To Kill A Mocking Bird Theme Analysis

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Five prominent themes that occur in the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” are the following education, heroism, family, prejudice, and coming of age.

During today’s day education has been immensely needed especially in countries including Islam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Africa. A women named Sakena Yacoobi is a teacher and educator she taught women in Afghanistan, even though education is illegal for women in Afghanistan. Yacoobi left her hometown to pursue in getting an education in America. While she was gone her family was sent to a refugee camp in Afghanistan. She immediately left America, she understood what education did for her and how much she better understood and wanted women to understand what was going on in their country and their
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They talked to each other, and they said, ‘Let's go, leave her alone, she's OK.’ And you know, this time, I offered them tea again, and they took a sip and they left. By that time, my staff poured into my office. They were scared to death. They didn't know why they didn't kill me”(Ted talk). The Taliban rag for war most of the men are uneducated have no clue what they are doing all they know how to do is shoot a gun. One day Yacoobi was riding with four trainers, a body guard they were heading North of Kabul when 19 young men blocked the road with rifles on their shoulders. “And I told my driver, ‘What's going on?’ And the driver said, ‘I don't know.’ He asked them. They said, ‘We have nothing to do with you.’ They called my name. They said, ‘We want her.’ My bodyguard got out, said, ‘I can answer you. What do you want?’ They said, ‘Nothing.’ They called my name. And by that time, the women are yelling and screaming inside the car. I am very shaken up, and I told myself, this is it. This time, we all …show more content…
Someone might think a hero is one who sacrifices everything for a person. Jobs such as firemen, police officers, and military are people who sacrifice every day to help people in need or help people. A hero is someone who sacrifices, helps, safes, protects a person. There were many firefighters who fought the 9-11 fire many died many saved lives. Police officers ran toward the danger to help and evacuate people out of the area. Heroes are everywhere service dogs help people with their critical needs are heroes. A hero is one who protects, sacrifices, helps, safes a person in

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