All throughout life struggles will come and go. But they way you react to obstacles define who you are. Many people chose the easy way out, throughout to kill a mockingbird and other pieces alike it, the good way was also portrayed. Sometimes in life you will come to find out that doing the right thing is more important than choosing the easiest way out no matter who judges you or what comes along with it.
Doing the right thing is not always the easy thing to do. Atticus had chosen to defend Tom with all he had, but the remarks made about him weren’t always easy to deal with especially ones from Mrs. Dubose : “Your father's no better than the niggers and trash he works for”(Lee 135). All throughout To Kill A Mockingbird Atticus had stuck up …show more content…
Another tough situation is the group of kids that had volunteered to go to Little Rock High school, which had faced many difficulties for example, in the movie Ernest Green, Two of the African american boys were entering the shower house during school, but, had walked in and cut their feet on glass intentionally placed there by white boys, the teacher denied it all although it was quite obvious. Those kids were doing good because they risked their happiness and friendships to make a change in the African American community and did what others weren’t brave enough to do. Their will and desire to make a change was so strong it allowed them to push through the tremendously brutal bullying forced face to face with. In the movie Scottsboro: An American tragedy The lawyer flew out from New York to defend the boys for free in the trial and he worked his hardest to build up the best case posisible. The lawyer most definitely did the right thing by defending the …show more content…
Mayella gave her testimony and got aggressive she then began saying "I got somethin' to say an' then I ain't gonna say no more. That nigger yonder took advantage of me and' if you fine fancy gentlemen don't wanta do nothin' about it then you're all yellow stinkin' cowards, stinkin' cowards, the lot of you. Your fancy airs don't come to nothin'—your ma'amin' and Miss Mayellerin' don't come to nothin',Mr. Finch-”(Lee 251). Mayella had lied because it was a lot easier than admitting the truth and facing the judgement, talk around town, and even all the charges. Choosing the easy thing was not the right thing, this was proven when her lies got a sweet innocent man killed whom was just trying to help others. -Another popular court case similar to Mayella’s was “While traveling on a freight train to Memphis in March 1931, the nine boys got in a fight with a few white ones.After the dust-up, two women, one 17 and the other 21, Claimed that all nine had raped them.It only took five days for a grand jury to indicate all of them, and just another nine for all of them to be convicted of rape and sentenced to death, except the youngest whose case ended in a hung jury”(Shire 1). The two women had claimed those nine innocent boys had raped them to save themselves from people realizing the disgusting and hard life they were truly living. Even though the women may have saved themselves, they ruined the lives of nine innocent boys that
Doing the right thing is not always the easy thing to do. Atticus had chosen to defend Tom with all he had, but the remarks made about him weren’t always easy to deal with especially ones from Mrs. Dubose : “Your father's no better than the niggers and trash he works for”(Lee 135). All throughout To Kill A Mockingbird Atticus had stuck up …show more content…
Another tough situation is the group of kids that had volunteered to go to Little Rock High school, which had faced many difficulties for example, in the movie Ernest Green, Two of the African american boys were entering the shower house during school, but, had walked in and cut their feet on glass intentionally placed there by white boys, the teacher denied it all although it was quite obvious. Those kids were doing good because they risked their happiness and friendships to make a change in the African American community and did what others weren’t brave enough to do. Their will and desire to make a change was so strong it allowed them to push through the tremendously brutal bullying forced face to face with. In the movie Scottsboro: An American tragedy The lawyer flew out from New York to defend the boys for free in the trial and he worked his hardest to build up the best case posisible. The lawyer most definitely did the right thing by defending the …show more content…
Mayella gave her testimony and got aggressive she then began saying "I got somethin' to say an' then I ain't gonna say no more. That nigger yonder took advantage of me and' if you fine fancy gentlemen don't wanta do nothin' about it then you're all yellow stinkin' cowards, stinkin' cowards, the lot of you. Your fancy airs don't come to nothin'—your ma'amin' and Miss Mayellerin' don't come to nothin',Mr. Finch-”(Lee 251). Mayella had lied because it was a lot easier than admitting the truth and facing the judgement, talk around town, and even all the charges. Choosing the easy thing was not the right thing, this was proven when her lies got a sweet innocent man killed whom was just trying to help others. -Another popular court case similar to Mayella’s was “While traveling on a freight train to Memphis in March 1931, the nine boys got in a fight with a few white ones.After the dust-up, two women, one 17 and the other 21, Claimed that all nine had raped them.It only took five days for a grand jury to indicate all of them, and just another nine for all of them to be convicted of rape and sentenced to death, except the youngest whose case ended in a hung jury”(Shire 1). The two women had claimed those nine innocent boys had raped them to save themselves from people realizing the disgusting and hard life they were truly living. Even though the women may have saved themselves, they ruined the lives of nine innocent boys that