To Kill A Mockingbird Persuasive Essay

In the fictional story “To Kill A Mockingbird” there once was a girl named Scout who thought life would be as easy as luscious vanilla ice-cream, but she was duped when that ice-cream had the flavor of putrid feces. This story is based in the little town of Maycomb, Alabama where a lot of racist people congregated in the America of the 1930’s when the depression started and people were blaming others, such as blacks for stealing or just looking malicious due to the hard times they face to be meager conscious. In this novel the protagonist and her brother gain a grasp into their present-day circumstances of the antagonism between Caucasian and African-Americans, which is still to this day subsist in a shrouded manner, but back then

Atticus has a deep devotion towards god in that it keeps him restless to be honest by tolerating other judgements made upon him and family which in the story is push to the limits by pure prejudiced in which he has to conquer to end the wickedness of life. In chapter 9 Atticus says” When a child asks you something answer him, for goodness sake.” The thing Atticus is trying to convey is that the children don’t know better and he shouldn’t be confronted over by violence. This is something Scout learns about life and improves on how she takes on other encounters with a opposing

In chapter 10 Atticus says “Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” A short explanation is that mockingbirds are a being of innocence due to them singing and not doing harm unlike blue jays who destroy stuff. Tom and Boo do no harm but they are ostracized by the people for something they didn’t do like kill or rape.Tom dying took a toll on Atticus but he knew he did right but not enough which cuts him inside and makes him cynical of the people within his town. In other words hopeless in the pursuit of change to be made in