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In Harper Lee 's classic book To KIll a Mockingbird the main character, Scout, is told by her father Atticus that most people are nice "when you finally see them". This concept that Atticus presents couldn 't be more true. Throughout the book and real life experiences, people like Boo Radley, Tom Robinison, and Dolphus Raymond are able to see and have the niceness seen in them. Atticus is a good example of a person who always tries to see the good in people and he is more or less an idealist.…

Moral Development In the book to kill a mocking bird Scout has changed or she also got more mature throughout the story. One reason is that Scout starts to learn about how the people of Maycomb feel about blacks. Scout also changes due to the fact that she did not know who Boo Radley was then she was willing to walk Boo Radley home. The third reason why scout has changed is due to the fact that she has got more time to mature. The last reason why Scout has changed throughout the book is that…

Prabhdip Kang Kang 1 Mr. Shurrie 2015/11/24 ENG2D0-D To Kill A Mockingbird Everyone gets old, whether it be physically or mentally. In the book "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, many character show maturation. All characters show physical maturation, and mental maturation. Some characters stand out. The characters that stand out in "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee,…

The symbol mockingbird stands for innocent people who try to do good things and they end up getting punished for it. Innocent people who are destroyed by forces of evil. The innocence is destroyed by people harming the mockingbird who does good things. Mockingbirds are people who have been in contact with evil.Doing good things does not always have a good outcome that comes from what people have done.Mockingbirds cannot hurt people , so it would be a sin to hurt them.The mockingbird is very…

To Kill A Mockingbird In the book To Kill A Mockingbird has many different types of symbolism with how you should treat people. Also how how people might look different but they aren’t any different than anyone else out there. Another topic that this book covers is that it doesn’t who you are or if you are white or colored you are still a human. The topics that will be covered in the follow paragraphs will be over. One of the topics that will be covered is that people have many different types…

Prejudice Shown in To Kill a Mockingbird Michael Crichton stated “Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.” This is applied to To Kill a Mockingbird by: Harper Lee because the people in the city of Maycomb discriminate against others without knowing anything about them. This is a standard way of thinking in the small city of Maycomb, Alabama during the 1933 and the depression. Told through the eyes of Scout, the story follows the 3 characters Scout, Jem,…

TKAM Essay How does prejudice affect the way we as humans get along? In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, a young girl named Scout lives with her brother,Jem, and her father, Atticus, in Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930’s. Throughout this book, Scout learns a lot of important life lessons. Prejudice plays a huge role in the book and serves as examples to Scout learning the way things are no matter if they are fair or not. Not only is Scout learning important life lessons on being fair and…

There is a point where children start to question the society they grow up in. In Harper Lee's coming of age novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, the children seem more knowledgeable than many adults on how society should work. Scout and Jem, the children of Atticus Finch, are often influenced by many of the people in Maycomb. Almost everyone in maycomb has their own views and almost all of these people have prejudice perspectives. There are only a few who don't believe that one person is better based…

To Kill A Mockingbird- The Negative Effects of Prejudice Prejudice is disliking someone or having hatred based on something they cannot control in To Kill A Mockingbird this is something that happens in their everyday lives. To Kill A Mockingbird is a story of a small town with a lot of racism between the people who live in Maycomb. Within the story there is trial where in the end it comes down to white vrs black. Prejudice in the story To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee causes a lot…

The novel I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings tells the story of Maya Angelou’s early life, full of overpowering situations from her childhood. Maya and her brother, Bailey Jr., face many difficulties but manage to come out ahead. Angelou tells their tales with a sense of wry humor, related to the reader through diction and imagery that leaves a lasting impression. One of the first difficult situations Maya faces was a rape when she was only eight. “Then there was the pain. A breaking and entering…