To Kill a Mockingbird Essay

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee has people giving gifts. Some of those gifts are objects, but others cannot be seen nor touched. Even though they can’t be seen nor touched doesn't make it less important. Boo Radley, Atticus Finch, and Miss Maudie all gave the kids, Jem and Scout, some form of gifts. Boo Radley gave Jem and Scout a lot of gifts. Jem and Scout noticed someone leaving things in a tree knothole for them. In the knothole there were things like gum, pennies, twine,…

The book To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, shouldn’t be read in the 9th grade due to the inappropriate language used. The book’s main character, Scout, uses inappropriate language in everyday conversation, so that could put in the minds of 9th graders that that type of language is appropriate to say all the time. At the dinner table, When Uncle Jack comes to visit before Christmas, Uncle Jack teaches Scout a lesson, “But at supper that evening when I asked him to pass the damn ham, please,…

To Kill a Finch Childhood and the innocents that comes with it is extremely fragile and temporary. It can be easily lost and never regained. This is what happens to Scout Finch in by Harper Lee. Throughout the story Scout Finch grows up and learns the true nature of people and the world; thus revealing the underlying bigotry of 1930s Alabama. Along the way though she helps some people change their ways and regain a little of their own innocents while also learning valuable life lessons that…

Two Stories of Prejudice Prejudice: preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. The book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a story of prejudice which takes place during the Great Depression in the Maycomb County, Alabama. The story is told from the perception of an intelligent, 6 year old girl named Jean “Scout” Finch. A film named The Help, is another story of prejudice, it takes place during the Civil Rights movement in Jackson, Mississippi and focuses on an…

Failure of Empathy in To Kill a Mockingbird The Oxford English Dictionary defines empathy as “the power of projecting one’s personality into the object of contemplation.” Furthermore, Katie Rose Guest Pryal proposes that empathy takes action, not just an emotion. Often confused with sympathy, empathy requires the ability to understand a predicament from another person’s perspective, while sympathy only entails the feeling of pity for another’s difficulty. In To Kill a Mockingbird, although…

The first semester in English 3 contains two books, To Kill a Mockingbird and The Chosen. These two books are both universal and timeless and taught readers some life philosophy throughout the stories. However, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird seemed more famous and easier to accept widely by people based on its reflection on an important part of American history. Humorous people conclude that it might be a shame for them to not read this book. Harper Lee conveyed her worldview by hiding them…

One of the themes of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, is inequalities due to race and social class. In other words, black men are treated less importantly than white men because of their race. In addition, African Americans are at the bottom of the social hierarchy. The tension between both races are shown in the novel. For example, Atticus explains to his daughter, Scout that men “couldn't be fair if they tried” about the different races in the town of Maycomb (Lee 295). In the 1930s, when…

“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.”(119) In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, a mockingbird is a representation of the innocence of a child that has yet to be corrupted by the evil, hypocrisy, and injustice in adult society. Growing up in Alabama in the 1930’s, Scout and Jem Finch and their friends Boo…

Atticus Finch is one of the most influential characters in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Atticus works as a lawyer and is the father of Jem, and Scout, the main character of the novel. According to the narrator, Atticus’s wife died when Jem and Scout were very young (Lee 7). Ever since her death, Atticus relies on Calpurnia, the Finch family’s black housekeeper and cook, to help him raise his children. Atticus Finch is well respected by most folks in Maycomb and is probably the only…

Education in To Kill a Mockingbird Education is one of the many rights we’re entitled to, Us as humanity strive for knowledge. To Kill a Mockingbird is no exception to this, in this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, education is the basis of every struggle. Education is the basis of society, it’s what sets every person from the rest, education is the process of gaining information about the surrounding world. Harper Lee symbolizes the importance of education in To Kill a Mockingbird, through Scout’s…