To Kill A Mockingbird, also known as to hurt the innocent to seem superior. In some way we are all mockingbirds who sing our songs and thats what makes us unique. Though, we all have faults where we aren’t at our purest. Most of us are mockingbirds going on with our lives and just trying our best to get through life and enjoy it. To be a mockingbird is to act in ways for yourself that cause no harm to others and only betters the world. Examples of mockingbirds in the book, “To Kill a Mockingbird” would be; Bob Ewell, even though he has done wrong he could have had a bad upbringing and he wasn’t always being beastly towards the people of Maycomb, then there is Atticus Finch and Dill Harris.
Bob Ewell made a galore of mistakes and caused a lot
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Yes, he might have had times of being just pure
Hell on Earth but he was also a working man taking care of several children. Making mistakes is a part of life but it is safe to say that the ones Bob Ewell intended to go through with were at an extreme level of physcotic. Though he has done bad things, you never really understand who someone is until you see things from their perspective. The song that I personally think relates to
Bob Ewell is “makedamnsure” by Taking back Sunday. There is a certain lyric that is repeated over and over again, and to me it gives a glimpse of how Bob Ewell is portrayed in the book. The
Seberson 2 lyric is, “I just wanna break you down so badly/ I trip over everything you say/ I just wanna break you down so badly In the worst way.” Bob acts extremely out of control after the trial because he won but since he felt looked down to by Atticus he wanted to do all he could to hurt
Atticus, Bob Ewell decided to go after Atticus’s kids and that would be hurting Atticus in
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The song “Dammit” by
Blink-182 comes to mind when I think of Atticus Finch. The lyric that most relates to him is, “It's alright to tell me what you think about me/ I won't try to argue or hold it against you.” Atticus is constantly talked about in the book both negatively and positively when it comes to the Tom
Robinson trial but he doesn’t let what people say get to him or effect his feelings he has towards them since he knows that people are opinionated and its okay for them to act and think differently than him. With all of the negativity going around Atticus remains positive and doesn’t cut ties with people due to their actions during the time of the trial.
Someone in the story that may not seem to play a big role, but to me seems like the greatest mockingbird of all; Dill Harris. Throughout all of the book “To kill a Mockingbird”, you never see Dill doing something to hurt another, he goes on his way and minds what’s going on in his life and not the other around him. People seem to butt into other peoples business when things are going wrong in their lives but you never see Dill trying to tell others what to do and
In the fiction novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, a young girl learns about her racist community as she grows up and past her childhood and witnessing cruelty due to race. Some characters in the novel represent a mockingbird like Arthur Radley who stays inside all day and is rarely seen by anyone. There is also Tom Robinson who is a laborer and did many kind acts just out of pity, both of these characters made the community better and haven’t disrupted or hurt anyone. They all have moments where it is clear that they represent a mockingbird as their actions show kindness even with no reward. One instance in which Tom Robinson is a mockingbird is when he commonly helps out Mayella Ewell even with no pay and a crippled arm.
The mockingbird represents true goodness and innocence that should always be protected. Another character who shows loss of innocence is Tom Robinson. He is accused of raping Mayella Ewell but because of obvious evidence, he is innocent. In effect, he gets shot to death for being a kindhearted man who saw a girl in need of help and helped her with daily fixing’s around the house. He was an innocent man who had a family and a life, but that was destroyed because of the color of his skin.
1) Briefly describe the examples that Lee uses in this chapter to show Scout’s continuing character development. What does each example illustrate about Scout? There are two main examples that Lee uses in this chapter to show Scout’s continuing character development. One is a minor one involving Boo Radley, and the other is a major one involving justice. In this chapter, Scout realizes what a bother she was to Boo, and uses simple to logic to make the assumption that Boo is still alive because he is not carried out yet.
The Killing of Innocence Throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, we see more and more innocent characters become victims to the evil in Maycomb County. These characters symbolize the mockingbird, a bird that should not be harmed due to its lack of trouble inflicted on others. These characters had yet to see the evil of the world, or partake in it, and are therefore innocent. Nethertheless, they are brought to reality when they are “killed”, or their innocence is destroyed.
Also, Atticus tries his best to help Tom win the trial. This isn’t because Judge Taylor put Atticus on the case, but because he knew it was the right thing to do. Atticus even says, “...every lawyer gets at least one case in his lifetime that affects him personally. This one’s mine I guess” (Lee 101). Lastly, Atticus shows strong and incredible personal integrity because he tries not to hate anybody, but actually understand everyone.
The book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee uses characters to show that the innocent should be left alone. The first example of a mockingbird is Jem Finch. In this story a mockingbird is something that is weak and is taken advantage of. Jem’s
While perusing To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, i’d realized most characters in books are made to be universally identifiable. I soon made the correlation that each character served as a specific archetype. The archetypes in this book, that personally seemed to protrude amongst the rest were, as follows: Bob Ewells, Calpurnia and Dill. Bob Ewells character was clearly meant to be despised by the reader. His nefarious nature sustained a sickening plot for this novel.
“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy…but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." The title To a Kill Mockingbird means to destroy someone’s innocence. In Harper Lee’s To Kill Mockingbird, Atticus Finch is a white lawyer who decides to defend Tom Robinson, a black man who has been accused of raping a white woman.
In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee the term mockingbird symbolizes innocence in a person. In the novel it focuses on the fact that innocence, represented by the mockingbird, can be wrongfully harmed. There are two characters: Tom Robinson and Arthur “Boo” Radley that are supposed to represent the mockingbird. In the novel, Tom Robinson is the best example of a mockingbird because he is prosecuted for a crime he did not commit. Also, he was judged unfairly based on the color of his skin in his trial.
According to kill a mockingbird, mockingbirds represents a sense of innocence. In the book, Miss Maudie explains to scout, why to kill a mockingbird is a sin. She says, “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
A person cannot call themselves a noble person if they can’t understand others. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is told in first person by Jean Louise Finch or by her nickname, Scout a 6-year-old. Harper Lee, depicts Atticus Finch as a proficient father to his two children, Scout and Jim, 10-year-old. Atticus teaches his children life lessons, one being it 's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
When a person is convicted of false allegations, who are they to tell him he is guilty. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Mr Bob Ewell is accused of many false claims. Bob Ewell is not guilty of the false statements of bigotry, injustice, prejudice, and lack of tolerance that he has been accused of. Bob Ewell was accused of being a bigot, acting intolerant, and showing prejudice although none of these qualities have ever been shown by him. Bob Ewell and his family have had a poor and rough life and have never received any help, “Maycomb’s Ewells lived behind the town garbage dump in what was once a Negro cabin.
To Kill a Mockingbird has many of underlying themes such as racism, courage, respect, femininity, etc. But the theme that fits this book most appropriately is innocence and the harm caused to the innocent by evil and bigotry. Examples of this include Jem, Dill, Tom Robinson, Boo Radley. While all these characters have completely different personalities and circumstances they all have one thing in common. All of them were innocent at one point and were harmed by the evil of
Bob does not value education, we can see this because Bob does not send his daughter to school. Unlike Atticus Bob does not follow the law. Atticus and Bob Ewell don’t just have influence over their children, they also have an influence over the whole town. While Atticus has a positive effect on the town Bob has a negative effect on the town. Atticus influences the town to take in African Americans and make their town bigger, instead of being racists.
Today, we are gathered here to remember and celebrate the life of a dearly loved friend, neighbor, lawyer, and most importantly father. Atticus Finch was loved by many. From a young age, my father taught me, not only simple things such as right and wrong, but life long lessons. As a young girl, I didn’t always realize what he was doing but he managed to sneak in a lesson in just about everything we did. I used to think Atticus was the an epitome of absolutely everything I thought was a perfect father, I now know that he was in fact.