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Internal Conflict In To Kill A Mockingbird

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To Kill a Mockingbird

“As you grow older , you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it-whenever a white man does that to a black man,no matter who he is,how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that man is white trash.” In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Jem’s perspective is opened up to a more complex topic by Atticus after the events of the unfair trial.In the courtroom everyone is treated equal but the contrast between the blatant truth and the lies to cover it was so obvious , but it never mattered in the end. The literary elements of conflict internal and external with types of people help develop …show more content…

“I don't know , but they did it. They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it again and when they do it-seems that only children weep(Atticus 243)".Moreover Jem having viewed the trial and seeing even though with enough evidence and proof the truth sometimes never matters.Because of this being a major event within the town itself and not only Jem’s and Scout's it opens more perspective to racial conflict within the courtroom and …show more content…

“Why don't people like us and Miss Maudie ever sit on juries?You never see anybody from Maycomb on a jury-they all come out from the woods.”(Jem 252).Jem has viewed his first trial with an open mind ,and because of this he can truly see how unfair many things can be even when their are clearly more smarter capable people sitting in the room who can give someone a fair chance instead of a biased standing point.The impact that as such a case can leave on a 12 year old young boy and not only the readers really reaches to the audience what the story is

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and Atticus responds, “I don’t know, but they did it. They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it again, and when they do it- seems that only children weep. ”(p. 285 Haper Lee). On the night of the trial, Miss Maudie talks to Jem as he sulks and gives Jem more of an understanding that Atticus’ job is deemed to give him results as such, “ There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us.

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To Kill a Mockingbird In To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee, Tom Robinson goes on trial. In this novel the townspeople, Atticus, and the children's views and outcomes of Tom Robinson’s trial are being presented. There is much racism and hatred of the blacks making the trial unfair for Tom to be seen as innocent through the jury’s eyes because he is a black man.

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In society today there are those that are pushed out of the crowd because of what they look like, how they act, and what others say to be true about them. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows that unselfish, kind hearted people can experience prejudice from others. Always wanting to be the better person, Atticus Finch is like the mockingbird when taking the responsibility of defending Tom Robinson, who is a black man. Once Atticus gets the news that he will be defending Tom Robinson, who is accused of rape, he is very stressed until the end of the trial. Harper Lee shows this when she says, “It’s this Tom Robinson case that’s worrying him to death...”

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Much later, the trial takes place and the three kids watch from the balcony as it unfolds. Scout narrates, “I peeked at Jem: his hands were white from gripping the balcony rail, and his shoulders jerked as if each “guilty” was a stab between them.” (Lee 240) Jem was crushed by this and he as well as scout both realized later that the true monsters in life are men. Following the trial, Jem continuously tried to understand how the jury could make and stick by such a poor decision.

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In To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Jem grows from a little boy to an intelligent young man. Throughout the book, he discerns many things that shape his personality. As Jem grows, he learns how bad society is and that not everyone is perfect. Fortunately for Jem, this ends up helping him and he finds out that Atticus is a hero and that he should look up to Atticus. Through Atticus and the trial, Jem loses his innocence by learning about prejudice, bravery, and that the justice system is crippled.

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As Sheriff Tate is reading the jury’s votes,”Guilty...guilty...guilty...guilty…,”(Lee 240) Scout describes Jem gripping the balcony railing so tight his knuckles turn white and wincing at every “guilty” he heard. The ruling ruling is very unfair. On the other hand , for many reasons, it could have been predicted. Then when Jem makes it outside to Atticus, he is saying,”It ain’t right.”(Lee 242) over and over again.

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It is during the trial of Tom Robinson that he truly understands the malevolent world and its mindset. “It was Jem’s turn to cry. His face was streaked with angry tears as we made our way through the cheerful crowd. ‘It ain’t right,’ he muttered…” (212). In this quote, Jem realizes the verdict and knows how wrong it was.

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A conflict can be defined as a serious disagreement or argument. In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird written by Harper Lee, there are many minor conflicts that occur. Some examples would be Miss Maudie Atkinson's house catching fire and Tim Johnson being put down. However, the major conflict of the novel is Tom Robinson's court case. It is important to understand that while Boo appears to be a strange, crazy neighbor to the townspeople, Scout, Jem and Dill seem to be intrigued by Boo because of the town's rumors about him.

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After hours of waiting, the jury came back in. Scout explains how “A jury never looks at the defendant if it has convicted, and when this jury came in, not one of them looked at Tom Robinson… Judge Taylor was polling the jury; ‘ Guilty...Guilty...Guilty’”(211) When Scout and Jem hear the verdict, they are distraught. As they were walking home, “It was Jem’s turn to cry.. ‘It’s not right, Atticus’”(212)

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Even with Atticus’ strong defense Tom is found guilty. The trial resonates deep within Scout, Jem, and Dill. They get to witness the unfairness in race and prejudice. The trial sticks with them as they mature as they continue to fond over Boo

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To Kill a Mockingbird. As a twelve year old, Jem Finch begins to see how crooked the justice system, he begins to “cry” and his face is “streaked with angry tears” because his father’s client, an innocent man, is charged guilty of rape merely because he is black (Lee 284). He is not mature enough yet to handle what he has come to realize about the world and how unfair and corrupt it is. Jem states that “we oughtta” get rid of “juries” (Lee 294).

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To Kill a Mockingbird Argumentative Essay Racial equality and discrimination is a founding issue that has been spread throughout every part of the world, To Kill A Mockingbird was written and published by Harper Lee in 1960, this time was dominated by civil rights protests and some of the first hippie movements following the crushing reality of the Vietnam War, the 60s also saw the struggle against segregation and racial equality. It is no surprise that the extreme political conflict affecting her life and world would greatly impact her writing and influence how she perceived the world during the writing of To Kill a Mockingbird. the influence of the fight for racial inequality is shown greatly in her book as she depicts the everyday life

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The exploration of human nature and prejudices is exposed through the eyes of Scout, a young girl in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Throughout the novel, siblings Jem and Scout Finch discover the harsh realities of injustice and racism in their own town. In the To Kill a Mockingbird passage in which Scout witnesses the trial and verdict of a black man being accused of a crime solely from racial biases and realizes the immense amount of discrimination present, therefore allowing the symbolism and characterization of Tom Robinson to help develop the theme that one can recognize the humanity in others, regardless of race. During the trial of Tom Robinson, a black man accused of a crime he did not commit, symbolism becomes visible.

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To Kill A Mockingbird Behind every great story there is the coexistence of good and evil that is materialized into the essence of themes. These resulting themes are scattered throughout Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. The novel revolves around the Finch siblings, Jem and Scout, as they grow up in the southern 1930s and start to discover the truth about their society with their father who is also a talented lawyer, Atticus Finch, and the people of Maycomb County. Atticus faces the dilemma of sticking to his virtues by defending Tom Robinson, a black man wrongly accused of raping a white woman: Mayella Ewell.

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