Jane and Finch

The Unknown Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel filled with the persecution of innocent people represented as mockingbirds. The Author, Harper Lee, created a community of people who are persecuted, judged, and attacked despite their innocence. Lee uses the mockingbird as a symbol of innocence. In the book she says mockingbirds are innocent and commit no evil act. The birds only sing their songs for people to hear. The people of Maycomb are no exception, they live out their days…

A main theme in To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel written by Harper Lee, is to never judge a book by it’s cover. An incredible representation of this theme is the character Boo Radley. Boo is a perfect example of this theme because he is seen as a monster when in reality he’s really a powerful symbol of goodness. Boo has many strengths and weaknesses. His weaknesses include being extremely shy and occasionally violent. Although, his strengths, which include being protective and generous, are much…

whether it's standing in front of class and reading or sticking up for a kid who is getting bullied. To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee consists of multiple moments where a character is being courageous, however Atticus Finch beholds the most courageous acts in the book. Atticus Finch, a lawyer and father to Jem and Scout, takes upon numerous acts of courage from shooting a mad dog to defending an African American male accused of rape during a time where cruel racism was common. Atticus takes…

Discrimination and sexism roared throughout the South in the earlier 1900’s, as it still does in some areas today. To Kill a Mockingbird tells the story of Atticus, Jem, and Scout Finch living in Maycomb, Alabama, a very poor town. Here, every girl and boy is raised into or expected to fill their gender role. Women were typically full-time housewives while men were put to work and “took care” of their family. Scout was different some…

story about two young children with a wide range of maturity and imagination. The setting takes place in Maycomb, Alabama in the summertime ending quickly. There is a little girl named Scout and her older brother named Jem. Their father is Atticus Finch who is an attorney and state legislator for Maycomb. The book opens up about an incident when the kids met Dill who comes in for the summer and spends it with their next door neighbor, his aunt. In the incident, Jem breaks his arm. Another…

Both Maya Angelou and Lawrence Ferlinghetti explore the idea of inequality in their poems ‘Caged Bird’ and ‘Two Scavengers in a Truck Two beautiful people in a Mercedes’ respectively. Angelou explores the inequality between black and white people by comparing and contrasting a free bird to a ‘caged bird’ while Ferlinghetti describes inequality between the rich and poor by comparing a wealthy couple with a couple of garbage men. ‘Caged Bird’ is written in response to the civil rights act, with…

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a movie filmed in 1975 based on Ken Kesey’s same named book. The movie is about the conflict between the two main characters Randle McMurphy and Nurse Ratched. McMurphy is a criminal who is guilty of raping a fifteen year old girl and pretends to be insane so that he can escape from his punishment. In the asylum he meets people who are going to change his life and also he is going to change their lives. The movie has lots of hidden meanings. They are about…

Courage is when you are willing to do something above your comfort zone to show what you’re made of. In a novel, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred D. Taylor uses an example of a young girl named Cassie Logan , who is colored, that must stand up for her convictions despite many injustices against her and her family. Cassie proves her courage by protecting her little brother Little Man from getting in big trouble, facing her white enemy Lillian Jean Simms, and being helpful to T.J despite his…

compels the reader to feel freeness that couldn’t be compared to a large city setting. Lee choices when writing the book make it feel like real life. In To Kill a mocking bird, Lee creates multiple well-developed characters, but Scout and Atticus finch most clearly portray conflict, human condition, and theme. Lee creates many well-developed characters that contribute to the story. Chracters like Atticus, Scout, Jem, and Boo Radley are just some of them. Lee brings the story to life through her…

Dangers of ignorance is an evident theme in Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill A Mockingbird. In the beginning duration of Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, Dill, Scout and Jem Finch presume that Mr. Boo Radley is a monster as a result of rumours. “Jem said if Dill wanted to get himself killed, all he had to do was go up and knock on the front door” (Lee 16) Dill, Scout, and Jem’s ignorance of the real world, corrupted their young…