To Kill a Mockingbird was a book written by Harper Lee in the 1960’s. The book is about a young girl named Scout‚ a tomboy‚ whose mother died when she was a very young girl. One day when Scout went to school a kid started calling her father names‚ and when she got home her dad explained that he was defending a man named Tom Robinson in a case. In this case‚ Tom Robinson‚ a black man‚ gets accused of raping Mayella‚ a white woman. Which brings on my second article called “Dick Gregory’s devastating
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Qing-Si Yu Ms. Ridge ELA：10 January 4‚ 2013 1. “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 bus sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” Atticus explains why it is a sin to kill a mockingbird in this quote. He wants to teach Jem‚ Scout‚ and Walter that killing an innocent mockingbird is a sin. Atticus gives a hint that hurting an innocent person
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Cricelliz M. Santiago 10/17/2O13 To Kill a Mockingbird In the book that I’m reading in my English 2 class‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ has many different themes that can be noticed‚ which projects the details in the novel. The most important theme is obviously the problem of racial injustice‚ in other words racism. This is discovered throughout the book at some point or the other‚ but is highlighted in the Tom Robinson trial. Tom Robinson‚ a poor black laborer has been accused of
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Stereotypes of To Kill A Mockingbird In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird the novel shows that the society is stereotype‚ because the kids in the novel judge everyone on where they live‚ where they’re from‚ and what they heard of them. That’s why they are showing it from a kid’s point of view because kids don’t think about what they are going to say‚ so they just say it. Everyone in the book shows that they judge everyone on by where they are from or by where they live. Like Walter Cunningham Scout
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others didn’t agree with him‚ he supported Martin Luther King Jr. in the Civil Rights Movement. To Kill a Mockingbird was written by Harper Lee and the setting of this book was during the Great Depression. Atticus Finch is one of the main characters in this book and he is put to test when he is given one of the hardest cases of his career as a lawyer. Perseverance is shown in the book To Kill a Mockingbird. This book was written by Harper Lee and its setting is in Maycomb‚ Alabama during the late 1920’s
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even realize it but our biased perspectives seriously mess up our world. Throughout history‚ racism has always been present. We as people don’t do much for stopping racism‚ it has simply become an issue that is overlooked in our world. In To Kill A Mockingbird‚ Tom Robinson is unfairly accused of rape just
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The title of this novel is "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. The novel takes place between 1933-1935 during the great depression in Maycomb‚ Alabama. "To Kill A Mockingbird" is about a family growing up together and discovering new talents and different views in each other as they go through emotional and stressful events that occur in their early lives. Jem is the older brother of Scout (Jean-Louise)‚ being the older brother; he has a certain responsibility that teaches him about caring and
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Essay Question 4 Kasey Mullaney In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird Scout and Jem learn many life lessons. Scout thinks that all there is to learn things in school‚ but they learn many life lessons. A lesson they learned is don’t judge somebody on what other people think of them. “The handful of people in this town who say that fair play is marked White Only; the handful of people who say fair trial is for everybody‚ not just us; the handful of people with enough humility to think‚ when they
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Harper Lee uses racism in‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ to show readers the bad outcomes of racist thoughts and ideas. The sentence of life in prison to Tom Robinson‚ Atticus defending Tom Robinson‚ and Jem’s thoughts on Black people’s blood are all examples of Harper Lee’s intentions. Racism is the hatred or intolerance of another race and is a theme that is ever present in Harper Lee’s book‚ To Kill a Mockingbird. Tom Robinson was being sentenced to life in prison for supposedly raping Mayella Ewell
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not being able to get a job‚ not only affected her but her family as now her daughter needs to work. Hilly’s power does not stop there as she has the ability to exclude people in her own community‚ especially Celia Foot. Mirroring this‚ in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird‚’ Aunt Alexandra holds the same type of prestigious power towards her family. She exemplifies her power in her own community when she forbids Scout and Jem from playing with Walter Cunningham‚ just because he is socially beneath them. In addition
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