True Argument In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

Harper Lee’s True Argument in “To Kill a Mockingbird” Do children truly know what real evil is when they see it? Can children be blinded by what is right in front of them? In Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”, there are multiple argumentative points of view people face when reading the story. Argumentative points may be if Atticus Finch is truly doing the right thing, or are the children in the story only afraid of who lives down the street or what people may do to their father. With Scout and Jem being too young to understand what their father really is doing, they believe that Boo Radley is the villain, but in the end they would soon find out what truly was evil. In Harper Lee’s “To Kill and Mockingbird”, she argues that children don’t

The book is set around the time of slavery and discrimination of different races. Tom Robinson, a slave, was working one night, when he was accused of raping his owner’s daughter, Mayella. Atticus Finch had dedicated his time and work to help Tom, and that’s what made people so angry. They were mad because a white man was helping a black man. In the end, readers find out that it was all a lie and that Mayella and her dad had lied, yet Tom had tried to escape prison when found guilty and was shot to death. The bigger problem was people wouldn’t accept that Atticus was just trying to bring the town peace and equality among races, and that he had hoped to bring harmony among everyone (Watson 1). More problems are itching at Atticus throughout the book, and his daughters actions are one of

A man who remains unknown until the end (Bob Ewell) attacks Jem and Scout because their father was helping the man who accusingly raped his daughter. Right when the attack gets the most intense, Boo Radley, the man the kids thought was so evil, saved their lives and killed Bob. This entire time the kids thought what they should be afraid of was Boo, but little did they know the people they thought were somewhat decent people were the true evil ones (Context, Ethics and Morality No Author 1). For the other kids in town, they probably went their entire lives without realizing that their parents were the evil ones. They were the ones who told them they should be afraid of black people, when really, they should be afraid of them. The title “To Kill a Mockingbird” can support the claim that children don’t know true evil, because according to Adam Storm, “In this story of innocents destroyed by evil, the ‘mockingbird’ comes to represent the idea of innocence. This, to kill a mockingbird is to destroy innocence” (Storm 1). What the children thought was evil, was clearly not