Many people, no matter their skin color, look down on others with different appearances. Racism ran rampant especially in the South until a few decades ago. In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, Scout, a young Southern girl during the 1940’s, tries to understand her world and the racism she sees in everyday life. She witnesses how adults speak to others concerning African Americans in the community of Maycomb. Scout’s father works as a lawyer and once defends a black man wrongly accused of rape. Because of the discrimination shown to Blacks by most of the other residents, they live in small cabins away from town. The Maycomb residents express their racism for the black community through their disregarding of Black life, their belittling attitude toward them, and the lack of consideration for their living conditions. This small town showers racism onto the heads of the colored community by disregarding the black’s lives. As human beings, Blacks have as much right to life as anyone else, but these white Maycomb residents feel justified in taking anger against them by pretending that Blacks have less rights then them. A black man named Tom Robinson, after having an accusation of rape thrust upon him, languishes in prison, waiting for his trial. A gang of men come to harm Tom for touching a white girl. These men came with the intention of bodily harm, without looking at all the facts first, just because of their anger. During Tom’s trial, Scout’s friend Dill starts to cry…
Mockingbird (TKAM), considerably one of the greatest works of literature in history, is accepted as being still relevant today, without mistake; the question, on the other hand, is why it is relevant today. TKAM, then, resonates in…
Mockingbirds are known for their beautiful song and mimicking the tune of other birds. They don’t eat your flowers and nest in places that are inconvenient for people. There is no reason to kill these birds and that is why it is a sin to kill a mockingbird. So how does a lucid bird like this manage to recur in multiple characters in To Kill a Mockingbird (TKAM)? TKAM is narrated by an ten year old girl named Jean Louise Finch, or better known as Scout. She recounts the events leading up to how…
Atticus cannot be Simply Summed up as a Racist One line that is always used to describe the early 1900s is “that person is Racist”. This doesn’t truly tell the story of what was going on. A good example of this in TKM when Atticus is bringing Calpurnia home she sits in the Back. To understand this idea a backstory is needed. In TKM Atticus is a lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape. He puts much more effort in than any other lawyer would have, especially in the south. Some may stop and…
Chapters 1-3 1. Identify Atticus Finch, Jean Louise (Scout) Finch, Jem Finch, Maycomb, Calpurnia, Charles Baker (Dill) Harris, The Radley Place, Stephanie Crawford, Arthur (Boo) Radley, Miss Caroline Fisher, Walter Cunningham, and Burris Ewell. Atticus Finch - a lawyer and Scout and Jem's father. Scout - narrator of the story. Jem - Scout's older brother. Maycomb - town (and also the county) where the story takes place. Calpurnia - Finch family's cook, maid and…
often hidden away, like in someone’s backyard where they can only be seen by a select few, just like how love is hidden from the view of some until they choose to open up their eyes a bit wider. After writing To Kill A Mockingbird (TKAM), the author, Harper Lee, when asked to describe her novel, portrayed it as “a love story, plain and simple.” After reading TKAM, a reader can infer that Lee didn’t refer to romantic love when she described her novel, but rather Scout and Jem’s love between…
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” Martin Luther King Jr. To Kill a Mockingbird (TKAM) has many challenges in the duration of the novel, some of the mains are, the way Atticus Finch can just forgive, the way Scout is the person that must do the tough things and the way Mrs. Dubose shows bravery and courage in the hardest of times. How a person reacts at times of challenge and…
back in the 30s there is a lot of the people in town of Maycomb our poor but everybody in town looks out for each other for the most part. I like the movie but the book was a lot more details you became more involved with all the characters when reading the book versus watching the movie. It’s understandable because the book is two hundred and seventy-four pages long. The movie is only hundred and twenty-nine minutes long pages long. To make a movie to go on exactly with the book the movie would…
Dubose for her unpleasant appearance, but because of her backstory. She was a known drug addict that had vowed to get “clean” before she had died. Her withdrawals and frustration from attempting to quit made her more irritable and dreadful to be around, which is why she was unlimitedly isolated. Whether people disliked her past as a druggie or her present self as a foul, cruel old woman, she could not escape the exclusion from the rest of Maycomb that she was labeled with. Another character’s…
TKAM Synthesis Essay In Harper lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird Jem and Scout grown up in the little town of maycomb deep in the south with the thoughts and actions of racist men and women all around them. Throughout the story we see through scout's eyes the injustice toward blacks and see how it affects her views on the people all around her.We see how her outlook changes on the people closest to her and how she grows from this reality. The theme of TKAM is that racism is never going to end in a…