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Examples Of Innocence In To Kill A Mockingbird

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It is a sin to kill someone or something that is innocent. A very good example of this is killing a mockingbird. They generally are good spirited beings and bring people joy. They are innocent and killing them is an act of cruelty beyond measure. Now picture this except the bird is an innocent black man killed because of racial discrimination. This is an act of senseless cruelty against an innocent man. In To Kill a Mockingbird there are many events in the book that support details of irony, humor, and suspense, but those all tie back to one main point in the book, racial discrimination. Many literary elements are expressed in To Kill a Mockingbird. Irony plays a big part in this book. Harper Lee is so good at making the other characters of …show more content…

Then when it was all said and done, he lost. As the audience, it is known that due to racial discrimination and Tom being black, there is not a chance that they will win this case. This event also ties back to Neil Gaimens Credo because Atticus did the right thing, standing up for what he knows is right and speaking his mind about this event. He did this knowing what could result from it, the hate and disgust he would receive from white folks in the town because he is defending a black man. Then the verdict takes a long time to express itself, which is highly ironic because the outcome of this trial was known before it even started. By them taking a long time to say their decision, it shows that Atticus made some very good points and facts that made the jury think twice about their surness of a guilty outcome for Tom. Scout finds an example of irony when Boo saves her and Jem’s life on the night of the attack from Bob. This is ironic because she …show more content…

One example of this is when a scout looks in the tree at Boo Radley's house and finds gum. As a kid, she just sees it as gum, but Jem sees the real problem… It is gum she found inside of a tree. When Jem tells Scout to spit it out, she comes back with “I have been chewing it all afternoon and I haven't died yet”. Another example of humor in To Kill a Mockingbird is as kids Scout and Dill are convinced they are going to get married. They probably think this is because they are the only other kids they hang out with outside of school. Obviously they won't get married, but the humor is that they are innocent and believe that getting married is possible. Dill might have sealed the deal when he kissed Scout on the way out the

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Jem and Scott are patiently waiting for there dad to come home and to hear more about the case. ¨Ẅhen Atticus came home to dinner and said they´d sent the morning picking to the jury¨(Lee 214). This quote shows, how Atticus is starting to pull all his time into the Tom Robinson case. He did not care what anyone though but, still looked into the court case like he would for any case that he was on.

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In the book, Atticus has to explain this to Scout by telling her “If I didn’t I couldn’t hold up my head in town, I couldn’t represent this county in the legislature, I couldn’t even tell you or Jem not to do something again. ”(Lee, 86). By saying this Atticus means if he denies this case he is doing the wrong thing and is running from a situation where he could help a man who has done nothing wrong, he couldn’t ask for Scout and Jem to do the right thing when he didn’t when he had the chance. This quote shows that Atticus has courage because he knows that this case isn’t being judged fairly and if he denies the trial, it shows his children that they can run away from things that challenge them. Also, by Atticus taking this case he is proving to the people that even though Tom is a colored man he should be treated and given the same efforts as a trial of a light-skinned man.

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A Child’s Innocence A child’s innocence can be scarred because of life events. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses conflict and characterization in order to convey the idea that a simple child’s innocence can be shattered from life’s problems. Harper Lee first uses an external conflict on Mr. Walter Cunningham who is involved in gang activity to convey her theme on innocents. When an outraged mob went to the penitentiary where they were planning on hurting Tom Robinson, but they didn’t expect to see Jen and Scout. When Scout saw Cunningham she implies to him in the most innocent way “ Hey Mr. Walter Cunningham's.

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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee was a perfect example of the loss of innocence. Innocence is such a pure thing, yet can be injured or destroyed through being around bad things. Pure means many things, but the best definition is being without contamination. Throughout this anecdote the case of Tom Robinson and the introduction to social classes and evil was shown not only to the children, but the adults too. The knowledge shared with them through this story.

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In Chapter 12 of Harper Lee’s, To Kill a Mockingbird, there are many events and situations in which irony is used to support the theme of the chapter. An example of this is in the very beginning of the chapter, when Scout is concerned about how distant and moody Jem is acting, and asks Atticus, “’Reckon he’s got a tapeworm?’” (Lee 153), to which Atticus replies no, and that Jem is growing. This is dramatic irony because the readers understand that Jem is acting oddly because he’s growing, but Scout doesn’t know this until she asks Atticus about it. This quote supports the theme of Chapter 12 by showing when Jem started to grow distance from Scout, getting aggravated with her and telling her to stop bothering him, and shows how the children

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