To Kill A Mockingbird Quote Analysis

In the book To Kill a Mockingbird there was a lot of quotes that really made you sit back and think about life. One quote Atticus said that was my favorite was, “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.” I like Atticus’ quote because it is saying to not judge someone by the way they look, judging a person defines who you are, and judging is sometimes false information.

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?

There are many times in one’s life when one conceals the truth. It can be brought on by fear of another’s reaction or even shame from society. Throughout the book we see fear, unfairness, and discrimination. Harper Lee shows that discrimination is caused by the fear of people who are different. Maycomb, Alabama, a small town where everyone knows each other, is a segregated community.

The connotation of real courage seems to be neglected due to courage mainly being associated with physical strength. Through the example of Ms. Dubose, Atticus attempts to debunk the misconception by teaching Jem that courage arises from mental persistence, rather than by a man with a gun in his hand. The women is an excellent example of real courage since she decides to conquer her morphine addiction despite the pain that her body endures during the process. Jem was commanded to read to her by Atticus, but it was more than merely a punishment. Atticus intended on teaching Jem a significant moral that implied to real courage.

In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, a moral citizen is someone who is like everyone else by having the same beliefs, actions, and think and talk like them. The townspeople believe that anyone who is not like them are a sin. They think that all of the town has to be the same and be “normal”. Normal to them means, everybody stays within their gender-roles and stay within their economic class.

"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.

Is life nothing more than a journey with obstacles to conquer? In today’s culture, both men and women think they know how to handle every obstacle, but sadly they do not. What was not learned the first time will be accumulated to their overall life experience. The values that I learned from To Kill A Mockingbird were the importance of parenting, of not being cruel, and of making connections to the outside world.

Another example of discrimination in To Kill a Mockingbird is, discrimination by gender. One example of discrimination by gender is Aunt Alexandra expecting Scout to be a “girly-girl” and act like a mature, grown-up, woman. In the book, Jem says, “‘You know she’s not used to girls...leastways, not girls like you. She’s trying to make you a lady. Can’t you take up sewin’ or somethin’?’”

Who would destroy something that contained a heart filled only with good? The answer to that can be found in the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee in an unjust time of unequal opportunity. The story follows the retelling of an 8-year-old girl named Jean Louis and those around her moral growth. She lives in Maycomb Alabama during the Great Depression. She has many chapters of growth including changing from afraid of a person to wanting to meet them, seeing people put on masks in order to avoid judgment, and watching an innocent man go to jail. Scout learns that to Kill a mockingbird is a sin for they have done no wrong, that people make that most meaningful mockingbirds, and the true significance of them because of the moral growth they bring about in people.

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.

In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout continues to show bravery in small actions as she matures. As Jem gets older Scout has to come to term with her responsibility within her family. An example of her attempts to be courageous was when she talked to Mr. Cunningham to try and convince his men to leave Tom Robinson in peace. Scout takes a stand for Atticus, “Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in. Mr. Cunningham displayed no interest in his son, so I tackled his entailment once more in a last-ditch effort to make him feel at home. “Entailments are bad.” I was advising him, when I slowly awoke to the fact

In Maya Angelou’s words, “ Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.” Society has begun to accept all races, genders, and beliefs, and has achieved “the political correctness,” but much of the world’s history is based upon hatred and individuals who discriminated based upon these issues. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, sets this novel in the 1930’s, in Maycomb County, Alabama, USA about the Finch family: a daughter, Scout, whos the narrator of the novel, Jem, the son, and the father, Atticus, who is a prestigious lawyer. The father is given a case to defend a black man who was convicted for allegedly raping a white woman. In which, the town folks disagree with a white man

Atticus teach Scout a very important lesson: “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 is all about the views people have of each other, the people in Maycomb never seems to care about these views and seems to see only on the outside of people. Atticus guides himself … This line is really important because at the beginning of the book Scout struggles at respecting people but towards the end of the book Scout discover that Boo Radley was a man damaged by his father. The author wants the readers to not only agree with someone's views but to respect it and as the reader realizes this they ask themselves, am I respecting people with

Between whispers and superficial conversations world is going around. People care about social class, about how much money do you have, about your race. Gossips, secrets and lies. Almost is forgotten the human being. This is not a phenomenon of nowadays. Since almost a hundred years ago this is being happened. Because the citizens of today are the same of yesterday. Although, every day there is a new technological invention or advantage and you think that world is advancing, retrogrades minds still exist. Reflect about it. For example, you are still going to a friend reunion and having conversations full of trivialities. Smarts and deeps conversations do not exist. Time is done not take for think, create and innovate. Sadly, life is lived by people in a

The most meaningful passage in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee was the night when Scout, Jem and Dill followed Atticus to the jail. Atticus sat, barricading the entrance to the jail where Tom Robinson was being kept and just moments later, as if he knew they were coming, men pulled up and climbed out of their beaten down cars. These men were violent and set in their own ways. They wanted Tom Robinson dead and didn't care who stood in their way even if it was Atticus Finch. Scout interupted, scanning the crowd, she spotted Mr. Cunningham. She went to school with his boy and even had him over for supper, meanwhile, Mr. Cunningham was returning the favor by threatening to hurt Atticus. Scout, being the amiable person she was, started to babble