TAKING A STAND

SCOUT

• Scout is a prime example of how people change overtime.
• Over the time spent reading To Kill a Mockingbird it is visable
• how Scout matures in her activities and her actions.
• Throughout the book it is clear that she belives strongly in things
• but as she matures in though, she matures in how she handles situations.

"I would lead him through our house but I would never lead him home." (Pg. 372)

Scout knew that Boo already had a bad reputation and she knew he was a good man so she allowed him to take her to his house so if Miss Stephanie Crawford saw them, she would develop a new understanding of Boo.

ATTICUS

• Atticus is the most mature and just man in the book.
• Throughout his actions, his belive of a subject shines through
• and allows the reader to interpret Atticus' decisions.
• He displays his abillity to take a stand quite often
• and provides evidence on why it is the right thing.

"Let that be the least of you worries." (Pg. 27)

The Cunningham's had little to go on and they also needed a lawyer. After Atticus helped them, he didn't ask for money because he not only knew about their situation, but he also understood they couldn't pay him in money so he waited and eventually food started appearing on their doorstep. This showed that Atticus was understanding of every walk of life and patient on getting what he earned.

MRS. DUBOSE

• Mrs. Dubose was a older woman with
• problems with pain and children.
• although she wasn't the favorite of
• the neighbors, she was still a character
• that displayed taking a stand.

"Inside the box, surrounded by wads of damp cotton, was a white, waxy, perfect camellia." (Pg. 148)
Mrs. Dubose was a morphine addict. (Pg. 146)

After being wronged by Jem, she made him read to her so she could focus on not taking Morphine to try to become drug free. At the end of her life she was drug free and wanted to leave the world beholden to nobody so to forgive Jem, she gave him the Camellia that wasn't destroyed by Jem.

CALPURNIA

• Like Atticus, Calpurnia was a person that
• valued personal integrity and caring for people.
• There were multiple times when Calpurnia was
• able to show how she thinks and what she stands for.

"You ain't got no business bringin white chillun here." (Pg. 158)

At the first purchase, Cal, Jem, and Scout were verbally attacked by Lula but Calpurnia stayed strong and defended all of them. This incident shows that Cal is able to stand up in a situation which clearly states she is an underdog.

MR. UNDERWOOD

• Mr. Underwood is a bitter newspaper owner which is noted on several
• passages. Although he may be unruly, he still has a clear vision
• and acts for what he belives in and not what the larger group
• sees fit.

"He had been tried openly, convicted by twelve good men and true;" (Pg. 323)

Mr. Underwood exercised his right speech as he blatantly stated that he say through Tom's color and was eager to display the fact that the jury were cowards and compared the incident to the senseless slaughter of songbirds by children and hunters.

TOM ROBINSON

• Tom was a black man who was wrongly
• accused of a crime he did not commit.
• Even in court, he was calm and collected
• in his time of dying. Like Atticus, he was able to see
• the good in people even if they wronged or hurt him.

"I was just tryin' to help her out, suh." (Pg.263)

Tom was good man because not only did he deeply care about his family, he also was able to step out of his comfort zone and help a white person that never had shown him compassion or even recollection of his existence. Even when she accused him, he stayed calm and didn't straight up deny every thing.

MR. DOLPHOUS RAYMOND

• Mr. Dolphous Raymond is a good character for a
• bad reason. He doesn't care what people think of
• him even if he doesn't follow society's way.
• On the contrast, to escape discrimination,
• he drinks "whisky" so people blame the alcohol for his odd ways.

"Some folks don't like the way I live. Now I could say to **** with them, I don't care if they don't like it... (So) I weave a little and drink out of this sack, folks can say Dolphous Raymond's in the cluches of whisky." (Pg. 268)

Raymond proves that he doesn't care what people say and he'd rather have people talk about his so called drinking instead of being racist and demeaning.