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To Kill a Mockingbird Essay In the award-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Jem and Scout Finch witness their father, Atticus Finch, try to defend an innocent black man against a white man's word in court. Today, this case goes without trouble, however, this book takes place in the 1930's in the very segregated town of Maycomb, Alabama. This trial challenges Atticus Finch's roles as a lawyer, a friend, and a father as he fights for justice throughout the book.…

mockingbird; they only make beautiful music for the world to enjoy, they cause no pain and no suffering for the creatures of this Earth. Looking through the narrative, one could find out the best candidates: Atticus Finch, Tom Robinson, and Arthur "Boo" Radley. Throughout the story Atticus Finch has been an honest, thinking man who does his best to beat up his kids to have good ethics and values to communicate them…

Imagine your child is growing up in a short span, being tainted by the evils of man and the hearts of the prejudice. In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout and Jem Finch are forced to age early when their father takes an unpopular side in the courtroom. His children learn the up and downs of being social outcasts who’s father is a ‘nigger-lover’. Although through the course of their unexpected summer, they absorb many aspects of life that even the adults are oblivious to. In Andrew…

and courageous person in the way she acts and presents herself. Furthermore, these themes serve great life lessons for the reader and help them grow throughout the reading of the book. The first theme courage can be described in the book by Atticus Finch as: “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around…

Golden Rule is a universal maxim of treating others as one would wished to be treated; versions of the principle are apparent in numerous religions and moral standards. In Harper Lee’s historical fiction, To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch, the father of Scout and Jem Finch, represents morality in the corrupt town of Maycomb, Alabama set in the 1930’s during the Great Depression and the age of Jim Crow Laws. Atticus tests the boundaries between supremacism and racial justice when he defends…

crucial to how the characters come together. Jem Finch is one of the significant examples that resembles the coming of age and matures over the course of 3 years. During the events in chapters 1- 31 in To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem has signifficantly grown from a childish, playful boy that he was from the begining of the novel, to a more calm, composed…

that she fights through even though it’s difficult to overcome. Boo Radley is a grown man who hides away in his father’s home and never comes out because he is shy but must make a decision about whether to step out of his comfort zone and safe the Finch children. The characters show that courage is a difficult decision to choose, but it is the right thing, and we see that portrayed in To…

In the story To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee courage among many other things is a key theme in the story. There are two characters that comes to mind when I think of courage in the story and those people are Atticus Finch and Boo Radley. These two characters show tremendous courage throughout the story from saving the kids to defending Tom Robinson even though it puts their life and privacy at risk. The real courage here is putting the needs and wants of others in front of their own. A…

Greek philosopher Aristotle once stated, "You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor" (Aristotle). Aristotle's words are true in context with Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, in which many of the characters would not have been able to accomplish anything unless they had the courage they possessed. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee takes the readers through a fictional story from the perspective of a young girl living in…

“It was that accursed Finch, I tell ya!” The wretched old lady produced an envelope from under the desk, pushing the envelope as far away from her as she could with a shaky hand. I snatched it up, angrily muttering. “Bastards think they can stop this honest man from making a living? I’ll show that Atticus. He’ll regret the day he-” Ding. It was that rotten bell again. As I turned around to shut the door, the welfare lady put on her hat. She was probably ‘bout to go tell Atticus to come lock me…