The Lamp At Noon Analysis
Angela Tang
Devin. Mason
ENG3U1
January 15th, 2015
To kill a Mockingbird is a novel written by Harper Lee in 1999; it narrates the story of a lawyer name Atticus, defending a innocent black man who is arrested. At the same time, The Lamp at Noon is a short story written by Sinclair Ross; it is a story of a couple and their baby living in a farm. One might think that these two works are quiet different, which is true, nevertheless, there are also similarities, all of which can be illustrated if one compares their themes in terms of gender discrimination against woman and man, sacrifice can improve a situation and nature destroys man.
To begin, the novel To Kill a Mockingbird and the short story The Lamp at Noon have commonalities regarding the theme of discrimination. Both works show inequality between man and woman. In Lee’s work, the main character Scout laugh at France “ ‘ Boys don’t cook.’ I giggled. ” (P93). This example shows gender discrimination against man while in Ross’s work, there is an example of discrimination against woman, “ you are a farmer’s wife …show more content…
In Lee’s work, Atticus sacrifices by defending Tom and it gives Tom a good change of releasing whereas the baby’s death is a sacrifice that enhances the relationship between Paul and Ellen in Ross’s text. Moreover, concerning sacrifice, the former defends for a black man when the most folks in their town hate the blacks and some people call him the “Negro-Lover”. However, Atticus is one of the “ some men in this world who were born to do our unpleasant jobs”(246) and he “ can keep a jury out for so long in a case like that ”(247) during the trial, which represents the first step of equality between the whites and the blacks. Still, unlike Atticus, the baby’s death brings the end of storm and the beginning of a new life of Paul and Ellen. Thus, sacrifice improves situation have shown in both Lee’s works and Ross’s
Devin. Mason
ENG3U1
January 15th, 2015
To kill a Mockingbird is a novel written by Harper Lee in 1999; it narrates the story of a lawyer name Atticus, defending a innocent black man who is arrested. At the same time, The Lamp at Noon is a short story written by Sinclair Ross; it is a story of a couple and their baby living in a farm. One might think that these two works are quiet different, which is true, nevertheless, there are also similarities, all of which can be illustrated if one compares their themes in terms of gender discrimination against woman and man, sacrifice can improve a situation and nature destroys man.
To begin, the novel To Kill a Mockingbird and the short story The Lamp at Noon have commonalities regarding the theme of discrimination. Both works show inequality between man and woman. In Lee’s work, the main character Scout laugh at France “ ‘ Boys don’t cook.’ I giggled. ” (P93). This example shows gender discrimination against man while in Ross’s work, there is an example of discrimination against woman, “ you are a farmer’s wife …show more content…
In Lee’s work, Atticus sacrifices by defending Tom and it gives Tom a good change of releasing whereas the baby’s death is a sacrifice that enhances the relationship between Paul and Ellen in Ross’s text. Moreover, concerning sacrifice, the former defends for a black man when the most folks in their town hate the blacks and some people call him the “Negro-Lover”. However, Atticus is one of the “ some men in this world who were born to do our unpleasant jobs”(246) and he “ can keep a jury out for so long in a case like that ”(247) during the trial, which represents the first step of equality between the whites and the blacks. Still, unlike Atticus, the baby’s death brings the end of storm and the beginning of a new life of Paul and Ellen. Thus, sacrifice improves situation have shown in both Lee’s works and Ross’s