Stephen Strasburg holds the most impressive record in the big leagues with a 13 – 0 record. He is undefeated up until this point with a 2.51 ERA, 0.99 WHIP, and 138 SO. Strasburg is right up with Kershaw in contention for the NL Cy Young Award, and the race will only get tighter as the season continues. Strasburg doesn’t look like declining anytime soon and neither does his team. The Nationals are riding a 5 game win streak and will probably finish on top of the NL East.…
Scout and Jem are asked/encouraged to think about Boo Radley as a man, not a monster. Calpurnia makes certain that Scout does not treat Walter Cunningham like he is lesser than the Finches. Atticus advises the children that they are needed/demanded to trear black people and even people like Mrs. Dubose with…
Yes, the 27-year-old right hander finally looks like the pitcher everyone envisioned when he was a highly touted prospect six years ago. But the dominance he's displayed since mid-2015 doesn't — and shouldn't — erase the other five years of his injury-riddled career, which makes the Nats' extension a puzzling gamble that seems based on wishful thinking and a way-too-small sample size. Anything but a reliable rotation presence during his six-year career, Strasburg already has had five separate DL stints, missing time for ailments including shoulder stiffness, neck tightness, muscle strains and, of course, a torn UCL in 2010 that required Tommy John surgery. Not to mention the few times he's left games with non-DL concerns such as heat exhaustion and shoulder irritation.…
Harper Lee effectively uses character development to express the theme of: it’s human nature to stereotype people based on society’s standards, as opposed to seeing everyone equal despite their appearance in chapter twenty of To Kill a Mockingbird. To support this theme, Harper Lee uses character development as a way to emphasize the importance in this insight to human nature. For example, Mr. Raymond is portrayed as the town drunk, with an impassive manner. He likes to drink, to pretend, and to be himself. However, in this chapter we learn that he doesn’t drink alcohol in his old sack; instead it’s coca cola.…
“Close that curtain, Jessie, I have no wish to regard my garden and examine the destruction caused by that, horrible little boy.” “That’s more appropriate, now where’s my tea, go and fetch it at once!” “Maids, what’s becoming of them, acting as though they are equals to us white folk, it’s simply not allowed!” Crossing my arms I lean back and ponder the situation “It doesn’t help this situation when no one listens to my opinion, sure they believe there’s a difference between themselves and their maids, however they have no idea how alike they appear.” “Finally back Jessie?…
Why is it a sin to kill a mockingbird? In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, a mockingbird symbolizes innocence. According to Atticus, “It is a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Pg 119). Three examples of mockingbirds are, Mayella Ewell, Tom Robinson, and Boo Radley.…
In society there are the people that stand up for what they believe in, and there are people that are scared to stand up for what they believe in. In To Kill Mockingbird and The Help, both Scout and Skeeter demonstrate the quality of showing respect for their beliefs. Skeeter lives during the 1960 's, A time where discrimination is at an all-time high. For example most whites lived in huge houses and had a lot of money while African-Americans lived very poor and were working as the whites maids. While Skeeter is in her early 20s, Scout is just starting her life as a young girl.…
Harper Lee once said “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” This problem still happens today, everyone judges a person without evening knowing them. When someone judges someone with tattoos and piercings they automatically think he is a bad guy but that isn’t always true. Their point of view can be totally wrong but they would never know. They will never get to truly know the person because their point of view shows them as bad people.…
Robert E. Lee is a well-known Civil War general who people acknowledge as a military genius who fought for his home, Virginia. Robert E. Lee’s caring and affectionate character is something many people associate with him. His childhood saw poverty and struggle, as well as many things that contributed to the characteristics Lee displays in his adulthood. Robert E. Lee is often regarded as an ideal man of great character and if not for the people and events of his childhood, he may never have developed the crucial aspects of his character.…
In almost all stories, whether they are beautiful novels like To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, well written plays such as Macbeth by William Shakespeare, or even simple short stories such as The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Cornell, they all have one thing in common: They have characters. No matter the genre or style of a story, each and every one contains its own set of unique characters. Each character in a story comes with its own opinions, thoughts, and actions. If you think about it, no character in a story is exactly the same. With this in mind, we may think about characterization.…
hroughout the various amounts of thematic elements and principles, Atticus teaches his children the typical theme of experience and how it relates to life and how he perceives it. Atticus comprehends that it's his duty and responsibility to teach them all he knows about tolerance and innocence, which is commonly apparent throughout the novel. This shows the signs of being a good and thoughtful parenting. As a proud father, Atticus affects Jem and Scout with an embracing hug whenever they need reassurance or comfort and has the available time to spend valuable time with them by reading her various books for educational purposes.…
As any child her age, the start of the novel shows Scout as young and innocent. Scout has her own view on what happens in the world. Scout neither knows nor understands the way of life for the people of Maycomb. She believes that the world should make sense to her own ways. She is especially not compliant with the fact that girls are to wear dresses for everyday activities.…
To Kill a Mockingbird is a great book showing how people can grow together. We have Scout and Jem growing up together in an innocent childhood growing into adulthood. We have Tom Robinson, an African American man who, is going to court with Atticus Finch (scouts father) and is trying to defend Tom against the harming white community. Tom Robinson was accused of rape of a white female Mayella. The raping of a white woman by a black man is similar to The Scottsboro Trial in 1933, where 9 black men were falsely accused of raping two white women.…
Foils are defined as characters that contrast to another character, however, the importance of the foil character is much more complex than the simple definition it is first given. Character foils are often used to demonstrate differences between characters,To Kill a Mockingbird has many examples of foils, all being used to bring the story contrast to the main viewpoint. Examples of a character foils would be the protagonist and the antagonist. Both characters contrasts each other, and brings out different aspects of each other. Without the use of foils in a literary piece, the piece would be flat with no conflicting characters or views.…
Imagine a wagon with wooden wheels, helping a family move across a valley. The wheels have to endure all of the bumps, rocks, mud, and water, yet a family will not move anywhere unless the wheels are on the wagon. This is similar to the idea of empathy that Harper Lee is trying to emphasize through Atticus. In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, she keeps proving through Atticus that even though being truly empathetic toward someone less fortunate than you may bring them down in society, standing up for one another could also make a whole society respect one another.…