To Kill a Mockingbird Essay Introduction

Julia Rusak Mrs. Frechette English 11 H 11 September 2015 Summer Reading Assignment 1: To Kill A Mockingbird Chapters 1-5 My brother Jem and I were outside in our front yard enjoying the daytime before Atticus came home and it was time for dinner. As we were out and about I noticed how his left arm was slightly crooked and looked a little funny when he was standing up. When he was about thirteen he broke his arm at the elbow, but he was not concerned about it much as long as he could still play…

Wordsworth says that, “Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future” (Brainyquote). In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird the lives of the citizens of Maycomb County, Alabama follow the idea of this quote in that they themselves learn from past mistakes. Prejudice, one of these major mistakes, is highly prevalent in the novel, and many characters have…

cover. In the present North American society, people are not only judged initially on their physical appearance, the colour of their skin, their wealth, but also the way they dress, communicate or behave. This is the same as in the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird written by Harper Lee. The novel is about a town of people who judges due to their long-held conceptions of race. Lee’s story takes place in the town of Maycomb and is told through the eyes of Scout Finch. She is a young girl who never…

everyone. All faces are familiar and news spreads faster by mouth than it could by paper. A racial divide so wide an innocent man could be convicted of a crime he did not do, with the color of his skin as the most convincing factor. In the work To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses Atticus’ search for justice to convey that everyone is deserving of justice. Atticus exemplifies an understanding and search of justice through his relationship with those in the community, through his relationship…

one single person has never judged another based on stereotype or other’s opinions; it’s human nature to assume if one is unsure of something. But, with help one can learn how to bypass assumptions. At the beginning of Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus gives Scout a piece of advice she will wholeheartedly embrace and take into consideration later in the novel: Atticus said, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view” (39). She employs…

In To Kill A Mockingbird, discrimination is just one of the many topics of concern that come to mind when reading this fascinating novel. Such issues have been occurring throughout history, repeating itself over and over, for example, the case of George Zimmerman, a white American male, who was brought to trial because of his actions of discrimination, and murder, of a black unarmed young male. Though because he was white, there was no charges of any kind, and he was not convicted of murder.…

getting along with people will become easier. The novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is about Jean “Scout” Louise Finch growing up in the town of Maycomb and learning about the world through her father, Atticus’s lessons. Atticus teaches Scout and her brother, Jem, how to react in situations involving Boo Radley, an unseen neighbor, Tom Robinson, a black man going through a trial, and other social groups of Maycomb. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee uses Atticus and his children to…

Published in July of 2015, the book is Lee’s second full-length novel following her Pulitzer Prize-winning “To Kill a Mockingbird” (1960). Though initially touted as a sequel, “Go Set a Watchman”—the manuscript of which was allegedly discovered during an appraisal of Lee’s belongings in 2011—is actually the first draft of what would later become Lee’s masterpiece. Following the phenomenal success of that book, Lee shunned public life and returned to Monroeville, Alabama. Now…

that there can be no room for faults. For some, a single fault can shatter that view of a perfect hero entirely, and further destroy the image they try to achieve. In the novel Go Set a Watchman, set after the events of the widely acclaimed To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee reveals the true nature of the story’s hero Atticus Finch. The understanding that ideals and beliefs between people could drastically differ over time can allow one to emphasize with other people. Learning to emphasize does…

Anastasia Dimitropoulos Eng.1/Per.2 Mrs. Marechal 17 Dec. 2015 To Kill A Mockingbird In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus and his two kids Jem and Scout live in a small town called Maycomb. Atticus a lawyer, raises his children without a spouse. Scout struggles to act like a proper girl because of the absence of a mother figure in her life and makes it harder for her to act like a young women. Lee shows how women in Maycomb are under pressure to meet the…