To Kill a Mocking Bird Essay

however, it is more challenging to teach your children how to live. Atticus Finch is a man who not only teaches his children how to complete simple tasks but also has no trouble teaching them how to establish right from wrong. In the novel, To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch is a father of two adventurous and curious children. Throughout the novel, he teaches his children many valuable lessons and demonstrates courage, no matter what the situation is. Overall, Atticus Finch is a…

their background, should be treated equally in all situations. A black man would have the same opportunities of a white man but also face the same consequences of him too. The Scottsboro Trial is an extremely similar case to the one found in To Kill A Mocking Bird takes place in Alabama around the same time. On March 25, 1931, nine black men were accused of rape by two women. The accusations were…

other classic literature classes at a university level. The literature of fantasy read in this class teaches important lessons much like in other famous literatures. For example, a classic American literature class might read Harper Lee’s, To Kill a Mocking Bird. A famous story that teaches the importance of empathy. Fantasy works can expand on the idea of empathy and draw a reader in. The story Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman is about a character named Richard Mayhew. The story starts out introducing…

people who determine what we’re like without actually ever knowing who they actually are. In extreme situations these people could take the weight of another person's actions. Resulting in someone else paying the time for their crime. In the book To Kill the Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows that even the innocent will be judged and prosecuted by the guilty. Arthur Radley, or better known as Boo, was the first example of amiss depiction. Boo was a complete mystery, so people started making stories…

To Kill a Mockingbird and The Chosen are at first glance, as different as can be. The two books may have totally different settings and plots. However, if you look deeper, they begin to look more alike. They both deal with similar things, such as coming of age, the relationship between father and child, and just different themes of life. They also both utilize certain literary devices to get their points across. It is because of all of these things, that both To Kill a Mockingbird and The Chosen…

In her short story, Cacoethes Scribendi, Catherine Sedgwick uses the pen as a phallic symbol to represent their grip on men. Susan Glaspell, on the other hand, uses a bird and messy kitchen in Jury of Her Peers to symbolize Minnie and her domestic struggle. Both authors describe domestic duties as obstacles in women’s search for their identity or freedom and each text has a victim of these domestic duties. While the women of both text attempt to gain control over the men, for their identity in…

Racism is the prejudice against people regarding the country they came from, the colour of their skin, and the language they speak. Racism is a theme that is seen all over the world and also plays a big part in our modern history. In the novel to ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and the film ‘Remember The Titans’, the racism prevalently between black and white Americans is dealt with in a numerous amount of ways. The novel is not a true story but is based on life at the time whereas the film is based on…

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee, [Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. New York: Granel Central, 2006.] the narrator Scout learns many life lessons that change the way she looks at people. It involves hatred and prejudice people, not looking at the innocent people such as Tom Robinson and Boo Radley other side of the story. Scout and I have learned a life lesson that changes the way we look at people and to know someone before you judge them has affected our lives. The…

Jem’s perspectives In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mocking Bird, Jem matures in many ways, one of these ways is his perspective of their neighbor Boo Radley. He starts out believing what most others believe going along with the fact that boo is a terrible monster. Jem is a young boy who wants to know everything and because of this throughout the start of the novel he will tell scout facts that he made up or tell rumors that he has heard, “he died years ago and they stuffed him up the chimney.” In…

and think we are better than them. We create a hostile environment for people who have to leave in fear of being bullied by a group or an individual. The film “To kill a Mocking bird” reveals the terror of a man accused for a crime he did not commit. The man for being African American made him an easy culprit to frame. Since in the early to mid-20th century it was still alright to view African American as lesser than human…