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    Bravery Bravery is a good trait to have you wouldn’t be able to handle a lot of occurrences without bravery. For example‚ you couldn’t get through any type of school without bravery. If no one had bravery the world would not achieve great things and we wouldn’t be this evolved in life. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird‚ bravery is a key player in the story‚ if nobody was brave there wouldn’t really be a story to make this book. Just remember bravery is a part of everyone. One example of bravery

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    To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee (1960) is a Pulitzer Prize winning novel that offers a view of southern life in the 1930s through the eyes of a young girl named Scout‚ whose view of the adult world evolves as her family is exposed to its evils and injustices‚ changing from that of an innocent child to that of a near-grown up. Discrimination and prejudice are integral parts of the novel’s themes‚ and plays an important role in Scout’s development of a sympathetic‚ mature perspective.

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    Danielle Morton Book Report To Kill a Mockingbird The novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ takes place during a racially intense time in history. Harper Lee’s novel was intended to bring a harsh sense of reality to the real world‚ and was meant to demonstrate how it really was during this time in history. To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story of Scout Finch and her brother‚ Jem‚ in 1930’s Alabama. Through their neighborhood meanderings and the example of their father‚ they grow to understand

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    only by the protection of the laws." This quote is saying that all men are created the same way‚ but society divides them based on false judgments. It says that the only way to achieve self equality is before the law. In To Kill a Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee‚ justice plays a substantial role expressed in Atticus’s opinions‚ Tom Robinson’s court case‚ and the death of Bob Ewell. Justice is expressed throughout the novel in the views and opinions of Atticus Finch. In the story‚ Atticus is a lawyer and

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    you can do. Trying because that’s the kind of man you are‚ and this is the example you want to set for your children. Again‚ trying because it was the right thing to do no matter what the circumstances were. This theme affected me a great deal and Harper Lee did a great job expressing it in “To Kill a

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    In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ Jem shows courage every day to his sibling and friends and other townspeople. Lee tries to show that courage can be defined in many different ways‚ and that courage doesn’t have to mean that a person is brave‚ although it can be someone who is brave. Through Jem Lee can show what courage can really means‚ by Jem`s actions and by how he is seeing about the world around him. Jem Protects his sister and Dill constantly‚ and he learned to do that from Atticus

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    Over the centuries‚ dictators have banned books and even burned them in order to suppress ideas. America’s classic gothic novel‚ To Kill A Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee‚ has been on and off the banned book list for years ever since it was first published in 1960 in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement. To Kill A Mockingbird should remain in the high school curriculum because it teaches lessons to the reader. In a town that is “diseased” with racism‚ Atticus tries to make the all white male jury understand

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    To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee focuses on the challenges of racism during the 1930’s. In the novel a man named Bob Ewell accuses a black man of raping his daughter. Throughout the novel‚ Bob Ewell remains prejudice. Towards the middle of the novel Bob Ewell accuses a black man by the name of Tom Robinson of rape. Bob Ewell sees his daughter kissing Tom and decides to accuse him of rape. At the trial Bob states‚ “-I seen that black nigger yonder ruttin’ on my Mayella” (231). Mr. Ewell has

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    “In literature‚ evil often triumphs‚ but never conquers” in famous novels like “Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson or “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee. The evil is considered the major issues brought upon the protagonists by the antagonists (when comparing these two novels)‚ such as the character of Andy Evans in Speak and Bob Ewell in To Kill a Mockingbird. However‚ the protagonists always found a way to conquer with the good‚ and will always shine brighter than the evil. In “Speak” by Laurie

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    challenging for Tom Robinson in To Kill A Mockingbird‚ and also minorities in real life. Every day‚ they are discriminated against‚ and it is very unfair. To Kill a Mockingbird has many non-fiction parts‚ which makes the novel better than many others. Harper Lee presented Tom’s trial in ways that can be easily compared to real life trials‚ such as the Scottsboro trial. Tom Robinson’s trial was definitely the most dramatic‚ yet the most realistic part in this piece of writing. In the trial‚ Tom Robinson

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