...Racism, is it still with the culture or not? Well that is very conversational topic. It depends who a person is and they come from. A caucasian would view it differently than a african american or an asian would.There all different views. Well something that helps comprehend this is To Kill a Mockingbird (TKAM). Is it still helping in today’s culture? Yes, To Kill a Mockingbird is still culturally relevant to today's society. In TKAM Tom is ruled guilty because the white people hated their neighbors, black people. It was a hate crime that called an innocent man guilty. Well that seems like our government would have fixed that by now, and that answer is incorrect. In a study in 2016 they found that “Hate crimes are motivated by race more than...
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...others. They make a valuable point to remember to keep an open mind and not be judgmental when showing compassion in, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee, and Mark Twain in, The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn. The authors use compassion in different ways by using compassion in different plots and presenting their opinion of compassion throughout their novels. We often find ourselves chasing after the ‘American Dream’, and lose our morals by doing so, such as compassion. Compassion comes from the heart, because compassion is supposed to be an emotion felt within ourselves. Our society has been caviling others about the clothes they wear, how much they weigh, how much money you...
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...To Kill a Mockingbird and A Time to Kill Assignment In the book To Kill a Mockingbird and the movie A Time to Kill both final court speech is similar and different at the same time. Both speeches are excellent in their own ways to try and win the court case and here would be some reason why both final court speeches are similar and different. Something the speeches both have in common is that they relate to a rape case and try to prove a black person's innocent. In TKAM Atticus the lawyer of the defendant, Tom Robinson tries to prove that he did not rape Mayella Ewell and Tom is black. Like TKAM the movie ATTK there was a rape case involving two racist white men raping a black girl and the father is being held on a trail after killing the two men who assaulted her daughter. Although they sound the same the difference in being the context of the rape. In the book Tom a black man was accused for...
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...Do The Right Thing As Theodore Roosevelt once said “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is to do the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” Roosevelt’s quote explains that it it best to do the right thing and it is the worst possible outcome to do the easiest thing, nothing at all. This quote can be implemented greatly in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird(TKAM). Harper Lee's TKAM is a novel based in the 1930s and covers everything from a biased trial to a few kids, Scout, Jem, and Dill, observing all that takes place in the small town of Maycomb. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows that one should do the right thing and not the easy thing through the image of Atticus, Tom, and Bob attacking the kids....
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...Monstrosity and heroism are extremely complex matters as both are in the human nature, and one cannot be without the other. Although most people have a definition for hero and one for monster, and they think the two terms are always clearly distinct, that is never the case. Monstrosity and heroism are not clear cut, as authors like Mary Shelley and Harper Lee have tries to convey. In her novel Frankenstein, Shelley tells a story of a man who, in his dangerous pursue of knowledge, creates a being that will lead his life to ruin. Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is a bildungsroman narrated by a girl whose father attempts to challenge their racist society by defending a black man in court. These two stories discuss heroism and monstrosity through the ordinary heroism of a monster, the courage of those disapproved by society (Atticus and Boo Radley), the behaviour of Victor, a character that initially appears to be benevolent. The theme of heroism is little evident in Frankenstein. The being that is also monstrous is one of the most heroic characters in the novel, for he is, until a certain point in his life, an ordinary hero. One can note such ordinary heroism in the help he constantly provides the cottagers: “(…) during the night, I (…) brought home firing sufficient for the consumption of several days” (Shelley 82). Although what he does is not extremely significant in the eyes of an outsider, the creature provides help in the best way he can, and his help does have a positive impact...
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...bouraghda assia llcer l1 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD : the family and social values To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee might be the greatest novel of the 20th century. The story puts the finger on family and social values that has made it appealing to all generations of readers. The narrator uses the small town of Maycomb and the Finch family as the basis of her story for describing family values. "Maycomb was an old town, but it was an old tired town when i first knew it" p.5 Nearly all the families in TKAM are atypical, even if the Finch seems to be the most normal in the novel. in fact Atticu's family is still unusual: it is a single-parent family and his children call him by his first name. Harper Lee uses the 1st person narrative to put the reader in the shoes of Scout, a tomboy daughter of Atticus Finch. Scout is an intellingent and neither She nor her brother Jem have any close friends, but only Dill who comes to visit each summer. Atticus is one of the only parents that takes time with his children. Him and Scout would read everyday for example. the only motherly touch in the house comes from Calpurnia, the african american housekeeper. Nevertheless, the Finch serves as role models I mean The novel traces the life of Scout, her brother Jem and Atticus over many years. Meanwhile, Harper Lee uses great descriptors and try to show the values of the other dysfunctional families found in Maycomb: The Ewells are "the disgrace of Maycomb for three generations" in...
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...Maycomb County is an oxymoron. It is connected by racist views but divided because some people did not believe in racism. In the movie, “To Kill a Mockingbird’, the absence of important scenes, key characters and subtle details that were found in the book minimize the extreme views of the racists in Maycomb County Society. The missing elements minimize racism, conceal sexism, and suppress the importance of the Southern aristocracy. In “TKAM”, the absence of the Finch Landing Christmas scene eliminates a significant aspect to the racism displayed in Maycomb County. A moviegoer is shortchanged because “TKAM” does not show the intensity of the racism during that time. In TKAM, Aunt Alexandra, Atticus’s sister, is hosting everyone for Christmas including her grandson Francis. During the gathering, Francis shouts at Scout, “He’s nothin’ but a...
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...TKAM Literary Analysis Inequality and prejudice plays what I believe is the most important role in the story To Kill a Mockingbird. Events such as Tom Robinsons trial emphasize this point. Also points such as the game Scout and Jem conjured up to be about Boo Radley’s life. Some points of the book where Aunt Alexandra talks about others as if they are less than them shows that she is basically the living embodiment of racial and social discrimination. These all show the strong tension between the people of Maycomb and those who they believe are different. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee emphasizes the theme of inequality and prejudice through metaphors, tone and characterization. My first piece of evidence to support the theme of prejudice in the town of Maycomb is when Aunt Alexandra was talking to scout about inviting Walter Cunningham (Jr.) over for dinner and Scout is complaining why Aunt Alexandra wont let her play with him and she says, “I’ll tell you why…Because—he—is—trash, that’s why you cant play with him.” This is an example of a metaphor used to describe that Walter is “Worse than them” essentially. This supports the theme of inequality by showing that Aunt Alexandra doesn’t want Scout playing with Walter because she believes they are in some sort of higher “social class”. For my second piece of evidence I have another quote from Aunt Alexandra. This time she is speaking with Atticus about getting rid of Calpurnia because she is black. The quote...
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...Why is it that society is self centered? People always accumulate themselves as the right individual during conflict. They never consume the information being presented in front of them. This is also the main reason why racism is highly prevalent within society. The novel, ¨To Kill a Mockingbird,¨ that was well written by the author, ¨Harper Lee,¨ accurately demonstrated how people easily lose their sense of empathy and become very prejudice. Within Tkam, empathy is greatly influence through the characters Atticus, Scout, and Dolphus Raymond by including the primary issue of racism and how it affected them within their home town, Maycomb County. First and foremost, In the novel, ¨To Kill a Mockingbird,¨ empathy is first presented by the character,...
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...Galvez, Steven January 16, 2013 English TKaM Essay: Courage Harper Lee’s To kill a Mockingbird is an American classis based on the author’s childhood. In this book 3 children portray 1 character, Boo Radely, as a “malevolent phantom”, a monster and also an inferior. These 3 children, Scout, Dill and Jem, essentially treat Boo as if he weren’t human, just like Maycomb treats Tom Robinson, a black man wrongly accused of rape. The kids and the town of Maycomb act on the same social level, treating Boo and Tom essentially the same way. A malevolent phantom, a monster, and his own name describes the prejudice these children felt against Boo, but the kids were naive and young and there image of Boo was only based on a game and silly stories. Their “game” was based on the false pretense that Boo was a frightening creature and the whole idea was to lure Boo to come out of his home. Unknowingly they did accomplish this goal. Once Boo left treats for Jem and Scout in a knothole of an oak tree. Again Boo came out during the cold night when Miss Maudie’s house burned down and secretly covered scout with a blanket. Even if Boo enjoyed the kids’ presence the children thought otherwise. Maycomb had the same feelings about Tom Robinson. When Tom testified he humbly said that he felt sorry for Mayella, but Mr. Gilmer, angered and frustrated, replied “you felt sorry for her, you felt sorry for her?” (Lee, pg. 200). He was implying that no black man or woman can feel sympathy for a superior...
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...To Kill A Mockingbird Essay “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” Being compassionate is understanding someone and their needs, and being sensitive is more about yourself personally . Scout is a really smart girl who we learn is joyful and caring in the beginning, but as the book goes on, she sees the tough life of growing up in a racist community and the problems that come along with it. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout demonstrates sensitivity and compassion towards other people. she feels like everyone should be treated equally which she learned from her father Atticus, and she puts others first. Scout wants to give to others even if sometimes she can't. Scout shows compassion and sensitivity because she wants everyone to be treated equally. Scout wanted to play with Walter but Aunt Alexandra didn’t let her. “‘But I want to play with Walter, Aunty, why can’t I?’ She took off her glasses and stared at me. ‘I’ll tell you why,’ she said, ‘Because- he – is – trash, that’s why you can’t play with him. I’ll not have you around him, picking up his habits and learning Lord-knows-what. You’re enough of a problem to your father as it is.” (Lee 227) Aunt Alexandra obviously doesn't want scout associating herself with Walter, she thinks Walter is below everyone else because his family is poor. Scout doesn't care about his social class .Scout knows the only reason she can’t hang out with Walter is because of his social class; She wished that...
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...Brianna Robinson 4/27/12 TKAM essay Have you ever witnessed someone playing two characters? They have one side or their face and body looking like one character, and the other side looks like the other character. Atticus finch is this type of character. Atticus has a significant role in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper lee, because he is lawyer and member of the country legislature, he struggles with pressures, and he teaches his children to care about education, shows bravery, and to be accepting of other. The first reason Atticus has a significant role is because he is a lawyer and a member of the country legislature. For example, he takes the trial of Tom Robinson. Atticus states, “if I didn’t I couldn’t hold up my head in town. I couldn’t even tell you or Jem not to do something” (Lee, 75). Atticus is stating that he took the case because he wants to show his kids and everyone else that everyone is the same, it does not matter what color a person may appear. Another reason, the people in town respect him. Scout says, “They were standing. All around us and in the balcony on the opposite wall, Negroes were getting to their feet” (Lee, 211). This moment shows respect because the Negro citizens appreciate the hard work that Atticus has put in defending the blacks, even though he knows that the result of the trial would not be in his favoritism. The second reason Atticus has a significant role in the novel is because he struggles with pressure. For instance Mr...
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...Could you ever live with yourself if you accused someone who was innocent? A novel called To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is about two kids Jem and Scout who have to deal with their town’s controversial beliefs. These two begin to realize how their society can treat different people so unfair and horrible. Throughout the novel you will see how one of characters Bob Ewell can be so detestable. One of the examples how Mr. Ewell is detestable was when Mayella was being questioned. During her testimony she almost let out a confidential secret, Mayella had said “He is tollable,’cept when ---” the author added that quote to let us know that Bob treats her horrendously. As a matter a fact Atticus asked her “When he’s----riled, has he ever beaten...
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...Science is always the determining factor in today’s society. People always don’t agree with science because it goes agianst their religion or family. In Harper Lee’s book “To Kill a Mockingbird”, we see that there is a “mob mentality” in groups of people and science sees that a child cannot distract a group from a revolt or a parade. Lee’s perspective about mob mentality is different from James and Giddings because she believes that a child can distract people in a mob. She claims that a child can be innocent, a child can make connections with someone, and change a person perspective. In TKAM, Harper Lee uses Scout as an innocent person. During the story, Scout is cought sneaking around town and Atticus catches her. When she is talking to her dad about the situation reconizes someone in the croud. She proceeds to talk to Mr. Cunningham (the person se spotted) about entaitalments and how they are bad. On page 205, “and he does right well. He’s a good boy”, (Lee 205), over time Mr.Cunningham relizes that he has a relationship with her dad and doesnt want to ruin it. This supports it because Dr. Wendy James said, “Riots are by definition violent in nature.” (James 123), she says that no-one can stop a riot. Where as Harper Lee goes agiant that theory....
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