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Out of all the characters in the book, I think Naomi Erlanger is a character that I think has changed outstandingly. At the start of the book, her personality was showed without a doubt to be a greedy person. She was greedy enough to care about no one's feelings, but Zach, what see thinks to be as her future boyfriend. She accompanied Zach in every despicable thing they did to Capricorn, and pranks that they set up. One time, Naomi sent fake love letters from a random name of Lorelei Lumley, sending Cap on a wild goose chase. Zach once placed a dead bird in Cap's locker, hoping for a priceless expression, but instead Cap calmly places the bird in the school garden, and has a funeral for the bird. That moment Naomi sees Cap and how sad he felt,
People are always influenced by family members. Sometimes this influence is positive and sometimes it is negative, yet no matter what, it will change a person’s life. Change can be caused by that person fitting into the ways of a household, or be forced to act differently in the presence of others. Either way, that person will never be the same again. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, characters are constantly being influenced by family members. Aunt Alexandra, started off as a rude and bossy woman, but as she became closer to Atticus, Jem, and Scout, she changed into a more loving and compassionate person. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Aunt Alexandra is influenced by the Finches during her stay at their home.
Do Bystanders have a responsibility to intervene in crimes? This is a question we tend to ask ourselves very often. In the texts To Kill a Mockingbird and “Stand Up”, one can see the dangers of intervening in crimes. Bystanders are innocent and shouldn't risk their own lives for someone they don't even know. Being a bystander doesn't make you guilty, because it's your choice weather to help and stick up for someone or not.
Sympathy is unfair. An alarmingly large number of people are treated apathetically when they make certain decisions, such as those made by Mayella Ewell in Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird. A common trend in society is to pass judgement on others without giving heed to the situationality of circumstances. When looking at whether or not people deserve sympathy, the specifics of a situation have to be considered. Thus, one must do the same when deciding if Mayella Ewell is deserving of sympathy. The actions she took — specifically, framing a negro man named Tom Robinson for rape — are met with intense scrutiny and criticism. This is, of course, done without considering the rationale of her thought process. On one hand, Mayella can tell the truth
When the readers are first introduced to Naomi, we see that she is a self-contained. Naomi tells the readers next to nothing about herself or her life. We lack the basic information about her which suggests she lacks the basic information about herself. It seems that she is pondering, for something but is a mystery during the early pages of the book.
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character- that is the goal of true education.” -Martin Luther King, Jr. Not everyone during the Great Depression had a valuable education. White families were typically the ones who evoked an education. Blacks had a more difficult time being accepted to have a valuable education. In To Kill A Mockingbird, the Finches, Cunningham's, Ewells, and the Black community all live a different stance in education.
Power is something that can be given right at birth, or it could be something that is worked for throughout life. Race, class, and gender all affect how powerful someone is. Why was it that in the early 1900’s if someone was black, a female, and were poor there was no way for them to gain power no matter what they did? If a person was white, a male and sometimes a female, and had tons of money; there was no rush in how much time there was for them to gain power. Back in the day when the book “ To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee was written people were known by other people by their race, gender, and class that they are. In the book, Mayella was white, which gave her a little power, but the reason she did not have much power was because she
Minor characters are often more important than they initially seem, and can be just as engaging and complicated as major characters. Furthermore, protagonists are isolated without the people that surround and influence them subliminally. This applies to the intriguing minor characters one has the privilege of discovering in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Specifically, Lee uses minor characters to effectively disprove stereotypes and establishing setting. Not only do they influence the direction of the plot, but also Scout and her development as a character. Lee carefully selects minor characters to send important messages and reinforce themes by using characters as symbols. Fundamentally, the minor characters in “To Kill a Mockingbird” are crucial in making Harper Lee’s novel beautiful, moving, and believable enough to touch every reader.
Has evil always been around, or did man create it? One could trace evil all the way back to Adam and Eve; however, evil came to them, but it was not in them. When did evil become part of a person? No one knows, but evil has been around for a long time and unfortunately is discovered by everyone. In many great classics in literature evil is at the heart or the theme of the novel, including Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird. This classic book demonstrates the growing up of two children in the South and illustrates the theme of evil by showing how they discover, how they deal, and how they reconcile themselves to the evils they experience.
Power is something everyone wants. Power is having control of your own life and others. In the book “To Kill A Mockingbird”, power came in to term a lot “To Kill A Mockingbird” is a story set in a fictional town. It’s about a trial that involves Tom Robinson, a African American man that was accused of rape by Mayella Ewell. But is Mayella powerful? Her race as a white person gives her many benefits and advantages that she used to put Tom Robinson in jail, but her low class status and gender really make her lack in power.
In the book To Kill a Mockingbird Tom Robinson, was put in jail for something he did not do. But steel had to pay the price for it. Mayella Ewell is a young lady that mother past when she was little and live with the father and sister and brother. And then there is Boo Radley a really shy person and never talk to anyone or go outside in the daylight.
In “To Kill a Mockingbird”, a novel written by Harper Lee, Mayella Ewell has power due to class, gender, and race. Mayella Ewell is a dirt cheap, white woman who lives in a dump right at the edge of a town called Maycomb, Alabama. She lives with her six siblings and her constantly drunk and abusive father. Because of these conditions, Mayella must do everything she can in order to escape this lifestyle. Even if it means to backstab her father and lure in a poor innocent black man named Tom Robinson. Without a doubt in my mind, I know that Mayella Ewell is one of the most powerful characters in “To Kill a Mockingbird”.
Many characters in To Kill a Mockingbird are given the traits of the mockingbird; the innocence, abuse, wrongful violence, and the bringing of happiness. The motif in the book is to see that many people who we consider ‘bad’ are truly just misunderstood. One mockingbird that many people never seem to acknowledge is Mayella Ewell. Mayella is seen as an antagonist and a persecutor against an innocent Tom Robinson, but she is truly one who is also persecuted. First, when Atticus, through proven demonstration, shows the court that Bob Ewell is indeed left handed, it matches up perfectly with the marks on Mayella’s neck. Her abuse at the hands of her father is apparent and seems to be a common factor in her life, judging by behavior. Mayella is
On November 21st, as the sun is about to set in Maycomb, Tom Robinson starts to walk home from work. One of the houses Tom passes daily is the Ewell’s house. More than once, Mayella Ewell, the oldest of the Ewell children, had asked Tom to help Mayell with a chore or a hard tak. That night, all of the children, but Mayell were out of the house. When Tom passed by, Mayella asked Tom to grab a box off of the top of a chiffarobe in the Ewell’s house. When Tom had grabbed the box, the events that unfolded next, would take Tom to court.
I agree and disagree with the statement, “Mayella Ewell is a mockingbird.” Mockingbirds symbolize innocence, and the novel’s title, To Kill A Mockingbird, means to destroy innocence. Two of the most prominent mockingbirds in the novel are Boo Radley and Tom Robinson. They are like mockingbirds in the sense that they cause no harm. These two individuals are corrupted by evil, in other words, victimized by the prejudice of Maycomb throughout the course of the novel. Taking this into consideration, I believe Mayella Ewell is a mockingbird but also isn’t. What I mean by this is, she can be seen being harmed and causing harm.
On December 3, 2016, I had the privilege of interviewing two credible members of Troop 1: Scoutmaster Phillip Proctor and current troop member Ryan Young. Phillip Proctor, Troop One’s newest elected Boy Scout leader, sat leaning forward in the wood folding chair with his left hand grasping his chin, while simultaneously keeping a watchful eye on the meeting activities in the next room. He did not look very different than usual. The right sleeve of his tan uniform was tattered and torn after countless camping trips with the troop accompanied by the wild, portentous weather. He frequently glanced down at his wristwatch due to the fact he has a tendency to become anxious when leaving assistant Scout leaders in charge of twelve young men. Unlike