To Kill A Mockingbird Thesis

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Keaton Arrastio

Matt Lukens

English

9th Grade

Sin To Kill A Mockingbird

As Miss Maudie explains to Scout: "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.” (Lee). Although, this is true in the story To Kill A Mockingbird. In To Kill A Mockingbird, a mockingbird is someone who is nothing but kind and innocent but has caused havoc. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird there is a widowed father with two young kids named Jem and Scout. They live in the town of Maycomb, Alabama. During this time these kids are very quick to place judgment towards some characters. These

The event was taken to court and both Tom and Mayella both had to explain their side to the story. Tom would help Maylla on his way home with chores she needed done. Mayella discussed that she wanted Tom Robinson to “bust up a chiffarobe” (Lee). Mayella went inside to grab money in order to pay him, Tom followed her inside the house. After he walked in the door, Tom beat the girl and raped her. For example,“I don't recollect if he hit me. I mean yes I do, he hit me” (lee). Mr. Ewell heard the screaming in the distance and ran up to the window of the house. Mr. Ewell saw Tom beating and raping the girl. Tom saw Mr. Ewell and ran away from the house, then Mr. Ewell went into the house to see if his daughter was ok. After checking on his daughter Mr. Ewell immediately ran for the sheriff. Tom later went to court and was found guilty. After some prison time Tom Robinson tried leaving and got caught. The guards warned him to stop but he kept running. The guards shot him 16 times in the

Boo lives very close to the finch family. Boo might not seem like a nice person in the first place, because the finch kids make up horrific stories about him. For example, “Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that’s why his hands were blood-stained–if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten, his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time.”(Lee). He really respects children and isn’t the bad guy that people make him out to be. Boo Radley saves Jem and Scout by stabbing Mr. Ewell with a knife. Atticus didn’t want to put Boo in the spotlight because he was such a private person. Scout ends up helping Boo back to his house, but makes it look like Boo was helping