“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
In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Jem invites Walter Cunningham Jr., Scout’s classmate, to have dinner with their family. While they eat dinner at Atticus’s house, Walter pours molasses all over his food, shocking Scout; she questions him rudely. Calpurnia pulls her into the kitchen and scolds her, telling her to treat him well because he is company. To justify her actions, she says, “‘He ain’t company, Cal, he’s just a Cunningham--’” (Lee 27).
In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, a Southern gothic fiction novel, summer represents Scout’s freedom. Scout has just finished his first year of school and she is excited for it to be over: “Our first days of freedom, and we were tired. I wondered what the summer would bring” (Lee 37). This quote directly shows how summer was Scouts freedom.
In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird the author Harper Lee uses protagonist to express the idea that having the courage to fight can make people hate you. The thesis means that Atticus is fighting for other that is something that others will not do at all. This also means that Atticus was fighting for someone who is a colored and people did not like what he was doing. Next is that Atticus was standing up for Tom Robinson from getting accused of what he didn’t do. He also let Calpurnia stay at his house because he needed her and Alexandra told him to fire Calpurnia.
The concept of adulting is becoming more mature. Scout throughout the book, To Kill A Mockingbird, demonstrates this as the story goes on. In the beginning of To Kill A Mockingbird, the main character, or Scout, can be seen talking in third person, reminiscing about his time in Alabama when he was younger. Scout would be in kindergarten by this time, as she is 5, and her brother, Jem, would be 10, as he is in 4th grade.
Jazmin Trunkhill English II Miss Windish 13 March 2018 People Into Ghosts In the book How to Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, there are many good quotes throughout the book that a person could relate to real life in, but I am doing the quote “There are other ways of making people into ghosts”. I believe that this quote relates to real life. (Lee 14).
As we are coming to an end of our , “To Kill a mockingbird” unit, I have realized that we have gained many sorts on knowledge from this book. In other words, the novel contains multiple different life lessons or themes that is shown throughout the novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” Some examples of a theme include respect, racism, responsibility, helping each other, encouragement etc. Moreover, this novel talks about a girl name Scout that lives with her brother and dad Atticus, they live in Macomb county during the great depression. Then there is some trouble and Atticus is asked to take Tom Robinson's, case a colored person, because he was accused of rape.
Harper Lee, the author of the book To Kill A Mockingbird, set the book in the 1930s when racism was still a huge issue in the world. This book highlights several life lessons, like kindness and prejudice, in society. “If you can learn a simple trick, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-.''(39)Theme would be its classification. It is the theme because it infers how you shouldn't judge others without knowing them as a person.
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.
Feisal Rauf, and activist for the muslim religion, once said, “the truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse.” While this quote is pretty straight forward a book by Harper Lee writes a book on this topic too. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is about justice and reveals how the killing of innocents is an act of injustice. This is shown throughout the book in many ways. One way is from a quote by Atticus and Miss.
Literature is an important part of our lives, and it’s very present within To Kill A Mockingbird. Throughout the novel, Scout and Jem Finch suffer through discrimination within the town of Maycomb. Atticus Finch, the father of Scout and Jem, is made to represent a black man in a trial in which he is convicted of raping a young white woman. Atticus consults in reading different books and newspapers to calm himself within the time of stress, as does Scout and Jem. Arthur, or Boo, Radley is a mysterious neighbor who, Scout, Jem, and their friend Dill, start to make a game about these rumors.
“Nobody actually wants to grow up. We just want the freedom to use our youths. ”-Unknown. This quote represents Scouts character. How she wants to understand the world yet she doesn’t want to grow up.
Humans are creatures of emotion, guided by their will and blessed with the capacity to have compassion. Their ability to understand others and share their pain, be flawed with vulnerability, and still choose to keep others close to them— these abilities, unique to us, are what have led the world to where it is today. Their fragility is what connects them, and yet it is a human’s greatest weakness. Harper Lee’s prestigious novel To Kill A Mockingbird, based in the 1930s, displays the shortcomings of society and how they have fed into their faults. Biased perceptions of others based on nothing had plagued their ability to see each other as humans and led to the persecuted Tom Robinson having the value of his life unfairly questioned.
“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.” No quote has rung in the ears of American citizens quite like this one from the literary classic, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. This revolutionary story is about the happenings in a small town in Alabama and how Atticus Finch and his family fight for what’s right in a system that’s stacked against them.
The Simple Truth One of the greatest gifts my parents gave me was an uneventful childhood, and that is why I can remember that June 1968 was hot. In my neighborhood few of the families had air-conditioning or color TVs, let alone the money for such unnecessary and modern luxuries. Each day after a morning of outside play, following an exactly-at-noon lunch, my mom, my brother, and we four girls rested on the living room floor hoping to catch a breeze from the water cooler, surrendering to the heat of the day. Our bedding was hidden under the sofa because it was too hot to sleep upstairs even at night. Perched on her chair above us, Mama would lift her feet to the footstool and read her most recent Readers’ Digest Condensed Novel.
