Harper Lee Essay

An author "should write about what he knows and write truthfully”; Harper Lee embodied her own quote’s advice when writing To Kill a Mockingbird. There is much to learn from the mono-published Lee as she, in her one and only published work (until July 14, 2015, that is), was able to weave a greatly intertwining web of her own experiences, thrilling narrative, and themes of outcasts, racial equality, youth, and forgiveness. As a first-time writer, she was able to garner more success than many…

Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus shows the whole town of Maycomb that anyone can have compassion towards one another, even those who seem undeserving. It is hard to care about matters in hand especially when other don’t support your proposition like in part one of To Kill a Mockingbird but by showing sympathy and compassion towards one another, others will be willing to do the same which will make the world a better place. Atticus knew that defending Tom Robinson would be problematic. Harper…

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…

content of their character” (King). Equality was a huge movement during the 1960’s which is expressed in the academy award winning novel To Kill A Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee. Although the book was based in the 1920’s, during the great depression, it stays with it’s true theme of equality. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee elaborates on the importance on the importance of equality throughout the novel showing gaps in social classes, which reveals Atticus’ judgement on the matter of…

around us. They’ve learned from their parents and are now passing their knowledge to their future generation. A great example is the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, where Scout and Jem’s father, Atticus shock them with what he does for the little town of Maycomb County. In the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee in Chapter 10 Scout and Jem are shocked by their dad’s actions. It all started on a bright sunny morning when Jem and Scout decided to explore with Jem’s new…

Racism hits home for numerous members of Harper Lee’s audience, creating feelings of anger, compassion, empathy, sympathy, frustration, etc.. The trial of Tom Robinson is the source of the majority, if not all, of these feelings. When a young, innocent Negro man is accused of raping Mayella Ewell…

book To Kill a Mockingbird, which takes place during the great depression, Harper Lee uses symbolism, which is using a object to represent an idea, such as the mockingbird. The mockingbird stands for innocence and purity. In her novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses Arthur ‘Boo’ Radley, Tom Robinson, and Mayella Ewell as human “Mockingbirds” to contribute to the overall theme of innocence and purity. First, Lee uses Arthur ‘Boo’ Radley as a Mockingbird, Boo Radley’s a adult who has the…

Parenting can be one of the most challenging jobs a person undertakes. There are many qualities that are necessary to be a good parent. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, there are numerous characters that appear as parental figures. Atticus is the most important parental figure to Scout because he teaches her critical life lessons, raises her in an unbiased environment, and provides her with unconditional love. Throughout this novel Atticus shows Scout what is…

for the moment, you have to take their perspective into account,there just doing the same thing you are trying to get through there day.You never know how how bad there day could be or situation there in.To kill a Mocking Bird has prime examples Harper Lee the author of To Kill a Mockingbird creates character interaction between scout with Boo Radley, Mrs.Dubose and Mrs.Caroline to show people are not always how they seem until you are in their shoes.…

One of the main characters in “To Kill a Mockingbird,” by Harper Lee is Atticus Finch. He is a lawyer and the father of Jem and Scout. Soon after his nine-year-old daughter, Scout, was born, his wife died, so Atticus is a single parent in his late forties. In “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Atticus defends a man accused of rape, but the people of Maycomb don't approve that Atticus, “...aims to defend him,” (Lee 218). Atticus still does what's right despite what everyone else thinks. Atticus's parenting…