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Pivotal Moments In To Kill A Mockingbird

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“De leur meilleur côté tâchons de voir les choses:
Vous vous plaignez de voir les rosiers épineux;
Moi je me réjouis et rends grâces aux dieux
Que les épines aient des roses.” -Alphonse Karr, which translates to
“Let us try to see things from their better side:
You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes;
Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods
That thorns have roses.”
In 1853, Alphonse Karr wrote this in his book, “Lettres écrites de mon jardin” (“Letters written from my garden”), extending on the idea of perspectives through nature. Moreover, perspective is everything. Especially in Harper Lee’s book, "To Kill a Mockingbird" where Atticus teaches Jem and Scout to consider people’s point of views before making inferences. Atticus …show more content…

Pivotal moments are moments in our life that changes our identity and the way we view the things that are happening in our lives. Elizabeth Norris once said, “The pivotal moments in your life are always made up of smaller pieces, things that seemed insignificant at the time, but in fact brought you to where you needed to be.” Saying that if it wasn’t for these moments that we once perceived as irrelevant, we would see from a different perspective. In “To Kill a Mockingbird” Scout and Jem face numerous pivotal moments from the three years that have passed. Scout and Jem didn’t think much of those moments, but looking back, if it weren’t for those times their identity now and their identity that would be, would be greatly differentiated. For example, when Bob Ewell attempted to attack Scout and Jem after the costume party. That event was a huge pivotal moment for them both. It not only changed who they are and how they act, but it changed their perspective on objects and events that could trigger memories back to that moment, assuming they were largely affected by it. But, people will judge seeing that they won’t understand and they will likely never go through what they had experienced. So, people should consider their point of view, that way people won’t make incorrect conclusions about them. In Larry Watson’s Montana 1948, David Hayden and the rest of Mercer County gets hit with a pivotal moment that would change their views on upcoming …show more content…

For example on page 118-120, Scout and Jem attend Calpurnia's church service. Being white children in a black church, Scout and Jem further stand out. “Lula stopped, but she said, "You ain't got no business bringin' white chillun here—they got their church, we got our in. It is our church, ain't it, Miss Cal?” “...When I looked down the pathway again, Lula was gone. In her place was a solid mass of colored people. One of them stepped from the crowd. It was Zeebo, the garbage collector. "Mister Jem," he said, "we're mighty glad to have you all here. Don't pay no 'tention to Lula, she's contentious because Reverend Sykes threatened to church her. She's a troublemaker from way back, got fancy ideas an' haughty ways—we're mighty glad to have you all." page 119. This is the first occasion that Scout and Jem encounter racism first-hand. Jem and Scout feel as if they're the objects of somebody else's racism, which place them in a rare position. Henceforth, Scout and Jem understand that no matter what they do or how persistent they are, they will still be dealt like a superior of the black community and they see this owing to perspective. Scout and Jem noticed the black community of Maycomb County’s of view by being the minority in the black church. Scout and Jem obtain the gist of how the black community feels, but they yet never actually will feel exactly how the black community feels. Thanks to changing their

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