On July 11, 1960 Harper Lee published her first novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. To date over 40 million copies of this chart topper have been sold to the public. The story is told from a child’s point of view and how she survives the challenges of racism and growing up. To Kill a Mockingbird also illustrates that challenging the opinions of others can aid in one’s moral improvement; Jem Finch experiences the most developmental progress through expanding his moral ideas and beliefs. Coming from a strong moral figure like Atticus, Jem is expected to become a respectable young adult.
At the end of all three of these characters’ trails and tribulations, Atticus Finch and Thomas more, the characters whom followed moral principles and made their choices based on what is right, are the ones who are satisfied with themselves. Even though Atticus lost the trail and Thomas lost his life, they are happy and they know that they have done all they can to help other people and still abide to their own conscience. Alex, on the other hand, wants to change at the end of the novella. He isn’t happy with the way his life is, and he wants to make his life better for himself and also for the people around him. He is on the verge of adapting a moral lifestyle.
Throughout reading many books, one can see many themes. An overarching theme in many books is how someone can grow while learning through their community. Their act of growth can be something good in the eyes of the community, or it can be rebelling. Many characters develop differently based on how they interact with people around them and everyone as a whole. Sometimes the way communities treat people in them indicates how much it can affect a person.
Dependency On Others Many people don’t do their job but rely on other people or things to get it done. They become dependent on other things or people that they can’t do their job on their job. In the end, you are really hurting yourself and making the real world harder for you. You become used to others being able to help you all the time
Society is fooled into believing in the applied connection among people. Benedict Anderson’s idea of imagined communities emphasizes that, “… the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion” (5). Members of neighborhoods, cities, states, or countries feel a sense of unity with other members for living in the same place or maybe having the same basic values, but true unity comes from understanding the similarities among each other, considering the impact a person can have on another, and caring about lives. Recognizing the importance of lives being socially intertwined is necessary to sustain a considerate society.
“When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself” – Wayne Dyer Judging others is a natural human trait that everyone has. Everyone tries their hardest to not make assumptions about others but everyone does make assumptions about others. Sometimes despite their best efforts people will find themselves exploring feelings of negativity towards someone else or even making judgements about them. This relates to my prompt because you shouldn’t judge someone because you may misinterpret them for who they really are. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee’s use of racism proves that you shouldn’t judge someone because you may misinterpret them for who they really are.
You have 2 options with no other way out: doing the right thing, and doing the wrong thing. Which will you choose to do? Will you choose the right thing because it’s what you should choose, or will you choose the wrong thing because it’s the easier thing to choose? In Harper Lee’s classic novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, she displays many ways of doing the right thing using the characters. Atticus, Miss Maudie, Jem, Scout, and Mr. Underwood all demonstrate understanding and doing the right thing, even when it’s a challenging decision.
To Kill A Mockingbird Human actions have many effects on how a person develops and changes over time. These effects can determine the type of personality they develop into. Jean Louise ( Scout) Finch is an example of change in a society filled with prejudice folk. In the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, there are many examples of how human compassion can change a person, these people are either horrible people or respected, well known people. Human compassion is the feeling of pity or need to help another living thing, but sometimes lack of human compassion can change a person positively or negatively.
Mistreatment is a problem that can change and affect the way people present themselves, and can affect the whole social ladder of society. The novel To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, shows the importance of both learning and demonstrating empathy through events experienced by Jem, Scout, Atticus, and Tom Robinson. To Kill a Mockingbird is both a young girl’s coming of age story and a drama about the roots and consequences of racism and prejudice, probing how good and evil can coexist within a single community or individual. It is about Scout and her brother Jem trying to understand and relate to their father, Atticus, who is a lawyer charged with defending a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman. Harper Lee shows acceptance to all types of people in a couple of ways, including Atticus defending a black man, Scout not being afraid of Boo Radley, and Scout accepting the fact that Walter Cunningham is poor.
In “Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development”, there are three levels and six stages. These stages say how one’s experience helps them develop moral understanding. How they have grown and start understanding right from wrong. In the novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, narrated by Scout shows events that have happened in her life that made a significant impact.
Humans live in a world where moral values are very clearly set determining what is good and what is bad. We know what scares us and how racism should be treated. Nevertheless, this was not the case back in Alabama during the 1950s. In the famous novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee narrates the lives of the people of Maycomb, Alabama, focusing on the story of Scout and Jem Finch, and the case of a said to be rape. In this emotion filled narrative, readers learn how life was back then not only in general, but for the separate social statuses that there was.
In society, there are very few people who have the unwavering dedication to stand up for what they believe. In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, a black man was convicted and accused of a crime he didn 't commit, raping a white women, which is not in anyway tolerable in society. In Harper Lee 's To Kill A Mockingbird, the author used point of view and symbolism to acknowledge how the the several social divisions which make up much of the adult world are shown to be both irrational and extremely destructive. To begin with, the short story To Kill A Mockingbird, used point of view to show how the many social divisions in the world are irrational and destructive. Scout; a first grade student at the time, was telling the story from her point of view and what had occurred from her childhood perspective.
The Small Moments of Life Why does community seem to come together in times of need? Some people think of community as simply the neighborhood they live in, but in reality it is how people show kindness and hospitality to one another. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, present a generous amount of hospitality through the small community of Maycomb. The people that make up the populace show southern hospitality through modest acts of kindness and polite gestures such as merely saying their pleases and thank yous. Gracious hospitality and openness towards strangers is a hallmark of the South as shown in To Kill a Mockingbird.
Henry Kravis once said,”If you don 't have integrity, you have nothing. You can 't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing. Morals are the principles on which one 's judgments of right and wrong are based. The morality of a person define what a person’s decisions will be, or could this be influenced by other things.
Movie’s of Meanwhile’s “CHLOE! POINT YOUR TOES!” Abby Lee screamed at me. I was on the verge of tears.
