To Kill A Mockingbird Quote Analysis

In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, all the literary features are established making this novel very worthy to read. This excerpt is from chapter three of the novel. It is the evening after Scout’s first day of school, and Scout seeks for help from Calpurnia, and Atticus. Scout questions the need to return back to school to Atticus, as she does not accept Miss.Caroline’s perspective on Scout having to stop reading at home.With the use of imagery and the characterization of Atticus, this excerpt proves that family with always educate you, and spoil you with

In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch says, “...You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.” This quote applies many times in the book where the narrator, six year old Jean Louise (Scout) Finch, tells us the story of her father, Atticus Finch, who tries to prove the innocence of Tom Robinson, a black man charged with rape of a young girl in the town. Though Atticus tries his best to convince the jury that Robinson is innocent, he is still convicted of the crime. The story shows the root of humanity including kindness, cruelty, innocence, and more to the townspeople, including the young, like Scout and her older brother, Jem. Throughout To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows how prejudice

Power, it is something that everyone wants, it classifies us. “To Kill a Mockingbird” is about a powerless black man, Tom Robinson, accused of raping a white woman, Mayella Ewell. Because of Mayella’s class and gender she is powerless, but her race makes her have a little more power.

In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, during chapters seventeen through twenty-one, one of the leading characters, Atticus, has to defend a black man in a court case against two white people. Before the jury is sent to make their decision, Atticus gives a closing argument speech. During his speech, Atticus uses three main types of persuasion called: ethos, pathos, and logos.

Do you know what it feels like to be powerless? A white nineteen year old woman named Mayella Ewell Falsely accuses a black man of raping her in Maycomb, Alabama, in the 1930’s, and is rendered powerless, due to being recessive in her social class, race, and gender. She does so in hopes of escaping her abusive father, and a chance to have a better life. Although Mayella is white, she has been shunned by African Americans and other white people. Mayella is a very young woman that does not own anything nice, nor clean, besides geranium flowers. During the 1930’s, men were the dominant sex, as a female, Mayella has to obey her father, Bob Ewell. As a result, Mayella was mistreated and abused.

There are many instances in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird that show how kindness and generosity are more effective than rudeness and disrespect. One example of this is when Atticus is talking to Scout about understanding other people’s point of view. He tells her, “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 36). This passage illustrates how Atticus is trying to instill good morals and values in his children. He believes that if you try to look at another point of view, you will be more successful in understanding others. Many people are closed-minded and unwilling to accept any perspective except their own. This can lead to a lot of misunderstandings and

In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, the atmosphere of discrimination normalizes the use of slurs, and the ostracization of certain members of the community, for the children in the novel. To Kill A Mockingbird, written in 1960, set in the fictitious town of Maycomb, Alabama. This novel, from the perspective of the character Scout, is a tale of identity, injustice, and inequality in a time of heavy discrimination. In Lee’s novel, the use of slurs is a common occurrence in the town of Maycomb. Scout, as well as the other children in the novel, are exposed to adults and their peers using these slurs, and, consequently, slurs become a desensitized part of everyday language. From the beginning of the novel, Boo Radley is an enigma to Scout,

The book “To Kill a Mockingbird”, by Harper Lee is about Scout Finch and her older brother Jem living in Maycomb, Alabama during the great depression. Scout and Jem spend a lot of their time watching over Boo Radley's house with Dill, their friend. Scout and Jem's Dad, Atticus, agrees to help a black man, Tom Robinson, by being his attorney where Tom is accused of Rape. The theme, Do not judge a person before actually getting to know them, is show in many different ways.

“‘Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit'em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird”’(Lee 90). Atticus Finch tells his children it would be a sin to kill a mockingbird because the act would be taking away the purity or life of something so innocent. In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee uses an extended metaphor to reveal the theme of not everyone is as they seem, by comparing Boo Radley, Tom Robinson and Atticus Finch to mockingbirds.

Atticus taught Scout a very important lesson after hearing her depressing experience on her first day of school: “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...until you climb into his skin and walk around it” (39). This book focus on how a person’s perspective determines the way they judge other people. Although Maycomb is a nice town, people in this town have the tendency to put a label on each other. Atticus lives by his principle to ignore the looks and view people by their true intention, he gives people respect first. This line impacted and influenced Scott, so much so that at the end of the story she is able to view others through a different lens. This line shows the theme of courage because

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)

Atticus Finch father of two children, always stood up for what was right in his beliefs. For example, Atticus explained to Scout that she could not hate Hitler for what he has done. Atticus never harmed anyone, which mockingbirds also do Also, after the he defended Tom Robinson, and many disliked him for it, Atticus was still elected a state legislature in his town because of his good values. . "'But it's okay to hate Hitler?' 'It is not,' he said. 'It's not okay to hate anybody.'" (246) Atticus describes to his daughter that it is not right to hate anyone even if they had done anything as terrible as Hitler would have had done. Mockingbirds also do not give any hate on anyone."'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.'" (90) Neither Atticus nor a mockingbird would intentionally hurt someone nor something. When Atticus does not show hatred, he resembles a mockingbird. Atticus was also emotionally damaged. After Tom's trial, Atticus was emotionally hurt, because an innocent black man was charged guilty. Also, when Bob Ewell was embarrassed about an event that happened upon Atticus in the trial, Bob targeted Atticus' children. Wile his children were being targeted, Mr. Finch was emotionally damaged that an event about him, affected his loved ones. "...'It's not time to worry yet.' "(213) Atticus explain when the children ask about the night before when Tom was declared guilty. Atticus explains that the case was not over yet, because of the amount of time the judge was kept when deciding the fate of the defendant. Knowing he was cheated out of the case because of the defendants' race, Atticus produced emotional damage. The actions of Atticus Finch did not only affect him, but the people around him. When Atticus lost the trial, Bob

Research shows that children are more susceptible to commit crimes, fail in maintaining long lasting relationships and develop depression as well as other psychological disorders from the effects of bad parenting. In fact, many people grow up treating others the same way their parents have treated them with reference to their parents’ values, behaviours and attitudes. Harper Lee, an American author, expressed her childhood experiences in Alabama through writing the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. In this novel Harper Lee highlights the prevailing racist attitudes that existed in Alabama in the 1930s. Lee does this by having the parenting style of Atticus, and its impact on his children, stand in contrast to these prevailing racist attitudes. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee conveys that Atticus Finch is a great parent because he is not a hypocrite, he has a sense of fairness and he has good morals and values.

“‘Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. “Your father’s right, Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy’” (119). To Kill A Mockingbird is named after this quote that Atticus says. Harper Lee used it as a metaphor to describe many of the characters who are described to be felonious people, but are actually innocent and well mannered. Atticus Finch is a lawyer and a father to Jem and Jean Finch. He believed that all people were equal and showed this by taking the case of Tom Robinson, a colored man accused of raping Mayella Ewell, and no matter how much backlash him and his kids got from taking this case, he knew it was the right thing to do. Atticus is a calm, thoughtful, and intelligent man who always keeps his head high.

It is seen as an opinion that the protagonists of the story share that to do harm to something that means you none such as a mockingbird is wrong. Atticus, Scout’s dad, tells the kids of the sin after arming them with an air rifle capable of killing birds. “Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy...but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to Kill a mockingbird (90). This quote from Miss Maudie supports Atticus’s thought that to kill something so good is wrong. This powerful concept of mockingbirds is also