To Kill A Mockingbird Quotes

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Michael Paivarinta Vande Guchte Honors 10 5-13-2024 To Kill A Mockingbird, Mockingbird essay. “To revolutionize make a change, nothing’s strange, people we are the same” (Public Enemy, Fight the Power). Author of To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee writes a heart-breaking novel about racism and the inability of many to overcome it. The book was written during the Great Depression in Maycomb, Alabama, which was plagued with racism. The novel follows two kids, the main character Scout, her brother Jem, and their father Atticus, who is a lawyer. In the book's first part, the kids are trying to understand and lure out Arthur Radly, a mysterious man with a tragic backstory who is being punished by facing solitary confinement in his own house. However, …show more content…

Mr. Underwood links Tom Robinson to a mockingbird in the quote proving that Tom Robinson was a mockingbird, a symbol of innocence. Another example Lee uses as a mockingbird is the Atticus Finch. Atticus is a white man who is a lawyer and is the only person who will fight against Maycomb's racism. Atticus takes the trial of his life when he chooses to defend Tom Robinson, Atticus isn't very confident he can win, but he knows that the trial will make people think about racism. In the book there is a dog named Tim Johnson that supposedly has rabbis, The dog is a symbol of racism and the sheriff doesn’t want to kill it so he says, “Take him, Mr. Finch.” (Lee, 92). The sheriff wants Atticus, a fifty-year-old lawyer, to kill the rabid dog, which is pretty odd, so it must mean that Atticus killing the dog means something. Shortly after this happened, “The rifle cracked”. Tim Johnson leaped, flopped over, and crumpled on the sidewalk in a brown-and-white-heap.” (Lee, 96) Atticus shot and killed the dog. The dog is a symbol of the town's racism and Atticus killed or stopped the town's racism which shows his innocence proving that Atticus himself is

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