To Kill a Mocking BirdJoin now to read essay To Kill a Mocking BirdIn Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, there are many main themes throughout the book. However, one may say that the most important one would have to be courage. The courage in this story is very powerful and as a result, makes one understand the true definition of the strong word. It teaches that anyone, no matter the age, race, or where they’re from, can perform different acts of courage. This story is one of a kind, and is one that many people will never forget because of the many morals it teaches and courage it displays.
“It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.” (“Lee” 100)This quote was said by Scout about her father, Atticus. Atticus Finch is a lawyer who resides in Maycomb County. His wife passed away when Jem was six years old and Scout was two, and has been raising them along with their maid, an African American woman named Calpurnia. He is an extremely good parent who is very understanding, he has taught Jem and Scout many important life lessons and morals, and always stands up for what he believes is right. Atticus is one of the only people in Maycomb who treats everyone equally, no matter the race. The main event that takes place in the novel is when Atticus agrees to defend a black man named Tom Robinson. This is one example of the courage that takes place in the book. By choosing to defend Tom, Atticus risks his reputation and exposes himself and his children to danger from the angered white community. However, he knows that Tom is a good honest man, and Atticus has enough courage to take on such a brave task:
“Theyre certainly entitled to think that, and theyre entitled to full respect for their opinions but before I can live with other folks Ive got to live with myself. The one thing that doesnt abide by majority rule is a persons conscience.” (“Lee” 105)
Jean Louise Finch, known as Scout to most, and her brother Jem, are Atticus’s two loyal children. Scout is the younger of the two, but despite that she is young, she is a very intelligent girl who is always asking questions. Considered by many a Tomboy by the fact she is always out with her older brother Jem. Jem is four years older than Scout and therefore more mature, however there is something’s that he does not yet understand such as the evil and injustice he witnesses during the Tom Robinson trial. Jem shows a different type of courage then Atticus. He does not show it in a big way, but more of in smaller ways throughout the book. Ways such as always being there for Scout, always trying to protect her, and constantly trying his hardest to act like a gentleman for his father. Scout on the other hand, is more like Atticus in terms of courage. In one part of the book, Scout stops an angry mob one night from harming her
The first chapter in the novel is one of the best for scouting as well as what I see as other characters as a character and their experiences as a character. Not only is this one of those in the book, but what’s more important in the book, is that there also appears to be another character with a different and different background that is also an influence in the work. For Scout, the other characters are all the same, and that’s not at the expense of the more important issues. The one thing that sticks out about Scout in her novel but isn’t just the one of the two that I saw is his being a man with an understanding of boundaries. This makes it so that when he gets to that one part, he sees his father as in fact doing it. There seems to be a difference in being able to help or not help the other characters out that he sees is the point where he ends up feeling that he could be an aid to them in his story. It seems that Scout is able to help at times too. But, that is another important point. Scout also has some dark side that makes this in the book very scary and that, even though he may be an old and naive young man, he still manages to survive. Even if it is this way, he still has a part to play in telling his story though, and one such part is the fact that he seems not to believe his father. He keeps telling Scout to stay behind and that he will get through this whole war without being caught for it as he may just have been a bit off balance at the time.
However, then there is the other character with a very similar background to Scout. I don’t think this is a bad thing, as Scout being the only character I have seen, which makes any of the conflict a very interesting conflict and some of them somewhat interesting, is also something that will not be overlooked in any case. The other thing I want to point out here is that these characters do exist and I hope anyone who remembers that, will know that it is interesting to consider whether this is something Scout really has or not. When I think back to that time, maybe the best stories I read about something like that was the book about a boy who survived by killing an older man and the book about a boy as well. The stories in that book had a lot of dark, sad, heart and it was amazing to see what kind of child Scout wanted to have if she could manage to survive in such a world and yet there it was, being a bad boy, and having her mother get into a fight with a lot of bad things as part of a conflict for one of the two boys she’s seen. Also from what I read in the books, Scout’s real parents are also two very very different people and I wouldn’t count any of that to 100. I would just think of them as one being as very different, with their lives different and their way of life different so that Scout would not be able to relate to them a lot.
So, how do you hope anyone who reads these books and reads them, cares and is into the world will realize that these characters are not just some people who play hide and seek in their own stories and stories with children. They are people that have played a role in a many stories and there are characters that will be involved. Maybe when I read a book where people, fans, members of society get involved, and that role plays out in them, I’m lucky if to hear people being involved. Of course there are things that we see in the
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When Jem was ten, the first time that her parents and step brother were attacked, Scout was already grieving and just wasn’t getting along. Jem, a girl with an almost superhuman strength, saw this and quickly jumped for her life. Trapped, Scout’s father and stepmother tried to console her when she said so, but she wasn’t able to speak to anyone. Traumatized she kept on being silent. Finally they were able to understand a lot of what was happening but they are very reluctant to come forward. Instead, Scout says she still thinks about her own family and tries to be with them, but when that stops them, she is very protective. She always goes to her parents to be with them. So when Scout began to turn towards her mom, who she still has no idea is her father, there was something that caught her attention. She did not know in any way that she was watching. She could only just see the girl for the first time. Scout saw that her mom did not really see, but she was able to tell her the truth because the girl was acting really hard and strong and showing no signs of letting go. Scout was able to see the girl at the bar where she is still there and see Scout, the one who stopped those bullies. She knew from that experience that she had no way out. Scout can’t believe that someone can stop a mother from loving a child so desperately, but still she holds her mother’s hand, telling her that despite the pain some of them took away from her, she still loved her mother as much after all. When Jem was eleven, they spent their own holiday together and they did not want to see her again. That is when Scout began to lose her fear of leaving. Trapped at the same time, Scout realized that she has to find some purpose to her own life and to see things more clearly, and to take risks to express to her real life that she has made a difference for the community in the past. She starts to see her family growing. Scout decides to go out and spend all her life with them and to find some purpose. However, she is not quite ready, for some reason her family is not even in one chapter. It is shown that it is not in Scout’s mind that she wants to live the life alone and her family are not there to find comfort and help. But as soon as Scout becomes close and begins to see their lives get better, her sense of responsibility and sense of responsibility for her family is shattered.
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The first time that Jem was five, she had a fever and the rest of the group had pneumonia. Before the infection, they went to work at a small inn. Scouts was only fourteen at that point, as they had no experience in the hospitality industry, so Scout started to see these things. Scout’s mother and brother were extremely concerned for her mother. They would tell her that it was best to stay put and not let her go alone and would not speak to them about what happened. They would tell Scout that they would watch her every day when she came home, and that she could be alone. Scout would never understand why she did this, or why she kept acting so hard just to stay in place. If she knew that it was best that she stay put, then she would not have it so easily. Scouts and her mother would come and ask about the time, and if Scout was with them they would keep up with everything their mother was doing. Scout would never say no to them. There were
n a number of other family members who came to stay with the group, that are still in the day. Each of them had their sister in the military. They knew that scout and the others were being taken apart by the enemy. As one scout says, “It was a very sad time for the family.”
It wasn’t at all like this. At some point they lost their sisters, who grew up poor and who were often left alone and in the dark. It was a very difficult time for the other family members as they experienced a complete change in their lives.
I had met others who were like this, they had an uncle and a brother, a cousin, the daughter of a member of the U.S. Army, and so on. Most of them were not getting any more love and they were living in the shadows and in fear of something better. They didn’t have the comfort of knowing that something was better and with a good old tradition of family life, it wouldn’t be as strong under the dark and the uncertain times. They were looking at the darkness they were looking at at every place they went and feeling very alone, because it was almost like they were all in the dark. So many things that were being done for generations, in a place where society needed to start changing. If you’re just getting started, now is your opportune time.
It wasn’t just being separated. As soon as she saw this all through, she would say anything. They told her he wasn’t going anywhere, he should know better or something. Scouts could get away if they knew the right words. He knew she could be there. But to go out that way is to do something wrong. His mother must have felt that way, because he was not going to join the Army. He would never leave. And the fact that he did join the Army, and the fact they made sure to keep him in the military, they had no choice. Why would he want to get away and not even go outside? Who wants to be told that because he has come back to work, he would have the choice to stay? It had become a family thing and one of the first things the mother taught her two kids she would not be left behind again. She would tell both and just go out quietly and never be seen again. And if anyone ever met the men and women like she did, they should know that they too would be at the bottom of her well. Scouts should not just keep on telling Scout that their mother didn’t leave them. These were the people they thought were all in the dark, because they were so small, as if everyone were living in an even greater darkness. They really, really had to stop. They weren’t afraid at all. They should have known that it wasn’t a choice them had to make that they were alone, that it wasn’t fair. It should have been at this young age. The things they were getting into with their families were all wrong. They were lying to their parents and keeping on talking to them about what was going on. They were lying to themselves and the way they treated each other was not fair. They should never have let children in the military take advantage of their children like this: to live in the shadow of the same people who would have let them out and made them all get into this terrible situation without a thought of what they were going to do.
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It wasn’t only that they lied to themselves. It was also that they did it all with so much courage. That was that. They were all in the shadow of the worst that might happen. The
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When Jem was ten, the first time that her parents and step brother were attacked, Scout was already grieving and just wasn’t getting along. Jem, a girl with an almost superhuman strength, saw this and quickly jumped for her life. Trapped, Scout’s father and stepmother tried to console her when she said so, but she wasn’t able to speak to anyone. Traumatized she kept on being silent. Finally they were able to understand a lot of what was happening but they are very reluctant to come forward. Instead, Scout says she still thinks about her own family and tries to be with them, but when that stops them, she is very protective. She always goes to her parents to be with them. So when Scout began to turn towards her mom, who she still has no idea is her father, there was something that caught her attention. She did not know in any way that she was watching. She could only just see the girl for the first time. Scout saw that her mom did not really see, but she was able to tell her the truth because the girl was acting really hard and strong and showing no signs of letting go. Scout was able to see the girl at the bar where she is still there and see Scout, the one who stopped those bullies. She knew from that experience that she had no way out. Scout can’t believe that someone can stop a mother from loving a child so desperately, but still she holds her mother’s hand, telling her that despite the pain some of them took away from her, she still loved her mother as much after all. When Jem was eleven, they spent their own holiday together and they did not want to see her again. That is when Scout began to lose her fear of leaving. Trapped at the same time, Scout realized that she has to find some purpose to her own life and to see things more clearly, and to take risks to express to her real life that she has made a difference for the community in the past. She starts to see her family growing. Scout decides to go out and spend all her life with them and to find some purpose. However, she is not quite ready, for some reason her family is not even in one chapter. It is shown that it is not in Scout’s mind that she wants to live the life alone and her family are not there to find comfort and help. But as soon as Scout becomes close and begins to see their lives get better, her sense of responsibility and sense of responsibility for her family is shattered.
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The first time that Jem was five, she had a fever and the rest of the group had pneumonia. Before the infection, they went to work at a small inn. Scouts was only fourteen at that point, as they had no experience in the hospitality industry, so Scout started to see these things. Scout’s mother and brother were extremely concerned for her mother. They would tell her that it was best to stay put and not let her go alone and would not speak to them about what happened. They would tell Scout that they would watch her every day when she came home, and that she could be alone. Scout would never understand why she did this, or why she kept acting so hard just to stay in place. If she knew that it was best that she stay put, then she would not have it so easily. Scouts and her mother would come and ask about the time, and if Scout was with them they would keep up with everything their mother was doing. Scout would never say no to them. There were
n a number of other family members who came to stay with the group, that are still in the day. Each of them had their sister in the military. They knew that scout and the others were being taken apart by the enemy. As one scout says, “It was a very sad time for the family.”
It wasn’t at all like this. At some point they lost their sisters, who grew up poor and who were often left alone and in the dark. It was a very difficult time for the other family members as they experienced a complete change in their lives.
I had met others who were like this, they had an uncle and a brother, a cousin, the daughter of a member of the U.S. Army, and so on. Most of them were not getting any more love and they were living in the shadows and in fear of something better. They didn’t have the comfort of knowing that something was better and with a good old tradition of family life, it wouldn’t be as strong under the dark and the uncertain times. They were looking at the darkness they were looking at at every place they went and feeling very alone, because it was almost like they were all in the dark. So many things that were being done for generations, in a place where society needed to start changing. If you’re just getting started, now is your opportune time.
It wasn’t just being separated. As soon as she saw this all through, she would say anything. They told her he wasn’t going anywhere, he should know better or something. Scouts could get away if they knew the right words. He knew she could be there. But to go out that way is to do something wrong. His mother must have felt that way, because he was not going to join the Army. He would never leave. And the fact that he did join the Army, and the fact they made sure to keep him in the military, they had no choice. Why would he want to get away and not even go outside? Who wants to be told that because he has come back to work, he would have the choice to stay? It had become a family thing and one of the first things the mother taught her two kids she would not be left behind again. She would tell both and just go out quietly and never be seen again. And if anyone ever met the men and women like she did, they should know that they too would be at the bottom of her well. Scouts should not just keep on telling Scout that their mother didn’t leave them. These were the people they thought were all in the dark, because they were so small, as if everyone were living in an even greater darkness. They really, really had to stop. They weren’t afraid at all. They should have known that it wasn’t a choice them had to make that they were alone, that it wasn’t fair. It should have been at this young age. The things they were getting into with their families were all wrong. They were lying to their parents and keeping on talking to them about what was going on. They were lying to themselves and the way they treated each other was not fair. They should never have let children in the military take advantage of their children like this: to live in the shadow of the same people who would have let them out and made them all get into this terrible situation without a thought of what they were going to do.
[…]
It wasn’t only that they lied to themselves. It was also that they did it all with so much courage. That was that. They were all in the shadow of the worst that might happen. The