To Kill A Mockingbird Persuasive Essay

Killing Innocent with Fear “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” (Mark Twain) Humans live in fear every day, fear of the littlest things from spiders and ants, to big things like cliffs, in the book To Kill a Mockingbird the people in Maycomb fear difference. They don’t want people to look differently, sound differently or even think differently from them, because they are afraid of what will happen, if they accept it. Maycomb should not be afraid of anything but fear itself, because their fear will cause chaos, although Scout Finch and the other kids are afraid of the Radley house because they are ignorant of the real Boo Radley. Boo Radley is not a bad man, he only seems weird and distant, because the people

Scout Finch, is someone who wants to retain as much information as possible, not fearing the information or answer, even if the information will hurt her. She even narrated "My curiosity burst: 'Why were you all takin' up collection for Tom Robinson's wife" (Lee 163). Scout knows she’s an intensely eager person and she knows she probably shouldn’t have blurted that out, but she has no fear of the outcome her questions. Scout’s main purpose in To Kill a Mockingbird is to show the readers how silly being afraid is, and explains to the reader what is going on, because she is our “Scout.” Like her father, and the broad idea, she has nothing to fear in Maycomb but fear

People cannot live their life fearless, whether they try their hardest to be, the fear will outshine the rest, and sometimes that fear turns into hate. For example, having a fear of spiders, will turn into, every time a spider is seen, it has to die. Like with innocent people, or even a mockingbird the fear of them, will turn into hate, and then hate turns into murder. Scout was afraid, but her fear never turned to hatred, she would never want to hurt someone, that’s why she’s the protagonist. On the other hand, Bob Ewell, who is an antagonist, is an antagonist because his fear of black people turned into hatred, and thus why he accused Tom Robinson and why he wanted Tom Robinson to be murdered. When reading To Kill a Mockingbird, if the only thing learned is “Nothing to fear but fear itself” the book has done