To Kill a Mockingbird Essay

In the book “To kill a mockingbird” Scout has developed her knowledge of differences and inequalities in her community.Harper Lee shows us how Scout grows us in her community and how it affects her and what her opinions are. She also show us different problem in Scouts community like racism,poverty and inequality. Racism is a big issue through the book. Scout lives in a community where people are racist all the time, most of the people call a black person nigger not their actual name. This…

‘’Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." . (chapter 20, Lee). Atticus is explaining the importance of how ignorance should not be tolerated, and the people who take innocent lives won’t face the consequences. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee reveals the social values of Family, equality, and love that she…

Robinson’s case, racism, and even who planted the beautiful flowers were just some of the things the people had going on in their life. Harper Lee uses many symbols to illustrate these topics and much more throughout the book. In the novel ,To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses the snowman to represent that a black person is never accepted unless he is a white “snowman” and it represents the trial and Tom’s life. She also uses red geraniums to represent Mayella’s desire for a better life.…

Pranav Rathore Joanna Chan Lit/Writ, Period 2 12/12/17 Socratic Seminar: To Kill a Mockingbird 1. Part one of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, introduces all the characters and their day-to-day lives. Scout, Jem, and Dill were curious about Boo Radley. They tried to reenact Boo Radley’s life and tried to get a glimpse of him. From the very beginning, Atticus tried to teach his kids about right from wrong. He taught Scout a very important concept, “ You never really understand a person until…

of mystifying the town. Rumor has it that he stabbed his own father in the thigh, but it is impossible to tell rumors from truth because he rarely ever appears outside. Boo is a powerful symbol of justice and goodness, and represents one of the mockingbirds of the story (good person injured by evil of mankind). He sparks Scout curiosity and eventually helps Scout truly understand what it feels like to stand in someone else's shoe. Charles Baker Harris, or Dill, acts as playmates with Scout and…

The book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is chalk-full of symbols. A symbol is when an object represents another to give a deeper meaning. From instances like Scout finding the roly poly bug to Atticus shooting the mad dog each symbol means a different thing or describes a different character in the book. Some symbols may be hard to find but there are always hidden symbols relating to the characters. For example, a small detail readers might have looked over like the red geraniums in the…

Throughout the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, various themes are displayed to the reader. These timeless themes often embody a lesson, intended to impact the reader. In this reading, Harper Lee uses the setting of a sleepy, Southern town to convey a message. Allusion and themes are her primary tools used to communicate this. At times, characters were used to portray themes directly, in lieu of themes being represented by events. Two of the most significant groups in the story, are those people of…

To live with sympathy and to understand others are two major keys in to trying to figure out or getting to know someone. This statement ties in with the quote in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, once said by Atticus, “You never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.” The quote was said to Scout because she isn’t quite old enough to understand the world and people’s feelings yet. By the end of the book she starts to understand it all and puts all the events…

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, inequality between races is continually brought up as Atticus Finch defends Tom Robinson in a feud between black and white similar to the one the nine kids in Little Rock Arkansas fought…

Courage is said to be a hero’s trait, the key to success. Cowardice is the antagonist, nobody likes it, nobody wishes to be it. Cowardice makes a meager mouse run your blood cold. Even though courage is defined by many authors differently, in To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, courage is the trait to do the right thing. We can draw the definition of real courage from three characters in the story, Bob Ewell, Atticus FInch, and Mrs. Dubose. Courage can only be identified if we know what…