Will give ! can someone explain what this wants me to do? i know i'm supposed to write an essay, but what it's asking is confusing me. write an essay that analyzes one work of literature that you have read from the perspective of a quotation. in your essay, interpret the quotation and explain whether it applies to a work of literature you have read. support your opinion using literary terms and elements as well as details from the text. lens quotation: "character is what you are in the dark." -dwight lyman moody

to kill a mockingbird basically is about a lawyer who goes against everything in a racist society like at the time of this novel, to defend a black man accused of sexual abuse. in the bible there are cases like that of joseph, who was accused by the woman of potifar, for a crime similar to that of tim robbinson, of that novel (genesis 39: 1-20). at this point we see that god also provides the escape to joseph, who was accused unjustly, but in his time, and through his attitude, his faith was not shaken, and god provided the solution. the perspective of god also written in the bible and not pay evil with evil. (ephesians 4: 32, 1 thessalonians 5: 15, 1 peter 3: 9). atticus, the lawyer, demonstrated during this lee novel, empathy, love of neighbor, understood the situation of this accused man. he went against everything in that society, and stood in favor of that man, for the injustice committed. this shows the empathy, the love taught by christ, in some passages that speak of love and justice in the sermon of the beatitudes (especially verses 6 and 7 of matthew 5).

the answer is a)   a sentence of death costs the state "almost three times as much as a sentence of life in prison" (delon 147)