To Kill A Mockingbird Argumentative Essay

The Cost of Being Upright It is hard to do the right thing when everyone around you is doing the wrong thing. Malcolm X once said that “I, for one, will join with anyone-- I don't care, what color you are--- as long as you want to change this miserable condition that exists on earth”. The book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee has showed me what standing up for for the other truly looks like. While many characters in To Kill a Mockingbird find their power in cowardly clinging to the beliefs of a group, the novel ultimately illustrates that one individual who acts with integrity possesses greater power. Going against the crowd is like swimming against a strong current. Atticus sacrificed his family’s reputation by standing

While many bad things seemed to have happened to Atticus when he decided to stand against racism and inequality more positive things occurred. Atticus and many in this book show the dawn of a new era where racism and prejudice are not openly celebrated, but rather is frowned upon. Atticus did the impossible he brought the black community and the white community together, in many ways. The first interaction between the two peoples was when Calpurnia took Jem and Scout with her to the black church, because Atticus was too busy working on the trial. The two little white kids got to experience a black service and came to the conclusion that it was not much different than theirs. Since Jem and Scout knew the black folks when they went to watch the trial they sat with Reverend Sykes and the other black people in the designated black area because there was no more room for them in the white area. “Happily, we sped ahead of Reverend Sykes to the courtroom floor. There, we went up a covered staircase and waited at the door Reverend Sykes came puffing behind us, and steered us gently through the black people in the balcony. Four Negroes rose and gave us their front-row seats” (Lee 219). Although Atticus and Tom Robinson lost the trial the black people in Maycomb still showed their appreciation to Atticus through bringing him food although they were poor and this story took place in the 1930s during the great depression. The kitchen table was loaded with enough food to bury the family… Calpurnia said, “This was ‘round the back steps when i got here this morning. They--They ‘preciate what you did,