Mockingbird essay When a person encounters a difficulty, they change. They overcome changes that involve their way of thinking. In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird a young girl named scout goes through many hardships such as her father’s case, defending a black man, expanding her understanding towards other people’s decisions. Another event was when Atticus told scout not to judge people until she really knows them, Scout gained a lot of respect for people by doing so. Tom Robinson’s death changed Scouts relationship with Aunt Alexandra from hate to respect because Aunt Alexandra showed courage and strength proving to Scout that ladies could be strong and courageous too.
"I think we all have empathy, we may not have enough courage to display it." This is a quote from American Author Maya Angelou. In the book "To Kill a Mockingbird," Harper Lee demonstrates how Scout learns to show empathy. She learns from Calpurnia, their maid, who is a mother figure to Scout. Her father Atticus, a lawyer in the town of Maycomb, is an example of courage and empathy to her.
Laurel’s Brownie Troop focuses on the church and Christian values; but her fellow Brownies do not live the kind words they preach when they attend Camp Crescendo. In ZZ Packers, Brownies, Laurel, who is quiet, nonviolent, and positive, grows from an innocent and naïve fourth grader to a young girl who comes to understand there is bad in the world that she could never fix like bullying and racism. Laurel is a quiet individual who mostly keeps to herself which results in her not quite getting along with the other girls in her troop. Laurel finds herself to relate the most to one girl, Daphne. Daphne is also quiet like Laurel but she expresses herself through poetry.
And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner' (Timothy 2:12-14). 'If they have any questions to ask, let them ask their husbands at home, for it is improper for women to speak in church meetings' (Corinthians 13:35). 'The women should keep quiet in the churches, for they are not authorized to speak, but should take a secondary and subordinate place, just as the Law also says' (Corinthians 14:34). These are each very clear examples of the restrictions of leading women in Christianity. While many churches continue to deny women certain human rights, it is very clear that without women, the Christian religion would be a vastly different community.
The fact is this Woman stopped in a church and gets treated with bad words and unjustness. The white people won’t her thrown out because they are racist Christians. This could be because they all feel uncomfortable about having someone of color among them or feel that this is their place of worship and she invaded their privacy.
She is disrespectful towards Calpurnia her maid. Scout suggests to Atticus to have her fired. “‘She likes Jem better’n she likes me, anyway,’ I concluded, and suggested that Atticus lose no time in packing her off” (Lee, 25). When Scout says this after Calpurnia punished her, it shows how inconsiderate and rude she was. The reason Calpurnia punished Scout in the first place was because she had berated Walter Cunningham for having different tastes than her.
Overall, Shirley Jackson creates the idea that adults are always the ones judging a person before learning about their real identity. The mother, Mrs. Wilson, is the most judgemental character throughout the story. Her multiple presumptions of Boyd are shown through her actions. The mother’s judgemental mind automatically clicks in and the minute she sees Boyd’s arms loaded with split kindling wood. She places a dish of stewed tomatoes in front of Boyd, assuming he will enjoy eating it.
Colored folks won't have 'em because they're half white; White folks won't have 'em cause they're colored so they're just just in-betweens, don't belong anywhere” (161). This is racial discrimination because, no one wants these kids because they are both Caucasian and African American and neither community wants them because of that. Another example of racial discrimination is when Ms. Lula gets angry at Calpurnia for bringing the Finch kids to First Purchase Church. “You ain't got no business bringin' white chillun here they got there church, we got our'n” (119). This is racial discrimination because Ms. Lula is basically saying that they are not welcome at that church because they are white, not African American.
Drowning in her own pool of ignorance, Lula criticizes Jem and Scout’s presence at the black church despite their relation to Atticus Finch, the one lawyer in America self-righteous enough to defend a black man. On top of that, Lula puts her own community at risk just to make a point. For example, if any white child either than Jem and Scout had accompanied Calpurnia to church; Lula’s behavior would lead to the churches ‘early demise. Yet, she still defies Jim Crow Laws to make a
It is clear that whilst Scout is willing to provide informal educational help, Miss Caroline does not approve of this and repeatedly tries to scupper her efforts by whipping her on the first day of school because she misunderstood, “if I didn’t have…stop it”(page 24). Further reinforcement is shown when Miss Caroline catches Scout writing a letter to Dill because she was bored, “I was bored, so I began…third grade”(page24). Miss Caroline is trying to follow a more formal way of teaching pupils in a place where teaching and education is regarded as experienced based, learn through doing, which inevitably means that knowledge is passed down generations and is limited to those skills needed to survive. Education during the 1930s were only aimed at boys rather than girls.