Disgrace

You don’t know someone until you take a walk in his shoes. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (TKAM), Scout Finch, the narrator, goes through many challenges to discover the meaning behind this and many other lessons. Her introduction to the real world is also aided by her father Atticus, brother Jem, and her friend Dill. Some main themes in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird are family, courage, and racial prejudice. A main theme in Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is family. The Cunningham’s are a…

after shooting them as well as possible dragging them by the bumper of a car. In the case where a white person stood up for a black person, the white person was usually shunned and alienated. If this were to happen, that white family would become a disgrace to humanity. In the trial of the Scottsboro boys the white…

In The Iliad, written by Homer, honour is a complex structure not based on money or social standing, but instead virtue and a firm political voice in correct speaking. Honour is not forever and as with most things can be lost, gained, or even taken away. Achilles has a high social standing but does not act according to what his ”honour” should be. Odysseus, on the other hand, has a lot of wealth but has a firm way of conveying his point with the inability of a diving quail. Finally, Hector, has…

“To Kill a Mockingbird” Ever since we were little, our world revolved around what people in our society taught is. Some of the lessons we learned were about discriminating others because of their physical appearance. Tom Robinson was a coloured man living in Maycomb. He soon found himself in a situation that was impossible to escape from due to his skin colour and the position he was in may have caused him his life. In Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” the theme of racism is something that…

society, but in the wages that women receive as opposed to men. One major theme in To Kill a Mockingbird is justice in society, or lack thereof. In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, a black man, Tom Robinson, is accused for the rape of the town disgrace, Bob Ewell’s, daughter. Set in a small, southern town after the Civil War, racism is prevalent in their society and plays a key role in the prosecution of Tom Robinson. “A court is…

The Ewells. Also, Atticus, himself, and the rest of the town aren’t a big fan of the Ewells either, but they’re there. Atticus had spoken of them like, “the Ewells had been the disgrace of Maycomb for three generations. None of them had done an honest day’s work in my recollection”(30). Therefore speaking they hadn’t really gotten anything without cheating and such. So when the case came around and Robert Ewell had heard that Atticus…

didn’t want to be pregnant. I could talk to her about it...bam! Then all the TV’s and radios went off. So did the lights. It was a power failure… ‘Whole city shuts down, but thye garden just keep going.’... My body was part of nature… it wasn’t some disgrace to be part of it. It was an honor… And just for that moment I stopped wishing my baby would die.” All it took was a realization about the connections that all beings share to change Maricela from a resentful teen to a happier to-be…

perceived as worthless. None one would give you their time of day, so you were basically a lowerclassmen. Also, the tribe excluded the birth of twins from their village because they thought they were young. They thought the birth of twins was evil and a disgrace. However, in chapter 8 on page 155, it explains and describes how the missionaries were welcoming and accepting twins even though that was an abomination in the eye’s of the Igbo people. Furthermore, when the missionaries arrive, they…

of a relationship that no man would ever dare to even think of lest he desired a breathless end in a poplar tree. My parents didn't fear the consequences as much as they feared the judgement. My mother was a traitor to her own kind, my father a disgrace to his. Little did they know that all of that was nothing compared to the judgement I faced growing up. I was too dark to belong to one side or too light to belong to the other. The others forbid their children to even come near me. I was…

Martin Luther, who wrote the Ninety-Five Theses of 1517, created the anti-Catholic rebellion. His perspective on religion was against everything that Catholicism taught. He believed that if a person imagines that they are going to be saved by good deeds, “falls as uneasily as he who falls from the true service of God to idolatry.” Good works, such as ceremonies and attendance to Mass, are idolizing God. To Martin this was the wrong way to approach religion. The main problems with the Roman…