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Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome. ~Rosa Parks In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Mrs Harper Lee shows her readers how society affects everyone good or bad. During the time of the great depression Scout, Jem, and Tom Robinson are influenced by society to think for themselves, look beyond the curtain of innocence, and take chances. Society’s rumors and lies no longer have a great affect on…

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enough? Are you worthy enough to be here?" I assured my criticizing conscience that my track career had come to an end after eighth grade, and I kept that promise to myself freshman year as I avoided the stress and anxiety known to be caused by track meets. Spring of sophomore year came around which was a time I'll never forget. It was a time in my life my friends challenged me to push beyond my limits and experience uncharted possibilities. A result of this influence contained an intangible…

TEQUESTA TRACE MIDDLE SCHOOL COMMUNITY LITERACY-CIVICS SERVICE PROJECT “LITERACY CHANGES OUR WORLD” Topic: Through collaboration among schools and the community, students will engage in a project which will promote good citizenship and enhance literacy in their community or school. Written summary of the focus, goals, challenges, and successes of the project: Summary: At Tequesta Trace, our Cambridge program is an international program with standards from the Cambridge University and testing…

aspects such as racial issues, social class and death. Prior to this passage, Scout along with her brother Jem and good friend Dill were viewing the trial of Tom Robinson, a man who was falsely accused of raping a nineteen yearly girl. Dill starts to cry in the middle of court because of the cruel way the prosecutor was treating Tom Robinson. Scout escorts Dill our of the courtroom and they encounter a man named Dolphus Raymond. This passage has a great significance to the novel as a whole as it…

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee published in 1960 follows the life of Jean Louise Finch, nicknamed Scout as she ages from six years old to nine in Maycomb, Alabama. Scout lives with her father whom is a lawyer, Atticus and her brother Jem, and meets a boy named Dill. These three children go through many events in which shape each of them into different people from when the book starts. Some of these events include a tree, a court case, and a scary walk home. Perspective changing events…

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The mockingbird represent innocence and in this case Tom Robinson. The main character, Scout brings up the topic with Miss.Maudie and she says, “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy.-that’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Lee 90). Miss.Maudie goes on to tell Scout about how they are one of creatures that do not do anything wrong, so killing something so pure is injustice. In the novel, Tom Robinson is put onto trial and later on killed for a crime he didn’t…

defend Tom when nobody else would. “If I didn’t I couldn’t hold my head up in town, I couldn’t represent this county in the legislature, I couldn’t even tell you or Jem not to do something again,” (86). Atticus explains to Scout why he’s defending Robinson. He tells a number of reasons why, and they all include being disappointed in himself. Atticus states he could not order anyone to do the right thing if he was not righteous. The reasons are as big as representing the county, all the way to…

The best victims are always defenseless scapegoats. Demonstrating the innocence and downfall of a mockingbird in the novel and generating the title, To Kill a Mockingbird, is Tom Robinson. The mockingbird metaphor represents a lack of justice for the defenseless, or harming the innocent. As a result of stereotyping and discrimination, people are still killing mockingbirds today, specifically people from the Middle East. The author calls this novel To Kill a Mockingbird because people knowingly…