Innocent lives In Harper Leas" novel "To Kill a Mocking Bird", discuses the life of people in a small town, and the effects it has on the main characters. ... Scout was young, innocent and exposed to evil at an early age. ... Scout's developing into a person capable of assuming encounters, she will retain her conscience without becoming cynical or jaded. Scout is still a child at the end of the book but Scout's perspective on life develops from that of an innocent child into that of a near grown-up. ... He's still innocent but older than what his age tells. ...

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Persecuting Boo Radley would have truly been like "killing a mockingbird" as he had been innocent all his life. ... Tom Robinson was an innocent man, found guilty for the simple reason of being black. ... Tom Robinson was happy to help Mayella Ewell with her chores, not because she was white, but because he was a genuinely kind person. ...

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Aunt Alexandria doesn't like a black person raising Jem and Scout so she tries to get Atticus to fire her. ... He symbolizes the mockingbird, an innocent bird that never harms anyone, because he has the same characteristics. ... The Tom Robinson trial shows how hard it could be for a black person to receive a fair trial. ... White Southerners can't see past skin color to distinguish a mockingbird from a guilty person. This paper shows the importance of the innocent mockingbird and why people chose to ignore that. ...

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Can you imagine an innocent man found guilty and shot seventeen times? ... He is not given a chance to be seen as a good honest person. ... Boo is a good person that lives his life in hiding. ... Any person of color is always in the lowest class. ... Identity makes up who you are as a person; conformity is the type of social influence. ...

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Boo Radley is overall an innocent and peaceful character. ... Tim was innocent, even though he was sick, he never hurt anyone. Yet, the whole neighborhood locked their doors and closed their windows because of something they were told by another person. ... Though through Tom's statement and his disability, he is shown to be innocent the jury finds him guilty. ... A innocent man dead, with an undeserving death. ...

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Atticus defends Tom Robinson, an innocent black man who is being accused of beating and raping 19-year-old Mayella Ewell. He knows he is innocent and knows that if he does not defend Tom nobody else will because he is black. ... Several children and adults torment Atticus and his family because he is doing the right thing for an innocent black man. ... He always points out the positive values of a person and will tell them to forget the negatives. ... So live your life like Atticus and you will honestly die a very happy person. ...

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Another lesson is that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird, in other words, to harm the innocent. ... She was the bravest person I ever knew. ... Another key lesson learned in childhood is to not harm the innocent. ... They are taught by Atticus to not shoot innocent beings or animals. ... Harming innocent people is a mistake because they have not hurt anything. ...

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The story is told through the eyes of a young, adventurous girl, Scout, giving the novel an innocent and uncorrupted perspective of the society. ... Mockingbirds later become the symbol of victims of prejudice and innocent people who are outcasted and ridiculed due to the flaws of society. ... Most of the county did not view Tom as a person and, therefore, did not feel sorry for his unjust death. ... The kids try and lure Boo out of his home and soon learn some things about him as a person. ... He teaches the reader to not judge someone without getting to know them, or else they may be an inno...

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At the beginning of the novel, Scout is an innocent, good-hearted five-year-old child who has no experience with the evils of the world. ... The fact that Tom Robinson is really innocent is amazing to me as the jury convicted him simply because of his racial background. They believe no black man could be innocent. ... From this I learnt that the dangers posed to innocent people by evil can eventually destroy a person. ... As Atticus says " You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it". ...

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Scout is the wise one but is young and innocent. ... Scout finally learns this lesson towards the end of the book when she finally sees Boo as a person and not a menace. ... Ewell, he did nothing but save two innocent children from death. By bringing him to trial for the death of an evil man it would kill Boo, because he is such a shy person who fears society. ... He starts as a childhood horror story but progresses to a real person who is extreme goodness. ...

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Others say that courage is a person with a strong heart. ... Importantly, Atticus doesn't put so much effort into Tom's case because he's an African American, but because he is innocent. Atticus feels that the justice system should be color blind, and he defends Tom as an innocent man, not a man of color. ... Atticus knows that Tom is innocent and has nothing to do with anything the Ewell family is accusing him of raping Mayella. ... Therefore, Atticus Finch is a courageous person. ...

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A good example of this is when the people of Maycomb convict Tom Robinson, who is just an innocent man was going about his business and is basically being charged for being black. ... So, in away the two characters (Boo and Tom) are "mockingbirds," who are just innocent men, trying to live their lives the way they want, and in Tom's case to support his family. ... They are also hinted to by most of Maycomb's white population that Tom is an evil black person that rapes white women, except that the children have Atticus" influence and a few others that are not racist and know...

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They represent a gentle and innocent creature and the destruction of these birds is a senseless act of injustice. ... Through his gifts in the tree, the mending of Jem's pants and covering Scout with a blanket as she witnessed the burning of Miss Maudie's house, the reader becomes aware, long before Scout does, that Boo is an affectionate person. ... Although he is innocent of this crime, Tom is still condemned by the people of Maycomb. ... (p.259) Like Atticus, Mr Underwood believes that the mockingbird is a gentle and innocent creature and to butcher these birds is wicked an...

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In the extract from her novel To Kill a Mocking-Bird, Harper Lee reveals the courage shown towards a mob of men set out to kill an innocent man. ... The text is constructed as a first person narration from the adult of Jean-Louise Finch, in retrospect to when she was six. ... Constructing the text in the first person perspective, allows the reader to have a greater understanding of Scout and hence the ability to comprehend why she behaves the way she does. ... Being as innocent and naive as she is, Scout interprets Atticus" fear as being anger, and furthermore, feels embarrassed instead of fri...

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A racist, all-white jury convicts the innocent Robinson, despite Finch's heroic and impassioned defense. Harper Lee's message about fairness in To Kill a Mockingbird is that societies views and actions towards a person, are based on their skin color, who they are, and their personal image. ... The evidence Atticus brought to court proved Tom innocent. ... In the trial itself Atticus says that Bob and Mayella have assumed that they will automatically be believed over a black person. ... She has come to learn the skill of empathy, and can appreciate another person's situation.  ...

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Relationship Between Setting And Theme Tom Robinson was prosecuted although he was innocent. ... If some differs from an idea from the community, people will gang up against that person. ... It was a shame that the town's racistness locked away an innocent man. ...

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Atticus probably considered this, and then decided that it was worth it to know that he had saved an innocent man from death. ... When he says that he couldn't hold his head up in down, he says it meaning that he couldn't hold his head up knowing that he sent an innocent man to hang. ... When someone puts themselves above the law or above the opinions of the people that live in their town, that person truly is a great person. ...

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His simple and childish mind couldn't comprehend why a man such as the prosecutor would be so mean to another person. ... Acting as the story's narrator, Scout tells the actions that occurred through her young, innocent eyes. ... Jem's gradual progression to maturity shows that the innocence of youth is a thing to be treasured, mainly because once a person loses it, Dill wholeheartedly supported the actions of both the Finch kids and acted as if he were just the third child of the family; therefore, he was just as uncorrupted and innocent as either of the other two. ...

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The End of the Innocence When looking from the mind's eye view of a child, life seems simple and innocent. ... Every child is born with such innocence; yet, no person grows or matures until they have lost such innocence. ... No person does evil to be doing evil; they only mistake it for happiness. ... If all people could remain innocent the violence and hatred in the world may cease to exist. ... Lee wants for people to be changed by Scout's innocence and learn to accept people for who the person is not who you want that person to be. ...

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Tom Robinson is a "mocking bird" because he is black, which means he gets put below any other white person. He is a non-violent person, he never harms anybody and strives to support his family. ... He is an innocent person because all the beliefs and rumours that go around due to the fact that he is black are all lies and totally fictional. Boo Radley is a "mocking bird" because, like Tom he is a harmless person and looks after Atticus's children (Jem and Scout). ... If these guidelines are not abided by then you are shunned, victimised and judged based on stories made up to try and ...

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The mockingbird sings for the sake of singing, and an innocent child possesses an innate joyfulness, as natural as instinct. ... In the beginning of the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, Scout and Jem are portrayed as innocents, uncorrupted by our world of prejudice and racism. ... As Atticus later explained to her, he was still a friend and a good person, but sometimes when you're in a group, you do things and make decisions that you wouldn't as an individual. " 'A mob's always made up of people, no matter what...Every mob in a Southern town is always made up of people you kno...

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Radley locked Boo inside their house for years, not speaking to a single person outside of his home. ... Dill is another innocent character that enjoys his childlike adventures and imagination, but yet he is a neglected child. ... He is also an innocent kid, only four years older than Scout, that enjoys playing imaginary games, but is forced to grow up quickly with all the lessons that Atticus has taught him in order to grow up to be a lawyer like him. ... However, they are just kids, making them innocent and easy prey for the rest of the town to pick on. Scout is an innocent girl who is only...

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This is fed by: wwbg bgw esbgbgs aybg bgba nbg kcbg bguk; Fear - Children are frightened of Boo Radley; an outsider to society whom they have never seen Rumour - Children have heard rumours from Miss Stephanie and other children about Boo Superstition - Views such as ghosts and stories they have been told whilst growing up feed their fears of Boo When the children mature and realise that Boo is a real person, capable of suffering like everyone else, the prejudice dies. ... It is a sin' to harm an innocent (mockingbird). ... Repeated image of an innocent creature to form a str...

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According to Dr. Martin Luther King, "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others. In dange...

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The mockingbirds are just like innocent and kind-hearted characters in the novel. ... That shows the person that beats Mayella is not Tom Robinson. ... The person that saves them is the person that they used to think was dangerous, but actually he is a kind-hearted person. Jem and Scout judge Boo Radley as a bad person. ... He reflects a kind of person who is kind but often misunderstood by other people. ...

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