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Extraordinary Themes Of To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

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Extraordinary Themes of To Kill a Mockingbird
“Remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird,” says Scout Finch, the narrator of Harper Lee’s renowned novel To Kill a Mockingbird (119). Lee is a southern author and private person who witnessed segregation. Of the few novels Lee published in years, To Kill a Mockingbird is by far Lee’s most successful novel. To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in a fictional place called Maycomb, Alamaba, and is set in segregation. A young girl's story and a darker drama about the roots and consequences of racism and prejudice, To Kill a Mockingbird shows how good and evil can exist within a single community or individual (Lee 3-376). A Theme is a lesson and message about issues facing the characters and the narrative …show more content…

Education is critical the more education the better it will affect your life. The Ewells go to school only on the first day (Lee 34). The Ewells have almost no education since they only go on the first day, which is not enough. Atticus explains to the kids about the mob and its importance (Lee 203). Atticus is brilliant; he understands the situation and most of all, understands the importance. “In Calpurnia’s teaching, there was sentimentality; I should say thank you to her and she did help me,” Scout says (Lee 35-26). Calpurina had shown Scout how to read and write. Choices and emotions can be affected by deficit …show more content…

Showing signs of respect to others means you can accept somebody for who they are, even when they're different from you or you disagree with them. The Cunninghams don’t receive or gain the respect they deserve (Lee 33). Since they have a low profit they received little money respect which gave them little respect for others. Scout explains Boo carried Jem home after Bob Ewell attacked him (Lee 352). Boo is very private and shy but goes out of his way to save children who are scared of him. “He was going around the corner. He was caring Jem.”( Lee 351-353). Boo saved Jem from an attack by Bob Ewell and then Boo started to carry Jem Showing respect no matter what, people should

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In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout embodies Atticus’ advice regarding both her internal and external conflicts stemming from the court case, which leads to her discovering the theme that adversity is not worth one’s relationships with those they are close to. During the plot, Jem and Scout are continuously ridiculed by their family and classmates due to the fact that their father is defending Tom Robinson, a black man, in a trial. The two act irrationally in response, whether it is Scout fighting her cousin, Francis, or Jem cutting down fellow Maycomb resident, Miss Dubose’s camellia bushes. When Atticus discovers these things, he tells his children that in this case, “(they) aren’t fighting the Yankees”, but instead their loved ones; however, it should not get in between those ties, as in the end “they’re still (their) friends and this is still (their) home” (Lee 76).

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