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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Primrose English 1‚ Period 3 Triumph Through Adversity “Success is never final‚ failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.” (John Wooden). To Kill a Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee‚ is primarily a novel about growing up under extraordinary circumstances in the 1930s during the Great Depression. The narrator‚ Scout Finch‚ lives with her older brother Jem and father ‚Atticus‚ in the small town of Maycomb‚ Alabama. Maycomb is a small‚ close-knit town‚ where everyone knows each other. Atticus
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Geography is the study of the physical features of the earth and its atmospheres. Foster would classify To Kill a Mockingbird under geography. To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in Alabama during the Great Depression. Alabama was one of the eleven states to succeed the union in 1861. Because the Confederacy lost the war‚ Alabama was forced back into the union. Alabama faced many hardships during the Reconstruction Era‚ the era that took place in the South after the civil war. To make matters
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said‚ "Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." Gandhi is trying to express that the true brawn a person has is not the physical ability‚ but the mental stability and strength is contains. In "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee‚ the main characters‚ Scout and Jem‚ demonstrate their own version of strength through being able to overcome the bad influence of their hometown‚ Maycomb. Harper Lee shows this through characterization of Jem and imagery pertaining
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from a burning building. Similarly in Harper Lee’s influential time less novel To Kill a Mockingbird there are numerous characters that helped to establish the theme of courage. The three primary characters that did this they are Tom Robinson‚ Mrs. Dubose and finally Atticus Finch who is one of the most inspirational characters in the novel. Tom Robinson may have been as innocent as a Mockingbird but do not be misled as he had the courage of a lion. Tom Robinson is only a young man at
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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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Maycomb‚ Alabama‚ during the 1930’s was a place replete with prejudice and social hierarchy. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is set in this small‚ southern town and reveals the conflicts associated with the injustice of prejudice and social class. The main characters in Lee’s novel must face the pressures of this oppressive environment. Specifically‚ Tom Robinson’s trial robs the children of their innocence as well as sheds light on the effects of prejudice‚ and social class. Tom Robinson is
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To Kill a Mockingbird - Courage “Courage is when you know you are licked before you begin‚ but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.” (P.149) Courage‚ the spirit and soul of virtue‚ is one of the most significant themes in To kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee uses many of the characters and circumstances in the book‚ as well as her own deed of writing this novel to demonstrate all facets of courage. There is a physical courage which is demonstrated by several characters. Atticus
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raping a white woman. This white woman made this accusation to cover up the fact that she came on to a Negro during the racist times of the Great Depression. Harper Lee creates a “timeless classic of American literature” in her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird through her use of a white man defending a black man and Heck Tate’s experience of protecting Arthur “Boo” Radley to demonstrate good and bad role models. Atticus Finch followed through and came close to winning the case‚ but unfortunately‚ Robinson
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One type of courage that is shown in To Kill a Mockingbird is physical courage; the act of putting one’s self in harm’s way to protect others. This best portrayed by the character Arthur Radley‚ more commonly known as Boo. Boo is a mysterious man who lives in the Radley place and he is almost never seen outside. One other type of courage that To Kill a Mockingbird portrays is mental courage. This is when an individual has the courage to stay strong and carry on during a crisis. Scout Finch‚ the
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