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Have you ever thought what would happen if one person started to believe in something that’s others didn’t. Then what if everybody else started to follow along. That reminds me of this game called Fortnite. One person started playing it then everybody followed along. This relates back to To Kill A Mockingbird by showing how racism has affected their town. One person shares his opinion about racism then everybody starts to agree with it. In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper lee she shows that characters like Boo Radley, Dolphus Raymond and Tom Robinson are described as mockingbirds. This shows how they are all good people just judged by other people. In To kill A Mockingbird Dolphus Raymond is to be described as a mockingbird …show more content…

This quote takes place when Dolphus is explaining with people about how he doesn’t drink he just wants to be with the African American. “Some folks don’t - like the way I live” ( Lee 268). This reveals that Dolphus knows that people don’t like that he is a drunk but mainly that he’s always with the African American. The quote is describing that Dolphus understands that the other town people don’t like the way he drinks African Americans. Dolphus Raymond is described as a mocking bird because that he was known as a drunk in the town. He really just wanted to be with the African Americans and have people not judge him for it. Another example of Dolphus being a mocking bird is when Dill and Scout figure out that the bottle inside the paper sack was just filled with Coca Cola instead of the booze the rest of the town though was in there. …show more content…

This quote is when Mr Underwood is talking about Tom's death and how it’s like the senseless killing of a mockingbird. It relates back to a earlier quote in a book about how it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird. “He likened Tom's death to the senseless slaughter of songbird”. This reveals that more and more people are starting to understand that Tom actually never did anything that would really put him in the position he is in now. This also relates back to the mockingbird quote and how he is like a mocking bird and it was a senseless killing. One last example is when Atticus is talking to Jem about how Tom Robinson was going to be sent to jail no matter what would happen. "Tom Robinson's a colored man, Jem. No jury in this part of the world's going to say 'We think you're guilty, but not very' on a charge like that. It was either a straight acquittal or nothing." (Lee 219) This quote reminds me of another quote in the story “Tom Robinson was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell. This shows that no matter what would happen Tom was going to be sent to Jail because he is a African American in southern

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To Kill A Mockingbird In the novel, “ To Kill A Mockingbird” the author Harper Lee uses conflict to express the idea that it takes courage to stand up for injustice just because of racism. “Tom was dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.” What this quote is basically is trying to say that Tom Robinson is being accused of something he did not do. "Yeah suh i felt right sorry for her she seemed to try more’n the rest em.

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“Heroes are made in the hour of defeat.” This quote, by the late Mahatma Gandhi, who was an Indian activist, perfectly encapsulates the meaning of a hero. A hero is someone who stands up for what he or she believes in, and confronts the evils that the person may face, no matter how big or small those evils may be. This is exhibited in both Harper Lee's Atticus from To Kill a Mockingbird, and Markus Zusac's Hans Hubberman and Liesel Meminger from The Book Thief. Just like the quote eludes to, these characters stay resilient even when there seems to be no hope.

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To Kill a Mockingbird is famous for its controversy. In fact, it has been banned from being read at many schools for its use of racial, sexual, and political content, all of these aiding the book’s “big ideas”. To Kill a Mockingbird has many themes. For example, one is about racial injustice. You would think a jury would establish their final decision based upon the facts, but in this book, the jury had already made up its mind once it heard that the case was a white man versus a black man.

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He is getting accused of raping a white girl because he helped her do some housework. No one in Maycomb completely understands the stuff Tom is going through. So that's why I think that this quote completely applies to Tom Robinson seeing as no one goes through what he goes through. The meaning of the quote is saying that you really can never fully understand what someone

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This character possesses a powerful sense of insight about other people despite his seemingly strange behavior. He adheres to his values even though he horrifies the general population by living with "the blacks" and sympathizing with their plight. Mr. Dolphus Raymond exemplifies an upright man of great sympathy, insight, and peculiarities.

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He basically tells the kids that mockingbirds are harmless and they don’t do anything wrong , so there should be no reason to kill one. The “mockingbird” is a very important symbol in the book because it relates to actual characters in the book. I believe that the symbol in the story means that even if someone doing no harm to others can still somehow end up hurt , or even dead.

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Tom Robinson was killed not because he didn’t conform into his own race or society but because he paid the price of another person that didn’t conform which was Mayella Ewell. Atticus was intimidated for defending Tom Robinson because he was a black man which wasn’t accepted to do in the white community. When Calpurnia took the children to the first purchase church she wasn’t conforming because of the fact she didn’t follow the way of coloured society. “Let's go home, Cal, they don't want us here". This quotes states the controversy between the coloured and white.

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It was significant when Jem, Scout, and Dill meet Dolphus Raymond because he opened their eyes regarding the prejudice in Maycomb. Despite this, the movie fails to mention Dolphus Raymond. This makes Jem and Scout less aware of the social injustices Dolphus Raymond and people of color face because Dolphus Raymond provides an example of social injustice for the children. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Dolphus Raymond helps portray the themes of social injustice and prejudice, but was not depicted in the

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This shows that Mr. Raymond is willing to live with this lie in order to satisfy his neighbors' need to understand his lack of racism. Just like the mockingbird he means no harms to anyone and wishes only to live in peace with his family. Furthermore, Mr Raymond symbolizes a mockingbird because he doesn't like to fight. For instance, when scout asked him why does he pretend he’s drunk, he says When I come to town, if I weave a little and drink out of this sack, folks can say Dolphus Raymond's in the clutches of whiskey—that's why he won't change his ways. He can't help himself, that's why he lives the way he does" it indicates that Mr. Raymond's leads a double life instead of fighting for what he believes in.

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Raymond had given Maycomb County a reason to latch onto in order to accept the way he is, even if that reason isn’t true. On page 229 of To Kill A Mockingbird, it says, “When I come into town, which is seldom, if I weave a little and drink out of this sack, folks can say Dolphus Raymond’s in the clutches of whiskey--that’s why he won’t change his ways. He can’t help himself, that’s why he lives the way he does.” Every day, he acts like a drunk in public, and even though he doesn’t exactly enjoy it, he does it to appease the world, not himself. In a nutshell, he’s fighting society’s ways in the best way he can, and maybe even the smartest way.

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To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee demonstrates that the world is surrounded with good and evil. Scout, Jem and Dill all start innocent, but when they become aware of the evil from the adult world, it forces them to mature quickly. It makes them realize the truth about life, being that there's good, but also evil. Harper Lee uses prejudices in To Kill A Mockingbird to show the evil in life. She shows this through women not being allowed to take part of the jury, people being judged on their social class or their different lifestyle but the most prominent is racism since the jury convicts Tom for a crime he didn't commit just because he was black.

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Although all the evidence pointed to Tom Robinson being innocent and the only witnesses were from unreliable and changing sources he was still convicted. This is a depiction of the death of a Mockingbird, ultimately destroying innocence and purity that resided with Tom Robinson that died when he was shot as he tried to flee from his inescapable doom. Mr. Underwood, the publisher of Maycomb 's newspaper as well as a respected all of Atticus, sadly compares Tom 's death to “the senseless slaughter of songbirds...” (pg.244) stating another reference to the ever-present mockingbird

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Tom's trial showed how no matter how much of a genuine person you are, the color of your skin can sway an opinion. In these times, you could get convicted of what you didn’t do and people would be blinded. “No such scared I'd hafta face up to what I didn’t do” (Harper Lee 198). This quote shows how even though Tom knows he is innocent he still is scared of the consequences and what might happen to him because of racial injustice. No matter how much evidence Tom truly had, he had no chance because of the injustice of Maycomb.

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This quote symbolizes the innocence of those who are wrongly judged and harmed by societal prejudices. Before and after the court case where Atticus defends Tom Robinson, a large group of men is against Atticus and wants to stop him in any means necessary. They try to kill Tom but Atticus sits outside of the prison and talks to the men when they show up. Although if Atticus’s children Scout, Jem, and their friend Dill had not been there, Atticus and or Tom Robinson would have most likely have gotten

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Harper Lee touches upon many social issues in To Kill a Mockingbird. Among these issues is the matter of racism in America during the 1930s. This novel focused on the issue of racism through the case of Tom Robinson which conveyed the strong hostility towards African-Americans in Maycomb, Alabama. Other various occasions in the novel exhibit racism’s potential and influence in this country including Aunt Alexandra's disapproval of Calpurnia, and Mr. Dolphus Raymond’s hidden life. Through the results of these instances, Harper Lee shed a new light on racism and how it will always persist in America.

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