Truman Capote Essay

“I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit’em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.” A quote made by Atticus that means it's a sin to kill a mockingbird because all they do is try to please people and produce beautiful music. It is a sin to kill a mockingbird because they just try to help and don't harm anyone. The book “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee referred to good people as mockingbirds.…

Standing up for others Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, Harper Lee's, To Kill a Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior, to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, and the struggle between blacks and whites. Atticus Finch is a lawyer and single parent in a small southern town in the 1930's. Atticus stands up for those who are not able to stand up for themselves. Atticus stood up for Tom Robinson when they accused him of raping Mayla. He knew…

The Essay,”Shame” Puts into contacts all of the problems that the black community faces. It goes immediately into detail about a girl by the name of,”Helene Tucker” The author; Dick Gregory, has a great admiration for this girl, and does various task to try to impress her such as,”She’d walk down my street and my brothers and sisters would yell,”here comes helene”, and I’d rub my tennis sneakers on the back of my pants and wish my hair wasn’t so nappy and the white folks’ shirt fit me better.”(…

The Brown Pelican The brown pelican is an interesting bird that plays a vital role in the plot of The Pelican Brief. It’s a large bird with a near extinction event behind it. It was one of the main causes of the Louisiana trial that caused two judges to end up dead along with two lawyers, a hitman, a CIA operative, and and a law school professor. It is also just an interesting American bird. In the book it is referenced once or maybe twice besides the fact that the brief is named after it. It…

Growing up comes with respect and better uses of words. In chapter 9 Scout had quoted” Pass the damn ham”pg.105. She was trying to be bigger and likes the uses the words because she thought it was ok and liked to uses them but her dad not uncle were having that. Scouts uncles stated”I’ll be here a week, and I don’t want to hear any words like that while i’m here”. I said this was a lesson because he also said” You want to grow up to be a lady” by this statement I felt I meant to be appropriate…

Soren, a Barn Owl is a young baby owl who lives in a fir tree in the Tyto Forest with his mother, father, older brother (Kludd), and younger sister (Eglantine). One night when his parents are off hunting, his older and jealous brother, Kludd, shoves Soren out of the nest/tree. Soren falls to the ground unhurt but is helpless because he cannot fly. The blind snake, Mrs. Plithiver, the nestmaid who watches over the children and cleans the nest, attempts to rescue Soren but can’t. Soren,…

Things are not what they seem Huck and Jim, from the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn have a strong relationship despite what society says. Throughout the text, readers see that Jim acts as a father figure towards Huck, “Huck has no father. I’ve always interpreted Jim’s decision to stay with Huck as a realization that there was a child who needed protection” (Bradley18). Jim made it his duty to protect Huck; he would do anything for Huck. Readers also see Huck protect Jim as well, “… I…

In the novel to Kill a Mockingbird there is a problem with social inequality like racism, gender, education, religion, and wealth. Social inequality is still a problem today. It has affected many characters in the book like Tom Robinson, Dolphus Raymond, The Ewell family, The Cunninghams, and many more. In this book racism is focused on a lot, Tom Robinson is a black man in this novel. He gets accused of raping and beating a young woman named Mayella Ewell. Tom’s version of the story is…

Texas Chainsaw massacre was very interesting; I have not watched the original movie until now. When watching the movie, it made me realize that in almost every horror movie, there is always a dumb girl, a sexually aroused girl and a serious girl. In older movies the women are normally the last ones to get killed. In newer movies, there is always one or two guys that survive. As far as the women, normally the serious girl survives and the rest dies. While watching I noticed that there was a…

I predict that, despite strenuous efforts on their parts, the kids will never meet the mysterious Arthur 'Boo' Radley. One piece of evidence in support of this theory is the simple fact that Boo has hardly ever been seen outside of his home. The Radley family has always been a reclusive family on the whole, even before Boo’s incident. None of the family attended church, a noted oddity in a small, Southern town like Maycomb. They also kept their house tightly shuttered and the doors locked fast.…