To Kill A Mockingbird Adversity Analysis

“There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson…” Malcom X, along with Horace, both renowned successful people, credit adversity as an integral part in growing. Furthermore, this seed that Malcolm X references can refer to growth in already established areas in one’s life. However, it could also imply a dormant seed just needs a certain occurrence to catalyze the burst of luscious talents, analogous to the Jack Pine Trees, as they require fire in order to germinate. Adversity requires people to look elsewhere in life, and thus, the person may discover these talents that would’ve otherwise lain dormant. On top of revealing talents, adversity also teaches people more about

A novel famous for its depiction of growing up, To Kill a Mockingbird, provides an insight into the effect adversity serves on a child. Scout, through exposure to racism in the Tom Robinson case and her mother’s premature death, faced adversity that eventually led to her development of character. Taking the time to go through every adverse situation with her knowledgeable father, she develops character in the form of empathy as her father always told her to “Walk a thousand miles in the other person’s shoes.” Through this, she also develops an uncanny ability to be empathetic when society appears to adopt the opposite, an obscure but important talent. While this talent may not have been present in Scout at first, the experiences that Scout went through in order to acquire it leaves her ability unparalleled by many others-a textbook definition of talent. Children, those who symbolize growth in society, present an adequate representation of the role of adversity as a whole throughout society. As children are inexperienced and unweathered, so are those who have not gone through adversity. At first, innocence pervades children’s lives, but through shocks of hardships, they refine their character by adding traits such as resilience or empathy. At the same time, the “children” are able to discover more about themselves, especially innate talents, purely through experiencing the need for