To Kill A Mockingbird Character Analysis

“To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee is an exceedingly powerful novel. It includes many significant minor themes such as racism and hatred which leave the reader to have grown more attentive to the past once they complete the book. The book takes place in Maycomb County Alabama during the great depression. During this period there was a great deal of hate and prejudice towards people of color, in addition to a great regard to social class. The novels protagonists, Atticus Finch a well-respected lawyer and his children Jeremy “Jem” Finch and Jean Louise “Scout” Finch are a few of the towns occupants who respect others regardless of social class or race. For this reason, Atticus has no objections

To Kill a Mockingbird, author Harper Lee uses unhypocritical, more experienced characters like Atticus to expose Jem and Scout to adult knowledge. Their adult influence is what brings about the empathetic growth and maturity of Jem and Scout.

Can you recollect a person that you hate all the time? Is this person rude, not sociable, emotionally abusive, or just plain racist? In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the novel digs deep into the roots of Social Classes. One of these classes, in particular, is “White Trash.” “White Trash” is a class that has the poor white people that don’t contribute much to society and sometimes even make the society worse. There is one character that everyone loathes in Maycomb, and he is Mr. Ewell. Harper Lee portrays Mr. Ewell and his kids as uneducated, racist, murderous pigs because of three reasons. This family disrespects other members of the community in cruel ways, abuses their power by accusing a black man of rape, and tries to kill two

“The ability to do something that frightens one.” This quotation shows that to have courage isn’t always when you are being brave but when you finish something that you start. In the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” By Harper Lee,  Many characters show the trait of courage throughout the book. It also shows many important parts of the book through these quotes that are shown. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper lee Atticus shows the trait of courage a lot in the book.  The next two quotes are ones that show that Jen is a person in the novel that shows the trait of courage when he tried to find boo.  these quotes are ones that show that Dill has courage because he travelled by himself and because he he is a daredevil. In my three

Maycomb County, Alabama during the Great Depression a young lady, Mayella Ewell blamed a black man, Tom Robinson of something incredibly despicable that turned Maycomb upside down. Mayella took advantage of the laws back then so that she could end the aggression her father gave her. Mayella is powerful due to the fact that she is white, her family is the poorest family out there, but because of her color she will always be preferred over African-Americans. In “To Kill A Mockingbird,” Harper Lee uses class, race, and gender to determine if Mayella has power after all.

Courage is an essential human quality. Facing fears against all odds is a feature in many novels. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is no exception. Many characters depicts the quality. Some in normal situations others, take on terrifying tasks in a unique and original way. Scout, Jem, Atticus, and Ms. Dubose show bravery in many areas of their lives, one character risks their careers, others have a situation that lacks massive consequences.

A mockingbird is someone or something that does no harm to others. In the story To Kill A Mockingbird, there are three characters that symbolize a mockingbird. They are Boo Radley, Atticus Finch, and Tom Robinson. These characters are innocent and do good to others. They also deserve no harm to be done to them.

"'Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy...That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.'" (119) Reading the beginning of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, one would assume there is no connection with the title to the storyline. After delving deeper into the novel the connection becomes evident. The concept of the mockingbird is introduced when Scout is given a gun for Christmas, she is then told by her father that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird. Scout dismisses this fact until it becomes relevant again, when someone in her life is compared to mockingbird after a life altering experience.

In the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”, the author Harper Lee portrays multiple characters as mockingbirds. This includes three completely different men in Maycomb County; Tom Robinson, Atticus Finch, and Arthur “Boo” Radley. The topic of the mockingbird first appears when Scout and Jem are playing with their new air rifles. Even though Atticus doesn’t teach his kids how to use one, he tells his children “Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” (119) Confused at this, Scout and Jem visit their fellow neighbor Miss Maudie who then further explains “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’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” (119) Therefore, we learn that killing a mockingbird

Morals (n.) Principles or habits with respect to right or wrong conduct, the moral teaching or practical lesson contained in a fable, tale, experience, etc. Jem and Scout, in the book To Kill A Mockingbird, are two siblings who befriend a young boy named Dill. Throughout the book, these three learn valuable lessons from Jem and Scout’s father, Atticus, and many other characters. Mrs. Dubose, an important character, is rude and does not agree with Atticus’s views. She tells Jem this and Jem gets very angry and tears up her beautiful camellia, Snow-on-the-Mountain. As a result, Atticus makes him read to Mrs. Dubose as a distraction from the pain of being severally sick. Mrs. Dubose later dies, and Atticus tells Jem that she was a morphine

The character Atticus impacts the story and many people throughout the book “To Kill A Mockingbird,” by Harper Lee. However, does Atticus change much throughout the story? Do the events that occur throughout the story that change Jem and Scout’s views of many thing even affect Atticus? Atticus knew that Maycomb would disrespect Tom Robinson. He knew that in the court Tom Robinson would get a lot of hate. Since Atticus does not change much throughout the story, what does he represent and symbolize, and how does he affect others. Atticus is an educated and respected southern gentleman, whose traits continuously take people by shock.

(a life in Maycomb) To Kill a Mockingbird is a story about shells — distinctions of a person based on character, actions, circumstances, or race that society uses to define him. A few characters in this novel, though, can see through these shells, into the person beneath. Unfortunately, the rest of the world is quite different…

My favorite character in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird is Jean Louise because I can relate to her the most out of all the other characters. When I was younger, I grew up living with my male cousins and became to be more of a tomboy like Scout. Jem is Scout’s older brother. Throughout the book I could tell as he was getting older, he became more mature and grown up. He got into football and wanted to be alone more often but stayed by Scout through thick and thin. Atticus is Jem and Scout’s father. I think that Atticus is the perfect dad and role model because he does good things and knows when and how his kids should be punished. He also agrees to defend Tom Robinson after he has been charged for raping a white woman. Calpurnia is the Finches’

‘To kill a mockingbird’ is set in a 1930s’ fictional town of Maycomb, in the US state of Alabama. It tells the story of a white lawyer, Atticus Finch who defends Tom Robinson, a black man wrongly accused of raping a white girl. The abolition of slavery had done little to alter attitudes in the Southern states, where white supremacist ideas continued to rein. It is in this environment that Atticus Finch tries to bring up his two children, his son Jem and daughter Scout, as free thinking and considerate human beings. Jem and Scout pass the house of Boo Radley, on their way to school. Radley is believed to be a reclusive lunatic which gives his house an eerie air, but in their childish curiosity, Jem and Scout try to get Boo Radley to make an appearance outside his house, till they are stopped by their father who believes Boo Radley has a right to live life on his terms. The story’s title theme is seamlessly woven into the narrative, first when Scout is first told of how it is a sin to kill a mockingbird because it only sings to give joy and causes no one any harm. In the story, Boo Radley who is wrongly judged by outsiders and Tom Robinson falsely accused are representative of the mockingbirds, in a society unwilling to give up old ways of thinking and living, simply because new ways represent a redistribution of privileges they believe they are entitled to by virtue of being part of the crowd and being white. The main plot of the novel is the trial of Tom Robinson. Jem and

“There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.”-unknown. The novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is about good versus evil and reveals that good and evil live side by side with each other and where there is good, there is evil, meaning that people can do bad things and seem like bad people but they might have a good heart and soul, even with their past mistakes. In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the story is told through the eyes of a young lady named Jean Louise Finch, or Scout, during The Great Depression in Alabama in the 1930’s. There are many ups and downs that Scout and her family and friends go through, but they are all growing up a little bit in each chapter and they learn something new. She survives her brother, Jem’s mood swings, embarrassment at the play, touching the Radley Place, and even a physical attack towards her and Jem. But, it’s all a part of growing up.