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Presentation on historical heroine- Helen Keller Helen Keller born June 27, 1880 was an American author,and political activist. However, what makes her different is she was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree.[ The life of Helen Keller". Royal National Institute of Blind People. November 20, 2008. Accessed November 9, 2015 ] she was born with full sight and hearing, however Helen fell ill from possibly scarlet fever or meningitis. It was after her illness that her…

Mockingbirds A single bird’s twitter sounds through the woods. Never will this bird harm any, it simply sings a song. Joined by many others, the chorus of mockingbirds reaches past the forest, and into the world. Throughout the book To Kill a Mockingbird the author, Harper Lee commonly expresses a theme of harmlessness in the characters through “mockingbirds.” This common theme appears in many scenes and characters, and is used to represent the misjudgment of the world. Although the…

In the story To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee courage among many other things is a key theme in the story. There are two characters that comes to mind when I think of courage in the story and those people are Atticus Finch and Boo Radley. These two characters show tremendous courage throughout the story from saving the kids to defending Tom Robinson even though it puts their life and privacy at risk. The real courage here is putting the needs and wants of others in front of their own. A…

It is a sin to kill a mockingbird. This simple phrase seems unimportant and trivial, however, it has a much deeper meaning. The understanding, or misinterpretation, of this phrase makes all the difference in this book. In the novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, there are three main literary elements throughout the story. These elements are imagery, symbolism, and allegory and are used to show the themes of misunderstandings, courage, and prejudice. The first literary element…

It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird In to Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus says to Scout “Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird. That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it” (119). Many people can elaborate from this quote, mockingbirds can be considered a sin to kill them. All mockingbirds do is sing their hearts out for us and that it’s a sin to kill them. In To Kill a Mockingbird Atticus elaborates on why people can be considered…

To Kill A Mockingbird Essay Ursula K.Le Guin once said “There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.” That point being, coming of age, Harper Lee uses coming of age in the town of Maycomb through Jem and Scout. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses Jem and Scout’s coming of age to convey to her 1960s readers that even the young and innocent have the…

By 600 BCE Sparta had conquered her neighbors in the southern half of the Peloponnese. The vanquished people, called Helots, were required to do all of the agricultural work on land owned by the victors, making Sparta self-sufficient in food and ruler of a slave population seven or eight times as large. Not needing to import anything allowed Sparta to isolate herself from the culture of the rest of the world; fearing revolt by such a large number of slaves forced the country to become an armed…

Songtai Spring Final Exam TKAM Essay Questions Essay (A) To kill a Mockingbird has always been widely considered as a growing up and coming of age story. The main character that is growing through the story is Scout Finch, who is about to turn six years old when the book begins and turned eight when the book ends. The book is about what she learns about the people and life over the course of two years. Scout learn three major lessons from the experience, she learns partly from Atticus and…

Troublemaker Grows Up What would you expect from a troublemaker ? In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird written by Harper Lee the story focuses on the lives of brother and sister. Jem and Scout Finch, Jem is a Scout's older brother, who likes to cause trouble. This essay i am writing will tell you about the ups and downs of Jem's life, and how it helped him to grow up. In chapter 11, Jem and Mrs. Dubose have a person vs. person external conflict everytime him and Scout pass by her hous. Scout…

In the movie Finding Forrester, a young boy and an old man meet under the most unusual of circumstances, creating an unlikely friendship that changes them both. As the elder, William Forrester is a mentor to Jamal who gives him valuable advice on life and his writing. At the same time however, Jamal teaches him a lesson too. When he introduces himself into his life, Forrester was still blaming himself for the death of his brother, and was desperately tries to hide from his past by becoming a…