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The Unknown Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel filled with the persecution of innocent people represented as mockingbirds. The Author, Harper Lee, created a community of people who are persecuted, judged, and attacked despite their innocence. Lee uses the mockingbird as a symbol of innocence. In the book she says mockingbirds are innocent and commit no evil act. The birds only sing their songs for people to hear. The people of Maycomb are no exception, they live out their days…

children had to stay outside because they didn’t want to risk being trapped in the house if the fire spread. The children were freezing and Boo didn’t want to see them freeze outside of his house so he decided to bring them blankets and that’s when Atticus states, [a]“You’re right. We’d better keep this and the blanket to ourselves. Someday, maybe, Scout can thank him for covering her up...you were so busy looking at the fire you didn’t know when he put the blanket around you” (81). This…

character is being courageous, however Atticus Finch beholds the most courageous acts in the book. Atticus Finch, a lawyer and father to Jem and Scout, takes upon numerous acts of courage from shooting a mad dog to defending an African American male accused of rape during a time where cruel racism was common. Atticus takes the role as having the most courage by protecting his entire family. In the novel, Atticus finds…

values, and standard gender roles of girls (and boys) have been very common in the United States, especially in the American South. Written by Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird is a classic tale of two kids, Jem and Scout, along with their father, Atticus, living in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama. Living in a town with prejudice and discrimination toward many different groups in particular females. This makes it incredibly difficult for Scout to find her place in society because she’s a…

Mockingbird is a story about two young children with a wide range of maturity and imagination. The setting takes place in Maycomb, Alabama in the summertime ending quickly. There is a little girl named Scout and her older brother named Jem. Their father is Atticus Finch who is an attorney and state legislator for Maycomb. The book opens up about an incident when the kids met Dill who comes in for the summer and spends it with their next door neighbor, his aunt. In the incident, Jem breaks his…

Both Maya Angelou and Lawrence Ferlinghetti explore the idea of inequality in their poems ‘Caged Bird’ and ‘Two Scavengers in a Truck Two beautiful people in a Mercedes’ respectively. Angelou explores the inequality between black and white people by comparing and contrasting a free bird to a ‘caged bird’ while Ferlinghetti describes inequality between the rich and poor by comparing a wealthy couple with a couple of garbage men. ‘Caged Bird’ is written in response to the civil rights act, with…

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a movie filmed in 1975 based on Ken Kesey’s same named book. The movie is about the conflict between the two main characters Randle McMurphy and Nurse Ratched. McMurphy is a criminal who is guilty of raping a fifteen year old girl and pretends to be insane so that he can escape from his punishment. In the asylum he meets people who are going to change his life and also he is going to change their lives. The movie has lots of hidden meanings. They are about…

Courage is when you are willing to do something above your comfort zone to show what you’re made of. In a novel, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred D. Taylor uses an example of a young girl named Cassie Logan , who is colored, that must stand up for her convictions despite many injustices against her and her family. Cassie proves her courage by protecting her little brother Little Man from getting in big trouble, facing her white enemy Lillian Jean Simms, and being helpful to T.J despite his…

mocking bird, Lee creates multiple well-developed characters, but Scout and Atticus finch most clearly portray conflict, human condition, and theme. Lee creates many well-developed characters that contribute to the story. Chracters like Atticus, Scout, Jem, and Boo Radley are just some of them. Lee brings the story to life through her chracters. Scout, the narrator of the story, sister of Jem, and daughter of Atticus. Atticus, the wise father of Jem and Scout. Jem, the older brother of Scout.…

Honor is given to those who follow the domain’s moral cowardice, the conspicuous, howbeit, have lost all honor by those who are followers. One of the most prominent themes in To Kill a Mockingbird is lost honor. Honor means to have high respect and Mr. Dolphus Raymond lost his respect when he professed to love a colored woman, have mixed children with her, and chose to be surrounded by those who don’t share the same skin color as him. “He’s got a colored woman and all sorts of mixed chillun”…