Impact of Aunt Alexandra in To kill A Mockingbird

In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, prejudice had a major impact in Maycomb County. Harper Lee brought the Finch family and other memorable characters to explore prejudice in the segregated Southern United States of the 1930s. Told through the eyes of Scout Finch, the reader learns about her father Atticus Finch, an attorney who hopelessly strives to prove the innocence of a black man unjustly accused of rape; the reader also learns about Boo Radley, a mysterious neighbor who saves Scout and…

To Kill a Mockingbird written in 1960 by Harper Lee, explores many themes and ideas. One of these themes is that of growing up. The novel’s narrator Jean Louise Finch, better known as Scout, is only a young girl during the start of the book. Scout grows up with the readers from age six to nine, and in these three years she learns many life lessons. There are different people and circumstances that each have an influence in teaching her these valuable skills. Some of the many things she learns…

chilling tale of the Radley house in Harper Lee 's prize winning work To Kill A Mockingbird (Wilson, Mike 2010). Author Harper Lee allows her readers to not only encounter a perspective of living in the imaginary town of Maycomb, but also gives the readers a view of her own childhood back in the 1930s. She uses her experiences and connects them through the main characters, Scout Finch, Atticus Finch, and Tom Robinson. Her life impacts the novel’s setting of Monroeville County that was during The…

Discrimination has affected the lives of many colored men and women and it still affects the word today. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and the movie The Help, Scout and Skeeter both first hand and second handley face discrimination on a daily basis. To Kill a Mockingbird is a story that focuses on a young girl named Scout Finch. Scout is growing up during the 1930s, a time of discrimination against African Americans. She tries to understand other people 's prejudices but…

spoken about someone and given them a label. Society criticizes people all the time without realizing it, and places them into a certain category. In the 1930’s people, also labeled others by their family reputation, skin color, and mentality. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee explains that society plays an important role in people 's lives and dictates how a person is supposed to look and act. In the novel, which takes place in the 1930’s in a small town called Maycomb, Scout Finch grows up…

In to Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows how her character’s Jem and Scout go through changes in their lives. Harper Lee shows through Scout’s view how Jem changes and how each thing that the two of them went through influenced how they matured. Scouts view shows how the characters and people of Maycomb shaped them into who they were. What would Jem and Scout be without the people in Maycomb and what would they be without the events all around them? The people in Maycomb helped shape Scout…

Illusory Superiority More common than true supremacy in Maycomb, the city focused on in To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, is illusory superiority. Nothing about having white skin, being a male, or a certain age makes an individual inherently superior to an African American, female, or adolescent, yet some think otherwise. Most Maycomb community members believe they are better then everyone else. Some townspeople are of the opinion that a person’s exterior appearance affects where he or she…

describe any person’s character. Usually, the descriptions are positive, emphasizing the good a person possesses rather than the evil locked away in the heart. More specifically, they are the correct adjectives to describe Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Inevitably, every character possesses another facet to their actions, one that can be clearly hidden or presented in a vast haze of evidence. Occupation wise, as a lawyer, Atticus would have to deal with differentiating…

rarely the focus of a story though they can still impact a story. They are a friend to the hero and someone who stays behind them no matter how hard things get. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Charles Harris, “Dill”, is a side kick to Jem and Jean, “Scout”, Finch. Dill is a boy who lives in 1930’s Alabama. He lives in the next city over from Jem and Scout called Meridian, and he go to his friends’ home town every summer to live with his Aunt Rachel. Dill is a small boy who gets picked on…

Jack Scott Mrs.Olsen Pre AP English III-8 29th April 2016 To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 1-11 Retest assignment The novel of TKAM takes various readers across the world the many places of human life and behavior that compels with the dramatic experiences of kindness,love,passion,and cruelty that is present throughout. The cause of exploration in the novel’s larger questions takes place within the perspective of the children in which the education of children is necessarily involved…