Throughout the novel‚ Scout starts out as an ignorant boyish girl. She had no knowledge of the world and relied on her brother. At the end of the novel‚ she becomes more ladylike and less selfish. The lessons she learns are all in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. One of them is to judge a person‚ you have to look at things from their point of view. At the beginning of the novel‚ Scout turns out to be very rude and stubborn. She couldn’t tell who company was and who company wasn’t. She tells
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Adversity forces us as humans to reevaluate ourselves and also pushes us to limits that we would never have found. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ the protagonist Scout endures hardships and through the experiences‚ discovers what she stands for and who she is. Similarly‚ Mahatma Gandhi discovers his role in society and his morals through the adversities in South America. Lastly‚ in the book Brave New World‚ the hardships of the protagonist Bernard Marx causes him to identify himself based on
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Eric Reyzelman Mr. Brown-Davis English 1 9/3/15 Atticus Finch Paragraph In “To Kill A Mockingbird‚” by Harper Lee‚ Atticus Finch is a moral man because he sets good examples for his children because he portrays a leading figure by using his words‚ not fists‚ not judging a person until you get to understand who they are‚ and being able to get along with just about anyone. Atticus believed in fighting with words‚ not fists. “Hold your head high and keep those fists down”(Lee 76)‚ as the
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Bravery A theme used often in To Kill A Mockingbird is‚ bravery. At some point in the novel‚ most characters showed some form of bravery. Everyone needs to be brave. Bravery is very important; and is a topic that should be covered. Below‚ are examples of bravery shown in To Kill A Mockingbird. The first example of bravery shown in To Kill A Mockingbird is‚ when Atticus sits in front of the jail to protect Tom (Lee 151). He was brave to sit there‚ knowing he could be approached by groups
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In To Kill A Mockingbird there are a lot of coming of age moments‚ but the most powerful and emotional coming of age moment has to be in the last chapter of the book. In the very last chapter coming of age is shown very well. By having Scout be so nice and trusting of Boo. By Boo saving her’s and her brother’s life she now has a newfound respect for Boo and knows he can be trusted. She holds his hand because she knows he is very scared and nervous. Scout brings Boo upstairs to say goodnight to Jem
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Atticus guides his children through the ropes of life within their relationship. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ Atticus instructs his children many things over the tight relationship they have together. Many things occurred in this book‚ some of which revolved around the Tom Robinson court case. Although Jem and Scout were young‚ they attended the court case and took quite a bit from it. Atticus was the defending lawyer and he had explained the court system with Jem and Scout briefly prior
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To Kill A Mockingbird Essay “You never understand a person until you consider things from their point of view.”- Atticus. The subject of innocence is displayed by a mockingbird in the book‚”To Kill A Mockingbird‚” by Harper Lee. In the slow‚ old town of Maycomb during the 1930’s‚ (Great Depression)‚ racism is a great issue and is attemped to be stopped but the ways will continue no matter what. To kill a mockingbird represents the destruction of innocence in the story. This is shown through Tom
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Carol starts out in The Walking Dead‚ a popular TV show‚ as soft-spoken and defenseless. She is abused by her husband‚ Ed‚ who eventually dies from being bitten by a zombie. Carol’s daughter‚ Sophia‚ is also soft-spoken‚ fearful‚ and defenseless like her mother‚ which is the cause of her turning into a zombie and eventually being killed. After Ed and Sophia died‚ Carol became independent and realistic. She knows that the world is a cruel place and must survive any way possible. Memory Carol from
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"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 bloodstained -- 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 13). That was how the children described Boo Radley in the beginning of the novel‚ they thought he was a frightening phantom
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In the novel ’To Kill a Mockingbird’‚ the most paramount out of the large variety of themes and is explored through human’s moral nature‚ is Good and Evil. The book is able to approach this statement by using the innocence of Scout and Jem’s childhood‚ in which they have not yet experienced the truth of the world. They are shown to assume that good people are like that since they have never witnessed evil and as soon as they have experienced it‚ they’re completely vulnerable to turn evil as the innocence
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