Alabama Crimson Tide

To My Dearest Nika-san, It’s March 27, 1965, and as I walk through the muddy fields of Hayneville, Alabama, I stop to look at the sky and wonder what we blacks have been through. The day before we left for the march with Dr. King (Martin Luther King Jr.), I have done a lot of preparations and packed a very small amount of items needed before I left for the march. (I have packed a blanket and purse filled with my special needs) Ma and Pa were worried about my health but I told I’d be just fine.…

All humans are apt to become prejudiced, and parents play a major role in prejudice acquisition to their children; those children are inclined to look up to their parents. However, Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird portrays a more affirmative image for the development of children; Atticus, Scout’s father and mentor, gives her lessons to stay unprejudiced and make good decisions. Scout actualizes those lessons frequently in the future. She encounters various conflicts which allow her to grow…

I am reading To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee and I am on page 42. This book is about a girl named Scout, her older brother-(Jem), her dad-(Atticus) and her nanny-(Calpurnia). They live in Maycomb County, Alabama. Scout and Jem meet a new friend named Dill. They dare each other to try and touch Boo Radley house. Boo Radley is known for being a malevolent phantom. School starts and Scout meets her new teacher named Miss Caroline. Miss Caroline meets her new student named Burris Ewell which…

The early 1900’s were a confusing time for society. Slavery had been abolished, the depression was on the rise, and religious and political beliefs were being questioned. Martin Luther King Jr writes in his Autobiography that he was born in the later years of this segregation and from an early age questioned why and how culture could develop and exist in this fashion. His religious upbringing taught him about love and how men are created equal, yet confused him further about the existence of…

To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee, the book takes place in a Southern town in the twentieth century in the fictional town of Maycomb. In to Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses symbolism in order to convey the idea that doing harm to people who are helpless and innocent is a horrible thing and can lead to unwanted actions. As we all know mockingbirds represent a symbol of innocence, Lee makes Miss Maudie point out that "...[mockingbirds] don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for…

movements against segregation and discrimination throughout the United States. Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on February 4, 1913. Her…

The use of symbolism helps Vonnegut further convey his ideas on death and war. Vonnegut uses a bird to symbolize his speechless silence towards war. For example, Vonnegut says “everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds. And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like ‘Poo-tee-weet?’” (Vonnegut 19). Vonnegut uses birds to show that animals cannot even make sense of the massacres and devastations of war. There are…

You can never Judge a book by it’s cover, and that goes for people too, no matter what they do or say. Until you take the time to understand what’s going on in one's life, you don’t have the entitlement to judge them by their actions, and you don’t know what might be going on in their story. To kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a story about a small town called Maycomb, narrated by a young girl nicknamed Scout. Maycomb is a poor one street town, that consists of racially split, judgemental…

To kill a Mockingbird can cause courage when you do something or helping someone in need that almost cause your life. There are three characters that really shows courage, they’re Scout, Jem, and Boo. They can show many different way that can shows courage to help and protect. They’ve know that can do something about this story that just only about courage from To kill a mockingbird. Jem shows courage by standing up to Atticus with all of guys who trying to kill Tom Robinson. He tried to…

Society shaped and influenced Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird, because throughout all the events, Scout is learning and realizing more about Maycomb and it’s people. For example, on page 283, Scout says, “ I looked around. They were standing. Negroes were getting to their feet. In other words, Scout is realizing her surroundings and noticing something is happening because the Negroes are standing up. From this, I can infer that Scout has been influenced by the verdict because she is noticing that…