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Morality and ethics in to kill a mockingbird
Morality and ethics in to kill a mockingbird
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Have one of he or she’s friends ever dealt with conflict? Probably, Did he or she have a good point-of-view or bad point-of-view, And how did it affect your point-of-view. In Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen a summary is “After smashing peter’s head into the sidewalk he goes to an Alaska island, And after getting mauled by a bear, he goes back to Minneapolis but the circle makes him go back but he has to pay for everything, When Peter comes to the island Cole tries to make it right with him but after Peter beating up Cole Peter says that he forgives Cole”.
Atticus tells the kids that Mrs. Dubose had died. Mrs. Dubose gives Jem a Camellia. That is her way of telling you that everything is alright. It is summer time now.
I am reading the book, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In the chapters ten through fifteen, Atticus shot a mad dog, Mrs. Dubose, a Maycomb resident made Jem angry at her so he killed her bushes with Scout’s new baton and was punished by having to read to her every day for a month. Mrs. Dubose had episodes during the reading and it is found out that she was a morphine addict, and she died not long after Jem had fulfilled his punishment. Atticus had to work in the capital for two weeks, so Calpurnia took the children to her church. When returning, Aunt Alexandra was on the porch and had decided to give the kids a feminine influence.
From Scout’s perspective, she, as well as Jem, view Mrs. Dubose as an irate and racist old woman who frequently calls out insults from her front porch, “Mrs. Dubose would become bored and pick on us: ‘Jeremy Finch, I told you you’d live to regret tearing up my camellias. You regret it now, don’t you?’” (Lee 146). Nonetheless, it is only later in the novel that Mrs. Dubose’s true strength is revealed. The central conflict of the scene occurs through Jem’s punishment, and realization as well as Mrs. Dubose’s inner conflict in her fight against her own morphine addiction.
Dubose as a symbol to foreshadow Jem rejecting white supremacy. In chapter eleven Jem is gifted a box of white camellias after Mrs. Dubose’s death. She gave the flowers to him because Jem helped Mrs. Dubose battle her morphine addiction by reading to her after school in her final days. When Jem receives the flowers Scout describes, “Jem opened the box. Inside, surrounded by wads of damp cotton, was a white, waxy, perfect camellia.
(Lee 99). This is something she said to Scout even if she very cheerfully said it. Jem was the one that completely; he burnt up her garden, the thing she loved most, for revenge. Her azaleas were the one thing she treasured. Mrs. Dubose may seem like she is out to get them but she was actually very sick, and a very nice person.
Jem couldn’t comprehend why she would say negative things about Atticus. Later after her death, though, he finally sees the reasoning behind her actions. When Jem receives the camellia from Mrs. Dubose, he thinks that she is trying to make him feel guilty about what he's done. The camellias also hold bravery, that Mrs. Dubose wants to pass on to
In part one of the story To Kill A Mockingbird, the tertiary character Mrs. Dubose has significance in the story because her behavior makes Jem realize that after all of Mrs. Dubose’s horrible behavior, there are other intentions behind some of Mrs. Dubose’s actions, for example, why Mrs. Dubose uses so much help from other people, and what message Mrs. Dubose is trying to send with the actions she takes. Every day for a month, Scout and Jem read to Mrs. Dubose. As punishment for Jem tearing apart her Camellia bush, Scout thinks to herself, “It suddenly came to me that each day we had been staying a little longer at Mrs. Dubose’s, that the alarm clock went off a few minutes later every day. . . Today she [Mrs. Dubose] antagonized Jem for nearly two hours with no intention of having a fit,”
At the end of part 1, we are introduced to Mrs. Dubose. She is a mean old lady that Jem and Scout despise. It appears as though she enjoys antagonizing the children about the trial. In a fit of rage, Jem defaces her flowers and as a punishment, he is forced to read to her. After she passes, Atticus talks to Jem about her and what she did; this leads to a powerful statement: “You know, she was a great lady.’ ’
In chapter 11, Jem Finch is in the living room with Scout Finch when Atticus returns from Mrs. Dubose’s house and brings them news of Mrs. Dubose’s death. Atticus gives Jem a box that the old women had left him. Jem opens the box and finds a flower. Jem becomes angry, but Atticus tries to explain to him that the white flower is Mrs. Dubose’s way of saying that there is no bad blood between them. Atticus goes on to praise Mrs. Dubose and how courageous she was for fighting her drug addiction, saying that “‘I wanted you to see what real courage is,...
The most important theme in To Kill a Mockingbird The book To Kill a Mockingbird has one of the most important messages in any book, which is that people are better when you really see them. This message from Atticus also tells us that most people in the world are not always what we initially believed them to be. In this essay I will show you how certain characters from the book convey this theme with what they do in the book. First, in chapter 11 of the book we learn more about the character of Mrs. Dubose, who up until this chapter had been referred to as “plain hell" by most characters. At the start of this chapter, Jem gets tired of her constant harassment and uses a baton to break the flowers in her garden.
Lee’s usage of the azalea show readers Maudie 's compassionate and understanding personality, while the white camellias to were used to show Mrs. Dubose 's innocence and discriminatory
Jem and Scout view Mrs. Dubose as a wicked old lady. She sits on her front porch and insult them, as they pass her house. She picks on how they act and what they wear. However, due to the recent gossip in Maycomb about Atticus defending Tom Robinson, Mrs. Dubose’s rude remarks are aimed more at Atticus. This is demonstrated in a dialogue between Jem and Mrs. Dubose.
Jem goes to his father, Atticus, for an inquiry regarding Mrs. Dubose. Being “perplexed” Jem asks Atticus “why” Miss. Dubose is the way she is, in which Atticus says that she “was a morphine addict” who quit showing “real courage” (Lee 127-128). Jem’s ambition pushed him to understand Mrs. Dubose and disclose the truth behind her unusual way of thinking. Having the aspiration to uncover the truth, Jem understands why Mrs. Dubose makes certain actions, but Atticus is questioned when it seems like he doesn’t use his ambition when uncovering the truth about Mayella to understand her
In To Kill a Mockingbird, Mrs. Dubose has a bush of camellias in her yard. These flowers represent racism and prejudice towards black people in Macomb County. She refers to her flowers as “Snow-on-the-Mountain” that have white petals. The white petals show favoritism towards the white people in Maycomb County. In Chapter 11, Jem cuts down all the flowers with Scout’s baton.
