To Kill A Mockingbird Role Model Essay

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A person whose behavior, example, or success is or can be emulated by others especially by younger people, the definition of a role model. The part of the child's life when they look up at their father or mother is crucial to the development of the way the child thinks, acts, and behaves in the world. In this time the kid will pick up on both bad traits and positive ones in the time of learning. The kid will have traits from the two people that the kid looks up to and sees the way the people act and speck.
A great example of this is in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In this novel the two main kids lives in the years of 1930s in Maycomb County. The life of the two kids with their father and a housemaid that is considered like a babysitter for them. There father is a lawyer that is defending a colored man in the court of law. The youngs child in the family Scout , the main
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In the todays world there is a lot of athletes, musicians, and other media celebrities that they look up to. With them looking up at all those people what says that if there role model so now know for the use of a drug, the child may believe that the drug is ok and cool to use because “he” does. Lets say that they look up to a basketball star. The player eats well and is a well rounded person, then the media releases that the star got where he is with the help of a performance-enhancing drugs. Over time if more and more star he or she learns that got where they are using the drug he or she will be more prone to use the same thing. It is not only the people but the videos they watch and music they hear, with the music lets say the music the parent listen to is full of vulgar words nothing stops the young kid from use them. In the world today the kids get to know and see things that most adults in the past never seen seen until

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