To Kill a Mockingbird Theme Essay

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee describes her characters very well and has a complex imagination so you can really picture the characters and feel their relationships with others. Three of the most different and interesting characters she wrote of consists of being Calpurnia, Atticus Finch, and Boo Radley. These characters are all very different, but all link together in some way. Calpurnia is the Finch’s housekeeper who is trusted by Atticus and his family. Atticus says I couldn…

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…

The accusation of rape upon nine Negro men in Scottsboro, Alabama was a racism-driven tragedy in American history. Two young women, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, accused nine young Negro men of raping them on the train ride from Chattanooga, Tennessee to Paint Rock, Alabama. The rape accusation came about when Haywood Patterson’s hand was stepped on by a white on top of the train, leading to the blacks fighting the whites off of the train. The fight was triggered when one white said “This is a…

At the beginning of the novel in the epigraph the words of Charles Lamb were displayed by Lee stating, “Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.” Within her novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee establishes the idea that children are free from the racism of American society as they maintain their innocence until their moral education begins. She weaves into the novel that the transition to adulthood in the early nineteenth century in America, especially in the South, caused the development of…

is completely unfair to colored people, but still find love? That's what Maycomb county is like in the book To Kill a Mockingbird . During the book Harper Lee tries to give you the message of what a good family should be (The Finches), and what they shouldn't be (The Ewell's). Harper Lee also makes the three children, Scout, Jem, and Dill, another factor of love in To Kill a Mockingbird because they would die for each other. Atticus, at the beginning of the story, doesn't show all signs of…

The novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is about a young girl named Scout who lives in a small town called Maycomb. She lives with her father Atticus, her brother Jem, and her maid Calpurnia. A good portion of the people living in the town don't view each other as equals; there is a fine line between peoples races, genders, and even social standings. Throughout the book, Scout and Jem have to face the difficulties and cruelties of the people around them, and they're constantly learning…

own. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, two kids face many difficult decisions and actions between the trial of Tom Robinson, having their black cook, and getting along at school. Jeremy Finch and Jean Louise Finch are average children. They grow up not really understanding the world and how things work. As the book develops, the kids learn how the world revolves and they eventually grow up. They learn how people think and why people act the way they are towards each other. In To Kill a…

all the positive qualities or by the negative qualities, forgetting that nothing in the world is perfect or completely imperfect. Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, uses numerous themes and symbols throughout the novel; however, none serve a stronger than the application of the co-existence of good and evil. The novel approaches this theme through Walter Cunningham, Tom Robinson’s trial, Scout’s school, Mrs. Dubose, and Jem’s exposure to the harsh reality of the evil within those…

Throughout the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee conveys the theme that seeing things from another's perspective is an important life skill. Empathizing with others is important so you can have a better understanding of what motivates their actions. Learning how to put yourself in someone else's shoes is a hard task but Lee clearly constructs examples that do the job. In the novel Jem doesn't understand what Atticus is trying to teach him by sending him to Mrs. Dubose's house. Atticus…

[sorrow] for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering" (www.dictionary.reference.com). Through her character, Atticus Finch, Harper Lee displayed many acts of compassion in her novel, To Kill a Mockingbird . Atticus showed compassion to Mrs. Dubose, Tom Robinson, Mayella Ewell, and Boo Radley. Showing compassion to Mrs. Dubose, Atticus said to Jem, "She 's an old lady and she 's ill. You just hold your head high and be a gentlemen."…