Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced. Prejudice,”(245) which shows that her teacher is against persecution. Later on, Scout over hears her teacher saying that it is a good thing Tom Robinson was being convicted because colored people were getting too “high” and “mighty.” That subject has Scout’s head roaming around thinking how hypocritical her teacher was being. Scout’s view against her father were also changing. Before she thought that Atticus was different from the other fathers in Maycomb because he was too old and couldn’t do anything fun with them.
“To Kill a Mockingbird” Throughout the book ”To kill a mockingbird” by Harper Lee, many people might see Atticus as a failure at both his job and being a parent. Even though Atticus didn’t win the trial, there was still several was he succeeded throughout the story. For example, he stood up for a Black man, he gave his kids someone to be proud of, and he somehow managed to be a gentleman even though people were mean to him. Atticus always tries to stand up for the Black people, which is pretty insignificant during this time period. Throughout the story he also tries to tell his kids that you should never judge a man based on his skin color.
Prejudice is a preconceived opinion not based on reason or experience. Sometimes prejudice is a destructive force in society. In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, prejudice is shown in many ways. Prejudice was shown when Atticus was defending the jail, a group of men came to kill Tom and also when Scout was getting teased at school by other kids because her dad was taking Tom’s case. Furthermore, when Tom Robinson was accused of being guilty even though he was not, and died because of it.
She has a fun memory despite the struggle of being poor. Next, she talks about her boyfriend and how he is being sent off to fight in the war over in Africa. She looks forward to the romantic side of it but is still saddened that he is leaving. Finally, she talks about her experience over at a camp where they learned to do many things that the government required them to do such as grow tobacco or cut sugar cane in order to produce around 10 billion tons of sugar. She explains the struggle of only having little food there because it was the ones her parents brought her during the weekends but she had to save it in order for it to last.
Kids of any age will try to convince their parents that they are sick so they don’t have to go to school for the day and hate school. “Little Rock Nine”, on the other hand, actually valued their education. They literally put their lives on the line to go to Central High School and learn. Sure some people sometimes travel three or more hours to get to school but to have to deal with a riot everyday and be criticized for how they look is just cruel. Kids these days have no idea how hard life was back then, even the African American student haven’t a clue to how harsh life was, not just in Central High School but their lives in general were always being tortured.
Aunt Alexandria too shows this behavior when Scout asks if Walter Cunningham can come over for lunch. Aunt Alexandria forbids that action saying, "…he is trash, that's why you can't play with him. I'll not have you around him, picking up his habits and learning Lord-knows-what” (301). Atticus taught the children that everyone is equal no matter what color your skin is or how rich you are, and Aunt Alexandria has a narrow-minded view of that belief. Aunt Alexandria exemplifies the racist part of society, while Atticus symbolizes the good in
Ms. Caroline asked him what’s wrong and eventually he mumbled that he doesn’t have lunch. So Ms. Caroline offered to give him 50 cent to go eat lunch downtown and pay her back later. Ms.Caroline found it to be very mysterious that he didn’t accept the 50 cent., she had no idea that he was one of the Cunninghams. Everybody looked at Scout as she stood up for him and here Scout shows real courage, having known that she had already conferred with Ms.Caroline two times today she still speaks up for Walter and tells Ms.Caroline who the Cunninghams are. Therefore this shows that Scout is the most couragest character in the book because she was the only person in the whole class who dared to tell Ms.Caroline about the Cunninghams and tell her about how she was shaming
Through the innocent eyes of Jem and Scout the world seems full of good. The only evils they know are “hot spots,” or ghost, which they both deny believing in and the mysteries of the Radley’s, their creepy neighbors, whom they avoid at all cost. When their father is assigned to defend an African American man accused of raping a white girl some of the town turns against him. Jem and Scout are forced to experience the harsh evil side of some people. By the end of To Kill a Mocking bird they both have grown to a more mature understanding of good and evil, and the importance of looking for the good in people and accepting
The teachers even told him to stop letting his daughter read but he believed in making sure that she could. Finally, Atticus would rather read and write than shoot guns or play football. No other adult would spend his time reading the paper and other novels. Those are some of the reasons why Atticus is the most intelligent character created in Harper Lee’s classic. When Atticus was assigned to defend Tom Warrups in his rape charge against Mayella Ewell, he would have given
One of the main adventures Scout and Jem experience is the mystery of their neighbor Boo Radley, whom at the end of the novel they discover to be nothing like the evil figure Maycomb’s rumors portrayed him to be. One of the themes of To Kill A Mockingbird is bravery, supported through the way the Finch family deals with the many obstacles present throughout the novel. Jem Finch demonstrates bravery through the way he deals with various situations. When Jem, Scout, and Dill find Atticus in front of the jailhouse surrounded by countrymen ready to kill Tom Robinson and harm anyone in their way, Atticus tells Jem to go home, “...but from the way he stood Jem was not thinking of budging...Jem shook his head. As Atticus’ fists went to