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fear of public speaking. There are grand acts of courage, and then there are smaller courageous acts that can sometimes go unseen. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird explores different examples of courage through its characters. Mrs. Dubose, Atticus Finch, and Arthur Radley were all presented with opportunities to show courage. Whether these actions be big or small, these characters display the difficulty that it can take to do something courageous. Mrs. Dubose showed great courage by accepting…

something that one knows is difficult or dangerous. In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch says,” Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. Real courage is when you fight for what is right regardless of whether you win or lose.” Atticus Finch, Mrs. Dubose, and Boo Radley are perfect examples of people who demonstrate courage in the novel. Being Tom Robinson’s lawyer, Atticus Finch shows a great deal of courage. Atticus explains to Scout the reason why he is representing…

a Mockingbird, we are introduced to the sleepy yet racist town of Maycomb, Alabama. It’s here that author Harper Lee explores topics such as race, gender, and class discrimination through the eyes of a child. It’s also here that our Narrator Scout Finch is taught various lessons about theses forms of discrimination. Along with these topics, there is also a lot of prejudice against certain characters like Boo Radley and Tom Robinson that greatly affect other characters. Sexism is form of…

Power has different meanings and stages in different places. To Kill A Mockingbird is an enticing tale, based in the 1930’s, of Jem and Scout Finch and their journeys through Maycomb County, Alabama. One of the biggest plots in this story is when their father, Atticus Finch, is called upon to defend a black man, Tom Robinson. He has been accused of raping a white woman, Mayella Ewell. Mayella is the oldest of the eight children of Bob Ewell. The Ewell family lives in an old “Negro cabin” by the…

intolerances, despite of another person’s differences. This is shown throughout the book, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In the book the reader experiences life in southern Alabama in the 1930’s through the point of view of Jean Louise “Scout” Finch. The story takes turns that lead you from Jem, Scout’s brother, literally losing his pants, to a run in with a widowed, morphine addict named Mrs. Dubose, to Scout’s Aunt Alexandra…

depicts the serious issues of injustice, prejudices and racial inequality. It showed how the whites harassed the blacks as well as the family of the lawyer, Mr. Atticus Finch, who is defending Tom Robinson. “Your fathers no better than the ****** and trash he works for!,” page 110, as said by Mrs. Dubose towards Jem and Scout Finch. Real-life intolerence can be compared to discrimination during the 1950s.…

While reading both Judge Heath Till’s “Manners, Morals, Customs, and Public Perception”, and Harper Lee’s book To Kill a Mockingbird, they both show alike Southern civility. Both Till and Lee have related ideas on the topic such as what to call adults, how to say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’, the importance of family, and other manners and customs shown primarily South. Lee’s novel is set in the 1930s during the Great Depression, and many terms and phrases that Till uses in his essay are reflected…

The character Calpurnia is an important motherly figure to Jem and Scout and Calpurnia helps to bring out the theme of racism and discrimination in To Kill a Mockingbird. Calpurnia a black African - American, who works for the Finch family since the time of Scout and Jem grandfather “I’ve spent all my days workin’ for the Finches...an’ I moved to Maycomb when your daddy and mamma married.”(127) Unlike everyone else in Maycomb Atticus treats Calpurnia like part of his family and trusts Calpurnia…

In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch is more like God the Father than Bob Ewell. Atticus is one of the best lawyers in Maycomb County. The trial the book is centered upon is an interesting one – one, in which, that Atticus happens to be defending the man Bob Ewell accused of raping his daughter. Many in Maycomb, Alabama question Atticus’ parenting abilities. He is a widowed father of two children named Scout and Jem. His methods of teaching his children right from wrong are…

same God, ain't it?”’ Calpurnia defends herself by saying that we are all equal. She shows that through all the segregation we are all the same people who worship the same god. “You know what we want,” another man said. “Get aside from the door Mr. Finch.”’ Some of the men will not even wait for the trial to start to see if he is guilty. They don't see him as a person only a slave that breaks the law. Tensions already rise with black people but when he does something wrong it gets even higher.…