The intriguing novel‚ To Kill A Mockingbird is written by the prestigious author Harper Lee. Lee has utilised the lifestyle and attitudes towards African-Americans" in the 1930’s to create a novel which presents the reader with Lee’s attitudes and values. The dominant reading of the novel is focused on the issues of racial prejudice‚ but there are also a number of other alternative and oppositional readings. Examples of this are the Marxist and feminist readings which can be applied to the text
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Reading How To Kill A Mockingbird Anywhere you go in life you should always follow the moral of having to see things from others perspectives. This is a topic in a scene from Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Scout‚ the main character‚ talks to her father Atticus about her teacher‚ Miss Caroline‚ telling her about how Scout needs to stop reading at home. Harper Lee uses this scene to have Scout learn an important lesson which has to look at other people’s points of views in order to understand
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The movie based on John Grisham’s A Time to Kill is a Hollywoodized‚ modern-day version of To Kill a Mockingbird. Both movies employ many of the same themes and plot elements; but the former movie is one-dimensional and predictable while the latter is innovative and purposeful. The movie version of Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird is considered a classic film‚ whereas John Grisham’s adapted novel is merely another example of the money making efforts of Hollywood. Some of the movies’ more
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want‚ if you can hit ’em‚ but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.’"That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something‚ and I asked Miss Maudie about it."’Your father’s right‚’ she said. ’Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens‚ don’t nest in corncribs‚ they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.’" - Atticus This relates to the text throughout the
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compared to others. Prejudice is a habit that one develops with experience and the effects of a negative surrounding environment. During the 1930s‚ prejudice was a more critical issue‚ as demonstrated in Harper Lee’s award winning novel‚ To Kill A Mockingbird. Throughout the novel‚ there are various situations of discrimination. However‚ few characters in the novel portray egalitarianism‚ which is a belief that favors everyone equally. One remarkable character that portrays egalitarianism is Jean
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Persecution County In today’s society‚ not unlike societies of the past‚ there continues to be justice and injustice in our world. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird‚ there is an emphasis on the mistreatment of individuals due to the colour of their skin in Maycomb County. Throughout the novel it is evident that there is an enormous prejudice towards coloured people through the treatment of Tom Robinson‚ Dolphus Raymond‚ and Atticus Finch. Simply due to the colour of Tom Robinson’s skin he
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Quotes in To Kill a Mockingbird by theme Pride | * ‘…I suppose he loved honour more than his head…’ – talking about Jem when he ran up to the Radley House on a dare. A childish example of the much more complex idea of pride explored in this book * When asked why he is defending Tom Robinson‚ Atticus reponds that ‘…if I didn’t‚ I couldn’t hold up my head in town…’ * ‘It was the first time I ever walked away from a fight…’ – Scout refuses to fight Cecil Jacobs even though he insults Atticus
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To Kill a Mockingbird In the novel of “ To Kill A Mockingbird”‚ by Harper Lee‚ mockingbirds are used to represent the destruction of innocence. Throughout the book‚ a number of characters such as Jem‚ Tom Robinson‚ Dill‚ Boo Radley‚ and Mr. Raymond can be identified as mockingbirds. Innocents who have been injured or destroyed through contact with evil. Tom Robinson is being accused of raping Mayella. Which is Bob Ewells daughter. Tom was proven not guilty to the court but since he is a man of color
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To what extent is ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ a critique of the values promoted in Maycomb society? Maycomb County is its own little world‚ made of real people but it reflects the wider world of America in terms of its attitudes‚ issues and characters. It‚ the microcosm which reflects the macrocosm of America‚ such as the way blacks are regarded and treated. The story is told from a viewpoint of a growing 6 year old child‚ Scout Finch. So we are seeing situations from an innocent ‘eye’‚ ‘she
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OUR SURROUNDINGS AND THE PEOPLE IN OUR LIVES SHAPE OUR IDENTITY. Good morning ladies and Gentlemen. Do our surroundings and the people in our lives shape our identity? I will explore how this quotation is reflected in the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee‚ the film ‘Witness’‚ by Peter Weir‚ and the film ‘The Lion King’ by Roger Allers. The meaning of identity is not easily defined. Identity generally refers to the stable defining characteristics of a person that makes them an individual
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