To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a journey through reality for Scout Finch and her brother Jem.

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Abbas Dewji

Mrs. Bordner

Pre IB English I

October 13, 2009

Scouting for Reality

        To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a journey through reality for Scout Finch and her brother Jem.  The plot takes place in 1933 overlooking the case of a black man, Tom Robinson, who is fighting for justice after being wrongly accused of raping a white woman.  Tom Robinson is being defended by Atticus Finch, the only lawyer that would stand up for the black man.  He tried vigorously to defend Tom, but despite his diligent efforts the all white jury comes up with the verdict guilty.  Throughout the experience with Mrs. Dubose and Arthur Radley, the main character, Scout, greatly matures, and she learns not to accept her illusions of reality until she finds reality itself.  

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        Scout thinks that Mrs. Dubose is a mean, old and vicious woman who has nothing better to do than bicker at them when they walk by.  Scout even goes to say “She [Mrs. Dubose] was horrible. Her face was the color of a dirty pillowcase, and corners of her mouth listened with wet, which inched like a glacier down the deep grooves enclosing her chin.  Old-age liver spots dotted her cheeks, and her pale eyes had black pinpoint pupils.  Her hands were knobby, and cuticles were grown up over her fingernails” (122).  On the contrary, Mrs. Dubose is totally different; ...

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