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To Kill A Mockingbird Quote Analysis

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Throughout all of To Kill a Mockingbird there a lot of important quotes. All of which including the long speech that Atticus makes in the courtroom. He says things like “We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe.” he is saying a pretty important thing. He means that in the world, there is what racists and those who are prejudice known as “equal but separate”, which is not equal, it is actually more racist. if anyone can find a way to put the phrase “take a walk in the other person's shoes”, in any way possible, Atticus can-and did. Atticus Finch always referred back to the motto because it had a lot to do with all of the topics of the book-even before Tom Robinson came into the book. Boo Radley, …show more content…

He takes the pity that the jury has for Mayella and shifts the focus of pity to Tom for he is, in Atticus’ own words, “a quiet, respectable, humble Negro,” (page 207) Atticus provides the courtroom with a mind blowing speech about the innocence of Tom Robinson and the freedom or black men and women. B.Cases that always are racist can indeed change a whole community, which already has, and it births a new form of racism that permits people not to accept people who are not like them, and that includes blacks as well. Blacks are racist against whites. Whites are racist towards blacks. The system of racism is like a tug of war; you can keep tugging, but if you tug too hard almost everyone on the opposing side will fall. If you are strong enough, you will most likely win. the speech that Atticus provides is very long, but there is a certain part that he speaks of what I said was a like a “tug of war.” He …show more content…

Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created, a phrase that the Yankees and the distaff side of the Executive branch in Washington are fond of hurling at us. There is a tendency in this year of grace, 1935, for certain people to use this phrase out of context, to satisfy all conditions. The most ridiculous example I can think of is that the people who run public education, promote the stupid and idle along with the industrious—because all men are created equal, educators will gravely tell you, the children left behind suffer terrible feelings of inferiority. We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe—some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they’re born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cake than others—some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of men.” (Pages

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In his closing speech to the jury Atticus expressed his perspective on Tom Robinson’s case and the prejudice against all black people. He explains to the jury “... some Negroes lie, some Negroes are immoral, some Negro men are not to be trusted around women—black or white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men…” (Lee, page 204). He believes all people make mistakes, everyone is human, and that no race is superior than another because of skin colour.

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This strong quote proved that Atticus wants people to put aside what they are told and/or what they think of african americans and to put aside differences and just look at the evidence and decide with that and not with his skin color. To remember that person is a person no matter what race they were born

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In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses the character of Atticus to reveal her ideas about social justice. Throughout the book, Atticus is challenged with making the right choice, the choice he believes to be morally just. Similar to how we, as a people, struggle with making the right choice. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view (Lee 30).” This quote proves her ideas of social justice because it shows that she acknowledges the fact that they are human, too.

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“You never really know someone until you walk around in their skin”, say Atticus Finch in Harper Lee’s How To Kill A Mocking Bird, but what does that really mean? In How To Kill A Mocking Bird many themes are discussed and touched upon through the story of Tom Robinson. One of which is how you need to learn how to see it from someone else’s view, how someone else may feel, and how to respect opinions and ways of others, even if they are considered morally incorrect. I will be discussing the use of the quote and how it reflects on most of the book, and how Scout Finch comes to realize the importance of this phrase. The first time that this is brought up to Scout is when she is upset about Walter Cunningham, and how he supposedly made

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A court is only as a sound as it jury, and a jury is only as a sound as the men who make it up….” (Lee 274). This quote explains a reason, Atticus did help a black man in front of many. If he did not want things to be equal, then why he would help him in the first place. Another example Atticus said, “A nigger-lover is just one of those terms that don 't mean anything—like

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wanted boys like him to be on the Jury but Atticus had to explain that Jem needed to understand the big picture. Every one of these quotes shows innocence, which shows you that Harper Lee wanted a big chunk of this book to be about innocence. Throughout the book, Scout and Jem prove that they have grown up. Harper Lee writes, “Well it’s hair.”

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