To Kill a Mockingbird Essay In the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” there were many heartbreaking and confusing events. This book took place in Alabama during the great depression of the 1930s. Harper Lee exemplifies many phases of courage. Lee demonstrates many diverse characters defining their courage throughout the book. She also illustrates how they show their courageous acts. Since the book is written to display how people were treated, Lee expresses the characters with a lot of details. Aside from all the details, she expresses the sincere courageous characters throughout the novel. This novel demonstrates the courageous performance of the characters in many disparate but challenging circumstances. The characters in this novel establishes various viewpoints of courage. The novel states “it's when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyways and you see it through no matter what”(Lee 149). That specific quote that Lee puts in the book essentially means that you will infrequently win, but sometimes you will. The book also implies that “die beholden to nothing and no one”(Lee 149). …show more content…
She is trying to get through to the readers that everyone is different and some people are less fortunate than others. She quotes “"First of all," he said, "if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view---until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (Lee 39). She is saying to feel how someone is feeling before you judge them. Lee also wants the reader to understand that the world wasn’t fair during the 1930s. Lee then quotes "Well, in the first place you never stopped to gimme a chance to tell you my side of it- you just lit right into me” (Lee 113). That quote that she puts essentially means that everyone needs be heard before