Being that, To Kill a Mockingbird, was written in the late 50 's and early 60 's, it completely reflects the state of its society in that time. The civil rights movement was going on, which highlights my future references to sex, race, equal rights and the surrounding environments of the characters in this book. Although, Harper Lee wrote “To Kill a Mockingbird” in the 50 ' and 60 's, the setting took place in the time of the great depression; between 1933 and 1935. This broke the boundaries of the environment, reputation, money, state of health, and knowing right from wrong. Scout and Jem, two of the main characters who were Caucasian, lived with their father, Atticus and their cook and sometimes mother figure, Calpurnia. Their mother had
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Some people in Maycomb respected Atticus as a lawyer, but some did not because he would represent Negros at court hearings. Not caring if people liked him or not, Atticus respected everyone and looked beyond the color of a person 's skin and beyond a person 's level of education. He was a humble man and mistreated no one and it was in his best intentions to carry those sort of things on to his children. Scout sometimes did not understand fully, mainly because of her age, and would question either Jem and Atticus. Jem, being the elder, caught on quickly, but still struggled with some aspects of life; such as courage. In addition, it was said that “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the ideal 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 and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.” (Lee, 1960, p. …show more content…
We know drugs are bad, but in this story drugs, they shouldn’t be used; due to being at young age. Drugs shouldn’t be used because of depression that would really lead to some terrible news. Throughout the novel, Atticus urges his children to relate understand how they see the world. Whenever Scout doesn’t understand Jem, Atticus encourages her to try to understand how he might feel. Usually, Scout finds this advice helpful, so she attempts to gain insight on other people 's perspectives life, so this broaden her moral education and social understanding. Moreover, The Ewells are generationally poor family that needs to implement the proper health and preventions of being socially unaccepted. If they would’ve force themselves with drug, then early stages of death could occur, because they were socially outcast because no one knew how many children Bob Ewell had. This made surviving harder due to the different items they went through at the dump every day. Also, it was stated in the book that “The society basically ignored them. Nobody came by to check on them, and no one came to visit except at Christmas when "the church delivered baskets". (Lee, 1960, p.171) Upon reading the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” many ideals was still in my mind. I think by reading this book, that Harper Lee had successfully ful-filled her intentions with me as a reader. Atticus Finch, struck me with his views on violence. A great
Some people in Maycomb respected Atticus as a lawyer, but some did not because he would represent Negros at court hearings. Not caring if people liked him or not, Atticus respected everyone and looked beyond the color of a person 's skin and beyond a person 's level of education. He was a humble man and mistreated no one and it was in his best intentions to carry those sort of things on to his children. Scout sometimes did not understand fully, mainly because of her age, and would question either Jem and Atticus. Jem, being the elder, caught on quickly, but still struggled with some aspects of life; such as courage. In addition, it was said that “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the ideal 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 and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.” (Lee, 1960, p. …show more content…
We know drugs are bad, but in this story drugs, they shouldn’t be used; due to being at young age. Drugs shouldn’t be used because of depression that would really lead to some terrible news. Throughout the novel, Atticus urges his children to relate understand how they see the world. Whenever Scout doesn’t understand Jem, Atticus encourages her to try to understand how he might feel. Usually, Scout finds this advice helpful, so she attempts to gain insight on other people 's perspectives life, so this broaden her moral education and social understanding. Moreover, The Ewells are generationally poor family that needs to implement the proper health and preventions of being socially unaccepted. If they would’ve force themselves with drug, then early stages of death could occur, because they were socially outcast because no one knew how many children Bob Ewell had. This made surviving harder due to the different items they went through at the dump every day. Also, it was stated in the book that “The society basically ignored them. Nobody came by to check on them, and no one came to visit except at Christmas when "the church delivered baskets". (Lee, 1960, p.171) Upon reading the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” many ideals was still in my mind. I think by reading this book, that Harper Lee had successfully ful-filled her intentions with me as a reader. Atticus Finch, struck me with his views on violence. A great