The characterisation technique that I feel was most effective in the construction of scouts character is setting. Lee’s choice to associate Scout with the outdoors and conveying her as a tomboy was constructed merely through the characterisation technique of setting. This is evident‚ “Thereafter the summer passed in routine contentment. Routine contentment was: improving our treehouse that rested between giant twin chinaberry trees in the backyard‚ fussing‚ running through our list of dramas based
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In the beginning of the story‚ Jem and Scout considered Atticus to be inadequate as a father. However‚ I think that they were acting somewhat childish. In reverse‚ Atticus is definitely an excellent role model and a good father for Jem and Scout. Firstly‚ Atticus raised two children – Jem and Scout on his own and was always there for them. He was affectionate with his children and he was always ready with a big hug when they needed comfort. Also‚ he was a loving and caring father who cared about
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We all need to grow up someday to continue life. To Kill a Mockingbird shows coming of age experiences as an enormous part of this novel. It shows how things cause situations and feelings‚ how young adults face the reality of first-hand conflicts‚ and how these situations affect them. Scout and Jem undergo conditions to help them mature in the book. The encounters help them bloom throughout the novel with noticing the components and point of views involved in the situation. To begin with‚ the
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As the famous French Enlightenment writer‚ Voltaire‚ once said‚“It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.” This quote relates to the main theme in the novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ since a major theme is not to deliberately harm people who are helpless and who don’t harm others in the society. In the book both Atticus and Miss Maudie agree that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird because in society mockingbirds bring happiness and they don’t cause harm
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How Does Harper Lee Bring Out Different Aspects of Atticus? Within her book To Kill A Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee is able to bring out a number of aspects of Atticus Finch’s character‚ such as being empathetic‚ brave‚ and well-respected. Atticus Finch is not only a father‚ but a role model to his children Scout and Jem. They look to him for advice. This becomes evident when Scout turns to her father‚ refusing to attend school‚ exemplifying Burris Ewell. Atticus then tells her that she must abide by the
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Document Analysis One: Rousseau Confessions In Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau‚ Rousseau seeks to explain who he is by trying to paint layer by layer‚ a portrait of himself‚ without missing any details and having his end product being interpreted by his readers. Rousseau was born into a lower class family‚ part of the commons‚ in a childhood mixed with medieval and modern values and lifestyles. Rousseau was a product of a mother and father who married out of love‚ being born into a nuclear
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Did Lee Harvey Oswald work alone in the longest unsolved assassination? On November 22‚ 1963 Dallas‚ Texas one of our beloved presidents died. John F. Kennedy was shot at Dealey plaza while riding in a motorcade. Lee Harvey Oswald shot with the gun that killed our president at the scene of the crime. In the Assassination case there are three known shots‚ two shots hit and one did not. In the timing of the shots taken‚ it would be impossible to have shot them with the bolt action sniper that oswald
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Thomas Torres Professer Underwood RWS 101 October 28th 2013 The Ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau through the lens of Thomas Jefferson. In Jean-Jacques Rousseau ’s “the Origin of Civil Society‚ Rousseau presents Ideas that‚ in his society‚ were considered very radical. He points out that a Society was in a natural state and that when we were that we were born free‚ and when we subject ourselves to a king‚ he must hold up certain rights and protect them‚ and in return they give him power‚ what
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Freedom and Liberty The three philosophers Simone de Beauvoir‚ Jean-Paul Sartre‚ and Hannah Arendt all have opinions and viewpoints about the ideas freedom and liberty. This paper will examine relevant passages from Beauvoir’s The Second Sex‚ Sartre’s Existentialism and Human Emotions‚ and Arendt’s What is Freedom. Along with looking at the three texts‚ the philosopher’s views on freedom and liberty will be examined‚ as well as my own personal thoughts. Out of the three views of freedom‚ I would
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idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what." Chapter 11‚ Page 118. Harper Lee portrays courage in this manner‚ to explain for Atticus defending of Tom Robinson later on in the story. Harper Lee also portrays courage in this way‚ such that she tells the readers that courage is not of a physical thing‚ like shooting the mad dog‚ but rather‚ on a more intellectual scale. The one place
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