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To Kill A Mockingbird Innocence Quotes

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Harper Lee is a very famous Author who wrote the book to kill a Mockingbird. The title of the book mean to kill innocence because a Mockingbird is a symbol of innocence. The book takes place during the Great Depression in Maycomb Alabama. In her novel to kill a Mockingbird lee uses Tom, Atticus, Boo Radley as the human embodiment of the Mockingbird. First, Lee uses Tom as a human embodiment of the Mockingbird. Tom is a good heated black man who is falsely accused of rape. Tom passes the ewell house everyday to and from work a lot of times Mayella stops him and asks him to help her do all types of odd jobs he feels bad for her so he helps her because it seems like she has no help. One day like every other day as he’s passing the ewell house Mayella stops him and asks him to look at the door as he does he …show more content…

Tom says, “where are the other children?” (Lee 191) she tells him that she sent them into town to get ice cream she saved her money for a whole year. This quote shows that she's willing to do that just to get alone with him. She starts touching on his legs and then she gets up and kisses him in the lips. He asks her to just let him go, after she wouldn't let up he to tries to get away and flips a chair that's the only thing disturbed in the house when he left. Even Tom’s white boss comes forward and says Tom is a good man. All the fight and evidence and good testimony and accusations and Tom was still convicted guilty even with Atticus fighting so hard for him. The whole black community was devastated the only good this that came out of this court case is Atticus exposing Bob, and the time they took discussing what should happen to Tom. Since rape was a

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“I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird”(page 119) In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the mockingbird is one of the most symbolic objects in the novel. It represents the innocence of someone not affected by the evilness of society. In the novel, there are three people, or mockingbirds, that are innocent affected by society.

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I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The book is very heavily about racism and innocence. In this journal I will be evaluating on how Boo Radley and Tom Robinson are represented by the symbol of the mockingbird. In the novel, there are two people who are obviously symbolized by the mockingbird.

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In the novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, the idea of innocence is said in the most wises quote “it is a sin to kill a mockingbird”. Lee develops the idea of the point of view and symbolism throughout the novel. Throughout the novel, Scout is portrayed as innocent, since it is told by Atticus, a child, meaning that scout won't be able to fully understand all the racism happening in Maycomb. Scout won't have a fully understandable meaning of all the bigotry until after the trial, she finally realizes after Tom Robinson's trial and sees how unfair all this is.

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Mockingbirds: Emblems of innocence in To Kill A Mockingbird There are many mockingbirds in the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The image of mockingbirds represent many people in the story and how many people take advantage of them for their own benefits. Scout, a young girl who lives in Maycomb is the story’s protagonist. She lives with her brother and father and occasionally meets Calpurnia their cook. For instance, Tom Robinson and Calpurnia are treated differently because of their skin color, however they are very close to the Finch family.

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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have your innocence taken way from you? In the novel To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee Scout displays characteristics of young,smart and strong. Scout was betrays the characteristic of being strong when Bob Ewell went after her and Jem after the pageant. Scout also shows how strong a young girl like her can be when Tom Robinson got shot.

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Dylan Bauer Ms. Crutchfield Silver 5 6 March 2023 To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird's broad message and recurring theme throughout the book is good and innocence being interrupted or destroyed by evil, which is symbolic of the title because killing a mockingbird would be a sin because they are innocent and all they do is sing. Chapter 4 of To Kill a Mockingbird needs to stay because it is about scouts' first interactions with boo radley and how Atticus wants them to not bother them because bothering them would be for no reason as they mind their own business. Chapter 9 of TKAM needs to stay because it also symbolizes innocence being destroyed by evil as many people use racial slurs in disapproval of Atticus defending Tom Robinson.

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“Another reason, the simplest, the ugliest, was that this hitherto peaceful congregation of neighbors and old friends had suddenly to endure the unique experience of distrusting each other; understandably, they believed that the murder was among themselves…” (pg. 88) Holcomb have been described as a town out in the countryside in which everyone knew each other. Before the murders of the Clutter family, there was a sense of security and comfort among the people of Holcomb. The significance of this quote shows the people’s loss of innocence and the sheltered lifestyle they once had. After the tragedy, they are forced to realize the true nature of humans.

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Murdering the Innocence To Kill A Mockingbird, a 20th century novel written by Harper Lee, is narrated by Scout Finch. She and her family live in Maycomb, Alabama which is a prejudice town with prejudice people during the Great Depression. She lives with her brother Jem and her father Atticus who is a prominent lawyer in Maycomb. In this novel Atticus teaches that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird because it is an innocent creature.

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When one witnesses the brutal act of harming someone or something that is innocent it leaves an indelible mark on her coming of age. This is done by overturning her naivement into maturity and encouraging her to form her own opinions on the world around her. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee these ideas are clearly portrayed. The ideas are demonstrated when the readers learn that killing a mockingbird in Maycomb is a crime due to the fact that it is immoral to harm something that is innocent. Tom Robbinson is symbolic of a mockingbird due to his innocence, and he facilitates Scout's coming of age by bringing out her maturity and showing her to formulate her own opinions about the world around her.

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To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel written by Harper Lee about the trial of a black man, Tom Robinson, accused of rape as seen through the eye of a young girl, Scout Finch. The story follows her, her older brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus, the lawyer appointed to Tom’s case. The novel contains many instances of symbolism. One of the most important symbols as the title suggests, is the mockingbird. The mockingbird symbolizes innocence, so to kill a mockingbird would be synonymous with destroying innocence.

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The Fall of Innocence To Kill a Mockingbird is a book of progression and important themes that are still in use today. Throughout the book, we see the fight between the lower-class and upper-class citizens. We even see lower-class citizens turn to other people considered lower-class. As explained by Jem, the town is split up into four classes, the ordinary upper-middle class, the poor who make an effort, the poor who make no effort, and citizens who are black. If you try to bring yourself above or act above that class, you are ridiculed and shunned for it.

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Giving dignity boosts someones ego, yet stripping dignity can ruin it as read in Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee portrays how others can give and strip someones dignity by their actions and language. The novel takes place in a tired, racist town in the South called Maycomb, Alabama, in the 1930’s. It tells the story of a white woman accusing a black man of rape. The case is taken by Atticus Finch, the best lawyer in town defending the black defendant, Tom Robinson.

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“ I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” [p.119] In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, this issue is mentioned various times. There are three mockingbirds, Mayella Ewell, Boo Radley and Tom Robinson. In order to catagorize them as mockingbirds, the reader has to know what a mockingbird is.

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“Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it” (James Arthur Baldwin). This quote perfectly reflects on the issue of loss of innocence, as did the author of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, who was able to examine this as well as the growth of character within the protagonist of the novel: Jean Louise “Scout” Finch. There are several characters who help change Scout’s thinking, such as her father, Atticus Finch, her family’s maid, Calpurnia, and her friend, Maudie Atkinson. It can be reasoned that the journey from innocence to understanding for Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, is guided by the lessons taught to her by the closest people in her life.

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To Kill a Mockingbird Imagine you are living in the 1930’s in a small town where if you do one wrong thing you are assumed to be weird. Harper Lee wrote To Kill a Mockingbird. The setting of this book is Maycomb, Alabama 1930’s. The main characters in the book are Atticus Finch, Jem Finch, and Jean Louise ‘Scout’ Finch. Harper Lee shows the idea of killing a mockingbird is a sin throughout 3 characters which are Tom Robinson, Boo Radley, and a rolly polly.

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