Burning Courage Research Paper

His father Unoka was quoted “in his day was lazy and improvident and was quite incapable of thinking about tomorrow”. Basically saying he didn’t care about his life, so in what possible way could he have cared for Okonkwo’s. And his wife Ekwefi he didn’t technically shoot. He didn’t kill so there might have been sympathy there because she was completely defenseless and didn’t die so you can tell he intentionally didn’t kill her.

“That does not matter. What does matter is you locked me here for no apparent reason. You tricked me through wine while I was in a drunken state to come here. So you could what, bury me alive out of your own desires.”

Even with more than enough evidence to support Tom Robinson’s claim, the all-white jury declares Tom Robinson as guilty. The ruling explains to Scout and Jem that their town is not a perfect little place, but it’s full of prejudice and unjust beings. One night, while on the way home from school, Jem and Scout are attacked by a mysterious man who is actually Bob Ewell. From his house, Boo Radley witnesses the attempted murder and kills Bob Ewell with a kitchen knife. Atticus and the town’s sheriff, Heck Tate, decide to hide the fact that Boo Radley saved the children.

The two older brothers were similar in both stories but had some differences. In the “Parable of the Prodigal Son” the older brother was the more respectful son and brother. He represented self-righteousness in the story. He showed obedience to his father and viewed things in the way of the law or reward. In the story it says “… these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment; and yet thou never gavest me kid, that I might make merry with my friends: But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf” (Luke 15:11-32).

The feud ended when the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed. The FBI even launched a full scale investigation to find out who killed King. So after all that the feud accomplished nothing and nothing bad came out of it. The feud between King and Hoover could have easily been avoided. One way it could have been avoided was if the FBI never stared monitoring King and left him alone.

After John and Lorraine were arrested, John tells Lorraine “My father says I have to go to a psychiatrist.” (Zindell 151) This would show that John’s parents, or at least his dad, set boundaries that have punishments. However, later on in that sentence, Lorraine comforts John telling him that his dad would forget about the punishment before it was put to action. John then goes on to talk about how his dad reacted when the police showed up saying, “Bore didn’t even look mad” (Zindel 151).

He tries to keep order during the trial. After Bob Ewell died he went to the Finches’ house and said “ To my way of thinkin ', takin ' one man who done you and this town a big service, and draggin ' him with his shy ways into the limelight - to me that 's a sin. It 's a sin. ”(Lee, 276) Heck knew that Jem didn’t kill Bob and that he didn’t fall on his knife either.

This also portrays Oskar’s ruthless critique side that the reader has only seen little to none throughout the novel. If it were implied that Oskar does this regularly, it is assumed that this causes great stress on his mother and causes more struggle in their relationship. After searching for the lock for almost half a year, Oskar finally meets his grandfather, Thomas Sr. Thomas knows that this is his grandson but Oskar is

What would happen if a friend’s brother turned out to be a monster? In the novel Montana 1948, by Larry Watson, Wesley is the town sheriff, whose brother Frank is a well known doctor. When news reaches Wesley that Frank has been sexually assaulting Indian women on the nearby reservation and then kills Marie, his housekeeper, Wesley is conflicted on what he should do. His father, who heavily favors Frank, tells Wesley to just turn a blind eye to his crimes.

After Avery accidentally shoots Luke, he is left to deal with a guilty conscience over what really happened. He, however, uses this as a shortcut into a better job which explains how this “second section of the movie is mostly about Avery and his rise to power,” (O’Hehir). After we see Avery get away with the murder, the storyline forwards fifteen years which helps keep the mystery of the movie. The viewers then meet Avery’s son, A.J. and Luke’s son, Jason who are both now sixteen years old. Both of them, without knowing how they are connected through their fathers, develop a brief friendship which gets them both into trouble.

This act acknowledged Scout’s courage, as the next day when Cecil Jacobs taunted Scout’s father for defending and African American, she followed her father’s advice and walked off without a fight. Another example of courage is during the trial when Scout explained: “We acquire no traumas from watching our father win or lose” (Lee 229), while other lawyer’s children “Get the wrong idea, they think opposing counsel to be the personal enemies of their parents” (Lee 229). It takes extreme courage for Scout to not take the opposing counsel to an offense and understand that her father’s fight for equality was correct despite contradiction from others. To Scout, courage means to do the correct thing, although it may be difficult during certain situations. For instance, after Boo Radley saved Jem and brought him home, he asked Scout: “Will you take me home” (Lee 372), although Scout did not want to she still brought Boo to his destination.

Ultimately, the Radley house showed courage when Scout stated, “We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad” (Lee 320). This meaning that inside the Radley house Boo did not care what he got out of it, he just wanted to protect the Finch

Heck Tate's first and foremost duty was to protect Boo Radley. But because Atticus seemed convinced from the outset that his own son committed great crime and was ready to see him fairly tried. I think a secondary reason for Heck to present this argument was to protect Jem. Obviously Jem was a victim, but knowing Ewell was dead, Atticus jumps to conclusions about how it was done. I think Atticus comes to believe that there was a struggle that resulted in Jem's injury, but that Jem was the victor who actually took the life of Ewell.

People constantly change as time passes and therefore their perspectives continuously alter as well. The classic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, portrays the lives of two children, Jem and Scout, during the Great Depression, as they mature in a small, dull, and segregated town called Maycomb, Alabama. However, the once peaceful city, seen through the eyes of Scout Finch, suddenly shifts when the citizens falsely accuse a black man named Tom Robinson of raping a white woman named Mayella Ewell. The children’s view of the peaceful town transforms into a racist and stereotypical community of hypocrites. Furthermore, Scout was not the only white citizen of Maycomb to understand the unfair customs.

In William Shakespeare’s story of Macbeth and Harper Lee’s book To Kill A Mockingbird, children are used as motivators as well as an influencers of the actions and the decisions of the characters in these two stories. Children are seen as someone to inspire and to look up to you, as well as someone to fear and use a tool to manipulate others. Children are protected, and also framed for unspeakable deeds. Children are plotted against to be murdered for what they could be in the future, but they can also save someone from the same fate. Children represent a significant point of motivation for both Macbeth and Atticus Finch, the contrast exists in the course of action each man pursues: the former is compelled to do evil while the latter is compelled to do good.