To Kill A Mockingbird Quote Analysis

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

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.

In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the main characters in the book go though many important circumstances that mold them into the people they are going to become in the future. Atticus and the other parent figures try to mold Jem and Scout into contributing members it societe and keep them from following the path some of the other members in the town has gone down. This relates to our own lives because everybody will always have positive and negative influences that we seek guidence to pick the right path to go down. Just like the book we usually seek this guidance from our parents or other influential elders like teachers. Even though this book took place in the year 1930 there are still many life lessons that we can take from

Have you ever wondered how a person feels at that very moment? Or to be able to understand a person's actions. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee she uses the quote “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.” (39). The quote puts the thought in your mind, how would it be to live like this person, or that person? Whether it be the richest man alive or the poorest man, you can never understand a person's point of view until you're actually “walking around in their skin.” In addition, the quote relates to characters in the novel, and to someone I personally know, where you can never understand how a person thinks or feels unless you actually walk around in their skin.

In every incident the kids take away a new thing from it to benefit their life and help them deal with growing up. For instance when atticus teaches them about tolerance. “When a man says he’s gonna get you, looks like he means it.” “He meant it when he said it”. (Harper Lee, pg.218).

Atticus also teaches many life lessons to his kids. He tells Scout that you don’t completely understand a person until you walk in their shoes. He explains to Jem after Mrs. Dubose died that he wanted them to see what real courage was. Atticus shared his knowledge and used his knowledge to benefit

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.

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird shows how the three protagonists are faced with tough situations without a hint of fear. The first character to show this is Atticus Finch who defends Tom Robinson, puts Tom’s life ahead of his own, and let his son fall for a crime he did not commit. Jem also shows courage when he stays at the jailhouse against his father’s request, goes back to get his pants from the Radley house, and when he fights Bob Ewell. Finally, Scout shows she can be brave when she walks away from the people who call her names, when she says the one thing no one else wants to, and when she runs into the circle at the jailhouse.

For the most part, when someone’s past is revealed, their originally unjustifiable motives are also exposed. A person could act on revenge, compassion, or a variety of other causes because of experiences that they have come across. In Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”, Scout did not understand why people acted the way that they did, even when elements of their past were revealed to her. Her father, Atticus, explained to her that “You never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.” Prior to the suggestion, Scout could not find a way to see the world through other people’s eyes. Throughout “To Kill a Mockingbird”, Harper Lee used diction and the narrative to show that Scout lacked the ability to sympathize with others, a trait which is essential to growing up. Since Scout was so young, she had developed an inability to

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.

Society is unfair. Society today is a messy place where it empowers one kind of human being over another, whites versus blacks. Atticus from How to Kill a Mockingbird said, "Scout," said Atticus, "nigger-lover is just one of those terms that don't mean anything—like snot-nose. It's hard to explain—ignorant, trashy people use it when they think somebody's favoring Negroes over and above themselves. It's slipped into usage with some people like ourselves, when they want a common, ugly term to label somebody.

Books taught in the english curriculum are used, not only to teach literature and writing skills, but to also teach life lessons and impactful morals. In the case of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”, the protagonist and narrator, Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, is taught a plethora of life lessons by her relationships with a variety of characters over the course of the novel. Characters that give Scout lasting and valuable life lessons include: Atticus Finch, Miss Maudie Atkinson and Calpurnia. Furthermore, the father and the moral compass of Scout’s life, Atticus Finch, taught Scout and the reader effective life lessons and morals through their relationship. As a father, you’re tasked with teaching your children

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 this essay I will explain how three children named Scout, Jem, and Dill absorb some life lessons throughout the story. In this story two major things taught these kids life lessons, one of them would be Boo Radley a man who had his life stolen by his father who was a radical Christian, and the second would be the false rape charge against a black man named Tom Robinson. Also poverty and racism played a part too in teaching lessons.