Annabel Lee

The Premise Forrest Gump is a movie detailing the life of an Alabama born man with a low I.Q. In a very realistic fashion, the audience follows Forrest as he grows through his life. Although the movie is a simplistic picture of the life of a single man, it also somewhat satirically details many of the events the fictional character would have lived through and provides a life-like picture of many people with psychological disorders in the acquaintances Forrest makes through his adventures. One…

D. REVIEW OF RELATED STUDIES 1. SCREAMING THROUGH SILENCE: THE VIOLENCE OF RACE IN “INDIAN CAMP” AND “THE DOCTOR AND THE DOCTOR’S WIFE” by Amy Strong, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1996 The focus in this journal article will be on the lack of an Indian (rather than Africanist) presence, Amy explores the ways Hemingway negotiates the matter of "race" and racial difference in two short stories from In Our Time. Her work will center on two of Hemingway’s earliest short stories,…

Harper Lee was a very bright child and adult. "Lee was the youngest of Frances Finch and Amasa Coleman Lee's four children. Her father, a financial adviser, lawyer, newspaper owner, state legislator, and successful businessman, moved to Monroeville in 1912 with his wife and first child, Alice" (Ashburn). Throughout her book To Kill a Mockingbird, there are many characters and elements that reflect her personal life. Harper Lee based the book mostly off of people from…

I love the world that I live in, but sometimes I hate the people who live in it. To start off, I am partially guilty of being one of those people I despise because if you read my previous article you know that I did drive a car and I did leave a car in the jungle. I suppose I meet criminal standards for that. If anyone asks if my story about the jungle car is true I might even deny it; I am that bad. But I am on the bottom of the feeding chain when it comes to my contribution to pollution. I…

Harper Lee designs Jem and Scout to learn from their father, Atticus in her historical novel To Kill a Mockingbird. She uses the conflict of growing up during the Great Depression in the south, a place full of prejudice, which Atticus is trying to steer the kids away from, as he calls prejudice Maycomb’s disease. At the beginning of the novel the kids have very childlike thinking, a good example is thinking whoever lived in the rundown Radley house was evil, they assumed this based on the very…

Do rumors and gossip affect the judgement of other people? To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a book taught for many years that shows racial prejudice and follows Jean Louise Finch, known as Scout, as she learns things that influence her life. She hears tales about Boo (Arthur) Radley, who is supposedly a violent man who never leaves his house so she does not know if she should trust the stories or not. There are many events in the book that impact her understanding of Boo; from leaving the…

In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, It takes place in the depression area in a small town in Maycomb Alabama. In the time period, it was taken place in segregation was around still but the town had its own rules that allowed the coloreds to be unbothered only when a white man or woman needs help. The two characters that been seen changing throughout the story is Jem Finch, son of Atticus and brother of scout finch. His relationship with his family and others is a huge role in this…

The short film follows the themes of ‘instant karma’, ‘retribution’ and ‘bullying’ but as we see at the end of the film, the big bird has the last hurrah as we see at the end of the short film how the little birds are faced with instant comeuppance. However, since it’s an animated short film it is not so much the moral of the story that causes the impact but rather the technicalities that went into to telling the big bird’s story. For the Birds is the story of, a bird that is different to the…

Jerry Spinelli, the author of the audio biography Knots in my Yo-Yo String is very much like me. As a young child he has known as “perfect”. Though he learned that maybe all the time he doesn’t have to be perfect. I’ve been living with this same knot in my life for a very long time, probable since I was six. It all started when I wouldn’t color outside the lines of coloring pages, my room had to be my way, neat and tidy, and whatever I was doing it was my way. Throughout my life as I grow up…

Monsters in our Closets When we are young, our parents come into our room and tell us to calm down, there is no monster in our closet, nor is there one under our bed. But what they never told us is that we are actually living amongst the monsters. In the book “Island of Dr. Moreau”, we see many different types of monsters: a) the cliché monster, the monster little kids fear, and b) the monster that lives amongst us in society that we don’t notice until it’s too late, the monsters adults fear. In…