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in racial profiling, which correlates to the trial of Tom Robinson in “To Kill a Mockingbird.” A historical example of racism in the Southern United States was the trial of the Scottsboro Boys. Harper Lee also expresses these racist beliefs through Aunt Alexandra’s social status in Maycomb. Finally, Harper Lee uses “Universes of Obligation” to describe the community of Maycomb; during the depression era, particularly in the South, tensions between the lower white class and the working Negro…

remember why it happened and tries to think of roses. Moreover, the author mentions a more direct, clear death in the story: Aunt Julia. Therefore, appropriately named, the title indicates a morbid, sorrow filled, and melancholy interpretation of death. That is, at least two deaths confirmed in the story: Michael Furay and Aunt Julia, whom Gabriel were to console his remaining aunt. Besides, throughout the last lines in the second paragraph, the author additionally develops Gabriel’s character…

Frank L. Baum's novel The Wizard of Oz teaches Dorothy Gale, the main protagonist, a good lesson on the importance of home. Dorothy lives on a gray farm in Kansas with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry, along with her dog Toto. After being taken away from her home, Dorothy learns that there are many places you will go but nothing can compare to the safety of your own home. Dorothy meets friends along the way in her journey through the magical land called Oz. Dorothy's journeys bring about new…

like Miss Maudie, rarely dressed in dresses, and dressed in overalls more often. Another female influence Scout had was her Aunt Alexandra. Unlike Calpurnia and Miss Maudie, Aunt Alexandra refers to Scout by her real name Jean Louise. When Scout’s aunt Alexandra comes and stays with them she disapproves of Scout’s choice in clothing and in her actions. Scout is asked by her aunt Alexandra why she doesn’t wear dresses and responds by saying that she,”could do nothing in a dress”(Lee…

wished to become all along. As well as to prove the absurdity of the traditional female expectation. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout is a young female who wishes to enjoy childhood. Instead, she is held up to the southern female expectation by her Aunt Alexandra. In the novel, her brother Jem makes Scout feel as if being a female was a bad thing, while the church women…

person was her Aunt Michelle. “Shhh calm down everything’s going to be okay just calm down” soothed…

to be. This results in Scout and Jem looking at Boo Radley in a different way. (Chapter 8 Question 4) The metaphor that Aunt Alexandra uses to describe the role that Scout should play in her father’s life because she is a girl is, “…she said I wasn’t supposed to be doing things that required pants” (Lee 108). Her repeating this to her every time she sees her shows us that Aunt Alexandra wants Scout to be more…

change their traditions. The stories protagonist, Jean Louise Finch is flabbergasted to find that such resistance is in her home town of Maycomb, Alabama. Harper Lee expresses change through Jean Louise viewing her family and friends, Atticus, Hank, and Aunt Alexandra, and how they differ from her childhood memories.…

The narrator’s mother told her the story of her aunt because she does not want the narrator to be like her, having illegitimate child with some other male that is not her lawful husband, which is a disgrace to the family. Because of she ruin the name of her family, the family deny the existence of her and pretend that her aunt were never born at all. The stories compose a lot of facts about Chinese culture and their value, and those values…

There are things that no child should ever have to go through; but yet I was one of the many children that did have to struggle through it. My childhood was not at all easy. I had bounced from place to place and experienced different influences, some good and yet some bad. My father was never really in the picture. Although I did ask my family about him, but none of them had anything nice to say. I can’t even recall that I ever met him. That was at least until I was ten years old and he was…