To Kill a Mockingbird Journal Entries Project Steffanie Trout Hypocrisy An example of hypocrisy that really stood out in the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” was Mrs. Gates. In the beginning of the novel she told her class about the evil things Hitler is doing in to the Jews in Germany‚ then later Scout overhears her talking about Tom’s conviction and she says that the black folk in the community needed to be kept in their place. For this she is a hypocrite. She acts as though she believes in freedom
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The title of To Kill a Mockingbird has very little literal connection to the plot‚ but it carries a great deal of symbolic weight in the book. In this story of innocents destroyed by evil‚ the “mockingbird” comes to represent the idea of innocence. Thus‚ to kill a mockingbird is to destroy innocence. Throughout the book‚ a number of characters including Jem‚ Tom Robinson and Boo Radley can be identified as mockingbirds – innocents that have been injured or destroyed through contact with evil. This
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books are “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “A Raisin in the Sun”. Both of these books have great plots and are enjoyable to read‚ it’s hard to say which a better book is. With all opinions aside the literary elements can be looked at to see which the better book is. Sometimes a book can be great‚ however from a literary standpoint they are not good at all. Even though “A Raisin in the Sun” is a good book‚ “To Kill a Mockingbird” is better because of its literary elements. “To kill a Mockingbird” uses its
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that white man is trash- Atticus Chapter 23 Good _______ boys and Miss Arentz‚ Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mocking Bird depicts various ideas of Justice and Injustice using techniques such as plot structure‚ characterisation‚ symbolism‚ perspective and the Narrative voice. The Narrative voice of Scout is a key literary technique Lee uses to convey the many injustices in To Kill A Mockingbird. By Lee showing the events through a child’s unbiased and innocent eyes she is able to to give a clear
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“To Kill a Mockingbird”- Research Paper What inspires you? When Nellie Harper Lee was writing about the trial of Tom Robinson‚ she had a very real case to look to for inspiration in the Scottsboro Boys Trials‚ from the 1930 ’s. “Those trials showed how history made it clear that in the Deep South of the 1930 ’s‚ jurors were not willing to accord a black man charged with raping a white woman the usual presumption of innocence” (Linder‚ “The Trials Of The Scottsboro Boy’s”). In Harpers
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To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately successful‚ winning the Pulitzer Prize‚ and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on the author’s observations of her family and neighbors‚ as well as on an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936‚ when she was 10 years old. The novel is renowned for its warmth and humor‚ despite dealing with the serious issues of rape and racial inequality. The narrator’s
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Chapter 1 Pride in ancestry and “tradition” “Being Southerners‚ it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestry on either side of the Battle of Hastings.” (Lee‚ 2) Pride in conformity and distrust of those who are different “It was customary for the men in the family to remain on Simon’s homestead‚ Finch’s Landing‚ and make their living from cotton.” (Lee‚ 4) Awareness of difference in social classes “..no hurry‚ for there was nowhere to go‚ nothing to
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To Kill A Mockingbird To Kill A Mockingbird is a novel that brought great controversy. The novel is told in the eyes of Scout Finch‚ a young girl growing up during the great depression who’s father is a lawyer defending a black man in court. During the course of the story‚ Scout grows and changes and as she does so she turns into a compassionate‚ and mature young lady that is like the Good Samaritan. In the beginning Scout has no problem with being racist and prejudice‚ and feels it’s normal.
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To Kill a Mockingbird Essay “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” says Atticus‚ as he gives his 6- year- old daughter‚ Scout‚ a lesson she will never forget. In the book‚” To Kill a Mockingbird‚” Jem and Scout experience a rape case‚ and learn that you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view‚ like Boo Radley. As they grow up‚ Atticus‚ their father
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as crop prices fell. Life was very hard during the 1930s. Since many people didn’t have jobs‚ it was hard to survive and buy food to feed the family. Poverty was a big problem in the US especially during the Great Depression. In the book “To Kill A Mockingbird”‚ it was a story that happened during the 1930s that tells us how peoples were very poor and how hard it was for them to survive. For example in Chapter 1 of the book‚ Scout being the narrator explains how her town Maycomb was a tired old town
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