Alabama Crimson Tide

Imagine being a six year old child, and watching brutal racism and injustice growing up, while trying to hold on to your innocence and own opinions. That’s the struggle of Jean Louise Finch, who prefers to go by “Scout.” In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout, friend Dill, and brother Jem, must face friends and family turning on them, as father Atticus makes a life changing decision of defending a black man in court in the 1930’s, a time of racial injustice and segregation. Also…

The Unjustifiable Acts In the novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, six year olds are trained to become soldiers. They are manipulated into fighting and killing in order to save humanity. Meanwhile, the adults in the novel do not protest to such behavior and consider it better for humanity. The characters Colonel Graff and Mazer Rackham’s actions towards Ender are clearly unjustifiable. Graff’s actions are inexcusable because he manipulates and isolates Ender from the group. Mazer…

Independent Reading Essay The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the word innocence as, “freedom from guilt or sin through being unacquainted with evil.” One major component in being considered innocent is one’s age, as a whole; younger people and children are heavily portrayed as innocent. In Stephen King’s “Firestarter,” Andy and Charlie Mcgee are on the run from a secret government operation that has given them psychic abilities. This father daughter duo narrowly escape capture a couple of…

Purple Hibiscus takes place in post-colonial Enugu, Nigeria and it revolves around the seemingly perfect Achike family, with the main character and narrator being Kambili aged 15 an introvert and her older brother Jaja, who also is an introvert and excels at school. Mama (Beatrice), seems to be the tape holding this fragile family together and then there Papa Eugene; a stauch catholic, successful businessman, newspaper publisher, philantrophist among other attributes who still with all this,…

Helen language by Captain Keller. Having been blind before, Anne had much experience and motivation to teach Helen. After many surgeries, Anne was in fact able to see, just not very well. Sullivan stayed with the Kellers in their home located in Alabama. Throughout the play, Sullivan teaches Helen not only language, but her family a lesson too. As seen throughout the drama, pity on an individual is the worst handicap a child can…

I am a coward for being ignorant of the harsh realities that I support because I do not want to be conspicuous. In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, Atticus Finch takes on a case where he finds himself defending a colored man from the accusation that he raped a white woman. Moral Cowardice if found in 99.99% of the population were no one takes a stand to make a change. A person’s ignorance can lead them to a life they never wanted. The three most prominent themes in To Kill A…

Both Caliban from Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and the inmates from Shakespeare Behind Bars suffer a demotion due to poor decisions - from free man, to scum-of-the-earth. Caliban is considered friend to Prospero until he attempts to rapes Miranda, from which he is punished and considered slave to Prospero from then on. Similarly, the inmates at Luther Luckett have committed horrid crimes ranging from theft, to rape, to murder. These actions contain consequences that alter one’s reputation…

plot and character are closely relate to authors family. It was based on the event that took place near her hometown when she was 10 yrs. old. The novel began during three years (1933-35) of the Great Depression in the fictional town near Maycomb, Alabama. The seat of Maycomb country. It mainly focuses on 6 year old girl Jean Louise Finch (Scout), who use to live with his father and brother Jem. Father was a aged lawyer. Jem and Scout befriend called Dill,…

Mark Twain uses satire in the novel to confront the ideas and people that he believes are corrupt. Through the combination of theme and satire, Twain hopes to project just how corrupt society is. Twain’s main focus is the corruption of southern society and how morally wrong the South is. In the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain satirizes mob mentality, religious hypocrisy, and gullibility in order to illuminate the corruption of society. Mark Twain satirizes mob mentality to attack…

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it” (Lee, 33). Atticus says this to Scout after she gets mad that Miss Caroline does not understand Maycomb’s ways. This theme can be seen all throughout To Kill a Mockingbird because the book includes real life examples of racism and hardships. Empathy is very important in this book because there is a lot of discrimination, especially against African…