The Coexistence of Good and Evil

To Kill a Mockingbird is a story about injustice, racism and the co-existence of good

In To Kill A Mockingbird, the understanding of good vs. evil changes depending on age, race, perspective, environment, and experience. A young girl, Scout Finch, comes across good and evil as she confronts lies, attacks, and racism in the small town of Maycomb. Harper Lee uses Scout’s life to show the readers that one’s perspective of life will change as they grow older and mature. As Scout matures and comes close to her death of innocence, she is able to balance her thoughts on good and evil and starts to see the true, ugly colors of Maycomb and its people.

Arguably, one of the most important themes in the book is good vs. evil. To Kill a Mockingbird asks an important question concerning this theme: ‘Is it possible to become an adult and still keep a child's ignorance to injustice?’ Harper

Imagine a world where evil and unjust actions are based on the color of skin; a world where some don’t even realize that they are prejudicing. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, these themes are present. People and how they commit evil, hypocritical, and unjust acts. We see these themes and great issues through the point of view of a child; the vigorous, youthful, elementary-aged Scout. Through this character Harper Lee shows the innocence of children, and what they go through in our inequitable world.

Like Mark Twain, Harper Lee in his masterpiece , To Kill a Mockingbird, presents the theme of the human predicament in an image of man’s inhumanity to man. Throughout the events of this novel , there are many types of inhumanity – whether intentional or not. However , Harper Lee can clarify that life is not always fair through witnessing the killing of these three mockingbirds.

As Mahatma Gandhi said, “Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of morality.” Demonstrated every day in reality, and expressed in many works of art and literature, this maxim may best be shown in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. To Kill a Mockingbird is the multifaceted and passionate story about and narrated by young Jean Louise “Scout” Finch as she grows up in 1930s Alabama, telling of the lessons she learns about prejudice, justice, and social rules. The narrative of her family, her neighbors, and society in general are seen through her eyes, and her own growth in response progresses throughout the book. The themes of To Kill a Mockingbird - of innocence, prejudice, morality, belief, and justice - each

The conflict between good and evil is very common, even in day to day life. It is impossible for pure good and pure evil to coexist, and this is apparent in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In this book, we see a racist town of Maycomb in the mid 1900’s react to injustice through the eyes of Scout Finch, a young girl with brother Jem and caring father, Atticus. While young, we see the children of Atticus Finch grow and mature through his teachings and good morals, as well as see them experience and witness the good and evil in their townsfolk. Through characterization and figurative language, the author develops a theme of good vs. evil. Lee uses characters Boo Radley Bob Ewell to convey the idea that the conflicts

In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which. - George R. R. Martin” The term “good and evil” comes about in To Kill a Mockingbird in such a profound way that it causes the reader to dive deep into the characteristics the character to find the truth within them. Numerous characters Harper Lee chose to develop, in the book, have multiple characteristics that are either disliked or admired, but there were a particular few, who appeared rarely but were always gossiped about. Harper Lee’s 1960 book “To Kill a Mockingbird” demonstrates how one can be perceived as good or evil. To Kill a Mockingbird addresses good and evil through characters such as Boo Radley and Tom Robinson.

Every man or woman is capable of harbouring innate evil. From the first mention of Adam and eve in the bible, man has continuously committed evil and co-existed with it. Regardless of whether it has always been there or man created it, evil has remained embedded within our society. Even in many classics in literature, the depiction of evil as the driving force and the heart of the story are common; this includes Harper Lee’s bestselling novel and social commentary “to kill a mockingbird”. Harper Lee creates and develops the book to comment on the negative, but also the positive aspects of society. One of this includes the development of the reader 's understanding of man’s capabilities to do good but also evil. Through the characters’ actions and the prevalent racism, then, she depicts human nature’s capabilities to harbour both evil and good within a person. Thus, she comments on how evil and good coexist within a person and that humans cannot be strictly evil nor good beings. She is telling the readers that we are all capable of harbouring both and have both qualities inert or alive inside.

A tale of childhood and an Alabama town’s troubles with racism is spun from the novel of To Kill a Mockingbird. Most critics, however, claim that the two missions the main characters undertake are not connected well. On the contrary, Harper Lee successfully intertwines the two storylines of To Kill a Mockingbird to create a more profound statement on the interaction of people with clashing ideologies. The two stories enrich each other by showing the parallels of the kids’ and Atticus’s goal to change unshakable behaviors, comparing and contrasting the two parties’ methods, and by tying together the two adventures in a way that address both possible outcomes. Many believe the tales are too different to put together, but both worlds’ objective are more similar than they seem.

To Kill A Mockingbird demonstrates the harsh depression and social changes that came about in the 1930’s through the lives of fully developed fictional characters. During this time period, racism and segregation were still a large obstacle faced by the nation, however it mostly pertained to the South. Through the eyes of Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, Harper Lee projects the idea that society will not always agree with one another's opinions, especially in such an evolving culture. The true conflict is learning to believe in yourself, even when others do not. From this, one can learn self respect, confidence and determination.

To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel written by Harper Lee has an interesting title that causes a reader remarkably curious when looking at it. Mockingbirds symbolizes the innocence in something or someone that does no harm, only good to others. Good and bad coexist within everyone, but it takes one to make the decision on how to act through their coming of age and mature from their mistakes. This coexistence of good and bad is a major theme throughout the story. Lee uses diction, imagery, and external conflict to show the metaphor of mockingbirds through Jeremy Finch as he begins his coming of age.

Prejudice, as seen through the eyes of an innocent and well-raised child, is an inexplicable curiosity which she learns of slowly. In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the author tenaciously explores the moral nature of human beings, especially the struggle in every human soul between discrimination and tolerance. The novel is very effective in not only revealing prejudice, but in examining the nature of prejudice, how it works, and its consequences. Harper Lee accomplishes this by dramatising the main characters', Scout and Jem's, maturing transition from a perspective of childhood innocence. Initially, because they have never seen or experienced evil themselves, they assume that all people are good by nature and tolerant of others. It is not until they see things from more realistic adult perspectives that children are able to confront evil, as well as prejudice, and incorporate it into their understanding of the world.

Pulitzer Prize winner ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ (1960) is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Harper Lee. Narrated through the eyes of young Jean Louise Finch (Scout), it is set in the fictional Maycomb County, Southern Alabama in the 1930s. The novel traces Scout and her brother Jem’s journey from a perspective of childhood innocence to adult maturity as they grow up under the moral code of their widowed father Atticus. Atticus accepts the demoralising task of defending an African-American who is unjustly accused of the rape of a white woman in a town ingrained in a code of prejudice and discrimination. It is through various perspectives and representations of individuals, times, concepts and places that ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ explores human morality. By using the character Atticus as a moral compass, we can compare and evaluate the various perspectives of characters in the novel. This allows the audience to analyse the way in which these representations create moral, ethical and social positions of discrimination.

In conclusion, humans are capable of both good and evil. Both of the novels show the protagonist caring about other people over themselves. Also,they are both hoping for the world to be a better place.Moretheless, evil is always found all around us, even when we do not know, which also result in goodness being around us, it is just that we would have to look harder for it.All of this comes down to it evil is much easier to find than goodness. Both of the authors gave us an idea of how evil can take control of your life and even take the things you love the most away. The authors also focus about how good can come at anytime in your life. Also, they focus on the evil of human nature which teaches us that even the people around us have evil