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Examples Of Ugliness In To Kill A Mockingbird

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In the book to “To Kill a MockingBird,” there are a lot of themes and lessons throughout the book. One of these lessons is that it shows the ugliness that comes from judging others, however great good can come from deferring judgement until considering things from another point of view. The first half of this lesson, “ugliness comes from judging others,” this is seen in the trial(Chapter 21, pg 211), and later death of Tom
Robinson(Pg 235 chapter 24). In these scenes, Tom is judged by other people based on the color of his skin eventually leading to his death. In his Trial, Atticus proved the bruises and black eye happened primarily on the right have of her face, and that Tom can’t use his left hand while Bob Ewell is primarily left handed, …show more content…

Despite all this, the jury still found Tom guilty. In Tom’s death scene, He was shot him 17 times.
The second part of the lesson, “Greatness comes from not judging Others,” is shown when Boo Radley saves Scout and Jem from Bob Ewell. The kids didn’t judge
Boo Radley and he ended up saving them. I feel like if they judged him like everyone else in town did, he probably wouldn’t have saved the kids and Scout and Jem could have died. Because they didn’t judge Boo, he turned into a good person in the end.
2) In the book “To Kill a MockingBird,” women are portrayed in a negative manner by the author . For example, in chapter 4, Scout says “I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, thats why other people hate them so, and if I start behaving like one I could just go of and find someone else to play with.” this quote signifies that scout hates being called and has hated being called a Girl since day 1. She always thought the way girls act and the things they liked and this was probably reinforced by the fact that scout and Jem don’t have a mom so scout is surrounded

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