“ We come here today to dramatize a shameful condition” we see here he is reaching out not only the black community, but giving the rest of the community a conscience for the “bad check”, the empty promises that have been made and to having insufficient funds. In“The ballot or the bullet” speech in its name alone it shows determination. Malcolm X’s delivery of the speech shows you something very different from Dr.King’ s speech. He does not care for those he calls “ the enemy” he explains. The strategy of the white man has always been divide and conquer.
Yet a wise man such as Atticus does not fully understand how the citizens of Maycomb can be so irrational and unjust in their prejudiced views of others. This is shown in Part one of Harper Lee’s novel as Atticus tells his brother Jack, ‘Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I will never truly understand.’ Atticus is a great influence on Scout through his actions and words, however he does not force her to act in this way. Atticus has the highest respect for everyone in Maycomb, regardless of gender, age or race. This is shown in his defence for Tom Robinson and his employment and loyalty to Calpurnia. He also demonstrates this when he explains Boo-Radley’s situation and reprimands Scout for treating a boy at her school badly because he was of lower class.
Because Charlie is an observer of life, he sees things that people usually don’t and has to keep them as secrets. Although burdens to Charlie, Chbosky writes these “secrets” in a way that enables the reader to understand the meaning of them and understand them as life lessons, even if the meaning doesn’t occur to Charlie. For example, Charlie witnesses his sister getting hit by her boyfriend. Charlie’s sister begs him not to tell anyone about the incident because “he’s [her] whole world” (25), and because Charlie is naïve, he doesn’t tell a soul. While this might not have been the right
These two men show the qualities of friendship by being honest and loyal to each other. No matter what the situation is their friendship always comes first, even though they have a little greed within them, they do not let it control them. He thinks that “golds a devilish sort of thing” and not used for much but, it ruins a lot of friendships. Howard shows his selflessness when he goes to help the little boy Indian boy at the camp, not knowing what may happen to him while he is gone. He thinks about the boy instead of himself.
During the trip, the father realizes that there is a lot of hostility between the kids. The brother keeps nagging on his sister, trying to scare her. When the father sees this, he says that people think they are safe but they really are just thinking that they are invisible because their eyes are closed (Hempel 1203). The family was safe together until the separation. The father was thinking that everything was fine between the kids, but when he got them together he saw how sarcastic they were to each other.
On the other hand, Malcolm X came from and underprivileged home an atmosphere of fear and anger where the seeds of bitterness were planted. The early backgrounds of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King were largely responsible for the distinct different responses to American racism. Both men ultimately became towering icons of contemporary African-American culture and had a great influence on black Americans. However, King had a more positive attitude than Malcolm X, believing that through peaceful demonstrations and arguments, blacks will be able to someday achieve full equality with whites. Malcolm X’s despair about life was reflected in his angry, pessimistic belief that equality is impossible because whites have no moral conscience King basically adopted on an integrated philosophy, whereby he felt that blacks and whites should be united and live together in peace.
Atticus shows respect to others, courage ,non-violent behavior. As they both mature they then realized why Atticus behavior that certain way. One way that Atticus influences his children is by treating both Negros and whites- even the one that disrespect him- with respect . As Atticus is getting persecuted by others so is Scout, at school, Cecils Jacob kept telling Scout that her dad was a Nergo-lover ,fought him, but she herself didn’t even know what that meant. When Scout asked Atticus what it meant he said it in a way she couldn’t understand and also told her he didn’t want to see her in a fight ever a again.
Michael Penrose, a fair, non-racist character, offers refuge in his home to Mitsy and Sadako as they were treated barbarically by the general public of the town. He later despises Mitsy and Sadako due to the constant mutterings of the war. In a radio announcemet, the presenter alleges that ‘Japan is not interested in peaceful co-existence with Australia’. This misleading information was just one of the many supplied to the whites. Michael continued to offer sanctuary for Mitsy and Sadako which shows great generosity in the act of true friendship during the heightening tension of the war.
"(376) The grandmother is talking about how the misfit is a good person, yet she knows nothing about the man except the fact he is a criminal and a murderer. The Misfit’s morals are completely different from the grandmothers. The Misfit will always stand by what he believes regardless of the situation. The Misfit believes that the outcome of anything is what he creates. When the Misfit says "Yes'm," smiling slightly as if he were pleased in spite of himself to be known, "but it would have been better for all of you, lady, if you hadn't of reckernized me."
Unlike Lester, Fitts seems satisfied with his identity and his family life. When confronted with his son’s lack of respect and self-restraint he reacts violently. Throughout the film we are lead to believe that Fitts’ outbursts are related to Ricky’s disobedience rather than an internal struggle. Nevertheless, it is obvious that Fitts’ issue with homosexuality is personal when he kisses Lester in the Burnham’s garage. Colonel Fitts uses military discipline and routine to suppress his homosexual thoughts.