To Kill A Mockingbird Good Vs Evil

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The choices between Good and Evil impacts many and can be a very powerful action. “In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices.”(James E. Faust) We can either try to have a Good happy time and make decisions like that or make evil decisions that will leave people unhappy and broken. This form of good and evil is displayed throughout the book by Harper Lee’s,To Kill A Mockingbird. The book is placed in the 1900’s, during the Great Depression, and is located in southern American state of Alabama. The …show more content…

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view”(Lee 39). Some things aren’t as they may seem on the surface to people and can’t be made judgement on right then and there on the whole situation. Atticus shows the pureness and goodness in the story when telling this to scout. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird”(119). Shows the good and morals displayed in the chapter and how you can employ it and can help others. Some things are good and don’t do anything wrong to others and from bias and influences people have on others had bad evil things done to them. Through the story you can see the way racism and bias are displayed and pushed throughout the story and how it impacts the …show more content…

“Tom was a dead man the minute mayella ewell opened her mouth and screamed”(323). So it shows Tom’s fate from racial bias at the time and where it lead to his eventual death. Even though Tom was a good person who didn’t do anything wrong, and got sent to death by a person who was abused by her father.“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person conscience”(140). That not everything is fair some things outweigh others. This shows the morality of the story and what can happen. The evils done to some people by others at time were just excuses for what they were going through and trying not to get others to

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