Harper Lee Bravery Quotes
To Kill A Mockingbird-Harper Lee
Describe an idea that was worth learning about in a text you studied this year. Explain why this idea was worth learning about.
In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, an idea that was worth learning about was bravery. Bravery comes in many different forms that people don’t always recognize it as being bravery. In this novel Mrs. Dubose, Atticus and Jean Louise (Scout), each display an act of bravery that are all different in their own way. Bravery was worth learning about in this novel because we learn how to interpret and see different types of it, not just the big acts that everyone else see’s.
Mrs. Dubose’s act of bravery was very personal and important to her during her last few months …show more content…
Living with rumors and tales of the monster’ Boo Radley, Scout cant help but fear with her naïve and innocent mind, believing all the mysteries and talk surrounding him. “Dined on raw squirrels…. yellow teeth…. popping eyes…. bloodstained hands.” At the beginning we see Scout making her assumptions based only on others people’s tales but as he encounters Boo Radley several times whether knowingly or unknowingly we begin to see her original views changing based on the knowledge of him. For example when Miss Maudie’s house caught fire, Boo placed a blanket around Scout’s shoulders to keep her warm while she watched, from outside. When she realized this she was sickened, “my stomach turned to water and I nearly threw up…” but after realizing that what Boo did was out of care, Scout begins to rethink her ideas, that maybe he wasn’t such a bad person and the rumors were actually lies. In an end scene after Boo has saved the children from Bob Ewell, Scout takes his hand and walks him home. This tells us that Scouts bravery has managed to overcome her fear of Boo Radley. No longer id she afraid of him but instead see’s a kind innocent man that was nothing like she originally perceived him to be. Bravery was an idea worth learning about because it help’s us to understand even children growing up need independence and space to make mistakes and then resolve them on their own, not with guidance of anyone else. In order for them to make the right decisions on their own they need to first learn to make from their
Describe an idea that was worth learning about in a text you studied this year. Explain why this idea was worth learning about.
In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, an idea that was worth learning about was bravery. Bravery comes in many different forms that people don’t always recognize it as being bravery. In this novel Mrs. Dubose, Atticus and Jean Louise (Scout), each display an act of bravery that are all different in their own way. Bravery was worth learning about in this novel because we learn how to interpret and see different types of it, not just the big acts that everyone else see’s.
Mrs. Dubose’s act of bravery was very personal and important to her during her last few months …show more content…
Living with rumors and tales of the monster’ Boo Radley, Scout cant help but fear with her naïve and innocent mind, believing all the mysteries and talk surrounding him. “Dined on raw squirrels…. yellow teeth…. popping eyes…. bloodstained hands.” At the beginning we see Scout making her assumptions based only on others people’s tales but as he encounters Boo Radley several times whether knowingly or unknowingly we begin to see her original views changing based on the knowledge of him. For example when Miss Maudie’s house caught fire, Boo placed a blanket around Scout’s shoulders to keep her warm while she watched, from outside. When she realized this she was sickened, “my stomach turned to water and I nearly threw up…” but after realizing that what Boo did was out of care, Scout begins to rethink her ideas, that maybe he wasn’t such a bad person and the rumors were actually lies. In an end scene after Boo has saved the children from Bob Ewell, Scout takes his hand and walks him home. This tells us that Scouts bravery has managed to overcome her fear of Boo Radley. No longer id she afraid of him but instead see’s a kind innocent man that was nothing like she originally perceived him to be. Bravery was an idea worth learning about because it help’s us to understand even children growing up need independence and space to make mistakes and then resolve them on their own, not with guidance of anyone else. In order for them to make the right decisions on their own they need to first learn to make from their