Essay On To Kill A Mocking Bird

Understanding perspective is essential to understanding people. Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird presents this idea in multiple passages of her writing. It can be seen in the rough, unknown troubles that people face despite their wrongful actions. As well as the rumours that are untrue and give complete false impressions of people. Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird uses these topics to illustrate the dangers of judging others before getting to know them.

Throughout most novels, characters encounter obstacles or events that once faced change their lives for the better or worse. In this book, that obstacle is racism. This is evident in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird when ... ____________________. Due to... ____________________. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Dolphus Raymond, Tom Robinson and Bob Ewell each encounter racism in different ways; however, they all suffer as a result.

The book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee should be read and taught in school considering the facts that it teaches the important message of learning to stand in other’s shoes, and that the reader can see the wide range of diversity such as socioeconomic status and race. In the real world, we will come across many different people with different backgrounds and views. It is easy to look at those people and think, “they are strange,” or “they don’t understand anything.” I admit, before reading this book I was insensitive to this and didn’t even realize when I looked at people and made those assumptions. This book has helped me be not so judgmental and be able to see from other people’s point of view. While some may say this book shouldn’t be taught because it is “racist” or

In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, she shows that racism and fear can overpower the truth and facts of a situation. While reading this book, it showed me just how much hatred Whites had for Blacks. My ideas of personal courage changed because it showed me that standing up for the right thing can be very difficult especially when you have been treated a certain way for so many years.

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it”. Discuss this quote from Atticus in relation to 3 characters from the novel.

In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird a major theme is the loss of innocence. Whether from emotional abuse, racial prejudice or learning, Boo, Tom, and Scout all lose their innocence in one sense or another. The prejudice that each character endures leads to their loss. Through the responses of Boo, Tom, and Scout, Harper Lee shows how each character responded differently to their loss of innocence.

To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee is a Pulitzer Prize winning novel, that offers a view of life through a young girl’s eyes. The novel is focused on two main themes which are racism and discrimination.

The way and rate that people mature at can be directly attributed to the values and beliefs of the society that surrounds an individual. It is undeniable that society’s perspective on many controversial issues will generally be adopted by the younger generations in a given society. Moreover, the exposure to significant events, coupled with the major influence of family members, can have an enormous impact on how an individual matures. Additionally, family members greatly help each other develop into moral adults by instilling in each other values that will ultimately determine an individual’s character. In Harper Lee’s timeless classic, To Kill a Mockingbird, the constant reiteration of Atticus Finch’s values, in

Through the course of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Jem encounters a series of events that cause him to grow up. During Tom Robinson’s trial, Jem’s eyes were opened to the racism and prejudice of the South: loss of innocence, a major theme in the novel, is a realization of the cruelty and injustice in the world, and that one must develop a tolerance for it.

Throughout history, there has been an overarching theme that writers write about. Great authors write about what they know. They write about what they see. They write about what they hear. They write about personal experiences and incorporate details from their lives into their literature. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is a classical work that reflects the Civil Rights and Women’s Movement of the 1950’s-1960’s through her depiction of the relationship between blacks and whites and her portrayal of female characters.

“To Kill A Mockingbird” is marvelous and unforgettable novel. Not only show how dramatic, sad in and old town – Maycomb be like, but through her unique writings, some big conflicts about politics and critical is going on through this tired old Southern town. Not just in general like education, friendship, neighbors but also pacific in individuals like family and the people’s characteristics themselves. In one book yet can covered with such many problems, Harper Lee must have been experienced a lot and deeply understanding that time. That is why the book lives, becoming literature and get the love from the audiences a lot. One of the problem and mostly run along with the story and interest me is racism between white people and black people

To Kill a Mockingbird shows misunderstanding in society because when a person does something that wasn’t meant to happen people will always misunderstand. Misunderstanding is shown from a child’s point of view, because a child will believe anything an older person says. For example a man could have done something, that wasn’t meant to be done, and the grown ups could be talking of how the incident was meant to be done on purpose, and children hear, and they will be having the idea of a man doing something on purpose. In the world there’s many people having trouble, because people are being killed, when the person is innocent. There has been some black people that have been shot, just for doing a move, and it was misunderstood.

     In my opinion theme with the most impact in 'To Kill a Mockingbird" is Hypocrisy as shown in three main incidents . These are the teachings of Ms Gates about the atrocities of Adolf Hitler whilst she hated blacks ; the missionary circle trying to show how Christian they are while believing that to be a brother of Christ you must be white and finally the hypocrisy of the American court system in the 30's by saying they stand for justice.

To Kill a Mockingbird taught people many things; one of the things it taught was how to treat other people with kindness. This book showed how people should treat other people despite what age, race or their attitude towards others. One important quote from Atticus that shows this is “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (Lee 39). This taught people not to judge a book by its cover. It taught people to look at things from the other person’s perspective to try to understand what they are going through and see why they act like that. Harper Lee carries this theme from the very beginning of the book to the end. James Mcbride said referring the the first paragraph of the novel “It sets up the whole story. By speaking to the specific, the story of how her brother broke his arm, she speaks to the general problem of four hundred years of racism, socioeconomic classism, problems between classes, problems between people who have, and the people who don’t…”(Murphy 13). This novel teaches people how to treat others with kindness and respect no matter who they are. The fact that To Kill a Mockingbird taught people to show kindness to everyone is what made it a great work of

Kennedy Barton Mrs. Bennett RLA 8.1 5 January 2017 . Literature Analysis : To Kill A Mockingbird . In Harper Lee's novel , To Kill A Mockingbird , a brother and a sister grow up in a segregated town in Alabama and face many hardships along the way . The protagonist Jem Finch matures throughout the novel when he tells on Scout for hiding Dill under a bed , realises at the trial that the world is not fair , and when he stepped up and defended Scout from a tenebrous figure which later turned out to be Bob Ewell . The first example of the maturation of Jem Finch is when Jem broke " the remaining code of childhood (Lee 187 ) ." .