Essay #17

Essay 17

Ryan

Mr. H. Salsich

8 English

3/8/10

Ladies and Gentlemen

Examples from To Kill a Mockingbird

(TS) Ladies and gentlemen are people who are kind, and respectful. (C) They are also people who do what they think is right. (C) Many of the characters from the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee carry the traits of being kind and respectful, and many of them are ladies and gentlemen. (CS) Some of them are not as obvious as others, but after some thought, almost all of the characters from this book are ladies and gentlemen.

(TS) There are countless amounts of gentlemen in the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. (SD) Atticus is the finest example of a gentleman in the book. (C) No matter who the person is, no matter how they act, no matter what color their skin is, Atticus is always nice and respectful to everybody. (Anaphora) (C) Even when Mrs. Dubose dies, Atticus says, " She was a great lady." (Lee, 149) which is surprising because she was very cruel to people frequently. (SD) Another gentleman, toward the end of the book, is Jem. (C) He was not always polite to his sister for most of the book, but he ends up being very nice to her. (C) By the very end, it seems like Jem really enjoys helping Scout, "Jem came to fetch me he was sympathetic." (Lee, 347). (SD) Boo Radley is also an incredibly great gentleman. (C) When Jem went onto his property and forgot his pants, Boo came and folded them up for Jem, "When I went back, they were folded across the fence..." (Lee, 78). (CS) These are just a few of the gentlemen in the book To Kill a Mockingbird.

(TS) Many of the female characters in To Kill a Mockingbird, including children, are ladies. (S-V Split) (SD) Scout grows up to be a great lady through out the book. (C) She starts off with a very short temper, which gets her into many fights, but she learns how to keep control of it eventually. (C) In addition, she is extremely nice to Boo at the end, and walks him home, "I lead him to the front porch, where his uneasy steps halted." (Lee, 372) (SD) Mrs. Dubose is also a nice lady, even though it might not seem like it. (C) She was going through a lot of pain, and she needed to take a lot of medication to deal with her pain, when she did not have her medication she was became nasty to people. (Loose Sentence) (C) She was brave for trying to push back the time that she took her medicine at. (C) Atticus even says, "She was the bravest person I ever knew." (Lee, 149). (SD) Lastly, Aunt Alexandra is an amazing lady. (C) She teaches Scout to be a lady, and even though Scout did not like it, it was a kind thing to do. (C) Alexandra taught Scout many things, including what being spoiled is, "This feeling was what Aunt Alexandra called being "spoiled."" (Lee, 307). (CS) Even though some of the ladies in To Kill a Mockingbird may not seem great, they all were in their own way.

(TS) There were many people who were great ladies and gentlemen in this book. (C) Many of them may have seemed different from each other, but they all carried the traits that every lady and gentleman should have. (C) Some of them even came across as mean, but after you think about it, they had a reason why they acted nasty. (CS) Anybody can be a lady or a gentleman, as long as they try to be one.