“Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.”-Tony Blair. In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch realized this very truth. When someone approached Atticus about defending a black man named Tom Robinson, Atticus had a serious decision to make. MayElla Ewell recently accused Tom of raping her, and Atticus would have to prove otherwise. In this time, white people thought of black people as lower than them and did not treat them fairly. Atticus
Through To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee teaches us the righteousness of empathy. Harper Lee's technique of writing with Christian beliefs weaved through emphasizes the story's moral. It is through Scout, the young dynamic and protagonist, that Lee opens the reader's eyes to a realistic world of prejudice and inequality during the 1930s. While narrating in first person, Lee further details her novel with the setting and use of style and diction. Though introducing many characters throughout the
The only neighbor who puzzles them is the mysterious Arthur Radley, nicknamed Boo, who never comes outside. When Dill, another neighbor's nephew, starts spending summers in Maycomb, the three children begin an obsessive — and sometimes perilous — quest to lure Boo outside. Scout is a tomboy who prefers the company of boys and generally solves her differences with her fists. She tries to make sense of a world that demands that she act like a lady, a brother who criticizes her for acting like a girl
In To Kill A Mocking Bird my initial impression of Scout is that she is a very smart young girl and tries to be as much like her brother as possible but doesn’t understand that people live and do things in other ways and differently then she might. When Water was invited to their house he had asked for molasses and “drowned his dinner in syrup” when Scout made a fuss about this Calpurnia requested to speak with her in private she told Scout “There’s some folks who don’t eat like us”. (27) Scout did
In To Kill a Mockingbird Scout is a very important character. Scout impacts our story by, being the narrator. She also has a fierce disposition toward anyone who challenges her, but at heart she believes in the goodness of people. Scout reacts to the terrible events of the book without losing hope in humanity. Scout is a very complex character. A few of her characteristics are, being sensitive, Intelligent, and caring. Of the many characteristics that scout poses, the first one I would like to describe
captivating narrator who compels the reader to listen to the story through her personality. While using narration, dialogue and settings in the story To Kill a Mockingbird (TKAM), by Harper Lee, Scout’s courageous, touchy, and rather inquisitive nature was unraveled in an inventive and undercover way. In order to adequately understand Scout as a character, the reader must look deeper to look into her mind instead of skimming the first layer. “‘You never really know a person until you consider things from
I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I am on page 42. So far this book is about a young girl named Scout who has many adventures with her older brother Jem and their friend Dill. She is just starting school, a first grader, who has some run-ins with her teacher and other classmates. Jem and Scout have had a lifetime fear of a man named Boo Radley, a creep and a malevolent man who has made many crimes in their hometown of Maycomb. I will be using the reading strategies predict and
is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway” (Chp 11, 112). In the novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, Lee displays courage through the actions of Atticus, Heck Tate, and Scout. Of those three characters, each of them portray “true courage” as courage is one of the most dominant theme in the book. Many people believe that courage is being brave or persevering through hard times. However
After examining Harper Lee’s life and times, the reader can gain a richer understanding of her book To Kill A Mockingbird. In “Big Bird”, an article by the magazine New Yorker, Thomas Mallon states that Harper Lee was not your model lawyer, as her “lack of polish struck some as ill-suited to the judicial-decorum” (Big Bird 2). Many people and websites have linked Scout Finch to being Harper Lee, which is shown in Scout’s inability to be a follow rules and be a ‘proper lady’. Scout is constantly pestered
Using symbolism in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee emphasizes justice, morality, and ethics through the characters Tom Robinson, Boo Radley, And The white snowman. Tom Robinson, a character in To Kill a Mockingbird, portrays injustice through Scouts eyes. Scouts father, Atticus Finch, becomes Tom Robinson’s lawyer. Tom Robinson, along with some of his friends, are caught up in a rape trial that they did not commit. Throughout the trial, Scout comes to realize the hypocrisy and racism