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The World Isn’t What it Seems to be In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee proves the world isn’t what it seems to be through the maturation of Jem. Jem matures from the beginning to the end of the book. When Nathan Radley filled the tree hole with cement and Jem finds out what the tree hole ment to Boo Radley, Jem cried because he felt bad for Boo. Jem is maturing by feeling bad for Boo. “He stood there until night fall, and I waited for him. When we went in the house I saw he had been crying…”,…

Courage, it is defined to be able to do something that frightens one, which makes courage hard to come by. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee courage is present in multiple characters. Atticus shows determination through his job and his family. Miss Maudie Atkinson shows her bravery by deciding to state her opinion when it could make her life miserable. And Link Diez courageously stands up to a racist man to do what's right. These three characters show tremendous amounts of courage…

Steve Jobs once said, “Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life...have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” By this he means don't let the voices and beliefs of others overrule yours, but instead follow your own intuition. This is exactly what Atticus teaches his children in the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. In the novel, Atticus shows his children that even though everyone may be against your belief or stand on something, continue to think for yourself…

The narrative voice, or perspective, of ‘Go Set a Watchman’ is very different to that of Harper Lee’s first novel, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’. In ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, Scout is around the age of 7 and this is shown through her perspective as the narrator. Her viewpoint is naïve and very innocent and she is susceptible to all the rumours and stories about Boo Radley. In ‘Go Set a Watchman’, Scout is 20 years older. She still acts childish and there are many instances where she feels the need to…

In the iconic movie, “Finding Nemo”, a shark named Bruce once said, “Fish are friends, not food.” This is verbal evidence that superlative character education was exemplified in this children’s film. Exemplifying true character education in a movie is very difficult, let alone in a children’s movie. These movies especially need to show kids how to act around others and how to grow up to be role models for others. In “Finding Nemo”, character education is exemplified in a plethora of areas,…

Many lessons were learned by Scout and Jem during the time of Tom Robinson’s case. Harper Lee’s fiction piece To Kill a Mockingbird is an American classic.Both Scout and Jem learned many lessons from Atticus. Scout learned from Atticus that you must take a walk in someone’s skin to truly understand them. For example, when Scout saw Walter Cunningham Jr. pouring syrup all over his breakfast, she was very confused. But she did not think about what it’s like to be a Cunningham and realise he’s…

Throughout the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, we see Scout learn many valuable life lessons that help grow as a person. Most of these important lessons come from Scout’s father, Atticus, a wise man that has justice running through his veins. Therefore, Atticus is the most influential person in Scout’s life. One lesson that Scout learns from Atticus is that you can’t shoot “mockingbirds.” This is an important lesson that Scout finally wraps her mind around when she says “it would…

Boo Radley and Tom Robinson are both symbolized by the mockingbird. First, Boo Radley is a mockingbird. One-way Boo is a mockingbird is that he never comes out in the beginning of the book. Throughout the book they refer to the mockingbird but one was never seen. Mockingbird never bother anyone, they do not do anything to people. Just like the mockingbird Boo never bothered anyone. Nobody had issues with him, it was only that nobody ever saw or knew what he did. One other way Boo is a…

Sky Burial, also known as celestial burial is a ritual commonly practiced in many provinces such as Mongolia and Qinghai, but mainly in Tibet, has been done for a thousand years. It is the way of disposing the body in the most beneficial way, by it being fed to the vultures. They consider the body after death to be empty so there's no harm in disposing it in the most generous way possible. It starts off with the body being untouched for three days then wrapped with white cloth and finally…

Gemini constellation , i choose this constellation because I like the duality that's can have someone in the emotions , this represents the zodiac sign of the twins . This constellation represents the brothers Pollux and castor , their mother was Leda but they didn't have the same father , Pollux father was Zeus that makes him inmortal but castor father was Tyndarus which makes him mortal . Castor was a renound horseman and Pollux was famous by his strength , but in one adventure castor died so…