To Kill A Mocking Bird Research Paper
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In one of the best selling books of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee challenges preconceived ideas of that time period. One of her main focuses in the book is the topic, not to judge someone without being in their shoes first. Lee does an excellent job conveying her thoughts about this topic into her writing. To Kill a Mockingbird proves how bad it is to judge other people, if you have never been in their shoes.
Everyone has been lectured about bullying and judging people if you don't know them, but this book takes a whole new perspective on it. She creatively uses different characters and somehow brings it all together to make one united force against many different topics. Boo Radley is one of the biggest topics in …show more content…
Dubose was a morphine addict who vowed to herself that she would go clean before she died. Ms. Dubose is another huge example for this topic. “Mrs. Dubose lived two doors up the street from us; neighborhood opinion was unanimous that Mrs. Dubose was the meanest old woman who ever lived” ( Lee 35 ). Jem and Scout didn’t know this about her at first, so they assumed she was being rude on purpose. Her withdrawal from it was causing her to be angry and lash out. “So don’t let Mrs. Dubose get you down. She has enough troubles of her own” ( Lee 112 ). Ms Dubose has Jem read to her longer and longer each day. This helped her to keep off of it for longer each day. They had finally finished all the reading and time they had to spend with her, then she died a month later. “Mrs. Dubose was a morphine addict,” said Atticus. “She took it as a pain-killer for years. The doctor put her on it. She’d have spent the rest of her life on it and died without so much agony, but she was too contrary, she said she was going to leave this world beholden to nothing and nobody. Jem, when you’re sick as she was, it’s all right to take anything to make it easier, but it wasn’t all right for her. She said she meant to break herself of it before she died, and that’s what she did ( Lee 113
In one of the best selling books of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee challenges preconceived ideas of that time period. One of her main focuses in the book is the topic, not to judge someone without being in their shoes first. Lee does an excellent job conveying her thoughts about this topic into her writing. To Kill a Mockingbird proves how bad it is to judge other people, if you have never been in their shoes.
Everyone has been lectured about bullying and judging people if you don't know them, but this book takes a whole new perspective on it. She creatively uses different characters and somehow brings it all together to make one united force against many different topics. Boo Radley is one of the biggest topics in …show more content…
Dubose was a morphine addict who vowed to herself that she would go clean before she died. Ms. Dubose is another huge example for this topic. “Mrs. Dubose lived two doors up the street from us; neighborhood opinion was unanimous that Mrs. Dubose was the meanest old woman who ever lived” ( Lee 35 ). Jem and Scout didn’t know this about her at first, so they assumed she was being rude on purpose. Her withdrawal from it was causing her to be angry and lash out. “So don’t let Mrs. Dubose get you down. She has enough troubles of her own” ( Lee 112 ). Ms Dubose has Jem read to her longer and longer each day. This helped her to keep off of it for longer each day. They had finally finished all the reading and time they had to spend with her, then she died a month later. “Mrs. Dubose was a morphine addict,” said Atticus. “She took it as a pain-killer for years. The doctor put her on it. She’d have spent the rest of her life on it and died without so much agony, but she was too contrary, she said she was going to leave this world beholden to nothing and nobody. Jem, when you’re sick as she was, it’s all right to take anything to make it easier, but it wasn’t all right for her. She said she meant to break herself of it before she died, and that’s what she did ( Lee 113