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To Kill A Mockingbird Quote Analysis

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To Kill A Mocking Bird Atticus Finch once said "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” This quote from To Kill A Mockingbird emphasizes the importance of putting yourself in another persons point of view, and truly understanding things from a different perspective.To Kill A Mocking Bird, written by Harper Lee is a touching novel that expresses multiple themes throughout the novel. The story unfolds in a town in Maycomb, Alabama, during the 1930’s. The story is told from the point of view of Jean Louise Finch, also known as Scout. The novel emphasises the themes of kindness, innocence, and moral integrity. In To Kill A Mockingbird, the …show more content…

Not only does it serve as a symbol of innocence, it also serves as a symbol of injustice. In the characters Boo Radley and Tom Robinson it is shown. Atticus Finch stated "Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." This shows how characters like Boo Radley and Tom Robinson are like the mockingbird in a sense of innocence but still getting treated unfairly. Atticus Finch is not only courageous, which is shown when he defends Tom Robinson, but he also shows an immense amount of kindness throughout the novel. Kindness not only can make a person feel better, but it can make the people around them feel better. Atticus uses kindness in a sense of acceptance and equality, to show others that there is no difference in people. During the novel it is shown when Atticus states "I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks. Atticus wants to show that even if people have different skin colors, have different lives, we are all the same people at the end of the day. Kindness and moral integrity both entail

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