To Suffer In the Silence of a Generation Innocence is a treasure that is easily lost when a kind soul is trying to find its way in a generation constructed on principles of bitterness and hate. The early twentieth century South, the fragile house of cards, was built ever so delicately on the foundation of scars from the Civil War, superiority complexes, and spitefulness hidden behind closed doors. Pressures of social conformity and century-old anger were too much to bare for most, and the quaint town of Maycomb, Alabama made no exception. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, fate and history would have it that everyone involved in the Tom Robinson vs. The State of Alabama case would have their views on equality questioned and impacted in some way, even those with the most innocent of
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Jem Finch was still learning what it meant to not be a young child anymore when harsh reality abruptly hit him like a train. The social corruption of his surroundings was often too heavy of a weight to carry for him, and Jem relied on Atticus’s level mind to keep him afloat. From the sharp reality of Tom’s discriminatory acquittal, to the life-threatening, petty assault of Bob Ewell, Jem arguably suffered the greatest loss of innocence in those three chaos-filled years.
“If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other?” (Lee 231). In conclusion, 1935 Maycomb, Alabama had the potential to change anyone, even those with the purest hearts and minds. The silence of a generation can be a deadly thing. Lips may be sealed, but hate always finds a way to speak. Isn’t a room full of whispers still loud? A social breakthrough causes innocence to be lost and change to occur in everyone because the closed doors of generations’ open, and innocent people are forced to choose between hate and
Jem Finch was still learning what it meant to not be a young child anymore when harsh reality abruptly hit him like a train. The social corruption of his surroundings was often too heavy of a weight to carry for him, and Jem relied on Atticus’s level mind to keep him afloat. From the sharp reality of Tom’s discriminatory acquittal, to the life-threatening, petty assault of Bob Ewell, Jem arguably suffered the greatest loss of innocence in those three chaos-filled years.
“If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other?” (Lee 231). In conclusion, 1935 Maycomb, Alabama had the potential to change anyone, even those with the purest hearts and minds. The silence of a generation can be a deadly thing. Lips may be sealed, but hate always finds a way to speak. Isn’t a room full of whispers still loud? A social breakthrough causes innocence to be lost and change to occur in everyone because the closed doors of generations’ open, and innocent people are forced to choose between hate and