Theme Of Good And Evil In To Kill A Mockingbird

In the novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird' two important characters influence each other significantly over the course of the book. The book is set in the 1930's in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama. The novel is centered around a young girl named Scout and the events that developed her into a mature you lady. Scout develops greatly alongside her father, Atticus, who teaches Scout, along with her friends and family that life can teach you a lot of lessons, if you know where to look. Scout changes from a naïve, impulsive young girl to a mature young lady that ,with her new understanding of the world, influences the those around her. Atticus has learnt that humans are not faultless and not all of them share his moral values.

The world we live in contains people, people that are evil. Within the world throughout history and even today people show themselves to be more good than evil. In To Kill A Mockingbird, The Emmett Till trial, and the recent rape/sexual battery and other sex acts against 4 teenage girls in Mentor, Ohio the evil prevails. People have been treated like property since the world began. The world can not be trusted to be full of good. People are more evil than good.

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a coming of age story of two young children, Scout and Jem Finch, who learn how to live in the prejudiced society of the fictional town, Maycomb, Alabama. Many characters are involved in helping Scout and Jem learn important lessons and mature, whether it is by mouth or through actions. They learn how to be more gentleman and ladylike, they learn that people are sometimes cruel and ignorant, but most importantly, they learn to look at people with more than one perspective. Harper Lee uses the characters Atticus, Dolphus Raymond, and Boo Radley, to show the idea that one cannot fully understand another person until he or she walks in that person's shoes.

Harper Lee’s book, To Kill A Mockingbird takes place in the difficult times of the Great Depression in the early 1930’s. The novel surrounds the life of a young girl named Scout Finch, along with her brother Jem, and their friend, Dill. Who are forced at a young age to watch the people of their small town of Maycomb not only receive, but also give prejudice to numerous, harmless people. Whether it be Boo Radley, a shut in who falls victim to the town’s gossip, even though he is constantly showing acts of kindness towards the Finch children. Or it be Tom Robinson an innocent man that Atticus, Scout’s father must defend be accused rape, and be convicted of a crime he did not to just because of the color of his skin. Throughout the novel, the people of Maycomb deal with prejudice in the forms of sexism, intolerance of differences, and in racism.

Through the eyes of an innocent child, the story of To Kill a Mockingbird introduces a world of corruption. In the disordered town of Maycomb, certain character traits are developed and displayed in a specific local family. The opposition against their beliefs brings daunting situations to their door. Yet, this one family perseveres through the continuous corruption of Maycomb. Therefore, this recurring motif of character development really plays into the characters and, consequently, the story. This evident pattern of courage composes the Finch family: Jem, Scout, and Atticus.

The book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is about how good and evil can co-exist in the world. The two main characters in the novel are Jean Louise “Scout” Finch and Jeremy Atticus “Jem” Finch who lives in the small town called Maycomb located in Alabama. The town Maycomb is full of people who contradict themselves. Although Jem and Scout grow up to be more mature throughout the book by realizing the things about the world, the adults in the town are still able to mature and grow also. Although they have been through many more life experiences than Jem and Scout, they still have their faults.

In Harpers Lee To Kill a Mocking Bird, it’s about racism and the morality of human beings’ good vs evil. We have the Atticus Finch, who is widowed and have two kids named Scout and Jem Finch that lives in Maycomb, Alabama. Atticus Finch is defending an African American male named Tom Robinson, who is accused of raping a young white woman named Mayella Ewell, the whole town is against Atticus for defending a black man. Throughout the trial evidence against Tom was not efficient, but due to the color of his skin evidence didn’t really matter in this case. All the facts of the case pointed to the father, Bob Ewell but since Tom was black he was presumed guilty. Once the jury heard every piece of evidence they convicted Tom Robinson guilty. They go on to say that a white man’s word will always beat a black mans. Tom then went to jail, then he had escaped and was going home to tell his family that he didn’t commit this crime. Police eventually caught him and they shot him seventeen times (overkill) he was pronounced dead.

Harper Lee’s, To Kill a Mockingbird, is about a young girl named Scout Finch and her brother named Jem. They are joined by their friend Dill into the journey of growing up in Maycomb, Alabama in 1933. Their father is defending for a colored man named Tom Robinson, who was undergoing rape charges against a teenage girl, Mayella Ewell. This case makes the Finch’s social outcasts, as if they weren’t already. Even though Mayella lied in her testimony, she should still deserve sympathy because she is pressured by her father and society, beat by her drunk father, and has a lonely life.

“To Kill a Mockingbird” is a novel written by Harper Lee. It is set in America in the 1930s during the Great Depression, a time of economic decline after World War II. The novel follows a young girl called Scout Finch and her brother Jem as they learn about the prejudice and racism within their society of Maycomb County. The children and their widowed father, Atticus have a unique relationship that includes the teaching of valuable life lessons and unusual, maternal nurturing.

The wise Atticus Finch introduces this excerpt from Harper Lee’s only novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, as he gives his daughter, Scout Finch, fatherly advice. This novel, set during the time of the Great Depression, explains the story of siblings Scout and Jem Finch. One summer, Scout, Jem, and a friend, Dill Baker, decide they want to see the town’s recluse, Boo Radley, for the first time. In the meantime, their father, Atticus Finch, is defending a black man, Tom Robinson, on trial for raping a poor white girl.

The illustrious capital of Pandæmonium was brought upon to the humble town of Holcomb by a mere four shots on the night of November 15, 1959. Four proved enough to convert every man, woman, and child from mirthful laughs into lamenting cries. It has sunken the land into a city of woe and all its citizens into agents of paranoia. Neighbors that once seen each other as brothers and kin now observe each other with scrutiny and suspect. They have slept restless believing (falsely) that the sinner was amongst them. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury and your honorable judge Gratch, the tragedy of Holcomb was but one of the many left in the wake of this grotesque soul that has long been tempered by malice and hate. In the darkest hue is his ethereal essence which finds itself unfaltering against an endless deluge of pleas; of change, of mercy, and of light (Repetition: Anaphora).

To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel written by Harper Lee. The novel is about the experiences of two siblings growing up in Maycomb, Alabama during the 1930s. Scout and her brother, Jem Finch, over several years, learn valuable lessons about life and society. The main themes of the story are the loss of cherubic innocence and the rift of inequality in society. The novel is largely influenced when it was written by the author’s own experiences, Civil Rights, and the Great Depression. The Great Depression is referenced many times in the novel since the Great Depression plays an important part influencing the story’s setting, plot, and characters. In To Kill a Mockingbird there are signs that the Great Depression is present and that certain characters are affected more by it than others, and the Great Depression is shown in the story’s families and their lives.

The theme I chose is "Good and Evil", I chose this theme because I feel that throughout this story this was the most expressed theme from beginning to end. Atticus Finish always thought and would say that good always prevailed and it turns out that it did. In this story, Atticus Finch was a lawyer and he wa defending Tom Sawyer, a African American man, that was on trail for allegedly raping Mayella Ewell, he was innocent and Atticus knew he was but there wasn't any way he'd be able to prove that especially in the town they lived in. Before he was accused of these accusations he would help out at the Ewell's house so it wasn't hard for people just to assume he did it. Tom Sawyer was shot and killed trying to escape prison, but the good precailed,

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The Conflicts Between Good and Evil Found in To Kill and Mockingbird by Harper Lee