Examples Of Reality In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Fantasy or Reality? “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy..but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” A mockingbird sings for the sake of singing, and a child contains happiness and innocence. However, a mockingbird's song dies as easily as a child’s innocence. In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Scout and Jem are seen as innocent children, playing in their front yard, living in their own fantasies where everything is perfect. However through the events including the court of Tom Robinson’s case, and Bob Ewell's horrific anger towards anyone who was at the courthouse takes Scout and Jem out of their fantasy world into the real world, where good doesn’t always…show more content…
When Aunt Alexandra came into the Finch house, she introduced social prejudice. Aunt Alexandra forced Atticus to tell Scout that “you are not from run-of-the-mill people, that you should try to live up to your name-”(133) Scout and Jem were so shocked that they didn’t talk to him until later. This unsettled Scout and Jem because he was basically telling them to act like someone they were not. Aunt Alexandra also wanted to change Scout’s behavior to be more like what society thought girls should be. Aunt Alexandra also showed social prejudice by telling Scout that she couldn’t play with Walter Cunningham “Because-he-is-trash, that’s why you can play with him”(225). This act of prejudice hits harder on Scout because Atticus didn’t say anything about it. The result of all of these actions resulted Scout believing that she was better than other people because she was a Finch. When Walter Cunningham came over to eat, Scout exclaimed “He ain’t company, Cal, he’s just a Cunningham.”(24). In the future, even when Aunt Alexandra leaves to go back to her original home, the Finch household will not follow the prejudice rules of Aunt Alexandra, but Scout and Jem have realized that this is what most of society thinks, and therefore more innocence is lost by the prejudice acts performed by Aunt
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