To Kill a Mockingbird Theme Essay

you really are.” This theme of courage in growing is seen in To Kill a Mockingbird with Scout Finch watching her father, Atticus Finch, stand up and do the right thing and in turn growing up through the entire book. Harper Lee had given To Kill a Mockingbird the theme of moral courage. This can be seen in the plot and conflict, but also the characterization Lee had given to these people. Other books and short stories such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight also has the theme of moral courage…

An author "should write about what he knows and write truthfully”; Harper Lee embodied her own quote’s advice when writing To Kill a Mockingbird. There is much to learn from the mono-published Lee as she, in her one and only published work (until July 14, 2015, that is), was able to weave a greatly intertwining web of her own experiences, thrilling narrative, and themes of outcasts, racial equality, youth, and forgiveness. As a first-time writer, she was able to garner more success than many…

Courage in To Kill a Mockingbird The main theme in To kill a mockingbird is courage and it is shown in many places throughout the book along with putting a huge impact on the book. There a three major places where courage is shown as in Chapter 1, when Dill dares Jem to run up to the Radleys house and hit it, when Atticus sticks up for Tom Robinson and defends him in court on the trial against Mayella and he sits outside the police station waiting for him, and once again near the end of…

before finishing their homework. To Kill a Mockingbird is written by Harper Lee. The main theme of this book is: It is a sin to kill a mockingbird. The mockingbirds are the symbols of the characters in the novel, it represents the racial injustice. Also, the book tells people many things about how different people are. And it also shows how people in the book show their tolerance. Go through Atticus, Calpurnia, Jem these three characters in the book, see the themes of tolerance have shown in…

There are many similar themes in the novels Great Expectations, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Secret Life of Bees. Great Expectations centers around a poor boy named Pip Pirrip who learns how to become a gentleman in London. To Kill a Mockingbird focuses on a young girl named Scout Finch who is learning about life and injustice in the small southern town of Maycomb. The Secret Life of Bees centers around a teenage girl named Lily Owens who searches for her identity and purpose in South Carolina…

The Unknown Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel filled with the persecution of innocent people represented as mockingbirds. The Author, Harper Lee, created a community of people who are persecuted, judged, and attacked despite their innocence. Lee uses the mockingbird as a symbol of innocence. In the book she says mockingbirds are innocent and commit no evil act. The birds only sing their songs for people to hear. The people of Maycomb are no exception, they live out their days…

From what I have noticed from reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the theme of gender equality affects the way females are portrayed and even treated. After retrieving the tire from Boo Radley’s front yard, Jem, Scout’s older brother says, “I swear Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl it’s mortifyin’” (page 50). Jem implies that being a girl is portrayed as being an annoyance or even dead weight to him as well as not wanting to hang out with them at all. This correlates with how…

The theme of Harper Lee’s story To kill a Mockingbird is to not judge people by where their family came from. Scout doesn’t get to play with one of her friends because of his parents actions and how they live. “You should be gracious to everybody, dear. But you don’t have to invite him home” (Lee 224). Alexandria doesn’t want Scout to play with Walter because he is a Cunningham and she doesn’t like Cunninghams. She thinks they don’t do anything for Maycomb and are just a waste like the Ewells…

In the brilliant and memorable novel To Kill a Mockingbird a theme in this book occurs often. In the book Atticus Finch tells his children that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird and the reason being is because all they do is make beautiful music for everyone. Atticus saying this relates so much more to the book than originally thought. There are three main characters in this book who are metaphorically mockingbirds. Being a mockingbird is not having wings or a beak, but truly doing only the…

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…