To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee: Quote Analysis

What exactly is power? Is it being able to control someone or simply being able to have everything under control. In To Kill A Mockingbird we will see different perspectives on things and on situations. For example, would you believe a colored man or a white woman. Is Mayella powerless because of her class and gender or is she powerful because of her race?

Jem and Scout, throughout “To Kill A Mockingbird,” learn to consider things from other people’s perspectives. Atticus, Jem and Scout’s father, says “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” (Lee 39). They learn this through experiences with their neighbor Boo Radley as they mature beyond their years. At the beginning of the novel, Jem and Scout make fun of Boo and assume that all of the rumors going around about him are true. However, later on in the story the children grow an admiration for Boo and learn to understand him. As they matured, Jem and Scout naturally learned many life lessons of appreciation, respect, and courage

In the book To Kill a Mockingbird in chapter fifteen it says “you got 15 seconds to get them outta here” this quote explains by saying that they have 15 seconds to do something and using it as a threat is showing that they currently have more power then the people that they are threatening. If they don't have power, they wouldn't be threatening someone higher in power than them. The Maycomb jail was the most hideous and bad. This is explaining what it actually looked like historically. The boom is saying and explaining what the jail actually looked like back then.

In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the characterization of Aunt Alexandra helps to reveal the theme of how reputation contradicts identity the theme is presented throughout the plotline of To Kill a Mockingbird. The way Aunt Alexandra shows this theme vocally is when she expresses her opinion to others of how family reputation should be followed by each family member. An example of this is when Scout is talking to her cousin Francis after they have eaten at the Finch's landing. As they were talking Francis brought up the subject of her dad and his case. After hearing what Francis says she gets mad at him and he replies that was what their Aunt Alexandra had said. Scout's cousin Francis says, "Grandma say it's bad enough he lets you all

“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.”(Lee,Chapter 3). This famous quote is used by Atticus Finch to explain to Scout why people should show empathy to others. Sadly, this principle is not followed by many of the citizens in Maycomb County, especially a weak and mistreated young girl named Mayella Ewell. She attempts to use her class, gender, and race to win a trial against Tom Robinson, an African American male, which she wrongfully accused of raping her. Does Mayella have enough power to overcome her situation? Mayella’s race provides temporary power during the trial, but gender and class leave her unable to change her predicament. To

To Kill a Mockingbird Many people were disturbed to see a video where a canadian women said racial comments which were driven on her emotions, theses emotions are also seen in To Kill a Mockingbird. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows that prejudice is based on emotions rather than reasoning. There are many examples such as the mob that wants to hurt Tom Robinson and the hatred that Lula has against Scout and Jem. As well of attempted murder on the children by Mr. Ewell. Theses are some of the cases where emotions took over rather than proper reasoning.

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view ... Until you climb inside his skin and walk around in it," is the concept that Harper Lee used in his book "To Kill A. Mockingbird. The main idea of the whole book is that people are "entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The only thing that does not abide by that majority rule is a person's conscience." These were words spoken by Atticus, but written by Harper Lee. The words can have many different meanings. In the book Harper Lee shows us that killing a mockingbird is wrong because all they do is sing beautifully for the people around them.

The conflict between Jem and Mrs. Dubose is one that starts out with Mrs. Dubose yelling at Jem and Scout as they pass by. Scout and Jem had been drawn toward the business district in Maycomb but they had to pass by Mrs. Dubose’s house and endure her yelling. Atticus always told Jem to endure the insults that she would use to anger Jem and Scout. However, after Jem’s birthday, he buys Scout a baton and uses it to ruin Mrs. Dubose’s Camellias after she calls Atticus no better than the trash he defends.

“Real courage in To Kill a Mockingbird is not always readily seen.” Representing a valid point and providing a thinking statement, this example represents a fantastic way to get an opinion. Scout is a 6 year old girl with a bowl full of fight. She seldom lets anyone tell her off, the exception being Atticus, her father and Calpurnia, their cook. So when somebody attacks her father or family with names and harsh word, she is bound to strike back, a bold but almost normal move.

"The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.” -Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird This quote is really significant because this quote shows the lack of justice there was at the time back then. For example, people did not care about justice or the meaning of it because they did not see the people of color equally as themselves or any other reason. The white people saw people of color as someone who was beneath them and they weren't worth their time.

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)

A variety of lessons are taught to Scout and the reader in this award winning novel. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is about a young girl named Jean-Louise Finch, or more commonly known as Scout, growing up in 1930s Alabama, USA, with her father, Atticus, and brother, Jem. As she faces challenges, she is given guidance by many people around her. Her and the reader are taught how to communicate properly with people, how respect is given and gotten, and finally, equality among everyone. The majority of these lessons (ignoring the misleading ones) are valuable and should be remembered by everyone, age aside.

Critical Review of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird is set during the 1930's in a small, isolated

Atticus FInch said the quote “you never really see a person until you consider things from their point of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (pg.). Atticus says this quote because Scout was judging Walter Cunningham for putting syrup on his food. This quote is important to the book because it teaches to not judge a book by its cover.

A possible reason as to why the book was called “To Kill a Mockingbird” is because a mockingbird is a harmless and innocent animal. Therefore, when it is killed, peace is disturbed. In the story, Tom Robinson, a black man, was said to have raped Mayella Ewell, a white woman. Throughout the story, he has been wrongfully accused of raping her. Due to this reason, innocence and peace has been taken away or killed.