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lawyer. Atticus accepted the Tom Robinson trial in chapter in chapter 8. This made people have different opinions on the Finch family. At the start of chapter 9, (Lee, 99) Cecil Jacobs had announced in the schoolyard that “Scout Finch’s daddy defends niggers.” Scout asks Jem what that means and he tells her to go ask her Atticus. Atticus says that he is “simply defending a Negro” and that he could never ask his children to mind him again (Lee, 100.) Atticus also shows an example of courage…

Contempt & Pity “What’s Your Name, Girl”, is a short story written by Maya Angelou. The story tells the experience of an African American woman who works in a white woman’s house. The character has a hard time being respected and breaks through some obstacles to make everyone realize she is as human as they are. In this essay, the overall tones are contempt and pity. Contempt is feeling beneath consideration or worthless. This is the tone because Marguerite feels disrespected throughout this…

“Work? Why cert’nly it would work, like rats a-fighting. But it’s too blame’ simple; there ain’t nothing to it. What’s the good of a plan that ain’t no more trouble than that? It’s as mild as goose-milk” (242). So describes Tom Sawyer Huck’s plan to free Jim, prior to the controversial final adventure at Phelps farm in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Tom’s rebutting Huck’s plan with his own alternative, flippantly chaotic and convoluted one, as well as Huck’s immediate willingness to be…

allowing Miss Watson to retrieve her ‘property’; however, this conflicts with his morality. He knows that to go against the law and defy society's idea of morality would make him a disgrace, and he would from then on just be the boy who “helped a nigger to get his freedom”.However, the idea of his friend Jim being condemned to live his life as a slave all for some “dirty” money is too much for him to handle. He knows jim is more than just property, and his morals overshadow those of the society…

The novel To Kill a Mockingbird was written by Harper Lee in 1960. The novel takes place in the fictional southern town of Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression. It is told from the perspective of Miss Jean Louise Finch, a young, white girl who lives with her well-respected father, Atticus, her brother, Jem, and their black cook, Calpurnia. The novel explores the true nature of humanity through the coexistence of good and evil as Jean Louise develops her understanding of the world through…

Violence has perhaps become commonplace to the modern generation. It seems to be the figurative salt and pepper of every television show, cartoon, novel and video game. Has this violent saturation of all things pop culture desensitized modern readers to the point of ignorance? This would be a most unfortunate conclusion considering the deliberation of violence found in Thomas C. Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor. His “nothing is as simple as it seems” approach to violence in…

The effect of the river is reversed on Huckleberry. He starts to view Jim, a runaway slave, as an equal. To exemplify this idea, after the prank, Huckleberry says, “ It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger; but I done it, and I warn’t ever sorry for it afterward, neither” (84). This is a revolutionary idea. The actuality of the situation is Huckleberry starts to unlearn part of his development as a younger child. To repeat, he argues with Jim as…

helping him to spell out words of three or four letters. Mr. Auld had soon found out and had forbidden Mrs. Auld from teaching him to read any longer. He says, “If you give a nigger an inch, he will take an ell. A nigger should know nothing but to obey his master-to do as he is told to do. Learning would spoil the best nigger in the world. He would at once become unmanageable, and of no value to his master”(pg15). During the time of slavery knowledge was power, being just as powerful as a white…

Advantages Of Power Power is very wanted just like people want happiness. Power and happiness are both essentials in life that are very sought after, yet certain individuals are not capable of receiving either one throughout their life. In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck fight for who has the most power is talked about quite often. George and Lennie have a friendship like no other. In Of Mice and Men the reader will feel apart of the story and can relate to the many of the ups and downs that…

and Jem have inherited their father’s value of tolerance. Calpurnia exposes the two children to experiences typical white children during the 1930’s did not have the opportunity to partake in. ““I wants to know why you bringin‘ white chillun to nigger church” (Lula chapter 12). While Atticus was away, Calpurnia decided to bring Jem and Scout to her church on Sunday. The assumption of this time period is that discrimination was only present against people who were black. Although black…