To Kill A Mockingbird Scout Monologue

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.

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?

In the book “To kill a mockingbird” written by Harper lee Intolerance leads to destruction. Intolerance is unwillingness to accept views,beliefs, or behaviour that differ from one’s own. The characters in the story are unwilling to change their ways even if it leads to destruction.Three main characters that demonstrate intolerance is Tom Robinson, Atticus Finch and Arthur “Boo” Radley.

Scout is quite a confident character in the To Kill A Mockingbird novel especially because she is able to fight boys without any fear. She might be a small girl but she has one big heart, possessing the virtue of caring by always seeing the best of others and as well as having great concern for others. The way she acts or the clothes that she wears, she can come across as a tomboy because unlike other girls who wear dresses she rocks it in her cozy fashionable overalls.

The children in the book are maturing every day, like how Jem is learning not to be afraid anymore when in situations, he is maturing and learning to protect Scout when she is in danger. Scout is maturing because she is becoming more smarter and knows what is right and what is wrong. My claim would be Scout and Jem are growing older and starting to act more and more like an adult everyday. Scout never worried about Jem that much because she didn’t know that much when she was younger but know at her age she loves Jem and wants him to be save so she keeps asking “Is Jem dead?” on page 353-354.

Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout is honest. Scout is a tomboy at heart and isn’t afraid to show it, and doesn’t try to be someone else. On her first day of school she explains to her teacher who Walter Cunningham is, even though it gets her in trouble.

James Clear once said, “Maturity is learning how to start when you feel like procrastinating and learning how to listen when you feel like talking.” This quote shows that when one wants to put effort in, they are being responsible. In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout, the narrator and main character, doesn’t realize her talent for being able to understand literature. Also, there have been rumors about her “creepy” neighbor, Boo Radley. She gets scared and believes these rumors are true as a kid.

Atticus Hill cherished and fostered his role as the bad boy in the family. He always dressed in all black, rode a Harley, and had long, shaggy black hair. But now that all his brothers had found their Mr. Right he thought maybe, at age thirty-nine, it was time to look around for a partner. He thought the drummer at the gay bar was sexy, so headed off there to check him out.

“People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won't be talked about. They point out flaws in other people to make them feel good about themselves. I think at any age or any social class, that's present” (Blake Lively).  This quote by Blake Lively shows how economic class affects of lives.  Economic class is a colossal part of To Kill a Mockingbird because people in need of money have to use unexpected materials as a last resort, other people put others down due to their lack of money, and money could affect one's actions, but the way of being raised affects it most.

William Godwin lives his life by the meaningful quote he wrote, “No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.” A variety of characters in the eye opening novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird”, can deeply connect to this quote. Each time someone who is innocent gets pushed over by death or situations they do not deserve, it’s as if someone are killing or threatening a mockingbird. Everyone in life, no matter who they are, needs to realize they cannot judge others based off of their physical appearances. Instead, they need to realize who people are internally.

“Knowledge is power” Sir Francis Bacon. Atticus, a character in To kill a Mockingbird, understands that his knowledge has the power to do many things, including influence the lives of many people. Atticus does his best to influence his children, and educate them every chance he gets. Atticus does his best to teach his children what is right and what is wrong, and in doing this Atticus made one point immensely clear. It is a sin to kill a Mockingbird.

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)

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.

Scout’s courage is evident when describing her attitude towards Boo Radley and her father’s defense for Tom Robinson For example, Scout usually confront those who criticize her family members, but when Atticus to her: “You just hold your head high and keep those fists down, no matter what anybody says to you, don’t let ’em get your goat” (Lee 101), Scout unwillingly agreed. This act acknowledged Scout’s courage, as the next day when Cecil Jacobs taunted Scout’s father for defending and African American, she followed her father’s advice and walked off without a fight.

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,