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Conscience In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

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Have you ever been wavering on the verge of either following your beliefs or doing what your emotions cause you to do? If you remained on the side of following your beliefs, it shows that there is a large amount of integrity in your character. If you happen to witness somebody hurting or in pain would you either watch and walk past them, although you clearly notice that they are in pain, like everybody else or would you help them because they are in need, despite the consequences. Hopefully you are the type of person who will listen to their conscience and help someone, on the grounds that, they need it, and that takes an abundance of courage to accomplish. Integrity and listening to one's conscience are two crucial characteristics that every person needs to either exude, have or acquire. …show more content…

Our conscience is a moral guide that we are equipped with and use to determine whether to do right or wrong and to follow the rules or do what you know is right. The conscience of a person is also what holds them back from doing things that they should not do because the person thinks about the consequences and the outcome if they had followed through with their original plans. For example, in “To Kill a Mockingbird” when Cecil Jacobs provoked Scout, Harper Lee described how Scout stood her ground and did not fight him, “I drew a bead on him remembered what Atticus had said then dropped my fist and walked away... It was the first time I ever walked away from a fight” (Lee, 102).If you have ever had a difficult challenge or obstacle suddenly placed in front of you and you must overcome it in order to succeed, your task, then during your journey when you feel like giving up, your conscience makes you think about what would happen if you quit “And so hold on when there is nothing in you/Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!” (Kipling,

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