To Kill a Mockingbird Essay

Love is one of the many ways to describe To Kill a Mockingbird. Atticus shows love for Tom Robinson through every bit of the court case. Calpurnia demonstrates love for Scout and Jem, which aren't even her kids. The book is an emotional roller coaster for anyone reading and any character in the book. Love isn't just romance in this book, it's taken to a new level shown through compassion. I think it's most astonishing by how Atticus shows bravery and sympathy for Tom Robinson, through the…

The Effects of Tradition in To Kill a Mockingbird The novel To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, is a fictional story that paints a picture of how life was in the 1930s. To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in Maycomb County, a fictional town in southern Alabama; similar to the town Harper Lee grew up in. All through out the 1800s, there was a substantial amount of hate toward African Americans. Unfortunately, this stuck with many people through the traditions of one generation passing it…

There’s Something About Empathy Since I was young I’d always fantasize about living in the 1900’s; growing up with milk shake shops, jukeboxes, and poodle skirts sounded fascinating. However, after having read Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, it made me realize some things aren’t always what they seem. I was forced to face the tragic reality of the 1900’s. A little girl named Scout shares her experiences from growing up during the 1920’s, in Maycomb County, Alabama. Scout and her family find…

Essay for How to Kill a Mockingbird How to Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee presents a small family in a small family that faces issues dealing with racism, poverty, and the growing up of two children. The motif of the children’s journey is to encounter and discover the mysteries and untold secrets of the little Maycomb town they live in. many of these secrets are kept by the Ewells, a poor family that takes advantage of a black man and gets away with it. The black man in the story is called…

Harper Lee’s novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird”, is a book in which Jean Louise Finch, also referred to in the novel as Scout, points out the discrimination of the people in Maycomb towards certain social groups, based on the age, gender, social class, and most importantly, racial classification. Lee’s, book, and many other famous, classic novels build up the idea of inequality. Inequality is the unfair treatment towards certain groups of people based on their race, gender, age, and social status in…

In the early 1930s, the United States of America was still in its darkest time. Race, gender, and wealth were the major factors of discrimination. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, several scenes supports the thematic statement about inequality, and how it applies to certain groups. Harper Lee argues that equality does not only affect one race or mankind. One event that shows inequality is when White and Black people had separated churches. Even though the slavery has ended, the invisible…

Prejudice is seen many different times in the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. What matters most doesn’t lie within prejudice itself, but rather how prejudice is challenged by the characters in TKAM. There are four examples for challenging prejudice that really stuck out for me. The first example for challenging prejudice was through empathy. Atticus first introduces empathy as being a way to challenge prejudice when he talks to Scout and Jem about putting themselves in other…

A little-known fact about To Kill a Mockingbird is that the story was originally meant, by Harper Lee (The author of this book) to be a love story between Dill and Scout, two characters in the book. Anyway, the claim in this essay is this: the best over-arching theme for “To Kill a Mockingbird” is Prejudice vs. Tolerance. Prejudice vs. Tolerance is the struggle between minorities and whites. It also includes interracials. Harper Lee wrote a lot of this book about what she saw and her opinions on…

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend,” is a quote by Robertson Davies. This quote perfectly explains one of the many themes in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, both in the novel and movie adaptation. In To Kill a Mockingbird, the reader is placed in a setting in which the society only sees what it wants. This causes a few characters, such as Mr.Arthur (Boo) Radley, Mr. Tom Robinson and Jem and Scout Finch, to be put in difficult positions and end up losing part of…

The differences in both of the novels include modernization, conservatism, and religious conflict. To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman review the thematic issues of injustice and judgment. National political conflict is prevalent and centers the main plot around the two novels. The thematic issues addressed in these novels include law and identity, which review the insight of the main characters. Scout observes Maycomb’s landscape and how modernized it has become. Maycomb in Go Set a…