said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” (“BrainyQuote,” n.d.). Yet, in today’s class, I got the chance to realize that inequalities between urban and suburban schools still exist today. Today, I find it pivotal for one to understand that his or her educational career is a victim of the cruel business world, mainly because at the end of the day, his or her education revolves around money. In addition, during the late 1700s and early 1800s, Horace Mann, an educational reformer, believed that society is responsible for the production of educated citizens, especially since society depends on an educated citizenry.
The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, tells the story of a curious young girl named Scout who explores every spooky, mysterious or even fun part of her town with her brother Jem. Through exploration and various adventures, Scout learns and grows up a lot from different events in the book. Though out of these events it seems that she learns the most from harsh lessons and other people's wrongdoings. Scout’s change from innocence to experience comes from her harsh lessons when she learned justice not always being fair.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee can be found on highschool shelves sixty years after it was written. Harper Lee sets the story during The Great Depression in the 1930’s, and teaches the reader many lessons about racism and equality. Atticus, Jem and Scout’s father, teaches egalitarianism between African Americans and whites in a small town called Maycomb, Alabama, through his work as a lawyer in a criminal trial. The author also uses the characterization of Jem to convey kindness, family protection and acceptance. This is seen through Jem’s interactions with others, the way he is protective of his sister, and the way he learns to value his father.
When you’re a child, you don’t really pay attention to what’s going on in the world around you. But when you start getting a little bit older, you start to understand the world a little bit more while you also start paying attention to what’s going on. You see most things you didn’t or couldn’t see as a child. In To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee shows this exact thing happening to Jem and the main character Scout. Even though Scout is quite young, she starts developing in her own way in this book.
“We are killing mockingbirds everyday. We live in a world where these mockingbirds are our political pawns - gays, Arabs, the poor, blacks, women, Hispanics, the list goes on.” Just as John Neurohr Jr. said in 2007, we are continuing to kill “mockingbirds” every single day. Throughout Harper Lee’s novel Jean Louise Finch learns many lessons, one being how to treat others, including these mockingbirds, with compassion and empathy. She believes everyone is equal, she treats people, even those she doesn’t favor, kindly, and she respects the mockingbird, Boo Radley.
I have read a text called to Kill a Mocking-bird which was written by Harper Lee. This text is written through the perspective of a woman who at the time of the story was a little girl called scout who has a brother, Jem, and a father Atticus Finch and various other family members. Scout’s Father is a lawyer and he is busy fighting the case of a black man who was wrongly accused of raping a white man’s daughter. This case proved to be the big case of his life which would affect his children and his family name. I found Atticus Finch to be a very simulating character.
