Moshe Bensalmon December 15‚ 2014 To Kill a Mockingbird Essay Test In To Kill a Mockingbird‚ the author‚ Harper Lee‚ uses Atticus to teach the reader a lesson. One of these lessons is that ‘most people are finally good when you finally see them’. The characters that the book focuses on with regards to this lesson are Bob Ewell‚ Mayella Ewell and Aunt Alexandra. Atticus keeps telling
Premium To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Truman Capote
trials of Tom Robison took place back in the 1930s? I will present some facts and quotes from informational sources that will prove how people are really the ones to blame. To discuss who or what was wrongly accused? Is to get to the bottom and find the evidence base on facts. Highlighting 2 informational articles‚ and the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee in chapter 20 of Atticus speech of what the jury should do. Let’s start with Atticus’s speech and why he was describing the facts and statements
Premium Black people To Kill a Mockingbird Damien Echols
“To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee inspired by the Scottsboro Boys The trial of the Scottsboro Boys is one of the most significant moments in American history. Back in 1931 a group of nine black teenage boys‚ also named Scottsboro Boys‚ were accused of raping two white women in Alabama. A fight broke out in a train and a group of white men reported they had been attacked by black teenagers. The train stopped in Scottsboro‚ Alabama‚ where the black boys were arrested by a local sheriff after
Free To Kill a Mockingbird White people Black people
apply to‚ asked Scout to take him home‚ and she does while reflecting on the past couple of years as they get nearer to the Radley Place. She remembers all that Boo has given her and Jem‚ and it hurts her they they never gave back. When they get to the front porch‚ Boo goes inside the house and Scout never sees him again. As she walks back home‚ Scout sees the world from Boo’s perspective‚ and learns why he stays inside. In the final porch theme‚ Harper Lee uses point of view and setting to convey the
Premium To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Black people
Women of the 1930’s went through many social struggles‚ expectations‚ and hardships. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird displays an accurate depiction of how women were treated and expected to act. The decline in jobs and money in the Great Depression did not get rid of the traditional gender roles that have been long forgotten in modern time. Unattainable standards were handed to women‚ such as being expected to act like ‘proper ladies’ in a society run by men. Being a women in this time meant enduring
Premium Gender role Great Depression Gender
takes great courage to grow up and become who you really are” (www.goodreads.com). In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird‚ young Jem and Scout Finch spend their summers in Maycomb‚ Alabama. Through the years they wait for the elusive Boo Radley to come out of his house and watch their father defend a black man in trial. The novel displays thematic topics such as prejudice‚ courage and family dynamics. Harper Lee illustrates the theme that prejudice causes people to treat others unfairly. After the
Premium To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
“The defendant is not guilty‚ but somebody in this room is” (Lee 271). Atticus‚ in his closing argument‚ attempts to convey that Tom Robinson is innocent‚ and the Ewell’s have done a wrong deed. In To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee demonstrates the theme of treating and respecting everyone as an individual in Atticus’s closing argument by using rhetorical devices such as repetition‚ analogies‚ and allusions. Lee puts repetition into practice multiple times throughout Atticus’s closing argument to
Premium To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Race
against black man’s‚ the white man always wins”(Lee 295). To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ is about a town called Maycomb that is going through lots of injustices. Scout Finch‚ our main character is growing up dealing with the hardest racial circumstances and is finding what she believes is right. To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee explores the theme of racism to demonstrate the importance of breaking social expectations. The first way Harper Lee explores the significance of the theme racism is
Premium To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Black people
squarely on Atticus’ closing statement that needs to be powerful in order to win. In “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee‚ a court case takes Maycomb by surprise. A case between an African American man and a poor white woman makes for a difficult situation for its residents. The jury needs to be able to analyze the information and evidence given from the witnesses to give an honest conclusion. Depending on how the jury swings‚ it could put an innocent man’s life at risk. Atticus Finch needs to use
Premium To Kill a Mockingbird White people Black people
of rape. During her testimony she states Tom‚ “Took full advantage” of her. (TKAM‚ Lee 18:38) As Mayella accuses Tom of rape‚ mobs of people are outraged at the idea of a black man raping a white woman. The court is required to try Tom Robinson based on evidence and if he has committed rape and is convicted lawfully by a jury of his peers with hard evidence-the death penalty is valid at
Premium Capital punishment Crime Prison