“The defendant is not guilty‚ but somebody in this room is” (Lee 271). Atticus‚ in his closing argument‚ attempts to convey that Tom Robinson is innocent‚ and the Ewell’s have done a wrong deed. In To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee demonstrates the theme of treating and respecting everyone as an individual in Atticus’s closing argument by using rhetorical devices such as repetition‚ analogies‚ and allusions. Lee puts repetition into practice multiple times throughout Atticus’s closing argument to
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Have you ever been in a situation where your philosophies were contested against someone else’s? In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ Atticus Finch often deals with situations like this. Atticus is a very diligent lawyer and an honorable citizen who sets a great example to both his children and the community as a whole. He has two loving children Jean Louise (Scout)‚ and Jeremey‚ whom he had with his late wife who unfortunately passed away back when they were young. They live in a small
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We all need to grow up someday to continue life. To Kill a Mockingbird shows coming of age experiences as an enormous part of this novel. It shows how things cause situations and feelings‚ how young adults face the reality of first-hand conflicts‚ and how these situations affect them. Scout and Jem undergo conditions to help them mature in the book. The encounters help them bloom throughout the novel with noticing the components and point of views involved in the situation. To begin with‚ the
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To Kill a Mockingbird “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.” said Miss Maudie to her six year old neighbor‚ Scout. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ killing a mockingbird is a symbol of the destruction of innocence. To Kill a Mockingbird is a memorable novel in American literature history. You
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Racism and discrimination often steps in between righteousness and justice‚ causing wrong to become right. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee‚ A lawyer by the name of Atticus Finch is asked to defend a black man by the name of Tom Robinson who is accused of raping a white woman named Mayella Ewell. She lives with her father Bob Ewell and several children near the dumps of Maycomb. The Ewells are often seen as savages. It doesn’t make sense for Atticus to defend Tom Robinson‚ he should
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Goals‚ Problems‚ or Responsibility? Harper Lee explores the story of two young children learning to become adults through all of their struggles in her historical fiction novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird. With the opportunity to be able to learn to transition into adulthood from childhood‚ it brings many blessings but also many curses. Becoming an adult from an innocent child comes from many key components. The pieces of the puzzle for how children are taught to move from their innocent child-like state
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“Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet‚ and‚ hopefully‚ we shall overcome”- Rosa Parks. This quote means that racism is always going to be in the world so you are just going to have to overcome it and get ready to deal with it. Children are going to have to prepare for it because it will affect them too. It is still happening today. I believe racism in To Kill A Mocking Bird should not be Important in society because skin color does not matter
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I will present some facts and quotes from informational sources that will prove how people are really the ones to blame. To discuss who or what was wrongly accused? Is to get to the bottom and find the evidence base on facts. Highlighting 2 informational articles‚ and the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee in chapter 20 of Atticus speech of what the jury should do. Let’s start with Atticus’s speech and why he was describing the facts and statements of Tom’s innocence. Atticus starts off
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Moshe Bensalmon December 15‚ 2014 To Kill a Mockingbird Essay Test In To Kill a Mockingbird‚ the author‚ Harper Lee‚ uses Atticus to teach the reader a lesson. One of these lessons is that ‘most people are finally good when you finally see them’. The characters that the book focuses on with regards to this lesson are Bob Ewell‚ Mayella Ewell and Aunt Alexandra. Atticus keeps telling
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some feminine influence in their lives. Scout knows that Alexander usually dictates what she wants upon the family‚ and uses the term the family decided to make her an even greater point of authority in the Finch family. Usually her dictations give her chances to impress her views on others or increase the family name and work towards the ideal family that she envisions. Examples of her tyranny include the time she made Atticus attempt to impress on the children the facts of life and how she forced
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