Jane and Finch

They are: equality for all is important, do not judge others based on their names, and try to stand in somebody else's shoes before you judge them. As always, equality for all is important. The Finch family knew what African…

Guitar’s cruel past involving racism initiates his rebellious behavior that sticks with him for his entire life due to his inability to remove his personal stereotypes towards whites. As a very young child, Guitar faces racism first hand which leads to his hatred of whites. "Listen. Go around to the back of the hospital to the guard's office. It will say 'Emergency Admissions' on the door. A-D-M-I-S-I-O-N-S. But the guard will be there. Tell him to get over here on the double. Move now. Move!"…

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey has a very deep and dark concept. Kesey creates many characters that are unique in their own way. Each has their own personalities that create the story into what is has become.McMurphy plays a huge role in the ward along with the patients. Due to McMurphy’s caring and brave nature, he is able to help the patients in the ward since the patients look up to McMurphy and see him as a role model and thus McMurphy can help each patient overcome their…

Society is a very influential part of many peoples’ lives. Society tends to sway people into bias states of thought. People are commonly pushed into a sort of mob mentality. Society also influences how people treat one another. Society plays an important role in how people think, act, and live their lives. Society impacts a person’s way of thinking. When someone is told something for the first time, they usually will be influenced to believe in it. If a person is asked about their favorite…

ln To Kill a Mockingbird the main character Jean Finch, also called Scout, is struggling to grasp the complex idea of prejudice. Atticus Finch, Scout’s father, has to represent a black man arrested for rape of a white woman. Plessy is found guilty of disregarding a law built on racism. Just like in the story there are still racism and prejudice in society. In the Plessy vs. Ferguson case the defendant, Homer Plessy refused to sit in the All-Black car and sat instead in the All-White car then.…

The discriminatory opinions and prejudices of individuals and society can be challenged through the perspectives of the innocent. The innocent have the potential to alter antipathetic perceptions of society as they've not been corrupted by inherent prejudices. Harper Lee explores this concept in her novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, through the perspective of the protagonist 'Scout', a young girl growing up surrounded by bigotry. Harper Lee utilises symbolism in the naming of the young female…

In both the novel, To kill a Mockingbird by Harper lee and the poem “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar, both Jem and the speaker of the poem struggle with understanding what courage is thus revealing a person has to keep going even if he is being judged by those around him because it will show courage. First, the speaker tries to tell his audience that courage is when you do not put a mask on. We can not keep our mind set on one thing instead view all other possibilities. The speaker of…

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, her brother Jem and their friend Dill overlook a rape case where an African American man in Maycomb County, Alabama was wrongfully arrested and tried for committing sexual assault on a Cauca-sian woman named Mayella Ewell. The story takes place in the mid 1930’s and at this time in American history, African Americans in the South got very little, if any, respect they deserve. As a result, almost all of Maycomb County…

In S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, Ponyboy is a member of the greasers, a low level clan that dwells on the east side of Tulsa, Oklahoma who have endured conflict with the Socs, who reign on the opposite side of town in riches. Every day that goes by for Ponyboy is another day he must live in fear of the Socs because they physically berate greasers for pleasure. A lack of judgement on his walk from the movie theatre leads to experiencing firsthand the relentless brutality of the Socs. Ponyboy…

In the story “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, Mayella, a white southern teen that lives in a dump with her abusive father, is in fact in control of Tom Robinson’s fate. Mayella is sexualy assaulted by her father, which causes her to file a false court case against Tom Robinson (a black male) in which he is convicted. During the court case the evidence points to Bob Ewell, Mayella’s father and a man known to have a drunken abusive history. Power being the amount of control one has over…