How To Write An Argumentative Essay On To Kill A Mockingbird

Today’s society is damaged with the results of people doing terrible things to each other. Peoples actions can make or break lives.The novel To Kill A Mockingbird, is about a little girl, her Brother, their Dad, and the negro they all fight to defend. The main character scout and her older brother Jem, get into all sorts of dilemmas in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama. As they learn new valuable lessons about life, they also pick up that the small town they grow up in is not as clean and safe as it seems. The father, Atticus Finch is a kind hearted soul who was given the case of Tom Robinson, a negro accused of Raping a white woman. As soon as Atticus was given the case he aimed to defend Tom but a faulty jury made sure it did not happen.To

Tom Robinson, a black man in To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the main characters in

As children grow up, they open their eyes to the harsh truths in the world around them that they once did not understand or question. This is experienced by the main characters of Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The story is of a girl called Scout and her older brother, Jem, who go through the trials of growing up in the fictional small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s. Racism is rampant in the mindset of the townspeople, shown when the children’s lawyer father, Atticus, takes the case of an obviously innocent African-American man and they convict him in their hearts before the trial even starts. Through this all, we can see the theme of loss of innocence in the children. Lee uses characterization to portray

Throughout the book To Kill A Mockingbird Lee discusses the effects of ignorance and the toll it takes on people such as Tom Robinson, Boo Radley, Scout herself, and many more. Through her examples of sexism, prejudice, and racism, from the populist of poverty stricken Southerners, she shows the readers the injustice of many. The victims of ignorance are the ‘mockingbirds’ of the story. A good example of this injustice is the trial of Tom Robinson, who is falsely accused of raping a white girl and is found guilty. The book is from the point of view Scout, a child, who has an advantage over most kids due to her having a lawyer as a dad, to see the other side of the story. Her father tells her in the story, “you never really know a man until

My name is Samantha and I am a high school Freshman in the Bay Area. Recently in English class, we have finished the classic book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In the book, we looked at the symbolism and how it relates to modern issues. I quickly noticed that the book not only show the court system in the 1960s but also the court system standing today. By having a colored man convicted of a crime he did not relates to today's issue of the colored community getting harsher and longer sentences. You are one of the people with the most power in this country so I am asking for you to put an end to the racial profiling that goes on in this country by having the jury and judge not see the defendant during hearings.

When scrolling through Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat and Twitter we see images of  people who we look up to because of their physical appearance, that we consider beautiful and reject those who don’t meet the “ideal” standards of society because we are ignorant and don’t consider their feelings. Society's standards are constantly changing, as we try to meet them we ignore the value of the people around us. Instead, we should focus and set a goal to get to know people who we think are different from us.  In the novel To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Harper Lee conveys the message of if we humans learn to accept one another and set aside our predisposed beliefs of others we are more likely to understand them better, avoid conflict and gain new perspectives and bonds.

“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind”<> -Mahatma Gandhi. This quotation captures the theme of the novel; Courage is firmly ignoring the temptation to fight and/or retaliate. . It exaggerates the detrimental consequences of giving in to that temptation, through the metaphor. In drawing out this message from the novel, I was compelled to distinguish the characters who practice peace by not giving in to the temptation to fight. The Courageous person in this type of situation is not the one who triumphs in a fight, but is the peacemaker. With this in mind, Tom Robinson, Calpurnia and Atticus Finch prominently stood out to me. Tom Robinson, Calpurnia and Atticus Finch were all

“Innocence once lost, can never be regained”. To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel written by Harper Lee in 1960 that highlights the serious issue of racial inequality. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout shows how the loss of innocence changes her perspective of Maycomb through the events of Atticus defending Tom Robinson outside of the jailhouse, The trial of Tom Robinson, and when Bob Ewell attempted to murder her and her brother. Scout’s loss of innocence can be seen when Atticus stayed outside of the jailhouse.

Innocent, loving, forgiving, sinful, sullen, judgmental, a clear contrast is seen between theses words. The first three words may convey the heart of a child, and the last three words may convey the heart of a sinner. Harper Lee shows a clear contrast between innocents and sinfulness in her book To Kill a Mockingbird. To me, this book stands out among the shelves, and it stands in first place on my book list. Out of the two award winning books I have read in English 1, I enjoyed To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee the most, because it showed the fun and adventurous life of little kids, exposed southern culture of the 1930s, and gave an impactful message.

Have you ever done something because everyone else was doing that thing? Have you ever bought something because a friend or because everyone else has that thing? In To Kill a Mockingbird: The Screenplay written by Horton Foote, Atticus Finch defends Tom Robinson an alleged rapist who was an African American during the Great Depression. Everyone told Atticus what he was doing was wrong, defending a black man during The Great Depression. Tom Robinson was an innocent man in the Great Depression who’s only case against him was that he was black and was seen near the scene at the time when Mrs. Mayella was beaten. He was being unfairly tried and represented in the court just because he was an African American during an extremely racist time in the South. Atticus saw it different than everyone else, he was the only one willing to believe Tom Robinson when everyone else was saying he was wrong because he was a black man. Sometimes doing the right thing happens when everyone else is telling you are wrong. Atticus Finch Believed in Tom Robinson when no one else did. Do what is right when everyone is telling you are wrong.

Thesis: Prejudice is a prejudgment based on the preconceived ideas without knowing or experiencing the real person or the culture.

In the book, “To Kill A Mockingbird”, there are many characters that can be seen as being truthful and wholesome, but only a few characters could be seen as a coherent comparison to a “mockingbird”. Throughout this book, numerous characters talk about the innocence and goodness of mockingbirds. When the main characters Scout and Jem received guns for Christmas, their dad told them not to kill mockingbirds because they do nothing wrong. “Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” (93, Lee)

To Kill a Mockingbird was very different from other books I have read in the past. Harper Lee writes the story in first person from Scout’s perspective; but what is different is Scout is an adult looking back on her childhood. I did not catch on to this until later in the book so I was a little confused the first part. What added to my confusion was the way Harper Lee started out the book, she used foreshadowing in the very beginning. While Jem’s broken arm was in the back of my head, I was interested in the social rankings of Maycomb. At the top were white families, with jobs inside the town, the next were poor whites that tried to make a living off farming, and at the bottom were blacks. What caught my attention was the lower middle class.

Everyone has their own special prized possession or their own quality that sets them apart from others which may or may not be a small or a large part of their lives. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Scout a six-year-old girl is narrating her life as a she grows up in a simple town which goes by the name; Maycomb County.

The To Kill A Mockingbird movie cut down a twelve-hour book into a two-hour ten-minute movie. They did this by removing many scenes that were important to the main plot. To Kill A Mockingbird is about two kids names name Scout and Jem who become aware of the prejudice throughout Maycomb as well as realizing their neighbor, Boo Radley, is not who he seems to be. Atticus, Scout and Jem’s father, teaches his children many important lessons such as, the importance of perspective; being courageous when faced with adversity; why harming innocent human beings is wrong, and how to make the morally correct choices during difficult times. The summary is the same for both the book and the movie, however, the movie leaves out