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    covered many of the characters in the story and show how they affected the story. The characters that we represented are Scout (Jean Louise Finch), Jem (Jeremy Atticus Finch), Atticus Finch, Arthur "Boo" Radley, Dill (Charles Baker Harris), Bob Ewell (Robert E. Lee Ewell), Calpurnia, Aunt Alexandra, Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose, and Tom Robinson. The Finch family is the most involved family of the novel. Scout is the main character, the narrator, and the protagonist of the novel. She is…

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    Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is an award winning novel that tells the story of the Finch family in 1930 Maycomb, Alabama. In their neighborhood there is a house at the end of their street, the Radley house. Rumor has it Mr. Arthur, also know as Boo Radley, is a monster and Scout and Jem Finch are curious to find out more. Meanwhile their white father, Atticus Finch, is defending an innocent black man, Tom Robinson, in the racist environment of the South. This book portrays many of…

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    class, a young student of mine, who was labeled Scout Finch, seemed like she knew everything needed. She had known how to read, write, recite the alphabet and all of the above that a first grader should not comprehend and understand so easily. But this aggravated me, strongly. I wanted all of the kids to have a fresh start. I wanted to have a perfect learning environment for all the students. Scout has mentioned that her father, Atticus Finch has taught her to read and write. “Scout it is your…

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    Mockingbird tells the story of a young girl named Scout Finch, her brother Jem, their widowed father Atticus and their life in Maycomb county. Through many lessons taught by their father, including how to treat citizens who aren’t white in ethnicity, Jem and Scout learn the true meaning of acceptance and the difference between right and wrong. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee proves that courage can be seen in unlikely characters by portraying Atticus Finch as a man ahead of his time. This…

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    she shows courage through her book. Lee actually defines courage with her characters. She has them test their courage throughout the book. Lee also tells us how they feel with other characters. Some of the characters that show courage are Scout Finch, Jem Finch, and Dill Harris. They mainly show their courage with or at the Radley’s. It was the summer before Scout started school when Dill came and he was something else. Dill was fascinated with the Radley’s place and thought it would be a good…

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    to comply with morals when others seem to have no problem choosing to ignore them. This statement is not true for Atticus Finch, who provides the moral compass of To Kill a Mockingbird. To Kill a Mockingbird focuses on the impact of morals and society on an innocent man’s life. When African American Tom Robinson is wrongly accused of raping caucasian Mayella Ewell, Atticus Finch is assigned to defend him. Institutionalized racial bias is still at large in the South in the 1930s, and Atticus…

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    A true leader provides purpose, direction, and motivation to individuals or groups and the Army’s Leadership Requirements Model defines what a leader must be, know and do. In an effort to see how leadership dynamics are portrayed in the movies, I chose to compare how the main character in “Remember the Titans” and “To Kill A Mockingbird” utilize the many aspects of the leadership model in dealing with racial strife. The movie “Remember the Titans” is a true story about the desegregation of T…

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    things like racism, sexism, and poverty still exist today too. Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird, courage was demonstrated by Atticus Finch, Tom Robinson, and Boo Radley. In the novel, Mr. Atticus Finch demonstrated courage. He was the dad of Scout and Jem Finch. Atticus was very courageous because he took to the Tom Robinson case. This was courageous for Mr. Finch because Tom was an African American, and that was far from encouraged in Maycomb. Maycomb is a very small town, everyone is…

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    the state of Alabama. Near the end of Chapter 10, Maudie Atkinson, one of Maycomb's most open-minded citizens and lives across the street from Jem and Scout. says, “Atticus Finch was the deadest shot in Maycomb County in his time.” This incident concerning the violent dog, Tim Robinson, who is at last shot by Atticus Finch, one of the main characters, is symbolic because it leads both the audience and the characters involved in the novel to learn experiences,…

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    Violent Mockingbirds

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    soil. In the story," To Kill a Mockingbird," Atticus Finch tells Jem And Scout, "it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." Jem and Scout learn that they shouldn't harm a animal or person if they haven't brought harm to them. Later in the story, we start to see themes of people in the book who are starting to illustrate mockingbirds. The reader is starting to infer that certain characters in the volume are acting like Mockingbirds. Therefore, Atticus Finch, Tom Robinson, and Boo Radley…

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