Speech For To Kill A Mockingbird

Martin Luther King Jr. famously said “I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character”. Even though Atticus Finch is not black, he still thinks they same way as Martin Luther King Jr. and still wants the same for his children: a society with equality for all races. In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, he delivers a persuasive speech in order to free an innocent black man. Even though he does not win the case, Atticus succeeds in making an impact on the future of racism in Maycomb. By using logic in his closing speech, Atticus forces the town to examine their awareness of the prejudice in their own lives.

“To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee is a novel that explores the theme of courage throughout key events and through character. The novel is narrated by Jen-Louise Finch over a two year period revolving mainly around the trial of Tom Robinson.

Closing Remarks In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch, the main character's father makes his closing remarks to the jury before they decide Tom Robinson's fate. In Atticus's summation speech he uses four literary devices in an attempt to make an effective speech to the jury which are diction, syntax, imagery, and irony. He combines those four literary elements in his speech to undertake the task of attempting to persuade the jury to put aside their prejudice toward Tom Robinson and justly give Tom robinson the verdict he deserves.

Power is too overpowering sometimes especially for class, gender, and race. TKAM is a book written by Harper Lee in 1960. Mayella Ewell is a white, 19-year-old woman, who accused Tom Robinson, who is Negro, for rape. The book takes place in Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s in the South during the Great Depression where there was a recession. Mayella is not a powerful character based on her class, gender, and race compared to Tom Robinson.

William Shakespeare once said, "For courage mounteth with occasion." William Shakespeare is portraying that courage comes when it is needed most. Shakespeare also displays that courage makes up for the strength that is absent in arduous situations. I agree with Shakespeare's message he is conveying in entirety. In the novels, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, the courageous acts are like one lone star lighting up the entire night sky.

“ People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for.” by Atticus Finch. Atticus Finch is just one example used by the Author Harper Lee in the book To Kill a Mockingbird. There are many powerful people in this book but some of the best are the quiet but impactful ones. They have many opportunities to speak up and share their opinions like everyone else but instead choose to stand out and say it in their own ways. The quietest people are often the most powerful. Some people might disagree and say because they are quit they don’t have anything good or powerful to say.

Hey mom, it’s me Dill! I’ve been doing fine around here and am missing you so much. Though, that’s not the reason I’m sending you this letter. I’m gonna tell you about someone really interesting and I’m sure you’ll like her. Well, early in the summer, I was outside, sitting in Miss Rachel’s collard patch and that’s when I spotted Jem and Scout. Jem is a ten year old boy who is also the brother of Scout, a six year old girl. Oh and I forgot to tell you, her real name is actually Jean Louise Finch but everyone calls her “Scout”. We got to know each other very well, and liked the same things. That’s when I started to love Scout and guess what. I shared my feelings with her today! I told her that I loved her. She’s about seven years old, and lives

I came to Maycomb County to teach. I would be a first grade teacher at the little towns elementary school. I moved here because I found a house that fits my dreams. Not to big, a walk around porch, and even had a white picket fence around it. Just a few blocks from the center of maycomb county, I settled my belongings before the summer ended. I Waited for the little six years olds to walk in and fill my day with joy. I woke up bright and early. I curled my bright auburn hair, blushed my cheeks with pink roses, and painted my nails crimson. I put my high heels on and my favorite back to school dress, It was striped with red and white all along it.

“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”. Discuss this quote from Atticus in relation to 3 characters from the novel.

In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird a major theme is the loss of innocence. Whether from emotional abuse, racial prejudice or learning, Boo, Tom, and Scout all lose their innocence in one sense or another. The prejudice that each character endures leads to their loss. Through the responses of Boo, Tom, and Scout, Harper Lee shows how each character responded differently to their loss of innocence.

My cell was cold, but I was used to it. Knowing that you are innocent but being punished for it is one of the worst things that can happen. But that is how things worked, and I have just dealt with it all of my life. It was as if I didn't have it hard enough they wanted to make my life even worse than it was already. I have been torn from my wife, kids, community, and myself.

As I awaken to the eerie ringing of distant church bells resonating through our humble weatherboard residence, I can’t help but feel disenchanted that the piercing pain of my arm has failed to cease overnight. Nor has the pain I feel now that I ain’t allowed to go to ol’ Tom Robinson’s funeral, that must be why the church bells are so damn loud today. How did it get to this? Me stuck in this rotting bed, with nothing to read and no one to talk to, Tom passed on, and only two Finches at his funeral. Dead, he’s dead, I still can’t rightly understand how, how them jury men convicted a mockingbird.

READIN’ and WRITIN’ in MAYCOMB “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” - Nelson Mandela. Education is a necessity to living and to how you do things in general. Without education you wouldn’t know to talk, write, comprehend and spell words. Education changed everything, just think about it, if you were going to pick up a book and read, how would you know what those words meant, and what they sounded like?

We should study spoken language as it is truly unique and we can see the effect and beauty of spoken language in works of great orators and writers. Spoken language is truly an art, which involves many techniques to perfect and master it. One of the techniques is rhetoric. Rhetoric is the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing. The ancient Greeks first developed public speaking. Under Roman, influence public speaking developed further. This was heavily under the influence of Cicero and Aristotle. The speeches I have chosen to study are the closing speech of Atticus Fitch in the novel to “Kill a Mockingbird” and the “Battle of Falkirk” by William Wallace in the movie “Brave heart.”

Hi, teacher and fellow classmates. Today I will be talking about how a journey can have positive and negative impact on an individual. Journeys are not just limited to the process of physically travelling as an emotional journey can be seen in self-exploration and imaginative journeys can occur to transport an individual from reality into an unreal world. Michael Gow’s play script of Away, relates to the challenges, goals and discoveries which are achieved by the characters Tom, Coral and Gwen as they endure physical, emotional and imaginative journeys, whilst the film To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Robert Mulligan in 1962 utilises the innocence of childhood to convey three personal journeys as demonstrated through characterisation and