Through their actions, Boo Radley, Atticus Finch, and Tom Robinson epitomize one of the three themes-justice, morality, and ethics- Harper Lee addresses in To Kill a Mockingbird. Tom Robinson displays in the book the actions he took to become ethical. Boo Radley shows us how he insures justice to the Finch children and Tom Robinson’s family. Atticus Finch’s morals are what holds the town intact. Each of these characters conveys his/her own theme. First, Boo Radley has been treated
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First, I will be talking about Atticus and two adjectives that describe him. My first adjective is adamant. Atticus is very adamant about his kids going to church and it didn’t really matter what kind of church. Cal took Jem and Scout to “her church” which was a totally a black community. Aunt Alexandra did not like the fact that they were going to a church with all black people but Atticus didn’t mind. Another reason how Atticus is adamant is that when aunt Alexandra tries to get rid of Cal that
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"Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope” (National Legal Aid & Defender Association). To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee follows Scout, a young girl growing up in the middle of The Great Depression and seeing an incredible amount of injustice in her southern town. During this time period, segregation was still legal and the US was even deeper immersed in racism than it is today. Justice rivals
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One of the most crucial lessons that Calpurnia taught Scout was how to write. In chapter two, Scout says, “She would set me a writing task by scrawling the alphabet firmly across the top of a tablet, then copying out a chapter of the Bible beneath” (Lee 18). In this quote, Scout explains how Calpurnia taught her how to write by having her copying chapters from the Bible and writing the alphabet. The fact that she can write, causes Scout to stand out because during her first week of school, her teacher
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In To Kill A Mockingbird, a novel by Harper Lee, Walter Cunningham is a farm-savvy young pauper who has high morals, and is friends and classmates with the protagonist, Scout. After school one day, Jem and Scout invite Walter over for a meal at their home. Walter, at first, rejects their invitation, but then as Scout and Jem walk home, Walter reluctantly gives in to the temptation of getting to eat a delicious warm meal. While being served food, to the amazement of both of the Jem and Scout, Walter
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In to kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee the main character Scout is a young girl in 1993 Alabama. Her father, Atticus Finch, is a successful lawyer defending a black man accused of rape. Scout’s brother, Jeremy Finch, who is four years her senior is her companion throughout the story. The main idea of this story would about scout losing her innocence. In the first chapter of this story Scout recalls the summer when her brother broke his arm and she looks bad at the incidents that lead up to the
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"To kill a mockingbird is to destroy innocence". In Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout narrates the story in first person point of view. The novel shows how growing up in times of depression, racism, and poverty can change an individual or even a society. The story takes places in Maycomb County. The time is set in the early 1930s where poverty and racism plays a major roll in the United States. The tone of the story is very serious and shows the reader a piece of reality.
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Many are afraid to approach such intense topics, such as racism, classism, prejudice, or discrimination. But Harper Lee was not. She addressed issues that nobody else would and helped people see them in a new light. Harper Lee absolutely showed the conflict of racism in To Kill a Mockingbird, through the characters of Tom Robinson, Calpurnia, and Mr. Dolphus Raymond. Harper Lee absolutely showed racism through her characters. One of those being Tom Robinson. Tom was an innocent black man, who
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in front of the jail on a cool August night simply by appealing to the Lyncher’s sense of humanity. Scout states to Mr. Cunningham, “You brought us some hickory nuts one time, remember?” and, “I go to school with Walter, He’s your boy, ain’t he?” (Lee 205). This proves that Scout can calm anyone, even an angry mob out for blood, by talking about Mr. Cunningham’s child, and the nice things he has done for her, making him remember who he really is. In addition, Scout
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they work together, they could accomplish so much more and make something extraordinary. This is the same as the dirt and snow working together towards the outcome of a snowman. “Jem, I ain’t ever heard of a nigger snowman”(Lee 89) and “Don’t you think this is kind of a mess?”(Lee 88) is what Scout, the narrator of the story, said as Jem began to make the snowman. Jem replied by saying “Looks messy now, but it
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