*NOTE* This essay was written in a comparison between Scout (To Kill A Mockingbird) and a person.
             Many events can happen in a person's life that can affect that person deeply: a death of a family member, moving to another town, conflict between family, an introduction of a person into somebody's life. Whatever it is, its affect can be dramatic. In the story, "To Kill A Mockingbird", A women recalls a few memorable years of her life as a young girl in the Southeast United States, or Maycomb, Alabama, to be more specific. During this period, the young girl nicknamed Scout discovers some of life's greatest lessons through her relationships with her family, her friends, her neighbors and the community around her. Time may have been different during the 1930's, but the basic concept of life remains the same: respect, honesty and the belief that all people are made equal, continue to be some of life's most important lessons. Many of life's greatest come through adversity, or conflict, where one has to rise above his or her personal standards, to achieve a certain goal, or to destroy a wall set in front of him or her. A saying that was used much during wars and during times of crisis was "A hero is a common person, doing an extraordinary thing". Many acts of heroism may not be considered as such by some people, but they all deserve merit. A person's character and words are his or her most deadly weapons and they can be used by anyone, by the young or the old, by men or women, by the innocent or the guilty. They do not belong to one country or one army; they belong to the person and only to that person.
             In the novel we see Scout, a young girl caught in the crossfire of a civil war, a war not fought with guns and cannons, but with words and character. The battle for equality for women and especially for African Americans was a heated one during the 1930's. The Great Depres...