Thursday, May 23, 2013

To Kill A Mockingbird Essay


     
Amanda Rivera
5/22/13
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                                          To Kill A Mockingbird Essay
                                          
Everyone has to make a difficult choice in their lives, and they most likely had to suffer the consequences. In this book, a few characters had to make a quick decision and ended up suffering the consequences.


The character I chose to write about is, Tom Robinson. Tom Robinson is a (black) man who in the book is portrayed as a “rapist” and is constantly being harassed by the townspeople in a racist community. In the beginning of the book Tom is in court for allegedly  “raping” Mayella Ewell. Atticus Finch is his lawyer and is fighting to keep Tom out of jail. Mayella claims that Tom “had beaten and raped her ” and had the bruise on her face as evidence, but when the judge asked to see his arm he said that, “one arm is 12 inches shorter than the other”. That statement right there should of cleared his name but because of him living in a racist community, he still didn't have a chance.


Finally, the lawyer let Tom tell his own story. He claimed that, Mayella asked Tom to come and fix her door and when he came inside to help he discovered that the door wasn't broken and when he turned around to tell her that, she threw herself at him and began hugging him, and when Tom pushed her off, her dad Bob Ewell walked in and Tom ran.


He also said that, he felt bad for Mayella, and the jury wasn't happy with him saying that because, why would a black man feel bad for a white lady, basically saying in any case it should be the other way around. Some speculated that it was Mr. Bob Ewell who beat his daughter and he was furious with that accusation.


By the end of the book, despite all of Atticus`s tryings to help him win the trial, Tom was still found guilty and taken away. And once things were calming down in Maycomb another tragedy hit, Tom Robinson was killed by a gunshot after trying to escape.


Tom is a prime example of a person who made a decision and had to live with the consequences, unfortunately for Tom that choice cost him his life. All he did was try and help Mayella and didn't know that it was going to explode into this big thing where he constantly gets called a “rapist” and  is sent to jail for the rest of his life.

11 comments:

  1. 1. the thesis is that people have to learn how to make quick decisions and suffer the aftermath.
    2. "one arm is 12 inches shorter." it stands out for me because it proves that his arm is messed up.
    3. i think the word choice is the best. because it uses different words each times.
    4. one area is that she could use more quotes in it.

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  2. 1. The thesis of the essay is that a few characters in to kill a mockingbird is that characters have to make quick decisions and suffer the consequences. You proved your thesis by using Tom Robinson as an example.
    2. The best quote in this essay was " one arm is 12 inches shorter than the other." I thought this was a really good quote because it is a key fact to show the reader that he could not have harmed Mayella and the jury convicted him anyway.
    3. One thing the essay does well is the writing style. I thought the writing style was really good because the essay was very interesting to read based on how you worded it.
    4. I think you need to add two more quotes to your essay.

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  3. 1. The thesis of this essay is about people who have to make a quick decision and they have to suffer with the consequences that they are faced with.
    2. “one arm is 12 inches shorter than the other”, it proves that his arm is really messed up.
    3. The essay is really good, one thing that's really good is just the whole plot. They really followed the directions to the story.
    4. I don't see really much to fix but if you can fix something, I would add in some more quotes!

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  4. 1.) Quick decisions had to be made.
    2.) “one arm is 12 inches shorter than the other” This is the only quote.
    3.) This is well organized.
    4.) Need more quotes.

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  5. amanda
    1. she tells me that everyone makes mistakes in life all the time.
    2. “one arm is 12 inches shorter than the other”. Shes saying stuff about the nub.
    3. make it more decrypted please
    4. more quotes make it longer and more detailed.

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  6. 1.) The thesis of this essay is about people who have to make a qucik decision.
    2.)"one arm 12 inches shorter than the other"
    3.)This is well organized.
    4.)Needs more quotes.

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  7. 1. The thesis of this essay is about people making a quick decision.
    2. "one arm is 12 inches shorter." i liked this quote because it shows that his arm is really messed up.
    3. I think that the essay is really good.
    4. One area of this essay that could be improved is that you should add more quotes and make it more descriptive.

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  8. Good job with the first sentence bruh.
    The quotes are excellent.

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  9. 1.) the way that you started off with the story was very good nothing needs to be changed
    2.)when you were talking about how Tom R felted bad for the white girl and how that never happens
    3.)the way you wrote the whole story like I said nothing needs to be changed and it was a good way that you ended it
    4.)you should have talked about Tom R some more you said some things about him but I wanna know more

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  10. 1. The thesis of this essay is having to make a quick decisions and regretting it in the end and now having to live with the consequence.
    2. “one arm is 12 inches shorter than the other” This quote proves he wasn't lying but no one would believe him.
    3. This essay is very well organized.
    4. I think you could add more quotes and it would make this essay even better than it already is!

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  11. I get lots of homework every week.So i need homework help.But it will be good quality.

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