Alexandra

To Kill a Mocking Bird Outline General Statement and Thesis: Harper Lee 's novel To Kill a Mockingbird establishes the theme of intolerance through the characters of Mr. Dolphus, Arthur Radley, Atticus, Scout, and the Ewells in Maycomb County. Lee paints a picture of how they do not fit the conventional frame of their gender, family, or their beliefs. These characters are oblivious to the Maycomb mentality, hence are not tolerated for the actions they demonstrate. Body Paragraph #1: Topic…

Racism is a big part in the world that will always be around in our society. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee shows how bad racism was in the 1930’s. The novel takes place during the Great Depression when colored people were looked down upon. The theme that social inequality and injustice exist in the world is developed throughout the novel. Lee’s artistically manifests this theme through the Finch family and Tom Robinson’s experience. To begin with, the theme of social…

An example of social inequality from the novel are the Cunninghams. Particularly, Walter Cunningham. Scout befriends Walter and asks Aunt Alexandra if he…

femininity; however, her Aunt Alexandra does not approve of her unladylike behavior. While Atticus shows indifference towards Scout’s tomboy-ish behavior, Aunt Alexandra makes it her mission to decimate Scout’s tomboy tendencies. Scout shares resentment towards being called a “girl,” always taking the word as an insult. By describing femininity as a penitentiary suggests that girlhood is like a prison that keeps her captive, suffocating her. At one point in the novel, Aunt Alexandra hosts…

Mockingbird’, you’ll see a lot of forms of reunion, coming of age, and love and sacrifice in many ways. You’ll not just see this physically, but mentally and spiritually as well. And you’ll see this happen in our characters Dill, Boo Radley, Aunt Alexandra, Jem, Scout,…

more easily recognized. However, examples of women with great strength appear as the novel progresses. Consequently, Scout realizes the hidden fortitude that women in her world have, specifically Calpurnia, Helen Robinson, Miss Maudie, and Aunt Alexandra. Each are faced with difficult situations in which it is easy to give up that strength and exchange it for self-pity. However, none do that and instead show Scout how to be a strong female. Scout recognizes this fortitude that she too can…

Racism. Sexism was a big problem back in the time of this story, but it is still a problem today. Too lead off, the first kind of prejudice is Sexism. One way sexism is used in this story is how Aunt Alexandra comments about how scout dresses and acts like a tom girl. This shows that Aunt Alexandra thinks there is a certain way a girl should dress and act. Next, Sexism is shown when the boys stop playing with her, and criticize her because…

Second form of discrimination that occurs in the story is social class. Scout encounters social discrimination when she asks Alexandra if she can play with Walter Cunningham and Aunt Alexandra replies with no “ The thing is, you can scrub Walter Cunningham till he shines, you can put him in shoes and a new suit, but he’ll never be like Jem.(224)” This confuses Scout as she only wanted to do the right thing and befriend Walter. Also because Walter is white. Scout realizes that Walter was…

The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Niffeneggeris is a story about a girl named Alexandra who has a passion for books and reading, and it takes place in Chicago Illinois. During the middle of the night Alexandra is wandering around. Until she comes upon the Night Bookmobile. She noticed a man, and this man name is Mr.Openshaw the librarian. Then she finds her own diary in the library, but all the books there look familiar. Until she realized that they were all hers. The next day she went back to the…

Alexandra is having a missionary circle meeting because she is very gregarious. Atticus calls her aside to tell her that Tom Robinson has been killed. After Atticus tells Aunt Alexandra the news, Scout determines “if Aunty could be a lady at a time like this, so could [she]” (Lee 318). Scout learns that she can act like a lady. She determines this because Aunt Alexandra maintains her composure even though a drastic event has occurred. Aunt Alexandra wants Scout to become more…