Narrative Essay About Independence

Situations in one’s life change change his morals and values. Jem and Scout, main characters in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, learn new principles of life throughout an important court case their father takes on. To Kill A Mockingbird has many themes that relate to the real, modern world. Empathy, courage, morals, bettering oneself, and personal integrity each are a life lesson in the novel, and can be related to the world today.

Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird is a study in the way people’s view of the world changes as they grow older. To Kill a Mockingbird is from the point of view of a six year old girl, Scout, the daughter of a lawyer. She is forced to grow up quickly when Atticus defends an innocent black man in the South, much to the dismay of most of the white citizens. Lee uses similes and personification in To Kill a Mockingbird to show the challenges and discoveries that children make while transitioning from a child to an adult.

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I belivie that in the past and even today men are seen as the stronger sex. They are the ones who make the destions and control most things. This fact makes me want to work more harder and stronger to be able to take care of my self. I see my self as being able to be independent and deserve to be happy. And I want everyone to to feel and see themselves this way. I'm also fully aware that I'm not quite ready to be completely independent. My age has a lot to do with that. Most people wouldn't rent out an apartment at 17 years old. But as I continue to grow and change I will become more mature and capable of reaching that leaves of independence.

In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the main characters in the book go though many important circumstances that mold them into the people they are going to become in the future. Atticus and the other parent figures try to mold Jem and Scout into contributing members it societe and keep them from following the path some of the other members in the town has gone down. This relates to our own lives because everybody will always have positive and negative influences that we seek guidence to pick the right path to go down. Just like the book we usually seek this guidance from our parents or other influential elders like teachers. Even though this book took place in the year 1930 there are still many life lessons that we can take from

I am fixing my hair, and humming along to a song I heard on the radio, when I hear the concert start. I heard the announcements begin and the lights go dim. There was people all around me. People tripped over cords or called out demands. Some had microscopic mics on their faces, some had been putting on makeup on.

“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.” (Chapter 3 TKAM). This essential piece of advice from Atticus guides Scout through the her journey of growing up and helps her develop an enriched sense of self, she understands that not everyone around her is the same. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee portrays children all being raised in the same small town while having completely different backgrounds and morals. Harper Lee’s book illustrates how the varying aspects of a child's life affects their behavior and outlook on life. Surroundings, Family, and financial status all play a big role in how the children were prepared to be active, responsible,

During an individual’s childhood, culture and morals have a dramatic effect on the outcome of the person as an adult. In Harper Lee’s classic To Kill A Mockingbird, she writes the novel based on a young girl’s point of view to exemplify the racial prejudice that occurred throughout Maycomb, Alabama. Scout Finch, the narrator, goes through situations with multiple characters during the novel that show Lee’s perspective on The Great Depression time period. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee stresses the theme of innocence destroyed by evil using several characters symbolized as mockingbirds, analyzing the characters’ morals, and detailing the Tom Robinson court case.

Moments later I could hear the beating drums, and the electronic music sounding from all the speakers, no movement on stage besides the flickering lights. The crowd fell silent, awaiting the moment for Tyler Joseph (the lead singer) to enter the stage. The lights dimmed, the music stopped, the crowd grew stiff and the world stood still. Then, the sounds abruptly bursted my ears. I immediately remembered the song and sang along to it, even though my raspy voice hurt my throat, it was something to add

All I want is to be free. Why can’t I? My owner, one Dr. Emerson, is now among the deceased, and I will go to his wife, Irene Emerson. My hopes of freedom are dashed.

I slowly get off the plane, wishing I could go back to Bangladesh. I am going to miss the fourteen years I have spent there. Surprisingly, I’ll even miss the unclear foggy sky and the dreadfully slow traffic. My family wanted to get out of this corruption and move to a better place. They decided to go to a large country in North America called Canada.

Along with many other Zers, independence is my “thing”. Since I was a little kid, I’ve had to pave my own way through life. My older brother and sister were always competitive with each other, but I couldn’t do everything they were doing because I was younger; I stuck to playing dolls by myself instead of playing sports with my siblings. I don’t really play with dolls anymore; however, I do not want to go to Marquette University and major in business like my older siblings. To my parents dismay, I also dread having to do things other people want me to do. I am always being told to clean my room or to do the dishes, and the very fact that I’m being told what to do makes me not want to do it. This is also seen when I’m told I can’t do something,

Often the thought of independence refers to the ideas of a great war fought against an oppressive enemy, such as the Revolutionary War fought by the United States for their independence from Great Britain, a controlling colonial ruler; however, independence does not always have to be on such a grand scale. Independence can also mean an individual’s freedom to do whatever, to go wherever, and to say whatever he or she pleases. This underlying theme of independence is bolstered by both the plot and the characters of the story.

     Graduating and getting out on your own is a difficult step to make. There are a lot of things that you have to take into perspective. The choices that you make when you get out of highschool believe it or not are crucial and life altering. Decisions that you have to make are ones like what you want your career to be, where you want to live, and a big decision is buying a house. In making these decisions you have to do a lot of research and things to be prepared. I did a lot of research in hopes of finding a career that I would like and three things that I could see myself doing was owning my own spa ($100,000 yearly salary), managing a spa($60,000 yearly salary), or being an

I was young when the independence movement started. I was only 12 when we first gained our independence from Britain. Life was very different before then, we were under British control. I was not very aware of what was happening at the time, but each night I would hear my mother and father talking. They would talk about what was happening and how they were excited to gain independence from Britain. It wasn’t until that I was around 17, that I started to understand what was happening.