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To Kill A Mockingbird Society Quotes

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A novel talking about society in the mid 90’s shows how evil the people are, including racism, drama, and the meaning behind the title of To Kill A Mockingbird.
Harper Lee was a novelist who wrote the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, and won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize. To Kill A Mockingbird is a novel about racism, because how evil a single society can be. To Kill A Mockingbird is taking place in the Maycomb County Alabama, and character houses. The plot of the novel is about how a single society can be so evil, and racism during 1929–1941 when the Great Depression hit the US.
During the times of the novel, racism is a dominant problem, especially when the Great Depression is a major problem. In Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird the main character Scout appears as intelligent, …show more content…

For Example Scout patiently planned out before taking the item. (Lee 78). This quote explains that Scout told Jem to wait incase if someone uses the tree as a trap since Jem wants to take the item from it. Similarly ”I think Atticus knows it anyway.” (Lee 54). Harper Lee shows that Scout understands Atticus more than Jem since she is more intelligent than her brother. Also “attractiveness of such words…” (Lee 105). The author further explains that Scout is way more advanced than her age by using words that a first grader wouldn’t use shows that she is very intelligent.
Along with being intelligent, Scout is hot headed. In addition ”Why, I hated that old cow barn thought settin it on fire hundreds of times” (Lee 97). Lee illustrates that Scout is effortless to get impatient, and wants to get rid of anything that she hates. Furthermore Scout without any calm punches Cuningham in the face (Lee 32). Lee further explains that Scout can’t take any criticism, and easily gets uncontrollable. For example ”We're fighting our friend…” (Lee 102). This explains that Scout is impulsive, sometimes fights to solve problems, and she fights her

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For example later in the book Jem’s life was at risk and when Jem returned from a near death experience he went silent for a week. Scout's reaction was the trick she learned from Atticus. “ Jem stayed moody and silent for a week. As Atticus had once advised me to do, I tried to climb into Jem's Skin and walk around in it. If I had gone alone to the Radley Place at two in the morning, my funeral would’ve been held the next afternoon.

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Scout’s reaction is hotheaded, blind, and continues the contentious feeling between the two classmates; whereas Atticus’s reaction shows empathy towards Scout and a desire to help Scout understand the context of his case. This juxtaposition shows how violence got Scout nowhere with Cecil; however Atticus's approach of ahimsa got his point of view and the facts about the case, through to Scout and helped her solve the conflict between her and Cecil. Later, Scout asks Atticus why he’s defending Tom Robinson and he explains his reasons and warns Scout that she will continue to hear “ugly talk” about him. Through Atticus, Lee uses the line, “Try fighting with your head for a change…”(pg 76) to communicate the metaphor of using intelligence to solve a problem and not violence; which is a change from Scout’s

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