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English Literature To Kill a Mockingbird Essay plans - themes and characters.
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Characters:Atticus Finch
Moral Educator
‘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’
‘it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird’
‘what real courage is instead of getting the idea that courage is a man
with a gun in his hand'
‘one shot finch’
‘most people are scout, when you finally see them’
Anti-racism
‘i do my best to love everybody’
‘cheating a coloured man is 10x worse than cheating a white man’
‘but this is a truth that applies to the human race and no particular race of
man’
Justice
‘the one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s
conscience’
‘the one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom’
‘in our courts, all men are created equal’
‘atticus finch won't win, he can't win, but he's the only man who can keep
a jury out so long in a case like that’
,Mrs Dubose
Confederate values
‘c.s.a pistol concealed among her numerous shawls’
‘negro girl in constant attendance’
‘camellias’
‘your father’s no better than the niggers and trash he works for’
Southern Belle/ Gender roles
‘you should be in a dress’
‘don’t you say hey to me, you ugly girl!’
Moral Lesson
‘hold your head up high and be a gentleman’
‘cuts of the tops of every camellia bush mrs dubose owns’
‘jem’s chin would come up… cultivated an expression of polite and
detached interest’
Courage
‘leave this world beholden to nothing and nobody’
‘her whole mind and body were concentrated on that alarm clock’
‘as the mountain air’
‘i wanted you to see what real courage is’
, Jean Louise ‘Scout’ Finch
Begins innocent
‘malevolent phantom’
‘judging from his tracks’
‘atticus, jem and i, plus calpurnia our cook’
‘tyrannical presence’
Against the Southern Belle stereotype, against gender
expectations
‘rubbing his nose in the dirt’
‘you should be in a dress’
‘you want to grow up to be a lady don’t you?’, ‘no’, ‘of course you do’
‘pink cotton penitentiary’
Growth and character development
‘cal, can I come to see you sometimes?’
‘atticus he was real nice’
‘it’d sort of be like shootin’ a mockingbird’
‘mr arthur’
Scout being narrator
‘mr underwood didn’t talk about miscarriages of justice’.
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