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Examples Of Greed In To Kill A Mockingbird

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The Truth of What Happens to Mockingbirds In Harper Lee’s book To Kill a Mockingbird, many kind characters are portrayed as bad people. With this will cause many people in the novel pain and things you would not expect for such good people. Stories and lies are told about innocent people be the people in Maycomb county to make them seem like they are bad people, along with betrayal. In the story some people are “mockingbirds” Atticus Finch tells his son Jem“... but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird”(Lee 102). Tom Robinson and Dolphus Raymond are just two examples of people who are made to seem like people they are not. Tom Robinson is a black man who is a hard worker and wants to support his family. As he walks home he passes …show more content…

Atticus is given the role to take on being Tom’s lawyer. As a kind man who sees everyone equally he takes the case. Even though Atticus knows they will not win the trial because it is a black man’s word against a white man’s, he tries his best “Atticus, are we going to win it?”“No, honey.”(Lee 86). Even though Atticus had proven Robinson innocent with all the questioning he ask towards Mayella and Bob. With one point Atticus makes “Except when he's drinking?”(Lee 209) and Mayella agrees by nodding her head. As she is being questioned she recives looks from her father when she could say something that can get him in trouble “Mayella looked at her father, who was sitting with his chair tipped against the railing. He sat up straight and waited for her to answer”(Lee 209). As we learn earlier Mr. Ewell has a drinking problem and uses the money his family gets for beer. Which can cause him to act differently which is proven by Mayella. Mayella had bruises on the right side of her face and it is believed that Tom had caused them. Yet you learn that Tom’s left arm is not good and can not be used for much, where Mr. Ewell is left handed. Atticus proves that by having him right his name. In order for her to receive bruises on the right side of her body the man who hurt Mayella must have been left handed and Atticus had proven it was not

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Tom Robinson is crippled on his left hand which was caused by getting his hand stuck in a Cotton GIn when he was 12 years old, as Tom recalled "I got it caught in a cotton gin, caught it in Mr. Dolphin Raymond's cotton gin when I was a boy....almost bled to death....tore all the muscles loose from my bones." (Lee pg 186)”. This shows that Tom Robinson couldn’t have choked her and beat her with one hand so it would have been almost impossible to do any of this. Atticus wanted to make sure the jury had no qualms about acquitting Tom Robinson. Another reason this is an important fact is, because right when Tom brought up the fact that he only had one hand the expressions on Mayella's face turned from sad to surprised or like if she committed

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Next, it is easy to tell that Mr. Bob Ewell and his daughter were more concerned about arresting Tom Robinson rather than the actual case. They were quick to point fingers, but they had trouble paying attention during the trial. When asked by Mr. Gilmer (the solicitor) if he was ambidextrous, Mr. Ewell responded by saying, “I most positively am not, I can use one hand good as the other.” Also, Mayella didn’t hesitate to accuse Tom of hitting her left eye even though Mr. Heck Tate clearly stated that her right eye was blackened. The two witnesses were ignorant and nervous throughout cross-examination.

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In the year of 1935 a man was put on trial for a crime he never could have committed, but a lawyer named Atticus fighter to save his life by using his powers in the courtroom. This case was about the rape of Mayella Ewell by an African American man in a small southern town of Maycomb, Alabama. Atticus Finch, one of the town’s best lawyers has an insurmountable task ahead of him when he takes on the case of defending Tom from an extremely biased jury. In his arguments he uses persuasion techniques such as Ethos, Logos and Pathos to convince the jury of Tom’s apparent innocence.

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To Kill a Mockingbird Rough Draft The State's Attorney has decided that Bob Ewell, of Maycomb County, Alabama, will be tried on the charge of first degree murder of Tom Robinson. Although, Bob Ewell did not physically murder Tom Robinson, his actions lead to Tom Robinson's death. The definition of first degree murder is a willful and unlawful murder that is premeditated.

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The Choice of Power Power is claimed to be a necessity when it comes to having control over a certain situation. In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, Mayella Ewell, a poor white girl who lived in the dump, claimed that she was raped by a black man named Tom Robinson. After a while, Tom was finally convicted for rape and sent to prison, while Mayella won the case. After she won the case, many people began thinking she was powerful, but unfortunately, she is not. Power is the ability to have power over yourself and others around you, and Mayella did not have that.

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To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is the story of a small town named Maycomb Located in Alabama, highlighting the adventures of the finch children and many other people in the small town. The people in this town are very judgemental and of each other and it often leads to people being labeled with stereotypes and people think they know everything about that person however that is not reality. It is not possible to know the reality of a person 's life by placing a stereotype without seeing it through their own eyes and experiencing the things they experience. This happens often throughout the story with many people in the town. People are labeled as many things such a “monster” a “nigger” and many other things that seem to put them in their

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A person cannot call themselves a noble person if they can’t understand others. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is told in first person by Jean Louise Finch or by her nickname, Scout a 6-year-old. Harper Lee, depicts Atticus Finch as a proficient father to his two children, Scout and Jim, 10-year-old. Atticus teaches his children life lessons, one being it 's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

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To Kill a Mockingbird There is much cruelty in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The meaning behind the title to destroy the innocent. Destroying the ones who don’t know any better because they haven’t learned. The innocence was taken away from Jem, Scout, and Dill once they found out what was really going on in the real world around them. The cruelty in this novel is caused by killing the mockingbird victims.

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In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses characterization, symbolism, and irony to express the cloud in judgment prejudice causes when examining the morals of others. Scout is able to understand more about the town folk in Maycomb County through studying her teacher’s ironic and corrupted views of life around her. Lee uses Miss Gates, Scout’s teacher, to allow Scout a chance to understand the complexity of the adult world. While teaching the class about the Holocaust, Gates expresses the injustice being done to the Jews. She teaches the children that the town does not “believe in persecuting anybody” (Lee 329) because of the U.S. democratic government.

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In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee many characters are victims of the harsh conditions of Maycomb County. Often those who are seen to be metaphorical mockingbirds are punished the most. A mockingbird is one who only wants and attempts to do good. Characters such as Boo Radley, Jem Finch and Tom Robinson are exemplars of mockingbirds in Maycomb. In the novel it is explained by Atticus that killing a mockingbird is a sin because they do not do anything to harm to us like nesting in corncribs, or eating up the gardens, they only sing for us.

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Mayella Ewell is a victim. Mayella is a victim of her father, Bob Ewell, because he is an alcoholic that abuses her. During the Tom Robinson trial, Atticus proved Bob Ewell to be left-handed. Based on Bob and Heck Tate’s testimonies, Mayella’s right eye was blackened

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Atticus, a white man, fights to defend Tom Robinson, a black man, in a case consisting of domestic violence. Throughout

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Jem further understood the true meaning of moral courage when he saw Atticus defending Tom Robinson, a black man. Although Atticus was hugely outnumbered and even cornered by Mr Cunningham and some other people, he did not back down from them. Instead, he seemed even more determined to win the case and prove Tom Robinson 's innocence to all of Maycomb County. Almost everyone in Maycomb County had criticised Atticus and his children for taking up the case of defending Tom Robinson and they were even called "nigger lovers" by many. At first, Jem did not understand why his father chose to defend Tom Robinson when he knew that people would whisper and gossip about it and that the possibility of him winning the case was very low.

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’”(pg 187). This evidence shows that Mayella had nothing to say because she knew that she was caught lying and he showed the jury that they were lying. Therefore the Ewell family is not telling the truth in every response and is more likely Tom is not

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