Character Analysis Of Quotes From To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

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.

Atticus as a lot of respect for everyone and this became evident when he went to the Robinson’s house to inform Helen of the death of Tom. On page 321 it says, “A little girl came to the cabin door and stood looking at Atticus. Dill said her hair was a wad of tiny stiff pigtails, each ending in a bright bow. She grinned from ear to ear and walked toward our father, but she was too small to navigate the steps. Dill said Atticus went to her, took off his hat, and offered her his finger. She grabbed it and he eased her down the steps. Then he gave her to Calpurnia.” This quote portrays Atticus as warm, friendly character that has a degree of courtesy to everyone no matter how big or small, black or white, how old or how young. Likewise, on Scout’s

“Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square. Somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer’s day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. Men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o’clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum...There was no hurry, for there was no where to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb.” (Lee 6) In Harper Lee’s classic story To Kill a Mockingbird,

1) A running theme through this story is that it's not okay to kill a mockingbird because they never did anything bad to others. They're no pests in anyway. This first quote really aims toward that theme of the novel. Atticus asks scout if she understands why they are going to tell everyone that Bob Ewell fell on his knife. the real reason why is because they don't want the whole neighborhood to be all up in Boo Radley's door step all mad.

In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, the character Atticus Finch has the personality trait of a good father, but he isn’t perfect all the time. Atticus would always be giving advice to his children Scout and Jem, “...hold your head high and keep those fists down. ”(Lee, pg. 101). This quote is a great example of why Atticus is a good father because Atticus is telling Scout to get in fewer fights with kids because Atticus knows Scout has a temper and she will get even angrier when people are talking bad of Atticus.

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.

In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the characterization of Aunt Alexandra helps to reveal the theme of how reputation contradicts identity the theme is presented throughout the plotline of To Kill a Mockingbird. The way Aunt Alexandra shows this theme vocally is when she expresses her opinion to others of how family reputation should be followed by each family member. An example of this is when Scout is talking to her cousin Francis after they have eaten at the Finch's landing. As they were talking Francis brought up the subject of her dad and his case. After hearing what Francis says she gets mad at him and he replies that was what their Aunt Alexandra had said. Scout's cousin Francis says, "Grandma say it's bad enough he lets you all

“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,Chapter 3). This famous quote is used by Atticus Finch to explain to Scout why people should show empathy to others. Sadly, this principle is not followed by many of the citizens in Maycomb County, especially a weak and mistreated young girl named Mayella Ewell. She attempts to use her class, gender, and race to win a trial against Tom Robinson, an African American male, which she wrongfully accused of raping her. Does Mayella have enough power to overcome her situation? Mayella’s race provides temporary power during the trial, but gender and class leave her unable to change her predicament. To

In his book, Life, The Truth, and Being Free, Steve Maraboli wrote “Judging is preventing us from understanding a new truth. Free yourself from the rules of old judgments and create the space for new understanding.” This quote can be used to describe the changes many in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama felt after Tom Robinson, a black man, was killed for a crime he obviously didn’t commit. The people of Maycomb began to realize that the blacks of their community were judged, but no one thought of their lives from their perspective. The theme, before you can judge someone, you must walk a mile in their shoes, can be seen in both To Kill a Mockingbird and modern day society.

One of the most disputed and controversial issues discussed in this novel is the subject of racism. Discrimination of black people was at one of its highest points during the years in which this book takes place, and is therefore presented very clearly and directly. Atticus Finch was a lawyer, and he was asked to defend a black man, Tom Robinson, in a trial because of an accusation made against him. Mayella Ewell, a member of another disliked family in Maycomb, claimed that she was raped and physically hurt by Robinson. Atticus defends Tom enthusiastically, providing clear evidence of his innocence by pointing out the fact that his left arm is useless and weak, making it unlikely that he was able to cause bruises on the right side of her face. Even so, he is found guilty of rape and is sentenced to death, obviously

“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.

“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience” (Lee 140). This quote was written by novelist Harper Lee in her novel To Kill A Mockingbird. It was spoken by the character Atticus, who was explaining why he, as a lawyer, had to defend his client, a black man named Tom Robinson, or he would lose his good conscience. In other words, Atticus is saying that a person’s conscience is their own and can’t be influenced by others, no matter how many people think that you are wrong about an opinion. Due to this belief, Atticus takes Tom Robinson’s seemingly impossible case and fights, which spurs him on to teach his children, Scout and Jem, many lessons about life. Scout and Jem learn these lessons from both Atticus himself

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.

In Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird,” Mayella Ewell, a young woman as well as the daughter of Bob Ewell, lives a life of insolence and isolation in the town of Maycomb. As a Ewell, which they are familiarized as being vulgar, uneducated, and indigent, Mayella is disrespected by the people of Maycomb as well as by her father. During the court case, Atticus shows courtesy towards Mayella by addressing her as a miss and a ma’am, which is not surprising for his values of equality. Mistaking his manners with sarcasm, she replies with, “Won’t answer a word you say as long as you keep mockin’ me” (pg.181). Harper Lee is demonstrating the amount of disregard Mayella faces in her life, so much that courtesy can’t be identified as just that. Mayella finds that Atticus is ridiculing her for what she doesn’t have, respect from others. With a reputation such as Mayella’s, people treat her like an outcast. Her lonely life can be a reason to explain why she always asked for Tom Robinson’s company, she wanted to experience friendship and perhaps love for the first time. Her loneliness was so clear to see, even Scout, who still has their childhood-innocent mind, can see through it. Scout compares Mr.Dolphus Raymond’s “mixed children” to Mayella because they both don’t know where to stand in their social class, “white people wouldn’t have anything to do with her because she lived among pigs; Negroes wouldn’t have anything to do with her

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,