of maturity. People mature in different ways‚ but one thing is consistent with everyone: we all must mature at some point. This usually comes with age; it is learned from others‚ sometimes within ourselves. Scout Finch‚ from Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird‚ matures as a result of developing empathy‚ seeing the perspectives of others‚ and acknowledging ambiguity. Over the course of the novel‚ Scout matures as a result of developing empathy‚ despite
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person‚ as an adult could be crueler than a child. As we grow‚ our deportment is deeply affected by the people around us. If in the right kind of environment‚ one can establish a rectified set of moral values in the process of growing up. In To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee demonstrates through characters of various background that maturation can lead one to develop just morals if he or she is exposed to the right type of environment. Scout and Jem Finch are able to develop a sense of empathy‚ selflessness
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We all have a point in life where we go through many stages of growing up and realizing that all things don’t come easy‚ and sometimes even though you know it’s the right thing it still doesn’t happen to be what you thought. In the book “To Kill a Mockingbird”‚ the young girl scout experiences this throughout the whole book and learns that innocent people are sometimes destroyed by evil. She is just a young girl finally noticing the real world‚ and how you don’t know anything until you’re in it’s
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lee uses metaphors to inflict emotions in the readers. An example of an metaphor is when Harper Lee says “Shoot all the blue jays you want‚ if you can hit ‘em‚ but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird. ( Line 17).” The metaphor is explaining that “apparently” it’s a big mistake‚ against your beliefs to kill a mocking bird. It seems as though that these birds a secrete untouchable. It makes you feel as though they are pure. The metaphor mocking bird is
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Running When Threatened In the opening scene of the Academy Award winning film “Fiddler on the Roof‚” Tevye‚ an orthodox Russian Jew‚ shimmies and bellows about tradition as he lays out the familial roles of every person in the town of Anatevka. Tevye embraces these defined roles‚ content to adhere to the status quo‚ until his daughters grow up and feel the pull of modernism. At this point‚ torn between his family and his customs‚ Tevye decides to let his children do what they believe is right
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In the novel ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee‚ learning to “walk about in someone’s skin” is a main theme‚ particularly as two of the main protagonists Jem and Scout learn to do this as they grow up throughout the book along with the reader. Atticus‚ the children’s father‚ educates the children on how to treat and comprehend other people. As Jem and Scout grow older in the novel‚ they begin to understand this lesson and act upon it both knowingly and sub-consciously. Scout empathises with
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To Kill a Mockingbird Exam 1 1. Boo Radley is Mr. Radley’s son and he lives on Jem’s street. His name is Arthur and he is described as the town’s phantom who only comes out at night. Boo joins the bad crowd and he resists arrest and helps his friends lock an officer in the courthouse outhouse. His father locks him up in their house as a punishment for Boo instead of him going to the state industrial school. Boo Radley has not been seen for fifteen years‚ but after he stabs his father with
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To Kill a Mockingbird‚ written by Harper Lee‚ explores how courage can be shown in multiple important characters during the novel. These characters include Mrs Dubose‚ Atticus‚ Jem and Maycomb County itself. Harper Lee cleverly depicted several forms of courage during the novel such as childish courage‚ moral courage. The first highly important character in the novel known for her split personality and great moral courage is Mrs Dubose. She was a morphine addict and was addicted to morphine
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story of To Kill a Mockingbird. Tom Robinson is prejudiced against because he is black and so even though he didn’t commit the crime he was accused of he was still sentenced for it. Even with the evidence they had supporting that Tom didn’t do it. Boo Radley is a suitable example of appearances not always reflecting reality. This is because all this time he was locked up in his house he was thought to be a real weirdo. The people of Maycomb‚ especially the kids‚ have their own ideas about Boo. Jem
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Americans were racist to the Minorities. Although racism was common in the 1900’s it is now frowned upon and not very common at all. Minorities are now not rejected in today’s world‚ and are accepted like any other person. Racism in “To Kill A Mockingbird” is very common‚ and it is an important part in the story. Racism is shown by the Caucasian’s in Maycomb against the African-Americans in many different ways like when the jury convicts Tom Robinson guilty of raping Mayella Ewell. The details
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