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    "To Kill a Mockingbird" is aimed at challenging prejudice and discrimination that took place during the 1930s. The characterisation of Mrs. Dubose provides development for central themes of prejudice and morality. The story relies on the importance of Mrs. Dubose’s character by exploiting a range of techniques such as emotive language, punctuation, metaphor, simile and personification. She was created by Harper Lee to contribute to the microcosm of American Society and criticise the…

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    Harper Lee uses two things in the story to symbolize how it could be referenced to killing a Mockingbird. The author states that in the book how gentle a Mockingbird is a how it does nothing wrong but give us calming music with its very delightful singing. Mockingbirds were the only bird that Atticus said Scout and Jem could not shoot when they first got the air rifles. Mockingbirds only bring joy so no one harms them intentionally. Miss Maudie is the one who says the great things about them on…

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    The Twits is an evil person, having hair that covers his entire face. Mr. and Mrs. Twits are the smelly and ugliest people in the world. Thy hate everything except playing mean joke to each other, fascinating the innocent birds to put in their Birds Pies, they make caged monkeys, and “The Smuggle Wumps”, stand on their heads all day. He is a British novelist, short story writer, poet, screen writer and fight pilot. Sophie Magdalene is the mother of Roald Dahl, and he’s father is Harold Dahl.…

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    Racism stands for more than one thing. In this case Harper Lee expresses that the theme in “ To Kill A MocKingbird” is you should never judge or mistreat someone because of their skin color. In this book a black man was found guilty for raping a white women when he was clearly innocent, in addition he was also shot 17 times because he was black. In some cases shooting someone 17 times and is unarmed is called overkill. So, therefore, racism is still a big thing in the U.S. today Tom Robinson,…

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    Reach Out and Touch Poetry Essay Nosh Marcus ENG3U Reach Out and Touch is a poem by Maxine Tyres. The poem is about two young children on a bus with their mother meeting a black woman for the first time. The two children touch the back of the woman’s neck, and there mother slaps away their hands and tells them not to ask questions about the black woman. It discusses many issues about prejudice happening at the time. “Reach Out and Touches” them is of…

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    Into To Kill a MockingBird Atticus Finch defines courage as. “It's when [people] know [they are] licked before [they] begin, but [they] begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” (Lee 149). This shows that courage is doing what is right even though you are going against everyone else, and is shown happening throughout real life in The Untold Story of Emmett Till, and Montgomery Boycott‘’. Courage intertwine through To Kill a MockingBird by Harper Lee, The Untold Story of Emmett Till filmed…

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    The following passage is taken from Games At Twilight, a short story by Anita Desai. Anita Desai is a renowned author from India who writes about India, or America told in relation to India. Games At Twilight, set in India, revolves around Ravi, one of five children, who learns about the harsh realities of life and death while playing a game of hide and seek. The didactic short story, told from a third person limited point of view, examines the idea of eventually being forgotten after death. In…

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    Definition of “Real Courage” throughout the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” Harper Lee’s book, “To Kill a Mockingbird” defines real courage as the ability to put your fears aside and do what's right no matter the consequences. This real courage is seen throughout the book through several characters including the characters Atticus, Mrs. Dubose and Jem and Scout. All of these characters felt fear at one point or another in the book, however, that fear was overcome by putting it aside and doing the…

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    In the book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Edward Tulane is a vain, self-absorbed, three-foot-tall china rabbit from France who thinks to have all he could want. Fancy clothes, a tiny gold pocket watch and Abilene, a girl who loves him with all her heart. On page 3 in the book the author states “He had china arms and china legs, china paws and a china head, a china torso and a china nose. His arms and legs were jointed and jointed by wire so that his china elbows and china knees could…

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    "It's a sin to kill a mockingbird." These words echo through the course of the book's development. When these words were written, the idea raises that character in the story can be defined as mockingbirds. The human activity of being a Mockingbird is being pure of spirit, kind, and reliable, this based off the actual actions of a mockingbird; they only make beautiful music for the world to enjoy, they cause no pain and no suffering for the creatures of this Earth. Looking through the narrative,…

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