To Kill A Mockingbird Compare And Contrast Essay

To Kill a Mockingbird is the story of the trial of a black man, Tom Robinson for the raping of a white woman, Mayella Ewell, in racist Alabama in the 1990’s.

This comparative essay discusses the theme courage and how it is displayed throughout Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mocking Bird and Hidden Figures directed by Theodore Melfi. As we explore the similarities and differences between the texts, courage becomes more than just an act of bravery, but the ability to undertake an overwhelming pain or danger and use it to drive a person further. In addition to this, “Its When you know you’re liked before you begin but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what” as quoted by Atticus Finch on page 112 in To Kill a Mocking Bird.

Atticus uses the rhetorical device ethos to demonstrate his credibility, character, and his opinion about the case to prove Tom’s innocence. Atticus announces to the gathering of people in the courtroom his

Quindlen uses logos in her speech to give it structure and to help the audience understand her points. Logos is a statement, sentence or argument used to convince or persuade the audience by using logic or reason. In the introduction, the author explains how throughout her whole college career, she strived to be perfect, but it soon turned into a burden. In the body, the author focuses on

This is basically anything that makes the audience feel something. It is also the most used in this speach. An example of pathos occurs when Douglass says "The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn" (1003). This is pathos because it makes the audience feel guilty for celebrating something that so many others can not. Another example is "There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven that does not know that slavery is wrong for him" (1004). This makes the audience feel guilty for knowing that they would never volunteer to be a slave, yet they have no problem owning some and treating them cruelly. Finally, pathos can be seen another time when Douglass says "What! am I to argue that it is wrong to make men brutes, to rob them of their liberty, to work them without wages, to keep them ignorant of their relations to their fellow men, to beat them with sticks, to flay their flesh with the lash, to load their limbs with irons, to hunt them with dogs, to sell tem at auction, to surrender their families, to knock out their teeth, to burn their flesh, to starve them into obedience and submission to

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.

President Richard Nixon uses pathos when he says “I received Ho Chi Minh’s reply on August 30, three days before his death. It simply reiterated the public position North Vietnam had taken at Paris and flatly rejected my initiative”(Nixon). This fits the definition of pathos because President Nixon mentions Ho Chi Minh’s death which really grabs the audience's emotions and then carries on about what Ho Chi Minh’s letter said; this either will make the audience upset because they felt President Nixon should not just briefly mention his death or happy because the audience may dislike Ho Chi Minh for whatever reason. When President Nixon says this, he is making his speech much more

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.

The movie, To Kill a Mockingbird, was the film adaptation of Harper Lee’s award-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. The movie was two hours and ten minutes long, which took up three entire English classes including a discussion. It was extremely long time period to give up, so why did Doc choose to watch the movie?

Throughout most novels, characters encounter obstacles or events that once faced change their lives for the better or worse. In this book, that obstacle is racism. This is evident in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird when ... ____________________. Due to... ____________________. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Dolphus Raymond, Tom Robinson and Bob Ewell each encounter racism in different ways; however, they all suffer as a result.

Initially, ethos can appeal to the jury because Atticus is a very credible and trustworthy man. First, Atticus refers to a former president and his views on the subject. “One more thing, gentlemen, before I quit. Thomas Jefferson once said

In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird a major theme is the loss of innocence. Whether from emotional abuse, racial prejudice or learning, Boo, Tom, and Scout all lose their innocence in one sense or another. The prejudice that each character endures leads to their loss. Through the responses of Boo, Tom, and Scout, Harper Lee shows how each character responded differently to their loss of innocence.

“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”. Discuss this quote from Atticus in relation to 3 characters from the novel.

Atticus uses ethos in his argument to persuade the court that they should believe Tom Robinson because he is a decent man. He does this when he calls Tom a “quiet, respectable, humble Negro.” This is a use of ethos because this statement shows the audience that Tom is a good person. Atticus also used ethos by referencing Thomas Jefferson and how he said that all men are created equal. This was a use of ethos because Thomas Jefferson was an experienced and authoritative man. Another example would be how Atticus states “I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.” This is a form of ethos because when Atticus said this he enhanced his figure by making it sound as though he is a realist about the possible findings of Tom Robinson. Atticus also gave the jury a compliment when he said that “it is a living, working reality.”

without Gilmer is trying to turn it around and make Tom seem bad and that’s where Tom slipped up “Yes, suh. I felt right sorry for her, she seemed to try more’n the rest of ‘em’…. ‘You felt sorry for her, you felt sorry for her?”(264) Tom saying he felt sorry for her was a big mistake; Whites are superior to blacks no matter where you live or what last name you have, the Ewell’s might have been white trash but they were white and that made them better. Tom feeling sorry for her was putting himself above her. No matter what, no black person in the town of maycomb should ever feel sorry for someone above them that’s how maycomb's people saw it and they weren’t going to change that. Plus showing his compassion for Mayella was not only bad because