To Kill A Mockingbird Moving Forward Analysis

Moving Forward To put the world under a microscope is a mere impossibility, but putting the lessons I have learned within the world are not. At this point in time, I happen to have the luxury of reflecting on the experiences that have shaped me. Valuable experiences consist of living, emotion, and gained knowledge, but take away any of those factors and the human experience will be limited to new memories void of depth. Again, if an experience lacks any of those things, it is not devoid of meaning, but rather devoid of future application. Humans are clocks that tick without fail until the day we stop ticking for good, and it is important to learn from our mistakes, achievements, and any valuable experiences we have. Undoubtedly though, in

By being aware of confirmation biases, embracing calmness in trying times, not hiding behind a mask, and confronting my fears, I will give myself a chance to succeed in life. These lessons are but a catalyst for my future. First and foremost, confirmation bias is the enemy. This does not strictly apply to me, but rather anyone who falls into its trap as well. Confirmation bias in its most basic sense is the way in which people tend to seek out or interpret information in such a way that confirms their preexisting beliefs. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch more visually explains how confirmation bias works. He claims that people generally “see what they look for” and “hear what they listen for” (Lee 176). Essentially what this means for myself as an individual is that if I have a friend or family member that believes different things than I do, the reverse of confirmation bias will be true. In this case, the reverse would include altogether

I used to struggle with seeing the glass half full, as everything surrounding me appeared dark and heavy. As I had this framework embedded into my system around five years ago, I have certainly changed a lot since then. I am certain that had I not read the book Dracula, by Bram Stoker, I would still be in the same place I used to be. Throughout the book, the main character, Jonathan, went through periods of being held captive by Dracula himself. Even worse, when Jonathan was finally out of Dracula's reach, Dracula began attacking Jonathan’s wife. Needless to say, Jonathan was a man who truly understood what it meant to suffer. Jonathan had also been having trouble sleeping because of his situation with Dracula, but somehow, he was able to sleep for a night at last without having nightmares or interruptions. Having done so, Jonathan concluded that in fact “despair has its own calms” (Stoker 45). That quote changed my life, and I knew that the minute I read it. Since I had at that time been in poor mental state utterly incomparable to that of Jonathan’s, I realized that perhaps I should stop seeing the world through a black and white filter. After reading that quote, I realized in that moment that I was having my calm in despair. I finally understood how to find peace where there may be pain, and how it is vital to embrace the calms found between. This lesson