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Scout Finch is a young girl in To Kill A Mockingbird who lives in Maycomb, a small town in the South during the Reconstruction Era. Harper Lee uses Scout’s ignorance and vagueness as a little girl and her developing understanding about events happening her life to demonstrate a unique instance of the age old and common moral versus society dilemma. Lee’s approach to portraying this is made in an effort to show the inevitable problem in an unbiased way. As Scout grows older she becomes aware of…

One of the worst forms of social inequity that girls deal with, is gender inequality. Another example of social inequity found in the Wringer, by Jerry Spinelli, is when the boys that Palmer has befriended, Beans, Mutto, and Henry, bully and tease a girl just because she’s a girl. This is an example of social inequity because it’s not fair to bully someone just because of their gender. On page 104, Beans takes a muskrat that his cat brought him, nuked it, and pinned it to Dorothy’s door.…

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Huck evolves and transforms from naïve to understanding society which reveals his coming of age and finding the truth of racism. As Huck goes through the story, he grows and changes his beliefs thus becoming a young adult. Huck’s naivety is evident in the first couple of chapters. He shows that he only cares about what is happening to him. That the only thing that matters is what is in his own little world. Huck shows this trait of immaturity…

The Real Atticus Finch In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, it contains a character whom has many different character traits. He’s a father of two and a lawyer in Maycomb County, and is a brave, wise, and admirable character. He goes by the name of Atticus Finch. Throughout the novel, Atticus proves to readers that he is a man of his words and will stand up for what he believes in. His son, Jem Finch, and daughter, Jean Louis Finch (Scout), both look up to him as he believes…

Growing up, children all over the world are taught many lessons by the people in their lives they look up to and trust the most. These lessons include methods of survival as well as ethics and morals. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch tries to teach his children many practical lessons during life despite his business as a lawyer. One of the most important lessons Atticus has for his children is displaying empathy, even if they are adversaries. Throughout…

The accusation of rape upon nine Negro men in Scottsboro, Alabama was a racism-driven tragedy in American history. Two young women, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, accused nine young Negro men of raping them on the train ride from Chattanooga, Tennessee to Paint Rock, Alabama. The rape accusation came about when Haywood Patterson’s hand was stepped on by a white on top of the train, leading to the blacks fighting the whites off of the train. The fight was triggered when one white said “This is a…

book there are also many ways that the community is separated through communities actions, especially because of the setting of the book and all the discrimination that happened in that time period. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird author Harper Lee argues that community can be an ugly and evil place. One event that shows that community an evil place, was when Tom Robinson got the guilty verdict during his trial. There was plenty of evidence showing that Tom Robinson shouldn’t have gotten…

People are often irresponsible, intolerant, and quick to judge. Atticus Finch is the complete opposite of such person as seen in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. To Kill a Mockingbird is the fictional story about a young girl named Scout. It is the narrative of a girl being shaped and realizing that not everyone sees things as she does. Throughout the novel, with Atticus’ help, Scout matures in understanding that people and things are not what they seem. As revealed in the…

Calpurnia and said, “I want to know why you bringing white children to nigger church” (Lee pg.119). This clearly shows that the black folks don’t like it when white children enter their church. Than, another colored woman named Lula confronts Calpurnia with the same rude attitude, “You ain’t got no business bringing white children here - they got their church, we got our’s. It is our church, ain’t it, Miss Cal” (Lee pg.119). There are some that welcomed them, but most of them despised them.…

The film Dope highlights many social characteristics affecting our young generations throughout the entire movie, but none as prevalent as delivering the message of a growing, aspiring leader, in a disruptive and challenging environment overcoming all odds to become successful. The movie focuses on the concept of leadership all throughout, and within many different character types. Out of the many different characters illustrated in the film, the first three we meet show three different types of…