Inaccuracies In To Kill A Mockingbird

1) What do we learn about Atticus Finch, his children and the town of Maycomb in the first chapter?

In, To Kill A Mockingbird, we often see examples of racism in Maycomb as well as other misconceptions about those are not of a minority. The first example in the book is seen on page 16. In this excerpt, Jem describes how he imagines Boo Radley looks, based off of stories he has heard. He describes Boo as being six feet tall, having yellow teeth, having pooped eyes, he often drools, and that he eats squirrels and cats. As we see later in the story, these misconceptions cause the children to want to see Boo more and more, causing them to see him as a freak and not a person. The second example on page 267 comes from Scout about Mr. Dolphus Raymond, a man who is said to be half black. He calls Dill over to calm him down and Scout narrates by saying,

As the famous American author, Nerburn, says,“It is much easier to become a father than to be one”(http://www.wiseoldsayings.com/fathers-quotes). Nerburn writes about how hard it is to be an eligible father .He proposes the question, “Do people think their father is the person who is able to provide them a lot of guidance or help? In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Jem and Scout live with their father, Atticus, who is a lawyer, and regard him as an excellent example. However, Scout and Jem don’t value Atticus as a father with full diligence because he is elder than most of other students’ father and he is not able to do any sports. Due to the accident with the mad dog, atticus’s educations and the case of Tom Robinson, Jem and Scout come to understand, respect, and finally admire their father.

Mockingbirds will only sing their hearts, not cause any damage or give their lives to pleasing others. Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird great examples are shown of different types of mockingbirds. Atticus Finch, Tom Robinson, and Arthur (Boo) Radley are great examples of representing a mockingbird.

In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird the theme is that truth is vital to human relations.

“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.” Said G.K. Chesterton, writer, philosopher, and journalist. What this quote means is without knowing right from wrong, we are in a danger of mixing the two up and accepting what is wrong as normal without knowing it. Ignorance is unawareness of or lack of knowledge about something. Without ignorance, there wouldn’t be many problems in our world as everyone would do the right thing. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, there is a great amount of Ignorance shown by means of age, race, and religion.

In this essay, I obviously made a lot of mistakes, many of which I am not proud of. With mistakes in both grammar and organization, it’s quite obvious that I hurried. To begin with, the opening paragraph was good, but it all goes downhill from there. Both of the body paragraphs had mistakes in quotations and relevancy, and it looks like I just forgot to quote in them but went back and added a few words that were in To Kill A Mockingbird, even if they weren’t related to anything I was talking about. It’s a recurring theme in my essays to have a variety in vocabulary, combining simple words with advanced words.

In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, a reader can learn many lessons that are hidden as the story progresses. It not only is a story about the many life events that surround Scout's life, but it is also about the several truths and lessons about life that are given in the story. One of the themes that stays consistent in the book is many people are complicated and one must get to know a person before judging them. Throughout the story, there are several characters that don't portray the same impression of who they really are. One example of a character who exemplifies this theme is Mrs. Dubose.

The novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, takes place during a racially intense time in history. Harper Lee’s novel was intended to bring a harsh sense of reality to the real world, and demonstrate how it really was during this time in history. This novel is set in Maycomb, Alabama, somewhere during the time period of 1925-1935. Times were hard for the citizens of Maycomb during this period, because of the depression. There are many fictional events in this novel related to non-fictional racial events in history.

In this world there are many things/issues that people disagree on, these disagreements go from the smallest things, to the most complex. Disagreements are about all kinds of things, sometimes the cause protest or leads to a jury trial. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout the (main character) is the protagonist; she lives in Maycomb, this is a “racist town”, she lives with her father, Atticus, he is a lawyer, and her brother, Dill. In this strange town lives a black guy that everyone thinks rapped a woman, Tom Robinson, but Atticus, is trying to help him. Scout who doesn’t know much about “Negros” and with her father trying to help one, things gets a little complicated because she tries to help, but

The Novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee shows misunderstanding in the society. The novel shows this when Miss Caroline Fisher, a lady that just moved to Maycomb tried giving Walter Cunningham a quarter for food and he refused to take it. The novel is shown in the child's point of view because a child has an innocent mind and isn't aware of what the situations they might be going through are. One misunderstanding in the novel was when Miss Caroline Fisher, a lady that is new to Maycomb wanted to give Walter Cunningham, a former student of hers, a quarter for food and he refused to take it. She misunderstood the fact that he had no money to pay her back so even if he wanted to take it he couldn't.

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.

"To Kill a Mockingbird" an intense book book that touches on racism, coming of age, gender norms, and the importance and struggle of life. One big theme was the way the white southern neighborhood of Maycomb treats and feels about the black community. The people of the town don't see anything wrong with treating black people differently. But why are people racist? Why do people decide to treat other races differently and oppress them? It can be summed up into three mail reasons, people want a scapegoat for their problems, people will use red herring fallacies to push an agenda to ignore issues, and just overall ignorance or desensitization.

Through this unit, we have been studying one main idea: can the truth change? It seems like a simple question, but once you really think about the question, it goes a lot deeper than you think. To Kill a Mockingbird is a perfect example. There were a lot of “different truths” which “changed” over time as Scout got older and wiser, but did the truth really change?

The story, in the eyes of two innocent children Scout and her brother Jem, of the discrimination and hypocrisy throughout the town. Maycomb County, Alabama, faces an African American’s injustice while the children learn valuable lessons from their father, Atticus and their housemaid Calpurnia, during the Great Depression. All the while, we are learning from it. To Kill a Mockingbird teaches us the lessons of morale, justice and equality.