U3EA2 The“Queen of the Tomboys” grew up during the Jim Crow era; seeing justice unsatisfied in the Scottsboro trial at the tender age of five. Her father is a lawyer who was given a case to defend two African Americans in court, but he was unsuccessful due to racial norms in their home of Monroeville, Alabama. Many years Years later she was known by her peers as an individualist at the University of Alabama. While staying there she started by studying law but; first studying law and then then switched ing majors to become the aspiring writer known as Harper Lee, author of To Kill A Mockingbird (TKM). In Chapter 9 of said novel, Lee’s young character Scout confronts a classmate who had “announced in
Tai Le Ms.Stewart English 1/ Period 2 January 8, 2018 The Misconceptions In To Kill A Mockingbird Misconceptions shows how easy it is for our judgements and perceptions to be misguided. People are quick to spread what they think is true, shrouding the truth in false informations. A misconception is a wrong belief or view, and it was shown a lot in Harper Lee’s
In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, the angry mob in chapter 15 is fueled by an absurd amount of ignorance and righteousness. Ignorance is the lack of knowledge or information and righteousness is the right of being morally right or justifiable. The angry mob’s ignorance is driven by racism and prejudice. The men believe that they are right and that they are protecting their community, but nobody sits and questions who is really right in the situation. People believe Tom Robinson committed a serious crime because he is black.
Hypocrisy Everyday when I walk through the halls of Crosby-Ironton High School; I hear girls whispering that another girl's dress is too short or that she is a drama queen. I look at the girls whispering and see that their dresses could be longer too and that they are being just as much as a drama queen as the girl that they may be talking about is. Everyone is different in their own way, and that's true, however, we all have one trait in common and that is that we are all hypocritical in ways that we may not even notice. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, hypocrisy is a major theme and through certain characters it is demonstrated.
This quote is a perfect example of Tom Robinson, a black man who the people of Maycomb inappropriately label as a criminal and therefore act prejudiced against. Tom can be likened to a mockingbird in the sense that he too is innocent. Furthermore, it is a criminal offense to kill a mockingbird because everyone knows they are harmless creatures that do no wrong. Unfortunately for Tom, this precedent does not apply to black men in Maycomb even once they are proven innocent. This is seen during Tom Robinson’s trial just before Judge Taylor announces if he is guilty of asssuluting and raping Mayella Ewell.
Kid’s make mistakes. Helping a child solve a problem instead of harsh punishment is making a child suffer for having a problem. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, a young girl named Scout is faced with punishment after beating an immature boy named Francis for making rude remarks about Scout’s father, Atticus Finch. Atticus is a lawyer; he is supposed to support and defend a helpless black man in a case. In the 1930’s this was unacceptable, so in their small town in Maycomb Alabama, the Finch family received many disputing and hostile comments for Atticus’s actions in court.
To Kill a Mockingbird claims that the problem of ignorance causes the death of not only Tom Robinson, but the death of childhood, gender roles, and the innocence of the kids. The idea of ignorance killed Tom Robinson. Even before the trial began, he was guilty. The fact that he was a black man in Alabama in the early 1900s proves that.
To Kill a Mockingbird, a classic tale with a meaning deeper than the simple story of childhood shenanigans, remains a staple in many classes throughout the US. The people of the town consistently express their racist values, and how there prejudice clearly divides white and black people. Beyond that, the contrast between knowing and not knowing consistently appears throughout the story. There are many different types of ‘not knowing,’ ranging from innocence to ignorance. The people of Maycomb are ignorant when it comes to race, and the Finch children are innocent and do not know what’s really involved with the case taken up by their father.
Even in a society that, overall, is diverse, people with similar ideas and experiences tend to congregate in small groups, where they are comfortable. It is much easier to remain in homogenous groups, among those who understand each other. When different groups combine, many different life experiences and points of view will be present and will potentially clash. Misunderstanding is bound to occur in some form when individuals of different backgrounds interact. When misunderstandings occur, people tend to respond with violence, fear, or stereotyping.
Misunderstandings happened all the time in our everyday life, they can happen at school when learning , or simply if someone had told you something you couldn’t quite understand. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird misunderstandings happen frequently as it’s told from a child’s point of view, and usually children don’t understand most of what going on because they’re still learning. As this confusion carries on in the novel , there are specific characters that get misunderstood often, these characters are ; Dill, Boo Radley, and Miss. Caroline. When it comes down to misunderstanding you go a little too far to find out what you are trying to figure out and this is what happened to one of the characters. Dill is a young boy from Meridian, Mississippi who visits his aunt out in Maycomb in the summer.
Hypocrisy is easy to ignore. One does not want to come to terms that they’re indulging in such, as it can feel like one is lying to oneself—ignoring one’s so-called “personal morals.” It has been said that only the newest and freshest minds can recognize true hypocrisy, or feelings that adults don’t want to admit to. An example of hypocrisy in To Kill a Mockingbird is when the protagonist, Jean Louise “Scout”, points out how her teacher participates in the common act of hypocrisy.
Maycomb is involved in blind discrimination, they don't stop to look at what they are doing, and how it is affecting other people. They just take the easier way out, people were afraid of being judged by their own neighbors and pushed away from their town. Martin Luther King Jr stood up for what is right and didn't care what people thought and that is how Atticus was. “ I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” - Martin luther king
Some would say ignorance is bliss. While some may disagree with that statement, in the case of Jean Louise Finch —known as Scout in her childhood— the main protagonist in the novel, “Go Set a Watchman” by Harper Lee, that statement is upheld. It is a sequel to the novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird”. The story begins in the 1950’s, as Jean Louise is returning to visit her hometown of Maycomb, Alabama from New York City. She made this journey to check up on her elderly father, Atticus, and during her time back in her hometown, she finds herself at odds with the ideals of the community she once thought she knew.
Can someone who does bad things still be considered a good person? "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." (Philosopher Aristotle). It is believed that someone who does bad things cannot be considered a good person.
Within Maycomb, there is a great deal of prejudice. This can be seen leading up to the main plot of the story when an African American is convicted of the capital crime of rape, despite there being no concrete evidence. The novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” by Harper Lee illustrates the theme
