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To kill a mockingbird by Lee Harper you would think there is actual mockingbirds like the animal but no there isn't it is a symbol for how some people get treated for doing nothing or just minding their own business. The mockingbird symbol represents people who do nothing but either try and be helpful are so innocent to somethings they don't understand exactly what's going on. My first example of a person who is a mockingbird is Tom Robinson. He is a mocking bird because of the color of his…

Imagine you caught your child doing something considered taboo by all of society. Would you lie to cover up your shame, or would you face the rest of the world and own it? In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem and Scout are the children of lawyer Atticus Finch, but they are not the problem. Mayella Ewell is a 19 year old poor white woman who claims that Thomas Robinson, a black man, beat her then raped her. But, this might not be the case. As Atticus goes to work to prove Tom…

control over his actions. At the end of the book, Lennie kills Curley’s wife accidentally after she found him alone and let him touch her hair. Curley, the boss’s son, is possessive over her and he is livid. He does not like Lennie, so this was the perfect opportunity to hurt him in an unthinkable way. Lennie ran away trying to escape the hardships that he knew he would face. Curley along with rancher workers were searching for him ready to kill him and showing no mercy. George knows that he…

There are at least three people who are mocking birds in the book To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee. The first person to represent a mocking bird is Tom Robinson. Tom Robinson had a family that included his wife and his three kids. He had a job and a happy life. Then he started helping Mayella with work around her house. One day Mayella asked Tom to come inside because she had “work” inside for him. When they got inside she tempted him. Her father came home and seen what she was doing and was…

get the money in the estate that was left for them. They also wanted to get back at their father for sexualy abusing them as children. Erik finally told his therapist about the murder. When Lyle found out that the therapist knew, he threatened to kill the therapist. This was ultimately what really proved them guilty. If you just killed your parents, would you regret what you did? While Lyle and Erik put on a great show of grief for the police at the crime scene, the Mendez brothers over the…

The book uses mockingbirds as a symbol to show some people as innocent just like mockingbirds. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee makes three main “mockingbirds”. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy...but sing their heart out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”(pg.90) Mockingbirds only really sing, that’s why they’re innocent. Their names are, Tom Robinson, Mayella Ewell, and Arthur Radley. Arthur Radley is the first mockingbird to ever…

Never Shoot A Mockingbird It is a sin to kill a mockingbird. Why? It is a sin because mockingbirds are innocent creatures who do nothing but provide people with entertainment through their singing. Killing a mockingbird is the equivalent to humans harming others who have done nothing wrong at all. Atticus says, “As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life… whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family…

Introduction: The book “Would You Kill the Fat Man?” by David Edmonds, presents a philosophical discussion on the ethical dilemma called the trolley problem. The situation that is proposed is that a runaway train is headed towards a group of five people who are tied to the track. Unless the train is stopped, it will inevitably kill all five of the people. You are standing nearby and have the option to pull a lever to to redirect the train to a different route, which has one man tied to the track…

Imagine seeing your best friend, go out and kill another human being. But, now you can 't be on his side to back him up. You were obligated to make him pay for what he had done. For many, this may sound fictional or very unrealistic. But for George Milton this was the case. George has been taking care of Lennie for quite a long time, ever since Aunt Clara asked George too. Lennie has always been unintelligent and unaware of his surroundings. However, what Lennie had done took it too an extreme…

In the novel, “To KIll a Mockingbird,” by Harper Lee many characters changed and evolved throughout the book. Jem has evolved the most throughout the book because he is growing up and becoming more like his dad. One of jem's for major events that made him become more mature was reading with Mrs. Dubose, The school play, and the court case. First of all, one of jem's first events that shows he is going into adulthood was reading to Mrs. Dubose. Atticus to Jem that,“people are…