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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In Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” there is a constant pull between Class‚ Gender and Race. These three things can make a very powerful person or not so powerful person. In the novel‚ Atticus Finch‚ a white man is asked to defend Tom Robinson‚ a black man. Tom Robinson is accused of raping a white woman named Mayella Ewell. The novel is set in the 1920’s and early 1930’s so it has been several years since the slavery has ended. Yet people at that time had been very racist and sexist. Everything
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In To Kill a Mockingbird gender stereotypes are pressed upon girls and boys‚ forcing them to change how they act in order to fit in. They can still be seen being influenced to change who they are today. In To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee uses Scout and Dill to show how kids are forced to change. One place Harper Lee gives her message of the effect of sexism is when‚ after hearing Scout swear‚ Uncle Jack tells her to stop and “of course” she wants to be a lady (105). By saying this‚ Uncle Jack becomes
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on their perspective towards the issue. Over time‚ we all develop a sense of perspective and opinion towards people and things‚ however‚ these perspectives are prone to change as we grow up to be more mature and thoughtful. In the novel‚ To kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ the Finch’s family develops the idea that despite your rank in the social hierarchy‚ personal values and beliefs are determined by one’s personality. This idea was further developed
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In To Kill A Mockingbird‚ Tom Robinson‚ a casualty in the fight for equality in place of racism‚ becomes mistreated. He went through some horrible predicaments especially in the event of the trial. In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird‚ Tom Robinson‚ shown as an innocent victim by the racism‚ circumstantial evidence‚ and opposing evidence‚ does not deserve a guilty verdict. Judge Taylor‚ shown as an "amiable‚ white-haired and ruddy-faced" man‚ becomes faced with the running of an unjust law system
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to influence the way other people behave or act. To determine whether or not a person is powerful several factors have to be considered. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird the character of Mayella can be an example of a person who can or cannot have power depending on what kind of power is being taken into account. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee displays Mayella Ewell as a lonely white woman who lives in a miserable place and is abused by her father. In the novel Mayella has power according
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I’d like to analyze the extract from a book which is entitled “To kill a mockingbird”. The author is Harper Lee‚ an American author known for her 1960-Pulitzer-Prize-winning and who is considered now by many to be a literary icon. Harper Lee was born in 1926 in the state of Alabama. In 1945-1949 she studied law at the University of Alabama. Her novel ‘To kill a mockingbird’ which deals with the issues of racism that were observed by the author as a child in her hometown was awarded the Pulitzer Prize
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