Argumentative Essay On To Kill A Mockingbird

I believe that our convictions can be pernicious or used for malicious intent. When a clash of opinions is mishandled that there are frequently repercussions and often calamitous outcomes follow.

In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, readers are able to see the ways in which Scout, Jem, and Dill learn valuable life lessons as they progress throughout the story. The book is narrated by Scout, a twelve-year old girl, who takes part in many adventures with her older brother Jem ranging from games at the house of their neighbor, “Boo” Radley, to witnessing her father, Atticus Finch, defend a black man, Tom Robinson, from being wrongfully accused of rape. While many may argue that To Kill a Mockingbird should not be taught in class, the values taught by the characters help to argue that it should be taught to classes.

Perspectives can change beliefs in many ways. In Harper Lee’s novel ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’, Bob Ewell hears and sees Atticus defending Tom Robinson who is black, therefore, he believes Atticus ‘loves niggers’. Jem, Scout, and Dill have never seen Boo Radley come out at day and they hear rumors that Boo only comes out at night. People believe rumors and their perspectives until they get the truth and change their beliefs.

Understanding perspective is essential to understanding people. Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird presents this idea in multiple passages of her writing. It can be seen in the rough, unknown troubles that people face despite their wrongful actions. As well as the rumours that are untrue and give complete false impressions of people. Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird uses these topics to illustrate the dangers of judging others before getting to know them.

Tom Robinson, a black man in To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the main characters in

Everyone has their own special prized possession or their own quality that sets them apart from others which may or may not be a small or a large part of their lives. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Scout a six-year-old girl is narrating her life as a she grows up in a simple town which goes by the name; Maycomb County.

Mirror World How can a mirror reflect a world that is different? In To Kill a Mockingbird, which takes place in the 1930s’, a little girl named Jean Louise, nicknamed Scout, learns more about the world around her, especially the evil and malice in her community. She experiences things that she does want, but there are things that she yearns to experience. Scout meets many people throughout the story, and she matures as the story goes on.

My name is Samantha and I am a high school Freshman in the Bay Area. Recently in English class, we have finished the classic book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In the book, we looked at the symbolism and how it relates to modern issues. I quickly noticed that the book not only show the court system in the 1960s but also the court system standing today. By having a colored man convicted of a crime he did not relates to today's issue of the colored community getting harsher and longer sentences. You are one of the people with the most power in this country so I am asking for you to put an end to the racial profiling that goes on in this country by having the jury and judge not see the defendant during hearings.

The classic,”To Kill A Mockingbird”, takes place in a fictional town called Maycomb County in Southern Alabama in the early 1930s, during the Great Depression.

When scrolling through Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat and Twitter we see images of  people who we look up to because of their physical appearance, that we consider beautiful and reject those who don’t meet the “ideal” standards of society because we are ignorant and don’t consider their feelings. Society's standards are constantly changing, as we try to meet them we ignore the value of the people around us. Instead, we should focus and set a goal to get to know people who we think are different from us.  In the novel To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Harper Lee conveys the message of if we humans learn to accept one another and set aside our predisposed beliefs of others we are more likely to understand them better, avoid conflict and gain new perspectives and bonds.

Harper Lee set her book “To kill a Mockingbird” in a sleepy old town that is located in the southern part of Alabama . Lee based maycomb county on her hometown in Monroeville. Scout describes the town as a very slow and boring town because there aren't other places besides school and church. They also mention that there is no money to spend and also nowhere to spend it because the story is taking place during the great depression. Maycomb county is also described as a safe town where people don’t have to lock their doors, but is undercut by racism that divides people by their race . Harper Lee state that there may places that are segregated forcing African Americans to work in fields and how they are paid very little. Scout and Jem talk about

As the world expands and our communities start multiplying, it seems to be arduous to interact with people who have a 50% chance to either be kind or cruel. Sometimes those vicious people can bring you down and make you feel so small ,but what can you do stop this? Courage comes around and pushes yourself forward through life’s challenges and obstacles. If you don’t know how to use it then there are some alternatives to help your quest to find the valor in you. The dramatic novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee has the most guidance in that area. Courage is the ability for people to attempt a risky task in their lives even when the likelihood of failure is very high.

Everyone, no matter who they are, was an innocent child at one point. A child who was protected from the rest of reality by their parents or guardians. However, once you go out into the real world, everything you believed starts to fade away, and you start to gain a new perspective on life. Harper Lee, the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, expresses the story of a 9-year-old girl named Scout, who lives in Maycomb, Alabama, during the Great Depression. She retells her experiences that led up to when her older brother, Jem broke his arm. Scout’s father, Atticus, a wise defense attorney, had to take a biased case against Bob Ewell's daughter, Mayella, who had accused Tom Robinson, a black man, of raping her. Atticus, to many people’s surprise,

The fascinating story To Kill A Mockingbird takes place in a sleepy, southern county of Maycomb in the 1930s. Although this town has a variety of pleasant and honorable citizens who have set morals, there are also people who live in Maycomb County who are unfair, possibly evil, and lack morals.

Atticus’ fairness also shows he is a good father because he believes that everyone deserves a chance to be understood and all have reasons for their actions. For example, after revealing the news to Jem and Scout of Tom’s death, he says, “Depends on how you look at it. What was one Negro, more or less, among two hundred of ‘em? He wasn’t Tom to them, he was an escaping prisoner” (Lee 235). This passage shows Atticus's fairness because he always tries to put himself in other people’s shoes in order to give everyone a chance at being understood, as he teaches Jem and Scout to do. He gave up his respectable reputation among many of the whites in Maycomb to defend Tom Robinson, and still speaks highly of the men who killed him. When he says this, he is trying to make the children see that the men who killed Tom did not know him as a person, but as a Negro who committed a crime, so cannot be discriminated upon for doing their job. Along with Atticus’ sense of fairness, his Teaching also characterizes him as a good father to Jem and Scout.