Alabama

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is an award winning novel that tells the story of the Finch family in 1930 Maycomb, Alabama. In their neighborhood there is a house at the end of their street, the Radley house. Rumor has it Mr. Arthur, also know as Boo Radley, is a monster and Scout and Jem Finch are curious to find out more. Meanwhile their white father, Atticus Finch, is defending an innocent black man, Tom Robinson, in the racist environment of the South. This book portrays many of…

which is the bitterest.” (Goodreads). In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the children in the story obtain a lot of wisdom in these three ways. When their father is asked to defend an African American in their small prejudiced town in Alabama they learn many lessons. These lessons are heartbreaking and painful, but the characters come out of the book as better individuals. The book shows that wisdom is gained by experience and learning from others, and that even though wisdom is…

Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, the author emphasises a theme of social justice by the character of Atticus Finch. Social justice is defined as: promoting a just society by challenging injustice and valuing diversity. Atticus resides in Maycomb, Alabama, a slowly progressing town. Maycomb is stuck in it’s ways. Atticus’ profession is one filled with triumph and downfall. He proves his bravery by taking any case he’s offered. No case is too big or too small, exceedingly daunting or miniscule.…

He is a black man who lives in the town of Maycomb, Alabama. Tom can be considered a good citizen. He does not steal, drink, curse, or look for any trouble. He is a working man looking to provide for his wife and kids. One day on Tom’s commute to work, Mayella Ewell asks Tom to help her move a wardrobe. Showing…

In her novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee describes the maturation of the protagonist’s brother, Jem, as he grows up in Maycomb County, Alabama, a town controlled by racism and hate. Over the course of the book, he faces several obstacles and challenges that cause him to let go of his naive mindset as an innocent ten-year-old and directly deal with the inherent discrimination among individuals in his community. Therefore, Lee’s novel is an example of a bildungsroman, or a book dealing with…

Ethical Reflections of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study In 1932, a long-term research project started in Macon, Alabama. The influence of the United States Public Health Service (PHS) mislead the Black residents of Tuskegee by offering treatments for Syphilis (a sexually transmitted disease). Without the public’s knowledge or discussion, U.S Public Health Service observed six hundred African-American men in order to understand the natural progression of untreated syphilis. Despite the development of…

really is. Heroism in about doing the right thing, no matter of the cost or who’s looking. In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, she explores heroism and what it really means to be a true hero. Lee’s novel is set in a small country town in Alabama in the 1930’s, it explores the adult attitudes towards race and social class through the eyes of a young girl, Scout. Through various charters in her novel, Lee touches on what qualities make up a true hero, whether violence and power is really…

In literature there is a strong presence of influence. Many who write are influenced by their surroundings such as friends, family, time period or location at the time of writing. The characters in said literature, assuming there are characters, are influenced by similar things. All of this is passed through the text and eventually influences the reader. An example of such literature is Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird.” In the Reading and writing of this book the author, characters and…

Atticus Finch, a distinctive character in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. The setting of this book takes place during the 1930s in Maycomb County, Alabama; In this period of time, the Jim Crow Laws still existed, especially in the South. The Jim Crow Laws were regulations that enforced the racial segregation between the blacks and whites. Besides this, the country was going through the Great Depression. This was the worst economic downturn in America. About 15 million Americans were…

other getting them into the truck. Once they are from the factory they are wiped down and shipped off to your local grocery store. In 2011, The State of Alabama signed off on a law enforcing…