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    always include saving time situations in which some events in the book are not showed to make the film short. There are so many saving time examples shown in the movie. One of them is how you never see Scout’s teacher in the movie so the fact of how Miss Caroline treats Scout for already knowing how to read. Also her way of teaching with the Dewey Decimal System isn’t shown. The event where Jem and Scout reads to Mrs. Dubois while she recovers is left out. Another case in which something is left out

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    unacquainted with evil”. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee defines a “mockingbird” as someone or something that does nothing to bother or harm others. When Scout and Jem Finch get rifles for Christmas‚ their father Atticus warns them not to shoot at mockingbirds. The children fail to understand at first‚ but their neighbor Miss Maudie informs them that mockingbirds do not do anything but make music for people to enjoy‚ that’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird (Lee 119). During the course of

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    In To Kill a Mockingbird‚ the author Harper Lee‚ uses different themes to bring a deeper level to each of the characters. Each person helps contributes to the themes through their personality traits. Harper Lee uses the themes of maturity‚ racism‚ and loss of innocence in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Many characters including Tom Robinson and Boo Radley‚ have lost their innocence to things that were out of their control. Stories and rumors are a main connection between the two characters

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    According to The Huffington Post “ In 2016 more than 250 black people were killed by the police.” Also according to The Daily Wire “Black people are more than twice as likely as white Americans to be killed by police officers.” Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird‚ readers learn that racism and sexism is a big topic in the book and in the real world. It has a negative impact on the world. It divides the world because some people have a different point of view on black and white people. For instance

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    In the novel ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee‚ learning to “walk about in someone’s skin” is a main theme‚ particularly as two of the main protagonists Jem and Scout learn to do this as they grow up throughout the book along with the reader. Atticus‚ the children’s father‚ educates the children on how to treat and comprehend other people. As Jem and Scout grow older in the novel‚ they begin to understand this lesson and act upon it both knowingly and sub-consciously. Scout empathises with

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    trials initiated‚ now known as the Scottsboro Boys trials‚ where eight of the nine innocent boys were found guilty and sentenced to death. At the time of the Great Depression‚ countless cases such as this occurred in the South. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee demonstrates that the innocent are especially vulnerable to the injustices of our society by showing that segregation intensified the struggles of African Americans in the South. The leading causes of segregation in the South were

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    Harper Lee once said‚ “ You rarely win‚ but sometimes you do.” Lee is alluding to the notion of winning‚ for this belief is a popular theme within literature. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird‚ a community’s morals and beliefs regarding race‚ gender‚ and compassion determine that justice is a privilege for a few rather than a right for all. Throughout the small-town life‚ many characters see the evil in human nature‚ while others cause the evil with being racist. The kids’ innocence gets demolished

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    In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird the mockingbird symbolizes innocence. There are three people that are mockingbirds. They are all innocent in a way‚ but are harmed or treated unfairly. In the novel Maudie Atkinson said “... it is a sin to kill a mockingbird.” (pg. 119) It is a sin to kill a mockingbird because they don’t do anything but sing for us. Three people lived unhappy lives and were treated unfairly even though they didn’t harm anyone else.

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    Relate to "to kill a mockingbird" i by saying that if you do reckless things without thinking‚ you’ll often regret the. Like when he says "And its not complete yet‚ mustn’t get our feet wet‚
Cause that leads to regret‚ diving in too soon" he’s saying that you need to really plan out and think before diving head over heels in something‚ and that’s exactly what Atticus did. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkscjEBaEPc Atticus: The Noisettes- In the beginning it says "to kill a mockingbird is to silence

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    An Analysis on the Theme of Prejudice in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird Prejudice is defined as “an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge‚ thought‚ or reason.” It occurs when people assume things towards others based on false or misleading information and external influences‚ leading to unfair and unjustified biases. Since the dawn of time to the modern age‚ humans have been creating false preconceptions of each other‚ leading to conflict‚ war‚ blood‚ and

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