“I was rubbing his nose in the dirt”(Lee 30) said Scout. This proves she is acting childish by bullying Walter for no reason, which is not going to help the situation. Second, Scout shows she is immature when fighting Francis because he made rude comments about her father. “ [she] split [her] knuckle to the bone on his front teeth. [With her] left impaired [she] sailed in with [her] right”(112).
He does the opposite of what everyone else would do in any situation. For example, he hires a prostitute, and instead of having sex, he talks to her. In the novel The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger portrays Holden as a rebel by having him do the opposite and go against the norm of a teenager in his society. One reason Holden is a rebel is because he does not go to the football game against Saxon Hall when the whole school annually goes to the game.
(Grisham, 2-3) In the two books To Kill A Mockingbird and A Time To Kill there are many characters that are similar to one another and also different. The character differences in the two books are, in To Kill A Mocking Bird the father, Bob Ewell father of daughter that was accusing that she was raped, is a lazy abusive drunkard and does not really take the time out of his life to deafened his own daughter. While in the book A Time To Kill the father, Carl Lee Hailey, is over protective and reacts about his daughter getting raped and even goes to the extent of putting the matter is his own hands. Also in the book To Kill A Mockingbird the man being accused of raping Mayella Ewell, Tom Robinson, is a very kind black man unlike in the book A Time To Kill where the men who raped
In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Jem and Scout mature greatly over the course of part one. At the beginning of the story, Scout gets into many fights. Scout remembers, “Catching Walter Cunningham in the school yard gave me some pleasure” (22). This quote shows that Scout beat up Walter just because she spoke up for him and got slapped. However, Scout matures later in the story because she stops beating people up, since Atticus told her not to.
“To Kill a Mockingbird” helped voice Harper Lee’s opinions of injustices in America. Throughout the text the following characters suffered prejudice: Scout Finch, Atticus Finch, Boo Radley and Tom Robinson. Tom Robinson symbolises the millions of black people who were convicted unfairly of crimes they didn’t commit. Scout experiences many injustices because she is so young and just a child. Miss Caroline unfairly punishes her when she tells Scout she’s not allowed to be taught to read anymore.
Outline Thesis: To Kill a Mockingbird is a challenged book because of adult themes and offensive language. Background of ban Hanover County School Board in Richmond, VA Called it “Immoral Literature” Because it was about Rape Removed it from all County Libraries Embarrassing the School Board Richmond News Leader offered to send Free Copies of the Book to the First 50 Children who Requested a Copy Paid for out of the Beadle Bumble Fund All 50 Copies were Given Away Harper Lee wrote a Letter to the Editor of the News Leader, along with a donation to the Beadle Bumble Fund saying, "to be used to enroll the Hanover County School Board in any first grade of its choice." The Book was Not Banned but it Continued to be Challenged Eden Valley Minnesota (1977)- “Damn” and “Whore Lady” Stanford Middle School(2005)- “nigger” Adult themes Race- Takes place in Alabama in the 1930’s, racial inequality. Mixed families- “They don’t belong here. Colored folks won’t have ‘em ‘cause they’re half white; white folks won’t have ‘em ‘cause they’re colored, so they’re just in-betweens, don’t belong anywhere (Lee 161).
His children particularly Mayella, have been affected by this lack of empathy, and have developed it as well. After Bob had just saved Scout and Jem's lives, Atticus and Mr. Heck Tate were talking about Mr. Ewell. "He has guts enough to pester a poor coloured woman, he had guts enough to pester Judge Taylor when he thought the house was empty, so do you think he'd met your face in daylight?" (Page 269) - Mr. Heck Tate (on why Bob Ewell went after Scout and Jem). This quote shows how Bob Ewell has no empathy skills whatsoever.
The Cunningham’s were poor, but very polite. The next time he appeared in the novel was when the lynching mob was formed, and Mr. Cunningham was a part of it. His beliefs changed drastically. He went from looking up to Atticus for guidance to being completely against Atticus defending Tom Robinson. When Scout rambled to Mr. Cunningham, it made him stand in Atticus’s shoes for a minute.
We know that this character is excluded from the minute that he's introduced to the reader. For example, in page 21, exclusion of this character is first presented when Candy says "the stable buck's a nigger". Using the term 'nigger' to describe the character tells us that there's a strong racial exclusion and Crooks isn't of a high social ranking. Steinbeck later then develops the exclusion of this character when Candy also says "the boss give him hell when he's mad". This just tells us that The Boss, who's a character of high register and of a much higher social ranking excludes Crooks and gives him 'hell'.
It began with To Kill a Mockingbird because the council believed that it would help many people to view segregation in a different light (Daley 2001) To Kill a Mockingbird is narrated by a young girl named Scout Finch. She is at the age where she still has imaginary adventures with her big brother, Jem, and her friends. When her father, a lawyer named Atticus, begins a trial with a black man, she can’t understand what people have against him. In one line Jem says, “If there’s one kind of folks, why can’t they just get along with each other? If they’re all alike why do they go out of the way just to despise each other?” (Daley 2001) (Lee 1960) The purpose of “One Book, One Chicago” was to help people understand exactly what Jem said, “If everyone’s alike, why can’t they just get along?” Many stories appeared of people sitting on buses or in parks that just started a conversation with their neighbor because they saw that they were also reading the book.