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“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along,” said Eleanor Roosevelt, former first lady of the United States. Eleanor was a women’s rights activist. She encountered situations where if she didn’t have courage, she wouldn’t have gotten where she was today. Courage is observed in To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. Scout…

Most people define courage as a man with a gun. In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird we follow the characters Atticus Scout and Jem Finch. Through the book Jem figures it out the hard way and scout gets is kind of easy. Jem showed his courage by helping scout when ever she needed help. Scout shows courage by standing up for her dad when the kids in her school called him a nigger lover. Through the character of Atticus Harper Lee shows the reader what true courage is. Courage is doing some thing…

Abraham Lincoln once said “I am bound to live up to what light I have” and that is true of the characters in St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves and Sonny’s Blues. The girls in St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves were told to abandon their wolf nature and they embarked on the difficult task of changing everything they knew about the world. Sonny in Sonny’s Blues was a Harlem raised kid with a dim future who turned to heroin and had trouble deserting it, as most heroin addicts do.…

Cleo and the Leopard Cleo and the Leopard lived in the same neighborhood, sometimes even in the same tree, but never at the same time, because they were not friends. But they understood each other’s speech and sometimes spoke to each other. As a baboon, Cleo spoke more than the Leopard. Words came to her readily because she was always talking with the other baboons. The Leopard was usually silent. When the Leopard tried to sneak up on some tasty little mongoose under Cleo’s tree, she and…

In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Lee gives many life themes that all are life lessons for the reader and Scout the main character. Throughout the book many themes are shown but two that really stick out to me were compassion and courage. These themes stick out because when reading about Scout growing up we see her develop into a more compassionate and courageous person in the way she acts and presents herself. Furthermore, these themes serve great life lessons for the reader and help them…

TKAM Response Kenna Shand 4/20/17 Mr.Bruce/Mrs.Godfrey Most nerdy professors agree that there are two obvious mockingbirds in Harper Lee’s novel. The two mockingbirds are Tom Robinson, a negro man who was accused of rape, and Boo Radley, a man who has been locked up in his house for the longest time. I believe there is a third mockingbird, and her name is Scout. The first mockingbird is Tom because he is caged in jail. Like a mockingbird, they can be caged. He also helps Mayella for…

There are many different people in the world today, and one can’t understand all of them by just looking at them. One has to try to see the world from their perspective. In To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, there are a handful of characters who can’t be fully understood at a first glance. A few of these characters are Boo Radley, who keeps himself shut inside his own home, Tom Robinson, a young black man falsely accused of rape, and Mayella Ewell, the daughter of Bob Ewell who was supposedly…

To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, tells the story of a small, quiet town in Maycomb, Alabama during the 1930’s of Scout Finch and her brother Jem, along with Atticus Finch. Mr. Finch, the widowed father of Scout and Jem, as well as a local lawyer to the town will stand for what he believes in no matter the struggle. Atticus stands behind those who he thinks are being treated unfairly. Hence, he teaches Scout and Jem what it means to have courage. This novel demonstrates…

There are many pieces of evidence in the book “To Kill A Mockingbird”, but here are the ones that stand out the most throughout the book. For example, when Jem argues with Atticus about Mrs.dubose and how she is nothing like a proper lady should be, he says, “She had her own views about things, a lot different from mine, maybe...son, I told you that if you hadn’t lost your head I’d have you go read to her-I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man…

Franklin D. Roosevelt said in his first inaugural speech, “That the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance”. In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the character Jem Finch does not get paralyzed by fear, his heroic personality faces fear head on. Even though Jem is just a maturing child, he shows a lot of adult traits that are revealed in TKAM. Jem shows passion, courageousness…