Throughout To Kill A Mockingbird, Jem and Scout learn numerous life lessons, but a major lesson that Scout learns is, even the innocent die cruelly. When Atticus comes to the house during the party he tells Aunt Alexandra, Calpurnia, Miss Maudie, and Scout, "...seventeen bullet holes in him." (235) Scout then learns that even though Tom is a sweet, kind-hearted, and nonviolent man, he has to die because of society. She also learns that because Tom was the man trying to escape it was okay to slaughter him, by shooting him at least 17 times, but if it was a white man the guard would have only shot to injure. This lesson is very important for Scout to learn because she is now faced with the racist and slaughtering future of Maycomb, which hopefully her generation will be able to fulfil.
I, myself have faced numerous events in my life, but the end result luckily wasn't death. I love my friends to death, and they are the most important people in my life, and I hate it when people assume that they cause violent acts just because of the way that they are dressed. For example, when my friend and me found a guy beaten in Yuager and we went to get help, people just assumed that my friend beat the beaten boy because of the clothes he was wearing. My friend didn't deserve to be sentence to Juvi because he was completely innocent, but society was against him. He luckily wasn't killed, but he was still treated unfairly because of the "stereotype" that he is involved with, which is supposedly violent. I believe that society needs to get the thing stuck up it's butt out and stop judging people, but they actually need to be able to judge a case without seeing the defendant being charged, but just for what their testimony is. If we went off that a lots of innocent people, wouldn't be charged with the so called crimes that they have committed.
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This paragraph is very well organized and i love your views on people judging other people by the way that they dress. That is so true, so many people take one look at someone and judge them immediately by what they are wearing. I thought this was a very well thought out paragraph. keep up the great work! Although i thought that the part where you said that society needs to take the things out of their butt was distracting and took away from the forcefulness of your paragraph which started out well.
I think that you were right when you said the innocent die cruelly. Scout learns that when she finds out about Tom getting shot 17 times just because he was black like you said and if he was white he would have only gotten shot once for just an injure. GOOD JOB!!!!
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