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To Kill A Mockingbird Innocence Quotes

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Dylan Bauer

Ms. Crutchfield

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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. …show more content…

In Jem and Scout's encounter with Mrs. Dubose, she said, “Not only a Finch waiting on tables but one is in the courthouse lawing for n-words”, (Lee, 135)! This quote demonstrates that not only were young kids harassing Jem and Scout but even people as old as Mrs. Dubose had something to say to them when you think an older person would be more mature. This quote shows that even though Mrs. Dubose lives with an African American woman she thinks that Tom Robinson is guilty just because of his skin color and it shows how people really thought during that time period. At the end of Chapter 11 Atticus said “Mrs. Dubose was a morphine addict,”(Lee,147). This quote shows how who once used to be a nice old lady got hooked on painkillers and let them take over her life which resembles innocence being destroyed by evil. This quote also demonstrates that there is some good in her because she was mean a morphine addict and racist but the last thing she did was a good deed giving Jem the white camelia. Overall chapter 11 needs to stay because it is an important chapter in seeing the prejudices that even the adults had and seeing how even though someone like Mrs. Dubose was mean not every part of them was bad as the last thing she did was

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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.

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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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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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Many people go through many harsh, different obstacles in life that morph them into the kind of people they are today. In the novel,  To Kill a Mockingbird, the author, Harper Lee uses literary elements to showcase how a child grows into who they are and the contributing factors that may fall into their path and their learning experiences. Lee uses the scene where Jem destroys the flowers of Mrs. Dubose to portray a coming of age moment. He does this because she is racist and constantly nags at them about their father. His punishment is to read to her everyday for a month.

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The introduction of her character gives people an opportunity to empathize with her despite her racist views. Atticus wants Jem and Scout to consider the situations that may have shaped her perspective. In this chapter, Scout's interaction with Mrs. Dubose reveals a significant display of empathy. Despite Mrs. Dubose being bitter and racist, Atticus wants Scout to be kind and understanding towards her. Scout's visits to Mrs. Dubose's house make her realize she is struggling with addiction.

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Jem is Shaped and Influenced by Society Jem, Scout's brother, from To Kill A Mockingbird is shaped and influenced by his society around him. Jem lives in the small town of Maycomb which is deeply rooted in racial injustices. Jem is initially unaware of the racial division but quickly sees the harsh reality of the world. Jem tells Scout, “There are just some kind of men who-who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one” (Chapter 23).

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To Kill a Mockingbird When you think of innocence do you think of a mockingbird? Well, in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee foreshadows the loss of innocence through her symbolic significance of the Snowman, Mad dog, and the Mockingbird itself. First, Harper Lee uses the Snowman to foreshadow the loss of innocence. The Snowman was built out of mud and snow by two innocent children, Jem and Scout. Scout says, “Jem I ain’t ever heard of a nigger snowman” (89).

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Schilling Mitch Ms. Aukes English 11 30 October 2017 To Kill a Mockingbird “To Kill a MockingBird”by Harper Lee is a story of a racially separated community that centers its focus around the trial of Tom Robinson. Tom is accused of rape and endures the harships of being a black man in a court mostly full of racially prejudice driven people that want to see Tom go to prison despite the truth. Atticus endures many harships from the public as Toms defender in court, and is the moral compass throughout this book as he keeps the reader in touch with morality and justice. These character traits or portrayed through Atticus’s kids Scout and Jem.

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Mrs.Dubose, an ill, elderly woman who lives close to the Finches, demonstrates rudeness and disrespectfulness, which is a problem for society because people can hurt others emotionally and physically and not care about it. Jem has to read to Mrs.Dubose every day after school and on Saturdays for an entire month as a punishment for destroying her camellias but also, a distraction for Mrs.Dubouse to quit her morphine addiction, one afternoon Mrs.Dubouse comments, “Not only a Finch waiting on tables but one in the courthouse lawing for a n*****!” (Lee, 117). Not only does she insult Scout over her waiting on tables, but she directs her racism towards Atticus for defending Tom Robinson at the trial, which makes Jem mad. This shows how disrespectful

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“ ‘Not only a Finch waiting on tables but in the courtroom lawing for niggers!’(...)‘your father’s no better than the niggers and trash he works for!’ ” (135) This often irritates Jem and Scout. However, as the story progresses, they learn more about Mrs. Dubose. She is a morphine addict because of her illness but when she was told she had months to live she set a goal for herself

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To Kill A Mockingbird To Kill A Mockingbird is about a lawyer named Atticus who chooses to defend a African-American man named Tom just as equally as he would defend a white man in a court room. This novel takes place in the 1930's when there was racism going on between blacks and whites. Atticus is a person in the novel who choose to learn to understand others. By showing that he does this, his quote said “ 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.” In this novel there are a couple of people who have trouble understanding people, not understanding people, and doing a little bit of both.

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In the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee three main quotes that teaches both Jem and Scout life lessons are “until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (33) , “it’s a sin to kill a Mockingbird” (103), and “Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them” (323). These quotes are simple yet have a deep hidden meaning behind it that takes a lot of thinking that both Scout and Jem have to learn that they can’t just assume things about people without really knowing them, and that you are not allowed to destroy an innocent person that has done nothing to you. In the scene the quote “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” (33) mainly

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They were subject to prejudice and mockery. After communicating this issue with their father, Atticus’s advice was to stay acting like a gentleman since she was old and sick. One day Jem and Scout had walked past her house and she had commented on Atticus, “Your father is no better than the n—--- and trash he works for” (117). Though Jem was able to contain himself from lashing out at all her other commentary, once she had commented on their father, he had gone mad. Jem ended up grabbing a baton and completely destroying Mrs. Dubose’s

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