“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up peoples gardens‚ don’t nest in corncribs‚ they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Lee 90). This quote exemplifies one of the most important themes of this work as Miss.Maudie touches on the idea that‚ without reason‚ humans are often unnecessarily cruel to one another. Tom Robinson‚ he was shot 17 times for trying to escape. At the trial the judge did
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To Kill a Mockingbird Advanced Placement in English Literature and Composition Teaching Unit Study Guide Teacher’s Copy Chapter 1 1. What narrative point of view does Harper Lee use to begin the story? The story is told in fi rst person‚ from the point of view of Scout‚ who is six years old at the beginning of the story. The story is told as a fl ashback‚ with the adult character of Scout describing events that happened when she was a child. 2. What can the reader expect to learn from
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To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a novel which intelligently explores the theme of innocence using several key techniques. The novel is set in a fictional town in Alabama in the ’30s and follows the growth of Scout‚ a young child and the book’s narrator‚ as she experiences first-hand the prejudice of the time by watching her father defend a black man for doing a crime of which he is innocent. Innumerable techniques such as usage of similes‚ narrative voice‚ key events and symbolism are fundamental
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(Harper Lee). Harper Lee wrote the novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ a top selling novel that brought the nation and the world to a realization. This novel hit the stores in 1960‚ selling millions of copies and becoming an award winning film. She lives in a small town down in the southern part of the United States‚ where racism is at its highest. Harper Lee is a ninety-four year old woman whose goal in writing the novel was to bring awareness about discrimination. In To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Lee does an
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Harper Lee writes To Kill a Mockingbird to express herself through characters like Atticus and Scout. In TKAM‚ Atticus stands up for Tom Robinson despite the threats and misfortunes he gets from doing it‚ Mrs. Dubose defeats her addiction to morphine and Atticus defends Calpurnia against his own sister‚ all these events enforce Harper Lee’s theme that courage is when you stand up for what you believe in and can achieve what you desire‚ despite social pressure. To begin with‚ Harper Lee reveals
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I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In chapters 10 through 15 the trial becomes one of the main topics and causes many conflicts. Aunt Alexandra comes to stay with the Finch family‚ which leads to some quarrelling. In this journal I will be characterizing Atticus and questioning whether Calpurnia or Alexandra is an excellent mother to the children. As I am further reading To Kill a Mockingbird I begin to characterize Atticus. I characterize Atticus as a caring and wise individual
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Mockingbirds’ Moral Courage Harper Lee once wrote that “Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin‚ but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what”. Moral courage means doing the right thing. Anyone can have moral courage‚ no matter who you are. Many authors often use different literary elements to develop themes in their writings. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee uses the literary terms mood and imagery to teach her audience about doing the right thing or
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fingerprints line up with the suspect who was murdered‚ specific DNA found is matched‚ and witnesses stories connect to make a believable murder story proved by facts. The Murder story of Hae Min Lee is quite the opposite. The entire Murder case is based off of stories told by witnesses and very little evidence. Hae Lee was Murdered by Adnan Syed because of his lack of memory‚ witness evidence‚ and the court’s ruling. If Adnan Syed did not remember specific events on the day of Hae Lee’s murder‚ then he
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To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee demonstrates that true courage is often not appreciated right away through Jem and Scout’s journey to understanding what it really means to be courageous and heroic. At the beginning of the novel‚ Scout
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Prize winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ author Harper Lee develops the idea of prejudice. Lee breaks down the many forms of prejudice and shows them using character and symbolism. The idea of prejudice is explained in such a realistic way that the reader learns from the text and is able to apply this understanding in the society of today. To Kill a Mockingbird is set in Maycomb County‚ a small township; separate from the outside world‚ Lee can explain the consequences of prejudice in depth‚ thus
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