To Kill a Mockingbird Essay

To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, has a very significant title. This is because the meaning of the title is showed in many ways throughout the novel. In chapter 10, Atticus tells the kids, “it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” (119). Scout and Jem asked Miss Maudie what that means and she explained it to them. She told them that mockingbirds don’t do anything harmful so it is a sin to kill something so innocent. In To Kill A Mockingbird, there are many…

for people too, no matter what they do or say. Until you take the time to understand what’s going on in one's life, you don’t have the entitlement to judge them by their actions, and you don’t know what might be going on in their story. To kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a story about a small town called Maycomb, narrated by a young girl nicknamed Scout. Maycomb is a poor one street town, that consists of racially split, judgemental people. A place where many are looked down upon, just…

Agreement or Disagreement? In To Kill a Mockingbird, that was the question the whole book revolves around. While reading this essay, the same questions will be asked. But this time just think about, “I’d rather you shoot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays if you want, if you can hit'em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”(119) Mockingbirds do nothing but sing and make music for us. It’s a sin to kill them because all they do is…

“It is a sin to kill a mockingbird.” (119) Most of the foreshadowing in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, comes in the form of references. What are most often referenced, is Atticus talking to his children about how it is a sin to kill a mockingbird. Though many characters fit the characteristics of a mockingbird, the person this book revolves around is Tom Robinson, and how he was accused of something he did not do. Throughout the book To Kill a Mockingbird, multiple passages in the book,…

To quote Atticus Finch, the sapient attorney of Harper Lee’s classic, To Kill A Mockingbird, and his belief in justice that is indiscriminate, “...in this country our courts are the great levelers, and in our courts all men are created equal” (274). However, this ideal presumes that the law, those very words on which a court is built, is fair—but it was not so. In the dark times of Atticus Finch, indiscriminate justice was absent from the legislation, and often laws were built specifically to…

I believe the meaning of the title “To Kill a Mockingbird” is more like a title “To kill something innocent” with a mockingbird being an innocent person. I believe this is the meaning of the title because the theme of the book centers around innocence and unfairness in the world. Multiple scenes in this book focus on Scout Finch, who as a child, is still innocent and thinks and describes moments as unfair due to them being unfair. She is the only one that still clearly sees this due to her young…

First, Paula Byers stated that Nelle Harper Lee is a famous author, born on April 28, 1926, in Monroe, Alabama (220). Lee’s birth parents are Amasa Coleman and Frances Lee (Byers 220). She based Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird’s main character off of her Father (Byers 220). She also happens to be a relative of the famous General Robert E. Lee (Byers 220). Lee was an attendant of Huntingdon College, an all women’s private school located in Montgomery, Alabama (Byers 220). She attended this…

Power is a huge deal in America it controls almost everything we see today, including the way we live everyday. The story To Kill A Mockingbird is about a man named Tom Robinson who was falsely accused of raping a white woman named Mayella Ewell. In Maycomb Alabama class, gender, and race run everything during this time of segregation. If you were a woman in Maycomb you had no say or any right to voice your opinion, you were not to speak nor talk to a colored boy during this time. As a colored…

novel, until now, people consider To Kill a Mockingbird as a successful indictment of racism. However, should people really consider the text as a successful indictment of racism, while it uses racism to prove its points? The article, “Symbolism and Racism” by Adam Smykowski is one of the articles that think To Kill a Mockingbird successfully indicts racism. However, examples from the article “Racism in To Kill a Mockingbird” by Isaac Saney and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, may make a…

Prejudice vs. Innocence The book To Kill a Mockingbird is an award winning novel written by Harper Lee. The novel is set in the Southern state of Alabama, during the early days of freedom for the African-Americans. There are many symbols that are used by the author in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird to convey themes. The most important symbols in this novel are, the “mockingbird”, prejudice and racism, and Boo Radley. (Themes) One major symbol is mentioned not only in the novel, but it is in…