To Kill A Mockingbird Style Analysis
To Kill a Mockingbird
The style in which any author writes their work can reflect or reveal their attitude towards a subject. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, she expresses……(intro). Harper Lee uses characterization, motifs, and irony to show how she feels people should be treated.
Harper Lee uses characterization to display her philosophy towards the treatment she feels people deserve.The story takes place during The Great Depression, meaning no one in the town of Maycomb has any money. So when Walter Cunningham, a man belonging to one of the poorest families in the town, borrows money from Atticus, he uses a different method to pay him back. Scout and Jem watched and Mr. Cunningham stayed true to his word as they “found …show more content…
Things shift in the story once Atticus receives a plot-twisting case in which he strives to defend Tom Robinson: a black man accused of raping and beating a white woman. After Atticus decides to take the case, Jem and Scout get teased and made fun of by many of their peers. Scout questions her father, asking him why he would take the case and he tells her that he “couldn’t go to church and worship God”(87) if he did not try to help Tom. Situational irony takes place in this part of the story due to the fact that Atticus is a white man and Tom Robinson is black. During this time period and setting, a white man willingly helping and defending a black man accused of such a crime is different from what readers would expect. In this example, Harper Lee shows she feels that no matter what color your skin is, everyone should be given the same treatment. During the summertime, Scout, Jem and Dill make a game of Boo Radley in which they tease him and make efforts to get him outside. One night, when they all go to Boo Radley’s house, Mr. Nathan, Boo Radley’s father shoots his gun in the air, scaring Scout, Jem, and Dill. As they all flee from the property, Jem gets his pants caught on the fence, forcing him to take them off. Later that night, when he goes back to retrieve them, he notices they’ve been sewed up for him. Scout tells Jem that it was almost
The style in which any author writes their work can reflect or reveal their attitude towards a subject. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, she expresses……(intro). Harper Lee uses characterization, motifs, and irony to show how she feels people should be treated.
Harper Lee uses characterization to display her philosophy towards the treatment she feels people deserve.The story takes place during The Great Depression, meaning no one in the town of Maycomb has any money. So when Walter Cunningham, a man belonging to one of the poorest families in the town, borrows money from Atticus, he uses a different method to pay him back. Scout and Jem watched and Mr. Cunningham stayed true to his word as they “found …show more content…
Things shift in the story once Atticus receives a plot-twisting case in which he strives to defend Tom Robinson: a black man accused of raping and beating a white woman. After Atticus decides to take the case, Jem and Scout get teased and made fun of by many of their peers. Scout questions her father, asking him why he would take the case and he tells her that he “couldn’t go to church and worship God”(87) if he did not try to help Tom. Situational irony takes place in this part of the story due to the fact that Atticus is a white man and Tom Robinson is black. During this time period and setting, a white man willingly helping and defending a black man accused of such a crime is different from what readers would expect. In this example, Harper Lee shows she feels that no matter what color your skin is, everyone should be given the same treatment. During the summertime, Scout, Jem and Dill make a game of Boo Radley in which they tease him and make efforts to get him outside. One night, when they all go to Boo Radley’s house, Mr. Nathan, Boo Radley’s father shoots his gun in the air, scaring Scout, Jem, and Dill. As they all flee from the property, Jem gets his pants caught on the fence, forcing him to take them off. Later that night, when he goes back to retrieve them, he notices they’ve been sewed up for him. Scout tells Jem that it was almost