To Kill a Mocking Bird Essay

Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mocking Bird provides an illustration of how this is true when Atticus’s defense of a black man in a dominantly racist community proves to affect both him and his family’s social position in their community. Atticus explains to his kids that he has chosen…

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” This is a quote from Atticus in the story where he explains to Scout about understanding the reasons people act the way they do toward others. Resembling the quote, I chose to shadow my father. My father is a CPA and a contractor. He is a very hard worker and deals with all kinds of people from clients regarding their tax returns to sub-contractors…

personality has been shaped by the sociological and political environment of his time. Conversely, important works of literature [...] have brought about social and political change” (163). Both A Raisin in the Sun (from now on shown as Raisin) and To Kill a Mockingbird (from now on shown as Mockingbird) show strong examples of political literature. In Raisin, Lorraine Hansberry’s beliefs are shown through the perspective of a black family living in Chicago during the 1950’s. In Mockingbird,…

banned and disappear from existence. A book wrote by Harper Lee called To Kill A Mocking Bird has been a hot controversial topic on whether it should get banned from school classrooms. In my opinion To Kill A Mocking Bird should be taught in schools, because it Provides hope, endures, and embraces differences. To begin, To Kill A Mocking Bird should be taught to students in school. ultimately, the book To Kill A Mocking Bird provides endless hope to the reader. For an example, the…

How to Kill a MockingBird Have you ever seen an African American hit or hurt a white child in front of that childs parent and that parent doesn't do anything? Well in the book How to kill a MockingBird it talks about how The African American that has Jim Crow Laws that they have to obey and where all White people have control of the African American, and this white girl named Scout was getting whipped by her the African American and her father told her it was okay because it taught her the…

Literary Analysis To A Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a great book and has a lot of racism. It starts out with Scout, Atticus Finch’s daughter, talking about the events leading to Jem’s broken arm. Jem is Scout’s older brother. After talking about those events she started talking about their family history. Her first ancestor to arrive in America was Simon Finch. He fled from England escaping religious persecution and established a farm a farm on the banks of the Alabama River. Atticus…

given as choices all had an element of adventure and a main theme differing from female empowerment to what it means to live in poverty. I decided to review three of the novels that were given within the summer reading list. The novels I chose were To Kill a Mockingbird, Native Son, and The Bean Trees. Each of the books could be related to, making a reader sympathize with the characters and feel a connection to the characters struggles within the novel. I found that to be the hardest aspect of…

Five prominent themes that occur in the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” are the following education, heroism, family, prejudice, and coming of age. During today’s day education has been immensely needed especially in countries including Islam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Africa. A women named Sakena Yacoobi is a teacher and educator she taught women in Afghanistan, even though education is illegal for women in Afghanistan. Yacoobi left her hometown to pursue in getting an education in America.…

who defend these clients put themselves and others in dangerous situations. Once their names are associated with the case they put themselves and their families in a position to be harmed. Also, the lawyers could greatly damage their career. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus is defending a man who allegedly raped a woman. Many people disagree with his decision and show up at his house one night. Jem was worried about Atticus and asked him, “ ‘They were after you, weren’t they?’ Jem…

Task 1: To Kill a MockingBird In the novel To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee, while growing up in Maycomb County young Scout begins to realize and see the social structure of the town. At the beginning of the novel, Scout believes she knows where she stands in Maycomb’s hierarchy. Jem,her brother describes the social status of Maycomb county; “There’s four kinds of people in the world. There’s the ordinary kind like us and the neighbors, there’s the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods…