To Kill A Mockingbird Passage Analysis

In To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem demonstrates moral growth by understanding the way society works. Boo Radley never wants to come outside of his house, but then he starts to realize that Jem and Scout are in danger, and also that the community he lives in is never going change. After that he decides to come outside and to come to the kids’ rescue. Jem says, “Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time... it's because he wants to stay inside."(Pg. 259) Here, Jem realizes there is not one reason that stops Boo from coming outside, it is just because he wants to. This passage sticks out to one because one of the main characters has an aha moment
I knowed the treatment at that time, but we wasn’t allowed to say a word.” This helps readers better understand Boo Radley. He may have had a voice on society, but he was to afraid to use his voice. Both these authors explain how very little people in this time and place had a voice which could explain the behavior of people.

Just like in To Kill A Mockingbird, the character Park in Eleanor and Park also demonstrates moral growth by putting himself in others shoes and understanding the way others may feel. When Eleanor first moves to her new school, everybody judges her because of the way that she looks. People continue to judge her even though they never gave her a chance or try to get to know her. Rainbow Rowell writes, “The girl just looked like exactly the sort of person this would happen to. Not just new -- but big and awkward. With crazy hair, bright red on top of curly. And she dressed like...she wanted people to look at her. Or maybe she did not get what a mess was. She had on a plaid shirt, a man’s shirt, with half a dozen weird necklaces hanging around her neck and scarves wrapped around her wrists. She reminded Park of a scarecrow or
When Mariam died, she died knowing that the world is not such a bad place. The Author of A Thousand Splendid Suns said, “She thought of her entry into this world, the haramichild of a lowly villager A weed. And yet she leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back”. Here, Khaled Hosseini shows how Mariam had a happy ending for herself and learned/experienced the word a way she never thought she could, “She was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved”. This passage shows importance because it showed Mariams happy ending. Mariam had a hard life and had to overcome obstacles that most people did not. It also wraps up Mariams development as a character and a person. Khaled Hosseini wants the readers to know, what does not kill one, makes one stronger. In the end Mariam died happy and that is what mattered. Reading the beginning of the book people would never think Mariam would end up happy in the end but in a way she was. In the article, H. J. Williams Recalls Lynching in Yazoo County, Mississippi, H.J Williams says, “Oh yeah, they had some lynchings. Yeah. Sure.”, H.J. Williams approach seems like lynching is not a big deal, but it is. It is where someone gets punished brutally. People would come around and watch as if it were an