Harper Lee has become a household name over the past few years. This is because of the great work she has crafted, and the way she creates life like visualizations in her novels. Harper Lee grew up with a soft spot when it came to writing, and she was always able to recreate that feeling through her books and short stories, such as “To Kill A Mockingbird,” and “Go Set A Watchman.” Lee's stories all incorporate some type of lesson such as injustice, and sometimes even death, which makes her writing style fall under the genre of southern gothic. She shows the American Dream as a diamond in the rough, and something that is extremely hard to achieve. By using this information I can truthfully say that Lee’s writing encourages the youth to stand
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Now, despite as charming as it sounds, along with it comes suffrage, pain, and loss. This dream is usually discouraged, due to time's getting tougher to achieve and people having to fight for they want. Fighting for what you want now, can potentially get you locked away in prison for several years, or forever. That is the reason why this dream is often looked down upon, because many don’t think it is worth their own lives. Yet, this did not stop Lee from getting her point across, no, infact it empowered her to make a novel about the injustice of this dream. She wanted to prove to others that it is tough to grab onto but that it is not impossible. For the sole purpose of equality, Lee took on this topic head on and created a novel that had every point of view of this social injustice and degradation of certain races, which in this case was African Americans. Harper Lee encourages the American dream, especially in the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird.” In this novel Scout is seen as an innocent figure who is slowly ridding of her innocence due to her realizing just how uncaring and cold many can be. The American Dream in this novel is portrayed as Scout’s father. He is a man who is noble, honest, and humble. He fights for the rights of an African American who is accused of raping a white woman even though many are just against him due to his skin color. He fights for justice and equality in the world, and this is exactly what Lee wanted to be shown. Lee encourages this dream by stating that no matter how tough a time may seem, and how impossible it seems to accomplish, anyone is capable of doing anything and should be treated as so. (The American Dream Harper Lee and John Steinback,
Now, despite as charming as it sounds, along with it comes suffrage, pain, and loss. This dream is usually discouraged, due to time's getting tougher to achieve and people having to fight for they want. Fighting for what you want now, can potentially get you locked away in prison for several years, or forever. That is the reason why this dream is often looked down upon, because many don’t think it is worth their own lives. Yet, this did not stop Lee from getting her point across, no, infact it empowered her to make a novel about the injustice of this dream. She wanted to prove to others that it is tough to grab onto but that it is not impossible. For the sole purpose of equality, Lee took on this topic head on and created a novel that had every point of view of this social injustice and degradation of certain races, which in this case was African Americans. Harper Lee encourages the American dream, especially in the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird.” In this novel Scout is seen as an innocent figure who is slowly ridding of her innocence due to her realizing just how uncaring and cold many can be. The American Dream in this novel is portrayed as Scout’s father. He is a man who is noble, honest, and humble. He fights for the rights of an African American who is accused of raping a white woman even though many are just against him due to his skin color. He fights for justice and equality in the world, and this is exactly what Lee wanted to be shown. Lee encourages this dream by stating that no matter how tough a time may seem, and how impossible it seems to accomplish, anyone is capable of doing anything and should be treated as so. (The American Dream Harper Lee and John Steinback,