opportunity to express their deepest love and care to their boyfriend or girlfriend. Among all poems and songs from the sixties to the twenty first century‚ I think that the poem Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe is the perfect Valentine’s Day poem. The poem told a story about the persona’s girlfriend‚ Annabel Lee died years ago. They had become couple from they were a young age. It describes the feelings of persona and the anger he expressed. Although it was a poem about death and anger‚ it portraits
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To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee by Harper Lee‚ there are numerous examples of such a theme. Atticus’s influential grasp on justice led to a tiny victory for the future in his town of Maycomb‚ Alabama‚ a community infected by racism. Atticus has a strong understanding of justice‚ as evidenced by his pivotal actions in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. He took Tom Robinson’s court case because the judge knew he could impact the jurors unlike anyone else (Lee 288-289). With Atticus’s wise and
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A finch is a medium sized passerine or songbird that typically stay resident to its home during winters. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee writes about this family with the last name Finch. The Finch family is a normal‚ picket fence‚ non-racist‚ middle class family in the town of Maycomb. Atticus Finch‚ the father of Scout and Jem Finch‚ is a lawyer. He is given the case of Tom Robinson‚ a black man accused of raping a white women. Although Atticus knows he will not win this case‚ he
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because of his outlook on parenting and basic respect for others. Atticus believes that you truly can’t understand someone unless you step into their shoes. "You never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view" (Lee 34). This quote shows that Atticus is a caring parent and wants his children to learn that every person is going through their own problems and you mostly don’t know all of them. He wants them to know to be kind to others no matter how they act. Atticus
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reader for a lifetime. The messages that Harper Lee relays to the reader are exemplified throughout the book using various methods. One of the most important and significant methods was the use of symbols such as the mockingbird image. Another important method was showing the view through a growing child’s (Scout Finch) mind‚ eyes‚ ears‚ and mouth. There is another very significant method that was used. In the novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee utilizes the effects of irony‚ sarcasm‚ and hypocrisy
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To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee Innocence can be described in a variety of ways‚ all depending on perspective. To some people‚ innocence may signify those who have not been tainted by immorality. To others‚ innocence may be defined as someone who has not been corrupted by the harsh truth of reality and their surroundings. In a more literal sense‚ innocence is being free of guilt in regards to legal matters and crime. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee demonstrates how genuinely innocent
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of courage. The text took place in the 1930s‚ during a time when whites and blacks were divided and the years of the great depression. Maycomb county was the small town where everyone knows everyone else’s business. In To Kill A Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee shows that standing for what’s right leads to the act of courage and how it can influence to change a small town like Maycomb. To begin‚ Miss Dubose showed she had a courage because she decided to stop her morphine addiction right before she died. “‘Mrs
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Choose 2 of the texts we have studied and explain how each composer has successfully communicated their message to the responder. In the text To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee and the ’I have a dream’ speech by Martin Luther King Jnr‚ both composers have conveyed strong messages that are communicated through narrative and oral techniques. These messages of courage and prejudice and discrimination are what the composer thought is necessary to write in order to change social attitudes towards
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Throughout the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”‚ Harper Lee presented many examples to the reader regarding honour and loyalty. Harper developed the traits of honour and loyalty through her portrayal of the characters; Atticus Finch‚ Arthur “Boo” Radley‚ and Calpurnia. Atticus Finch was a distinguished symbol of honour and loyalty. He was a man who honoured his well-kept reputation in the town of Macomb and stayed loyal to the people close to him. One example of Atticus’ honourable character was
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appear to others. In the book stereotypes are important when Harper Lee makes the Ewells portray the stereotype for “white trash”. During the trial for the raping of Mayella Ewell this becomes very clear when she writes‚ “ No truant officers could keep their numerous offspring in school; no public health officer could free them from congenital defects‚ various worms‚ and the diseases indigenous to filthy surroundings.”(Lee 227). Lee made this family the stereotypical “white trash” family because it
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