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In To Kill a Mockingbird , 1 1 Because this is a review essay , in which To Kill a Mockingbird is the single source cited , in-text citations will give only the page numbers , rather than clutter the with unnecessary redundancies . Harper Lee tells of the terrible wrong of racism in an Alabama town . To avoid resort to an off-putting dogmatic or preaching style , she uses as her narrator Scout Turning six at the novel '92s beginning , Jean Louise '93Scout '94 Finch is a precocious tomboy (81

, intelligent (17 , decent , and brave , and yet innocent of the complex , sometimes dangerous adult world (19-22 ) She must try to understand why her father , a respected attorney , makes himself a '93nigger-lover '94 by defending a black man accused of raping a white woman (74-75 , 85-86 , 87 why , a pacifist he is called on to shoot a mad dog (92-97 ) Jem , older and more knowing , is a vehicle to help Scout grow up (58

Atticus is '93civilized in his heart '94 (98 ) Scout gradually comes to understand the courage and decency that entails , and the costs sometimes involved . Atticus acknowledges the racist code of his community he cannot change it . But he looks beyond labels to see people for what they are (75 ) Calpurnia is as much a mother to his children as she is his servant (6 , 24-25 ) Above all , Atticus has principles : the presumption of innocence the right to counsel the duty to one '92s conscience (75-76 ) Holding to these , he tries to pass them on to his children (91-93

Arthur '93Boo '94 Radley , the ghost-like figure who is both a terror and a delight to the children (8-13 , ch . 5-6 , is a '93mockingbird '94 He harms no one , and wants only to be left alone . Lee portrays beautifully the small ways in which the children reach out to him (58-63 , how he responds to them (71-72 , and in the end , the delicacy with which Scout protects his dignity allowing him to take her arm and appear the gentleman , even as she walks him home (278

Although it is often overlooked , there is beauty in the episode of Mrs Dubose . Fighting addiction to morphine , irrational in her pain struggling in silence , and ultimately prevailing To Kill a Mockingbird (Part I ) Page against great difficulty , she earns high and deeply felt praise from Atticus

To Kill a Mockingbird (Part I ) Page I wanted you to see what real courage is , instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand . It '92s when you know you '92re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what . You rarely win , but sometimes you do . Mrs Dubose won , all ninety-eight pounds of her . According to her views , she died beholden to nothing and nobody . She was the bravest person I ever knew (112 SOURCE Lee , Harper , To Kill A Mockingbird . Philadelphia , Pennsylvania...