To Kill A Mockingbird
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To Kill A Mockingbird takes place in small town Maycomb, Alabama, a depression era town where people move slowly and twenty-four hours seems longer. The narrator of the story is a six-year-old girl names Jean Louise Finch, a tomboy who hates wearing dresses and goes by the nickname “Scout.” Scout’s being a tomboy is of no little significance because while we are treated to a sweet and affection portrayal of Maycomb at the novel’s opening, we will find it is a town where racial prejudice, hostility and ignorance run deep below the surface. Not only are the majority of the townspeople prejudiced against blacks, maintaining a feeling of superior to the whole of their race, but there are also well-define social roles and prescriptives of behavior based on gender. To Kill A Mockingbird reflects many themes, but three of the most significant ones are courage, prejudice, and education. Through characterization and behavior the author demonstrates the connection of these themes as crucial for manifesting real humanity within individuals. Education and courage produce a higher level of humanity in human behavior, particularly because they allow individuals to walk in the skins of other people before judging them. Education and courage allow for a neutralization of prejudice because they lend a broader understanding to the individual concerning others. Atticus, the father of Scout and Jem (Jeremy Finch), often teaches the lessons of educat
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of the country thought that.”
“You’d be surprised how many of us do.”
“Who?” Hem’s voice rose. “Who in this town did one thing to help Tom Robinson, just who?”
(Lee, 1960, 218)
Other characters in the novel are also used to demonstrate the themes of the work. Tom Robinson represents a gentle, helpful, hard working man who is treated to injustice and murdered merely because of the color of his skin. His only crime is that he tried to help somebody. For this, he ends up paying with his life. Tom is a church-going father of four. He is accused of raping Mayella Ewell. Tom represents the injustice that often occurs when prejudice and intolerance rule the mind’s of those responsible for justice. He will die because of no reason other than the color of his skin. His fate is used to show the sins of prejudice and intolerance. Atticus explains to the jury that we must not judge human beings on color, but by character and action since all men of all colors have the capacity for good and evil “You know the truth, and the truth is this: some Negroes lie, some Negroes are immoral, some Negro men are not to be trust around women—black or white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of
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Approximate Word count = 1661
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page)
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