Quotes From 'Mark Mathabane In To Kill A Mockingbird'

¨ ‘Your father’s right,’ she said. ‘Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it is a sin to kill a mockingbird.’ ” (Lee 119)

“Knowledge is power” Sir Francis Bacon. Atticus, a character in To kill a Mockingbird, understands that his knowledge has the power to do many things, including influence the lives of many people. Atticus does his best to influence his children, and educate them every chance he gets. Atticus does his best to teach his children what is right and what is wrong, and in doing this Atticus made one point immensely clear. It is a sin to kill a Mockingbird.

One theme of this book that I found interesting was the importance of baseball in Mark’s life. He speaks of the importance of the Philadelphia Phillies to him, because he enjoyed watching the players “bust their butts” every year, and he looked up to players like Steve Carlton and Mike Schmidt (34). Mark was also quite an avid baseball player himself. Even though his first experience with the sport was just a simple game of whiffle ball in the backlot, the most important part of the game was still there. The beautiful thing about baseball is that it doesn’t matter who you are, all races, hearing or deaf, you can play just the same as everyone else. This also opened Mark’s eyes to the what it was like to be different. His friend Sekou, whom he played baseball with, was an African American and he realized that there were certain societal restraints on what Sekou could do. He was frustrated that Sekou, “one of the few people who unconditionally accepted him for who (he) was”, wasn’t able to do certain things because “(his) skin color was a big deal” (35). Mark also learned an important lesson from Sekou’s family when Sekou’s father brought him to their barbershop. As the only white person in the entire shop, Mark understood what it was like to be a racial minority. He

Power, it is something that everyone wants, it classifies us. “To Kill a Mockingbird” is about a powerless black man, Tom Robinson, accused of raping a white woman, Mayella Ewell. Because of Mayella’s class and gender she is powerless, but her race makes her have a little more power.

Do you know what it feels like to be powerless? A white nineteen year old woman named Mayella Ewell Falsely accuses a black man of raping her in Maycomb, Alabama, in the 1930’s, and is rendered powerless, due to being recessive in her social class, race, and gender. She does so in hopes of escaping her abusive father, and a chance to have a better life. Although Mayella is white, she has been shunned by African Americans and other white people. Mayella is a very young woman that does not own anything nice, nor clean, besides geranium flowers. During the 1930’s, men were the dominant sex, as a female, Mayella has to obey her father, Bob Ewell. As a result, Mayella was mistreated and abused.

In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, the atmosphere of discrimination normalizes the use of slurs, and the ostracization of certain members of the community, for the children in the novel. To Kill A Mockingbird, written in 1960, set in the fictitious town of Maycomb, Alabama. This novel, from the perspective of the character Scout, is a tale of identity, injustice, and inequality in a time of heavy discrimination. In Lee’s novel, the use of slurs is a common occurrence in the town of Maycomb. Scout, as well as the other children in the novel, are exposed to adults and their peers using these slurs, and, consequently, slurs become a desensitized part of everyday language. From the beginning of the novel, Boo Radley is an enigma to Scout,

The book “To Kill a Mockingbird”, by Harper Lee is about Scout Finch and her older brother Jem living in Maycomb, Alabama during the great depression. Scout and Jem spend a lot of their time watching over Boo Radley's house with Dill, their friend. Scout and Jem's Dad, Atticus, agrees to help a black man, Tom Robinson, by being his attorney where Tom is accused of Rape. The theme, Do not judge a person before actually getting to know them, is show in many different ways.

This quotation quite literally means that when someone does something, they do not realize how it affects the person unless they experience it themselves. Atticus is saying “treat people the way you want to be treated” in this quotation. The mob that night was filled with regular people Atticus and the children saw on a daily basis, but there they were not themselves. Scout snapped them back into reality and let them know they were not doing the right thing. The use of wild animals symbolizing the mob truly showcases how strange they were acting due to a single court case. To me, the deeper meaning is that sometimes people do not do the correct thing and it makes them seem like animals, yet at the end of the day they are just like us. (Making a Connection/Interpreting)

Trying to prove that he has just as much understanding on the matter of injustice and racial discrimination, if not extra. King then appeals to emotion or pathos by explaining the sufferings; his community has passed through. He says, “When you has seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim.”, moreover, “when you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick, and even kill your black brothers and sisters.” In this sentence, he is exercising subversive words like “vicious mobs” an affinity such as “lynch your mothers and fathers." Through practicing this kind of vocabulary and sentence construction King is making them envision and feel what he had seen his family and friends go through in difficult times. Throughout the entire paragraph that uses this kind of sentence structure and vivid imagery, the readers begin to feel King’s position, pain, and struggles he had to go through. It is an impassioned paragraph that uses

There are many memorable quotes in the thousands of novels around the world, but there is definitely a good number of them in the popular novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. These quotes vary from many different kinds of topics. Some of these topics include being courageous, seeing something from someone else’s point of view, and mockingbirds. Courage sticks out out of all these examples. Quotes of courage and what it means, plus the different variations of it, are scattered around the book and can be tracked and analyzed to a few specific quotes.

Taking a stand (verb): Adopt a firm position about an issue. This is a classic way to show someone’s stand on problems in today’s society, or even in the past. In To Kill A Mockingbird (TKAM), Atticus Finch, father to Scout and Jem Finch, defends an innocent Black man against rape charges and ends up in a spiral of hate, even though he was merely standing for equal rights for everyone in 1930’s Alabama. Many people in real life also took a stand for things they believed in. Taking a stand can change your community, and even the world, and here’s a few examples.

Whether Mark likes it or not, The Holocaust becomes central to how he comes to term with how his own personal identity, and how it is to be shaped. It later becomes the enforcer of the

Jesse has a black friend and ponders “what did he do?” during the lynching as a child; as an adult he fills himself with racial hatred, disgust, and assault (Baldwin 1337). He lives in a community that has normalized racism, that the death of a black man is a triumph, and that African Americans are dogs the white citizens must chain up; external values overpower him and become a part of his identity, because he grows up only exposed to racial values of this community. At the same time, the experience of taking away a black man’s sexuality and identity excites him even as Jesse becomes an adult: he often “[picks] up a black piece or [arrests] her,” “violently [stiffens]” after beating a black inmate, and feels “dreadful pleasure” upon remembering the lynching (1328, 1331, 1333). However, upon encountering a more aggressive Civil Rights Movement, Jesse “[misses] the ease of the former years” and becomes much more vigilant like the rest of his community (1332).

Have you ever wondered how a person feels at that very moment? Or to be able to understand a person's actions. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee she uses the quote “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.” (39). The quote puts the thought in your mind, how would it be to live like this person, or that person? Whether it be the richest man alive or the poorest man, you can never understand a person's point of view until you're actually “walking around in their skin.” In addition, the quote relates to characters in the novel, and to someone I personally know, where you can never understand how a person thinks or feels unless you actually walk around in their skin.

Who would destroy something that contained a heart filled only with good? The answer to that can be found in the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee in an unjust time of unequal opportunity. The story follows the retelling of an 8-year-old girl named Jean Louis and those around her moral growth. She lives in Maycomb Alabama during the Great Depression. She has many chapters of growth including changing from afraid of a person to wanting to meet them, seeing people put on masks in order to avoid judgment, and watching an innocent man go to jail. Scout learns that to Kill a mockingbird is a sin for they have done no wrong, that people make that most meaningful mockingbirds, and the true significance of them because of the moral growth they bring about in people.