Alexandra

Good relationships are believed to be built on trust. And the thing with trust is when people meet each other, trust is already there until one does something to break it. Sarah’s key, The Secret Life of Bees, and To kill a Mockingbird are all books of wisdom that teach more about society and life than lessons of history. The thing that connects these books is the trust that the characters have for one another and especially their trust to the strangers that they newly meet. Trusting a stranger…

To call something timeless is to say it is never changing. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is a prime example, this piece of literature is something that stays with a reader throughout their entire life. To Kill a Mockingbird tackles many of the issues that are present in today’s society, issues, such as classism, and racism. Harper Lee also seamlessly incorporates a coming of age moment for each of the younger characters. To Kill a Mockingbird is considered timeless because it addresses the…

same things or talk to those who are higher than them and evidentially use racism as a way of protection of one’s self or their group whether it be family, race, religion, colour or status. This fear was presented in To Kill a Mockingbird when Aunt Alexandra did not allow Walter Cunningham, a friend of Scout’s to come over solely because he is lower than the Finch’s, Scout’s and Aunt Alexandra’s family name socially, in the town of Maycomb. Regardless of Scout’s constant whining and reasoning…

characters are treated, by Tom Robinson who embodies the theme, and by the choices the characters make which are influenced by discrimination and prejudice. People in Maycomb discriminate others for their social status, race, or how they behave. Aunt Alexandra is being prejudice towards Walter Cunningham Jr.…

In Harper Lee's coming-of-age novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, a number of citizens in the town of Maycomb are forced to live double lives. In order to fit in to the social norms of the town of Maycomb, they must hide their true selves and conform to ways that are not their own in order to be accepted. Calpurnia, the hired help in the Finch home, is an educated black woman. However, she tends to mask her intelligence within the Negro community. The next character is Mr. Dolphus Raymond. Mr. Raymond…

and dressing a certain way would have allowed women to be "proper" ladies. An example of a woman unlike the rest of the 1930s was the brazen, Miss Maudie from To Kill A Mockingbird, she was not the typical southern lady compared to women like Aunt Alexandra. She cared more about her azaleas and keeping away nut grass than men. To defy assumed roles for women she, was independent, spoke her mind, and admonished other women's mean gossip. Throughout the novel, Scout struggles to adapt to the group…

One long song, with diffuse sweetness and pain, an expression of happiness, a joy and promise of protection: "Come Sleep, sweet and light, come and get my baby, I give it little to you, bring it back great to me". Grandmother Alexandra, Christina and grandfather Vassilis When she was ready to lull me she started something like this: "Nani (sleep) my child now will do." I closed both eyes and I still hear her with 14 ears. When she stopped, I was telling her "grandmother again" and she…

The author, the History, and the Story The author’s personal experiences and the history of the worlds past are used as a literary masterpiece: from Khaled Hoessini’s The Kite Runner that tells of the last days of the Afghan monarchy in the 1970s to the post-Taliban near present or Markus Zuask’s exploration of the Holocaust in The Book Thief to Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird that tells a story by depicting life-altering events throughout his childhood. History is the study of change…

In the book, it is a normal life for Scout, how her and Jem were always playing around, going to school, just being kids. Sadly, that starts to change further in the middle of the book when it starts to go downhill. When she starts to realize that her race are not kind to colored people and how she starts to realize the older she gets the more family and friends want her dress and act more like a lady. But she didn’t see anything wrong, she was happy with herself. Toward the middle of the story,…

with all the attacks happening with ISIS. The government and any security want to protect their homeland and just after this event there is racism and stereotyping with those races. When Michael Brown was killed there was a lot of racial slurs. Alexandra Rosas said, “But when I read of this hate and anger toward people, purely based on a color difference, it takes me back to when I was a child. And it hurts when I'm forced to remember how I would let people say things to me that weren't kind,…