To Kill a Mockingbird Essay

To Kill a Mockingbird Essay

Every single day you are faced with a decision. You may not even know you do. Decisions can be as simple as figuring out what you want to wear today or it could be as hard as figuring out what you want to do in life. There will be times in life where you will regret your decisions. You may have not thought through it enough and just acted quickly which caused regret. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird there is times in the book that the decisions they make they will regret.

One choice that Tom Robinson made in the story was when he had to decide if he wanted to help Mayella Ewell when Tom is being questioned. He was asked why he went over to Mayella Ewell’s house and Tom says that he went over to help her fix things when she asked him. On page 263 he says “I was just trying to help her sir”. This Shows that Tom was really just trying to help Mayella whenever she needed help around the house to fix something.

The Second Choice that Tom Robinson made in the story was when Tom decided to help Mayella Ewell & got accused of forcing him on her. Tom Ran away from the scene fast because he knew that he would get accused of harming Mayella even if he didn’t do anything. By leaving so fast it looked like Tom had done something and he was scared he would get in trouble for it. On page 263 it says “Robinson, you’re pretty good at busting up chifforobes and kindling with one hand aren't you?” This quote from the book shows that Mayella's attorney was willing to say anything to show that Robinson was guilty and they would believe what Mr.Gilmer said just because he was black.

The Third choice that Tom Robinson made was when the Jury and Judge were trying to figure out if Tom Robinson was guilty with putting himself on Mayella. They decided that Tom Robinson was guilty of putting himself upon her because he had nothing to back him up even though he didn’t do it. Everything he did made it look like he could have put himself on Mayella so they had to go with what they heard. On page 282 it says “ Guilty.. guilty … guilty... guilty …. I peeked out at Jem his hands were white from gripping the balcony rail, and his shoulders jerked as if each “guilty” was a separate stab between them.”

In the End Tom made a lot of decisions that he regretted because now he was in Jail even though he didn’t actually put himself on Mayella. No matter what Atticus did to try and help Tom it didn’t work because Mayella’s Attorney said all the right things and Tom did make it look like he could have done something to Mayella. Maybe if Robinson wasn’t black he could have had a chance of not being guilty but so many people are racist so they think that whoever is a different color skin is guilty of doing something. In this case Tom is innocent but they didn’t believe him just because of his skin color. This book definitely shows a lot of Decisions people made that they know have to live with. We need to think before we do something because we could regret it in the end.

   

The Old Man and The Sea Book Review

Title: The Old Man and the Sea

Publisher: Kevin Moehlenkamp

Author: Ernest Hemingway

Fight for What you Love

This story is about an Old man named Santiago & a young boy. Santiago goes fishing and catches a big fish. had been trying to catch a big fish for a long time. He had caught one but he had to fight off all the sharks and other creatures that were trying to get at it. Santigo was not very lucky with caughting a big fish.By the time he got it to shore it was just bones. The Man was getting very old and weaker by the day so it was even harder to try and fight of creatures. When he was younger he was able to do anything and had amazing strength .

On the eighty fifth day, Santiago sets out by himself onto the Gulf Stream. He Casted his line around noon and hoping a marlin would take his bait. He was confident that he would get a bite. Santiago had got a bite and he was sure it was a marlin, he could feel it! It was a big one too. Santiago is so weak that he was struggling to pull in the Marlin. Two days had gone by and the old man is still struggling the tension of the line with his body. He’s is in pain and wounded. He is so tired but still finds somehow to fight on and catch a marlin in the end.

A Quote on amazon i found was “Life is hard, but worth fighting for” I agree with this quote 100%. Life can be hard and throw rocks at you but in the end it will workout and it will be worth all the hard times. Just like in the story The Old Man and the Sea. Santiago had to fight to get a marlin even though he was not having any luck, but he didn’t give up and kept fighting and he ended up catching a marlin.

The writing style in this story is very descriptive! You can picture in your head what they are saying in the story. It almost feels like you're there in the story. Page 144 “He let the line slip through his fingers while he reached down with his left hand and made fast the free end of the two reserve coils to the loop of the two reverse coils of the next line. Now he was ready” This quote shows how descriptive the story really is and you can picture him doing all this while he’s getting ready to go out fishing. It made me think of going fishing with my parents and when my cousin accidently got a hook in her arm when she was trying to cast her line. It made me feel like i was fishing and it was like a total flashback for me.

The Old Man & the Sea reminded me off the book i read called Speak. Even Speak was not a book about fishing the characters went through having to keep going on with life and trying to reach your goal even though it was hard but it was worth it in the end. Both of the main characters in The Old Man & the Sea and Speak never gave up and it turned out to be good even if it was rough getting to the good spot. The plot was very different because The Old Man & the Sea is about fishing and Speak is learning how to Speak up even if it hurts.

The quote on page 38 “A man can be destroyed but not defeated” I think this quote means that they can be destroyed in the beginning but they fight till the end and they end up defeating their problems. It destroys them at first but they catch on and defeat them. Never giving up will work. If you keep working as hard as you can, it will pay off. Maybe not at the beginning but in the end it will. You have to work at it & you will achieve !

I could relate to this story in many ways. One of them was i have had knee injuries in the past that has stopped me from doing the things i love for a while. It was pretty devastating and i knew it was going to be very hard to fix this problem. After going to the doctors they had assigned me to physical therapy for my injury and a new knee brace and i am still working on my knee for it to get better. It’s hard but i have saw improvement and i will get back to normal somehow, but i won't give up.

The book has showed me even more that even though it’s frustrating and hard at the beginning , does not mean that it won't get better. I enjoyed in this story that he did not give up and he kept fighting. It’s really inspirational a bet for a lot of people. I didn’t really like that it was about fishing but i can't change that, but if i had to change something it would be changing fishing to something more interesting that will catch teenagers eyes even more than fishing does.

I give the Old Man & The sea 3 Paws- Pursue it.