To Kill A Mockingbird Persuasive Research Paper

Basic Persuasive Essay
“To Kill a Mockingbird”

The Golden Rule states, “Treat others as you would have them treat you”. In the book “To Kill a Mockingbird”, a boy named Jem failed to apply this rule to his own circumstances.

Over a couple of weeks Jem had been harassed by an old woman called Mrs. Dubose. Jem had remained calm and had proceeded for weeks to ignore her, however, on one day she insulted his father Atticus for defending in court a negro man named Tom Robinson. This insult outraged Jem, and on that day he returned to Mrs. Dubose’s house and cut the heads of her roses.

Everyone agrees that Mrs. Dubose did bluntly disgrace Jem’s father, however they disagree upon the subject of whether jem should have rudely retaliated upon her. Jem should not have cut Mrs. Dubose’s roses for three reasons: Mrs. Dubose’s circumstances, Jem’s foolish actions, and the results of kinder actions.
Dubose’s roses is because of Mrs. Dubose’s circumstances. Mrs. Dubose was equally as old as she was sick. When a person is ill they tend to be irritable, or they try to make other people’s situations harder to make themselves feel better about their own situations. This most likely was the case with Mrs. Dubose, not only was she ill and elderly, she was lonely. While harassing young children does not sound like a productive way to make friends, being lonely as she was, perhaps Mrs. Dubose simply did not know how to make