ONE idea that you thought was important in the text. Explain how the writer made you think the idea was important. An important idea in the novel “To kill a mockingbird” by Harper Lee is that prejudice in all its forms is wrong. The main prejudice Harper Lee tackles is the racism between Blacks and Whites as Harper Lee shows the reader the terrible consequences of racism through the trial of Tom Robinson‚ showing the importance of overcoming of prejudice to stop such tragedies happening today. Moreover
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Elizabeth Manford Word Count: 2568 WOMEN IN TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD Back in 1960‚ a book emerged on the market that would be rated as one of the most unforgettable classics of all time. To Kill a Mocking Bird‚ written by unknown author Harper Lee‚ depicts a realistic picture of attitudes during the 1930’s. During this time in history‚ racism was a huge issue and hatred between black and white civilians led to violence‚ even fatalities. America was a completely segregated society. Anger and resentment
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implementation in our schools. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee uses the precocious Scout Finch and her struggles with schooling to show flaws in our education system. The reader watches Scout struggle as she questions the educational system and its importance in her life. Lee is then able to use Scout’s negative experience to suggest that the education system is flawed because it does not meet the needs of all learners. Lee uses the negative characterization of the novel’s educators to suggest
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characters? Stan Lee is a great comic book creator who produced many superheroes we know and love today. He created famous characters like the Fantastic Four‚ Spider-man and many more. Stan Lee’s full name is Stanley Martin Lieber and he was born on December 28‚ 1922‚ in New York City. He married to Joan Bootcock in 1947 and had one daughter. Stan Lee started his career when he was hired as an office assistant at Timely Comics in 1939. When he became a writer‚ he shortened his last name to Lee. In the 1940s
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Kill a Mockingbird Scout‚ Chapter 2. Dear Diary‚ Damn I hate school! T o be honest “I never looked forward more to anything in my life” (Lee 15)‚ but everything went wrong. My teacher is Ms. Caroline Fisher. I don’t think she’s more than twenty-two. “She … wore a red-and-white-striped dress. She looked and smelled like a peppermint drop.” (Lee 16). She began reading a very funny story about cats that wore clothes. When she was done‚ she wrote the alphabet on the blackboard ant asked me what
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Bradley’s 5. What literary device is Lee using in the following quotation? “…some tinfoil was sticking in a knot hole just above my eye level‚ winking at me in the afternoon sun.” 6. What can the reader infer from the two Indian head pennies? 7. What character trait do Jem and Scout illustrate with their ambivalence about taking the pennies? Chapter 5 1. What emotion is Scout really displaying in the following passage? What does Lee show about Scout’s character through this
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during the 1930s depression‚ but events thrown at characters tend to spiral them into a struggle in which they must overcome. In To Kill A Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee conveys the theme that someone must have the willingness proceed spite of fear‚shows courage through her inspiring use of setting‚ conflicts and events as literary elements. Harper Lee conveys courage and the willingness to proceed spite of fear with her setting of To Kill A Mockingbird. Firstly‚ the time in which To Kill A Mockingbird takes
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based on appearances. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee‚ this idea is portrayed. Where‚ she focuses on Scout and Jem as they grow up in Maycomb Alabama during the 1930s. They were always quick to make conclusions about others‚ but as they got older‚ they learned numerous times that appearances are deceiving from talking to three different people‚ Mrs. Dubose‚ Mr Dolphus Raymond‚ and Boo Radley. Harper Lee uses these characters to display that people are often more complex than
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and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up” (Lee 173). This quote is made by Harper Lee’s most famous character‚ Atticus Finch‚ in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Atticus may be noble‚ but he is not naïve. He may believe that all people should get equal treatment in the court‚ but he knows that it won’t happen in Maycomb. Through the novel’s setting in a small town in the South and the trial of a black man by a white jury‚ Lee uses the character Atticus to show the frequent injustices
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the persecuted Tom‚ and the outcast Boo‚ Lee tries to assuage the readers views of injustice into that of a perspective that is open. Harper Lee employs her book as a way of encouraging her readers to look at social issues in a different light. To be able to have any significance to readers Lee dictates very carefully so readers don’t find messages that aren’t there. When Atticus’s son Jem catches the ill-wanted attention of Mrs. Dubose he complains
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