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can have a huge impact on your life, just like courage. Fear can have a negative impact on your life but that fear drives courage. Bethany Hamilton was explaining how you need fear to get through life's scariest challenges. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows how one's courage can change the way they look at people and what they go through. Boo Radley has been a fear of Maycomb for a long time. Every citizen of Maycomb is scared of Boo so he stays locked inside his house all day.…

Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird is a novel that is bigger than solely entertainment value. Harper Lee brings you to a fictional town that's residents have very significant differences. The readers learn to meet and love Atticus Finch's two kids Jem and Scout. The also hears about the infamous Bob Ewell who is always trying to harm others for personal benefit. The kids learn many things over the course of the book from their father, Atticus, who us a very well respected man in Maycomb. Jem and…

Discrimination has been a problem throughout society for many years. As shown in the book To Kill A Mockingbird written by Harper Lee and the movie The Help directed by Tate Taylor, discrimination can affect people of all ages. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird the narrator, Scout, is a young girl that lives in Maycomb, Alabama during the 1930’s. Scout lives with her older brother Jem, her father Atticus and Calpurnia their maid. Maycomb is a small southern town surrounded with…

might wonder their purpose in life, but To Kill a Mockingbird helps one to understand a little better. In the beginning, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, is a better book than The Chosen by Chaim Potok because has worthy role models, teaches important life lessons, and is fun to read. To begin with, To Kill a Mockingbird has outstanding role models. Harper Lee writes her characters with admirable qualities who inspire the reader to follow and try to incorporate it into their own lives. For…

Mockingbird Harper Lee was born in 1926, she is very well known for her 1960 Pulitzer Prize winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird (). Her father was a lawyer in their hometown Monroeville Alabama. He defended two black men, a father and a son, who were accused of murdering a white store clerk, similar to Atticus in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird (). Lee’s mother was a home keeper, she suffered from a very rare illness so she rarely left their home and also may have had a bipolar disorder ().…

Throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the theme of Ignorance causing people to come up with false conclusions is revealed many times. When people let their ignorance control what they think of other people, that can cause them to be telling other people insulting comments based purely on what they think and know. They never truly express real emotion because they speak on what they know. An important event in the middle of the text that develops the theme is when Dill leaves…

Loss and suffering is inevitable. Loss of innocence is a natural part of life, especially when innocence is lost. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Maycomb County is home to several innocent characters who suffer from painful realities. Innocence according to Merriam Webster Dictionary means freedom from guilt or sin through being unacquainted with evil, freedom from legal guilt or a particular crime or offense, freedom from guile or cunning, lack of worldly experience or…

bully, trying something new, putting one’s life in danger to save another, standing up against prejudice, and facing a 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…

What Makes a Society Imagine being hated and not trusted simply because of the color of your skin. In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout and Jem are children of a lawyer taking a case that will change their life for the better. In the small county of Maycomb, it’s unusual for white people to defend a person of color especially if the color is black. Their father, Atticus, not only defends a black person, Tom Robinson, he defends him with power and a purpose. Majority of the town…

killing a mockingbird embodies the idea of ones’s innocence being compromised and succumbing to evil.To kill a mockingbird is not only a sin, but also when referring to a person it symbolizes their loss of innocence which is shown in the novel by Harper Lee. This symbol demonstrates the theme of one’s purity being lost due to the exposure of evil such as injustice and prejudice. Mockingbirds are friendly, harmless birds, when killing one someone has harmed something that was innocent. In To Kill…