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Mockingbird because Lee suggests that killing something that only does good, and causes no harm, is prejudicial. To Kill a Mockingbird, by author Harper Lee, is a novel centered around a black man accused of raping a white woman. The narrator is a young girl named Scout who has a brother named Jem and her dad, Atticus, is a lawyer. In this novel, Harper Lee focuses on the meaning of the mockingbird: it is pleasing to us and does no harm. Characters in To Kill a Mockingbird have very similar…

“Courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”(149) In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird Jem and Scout learn what it truly means to be courageous. They put up with the racism and the hate they get throughout the story. Atticus teaches them throughout the novel to be empathetic of people. The novel To Kill A Mockingbird uses characters and conflict to display the theme that racism needs to be overcome to create a fair society.…

“To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, Tom Robinson and Arthur (Boo) Radley can be seen as significant characters of symbolism of “mockingbirds”. These characters become important in adding literary value to the book as they are examples of symbolism. Their significance connects to the title of the novel and encompasses the main theme and moral of the novel. Harper Lee illustrates Boo Radley and Tom Robinson as “mockingbirds” through events in the book. Innocence, vulnerability and injustices…

kids impact their life in any ways. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a novel taken place in a small town of Maycomb Alabama. Atticus finch father of Jem and Scout Finch is a lawyer. Atticus defends a black man Tom Robinson in court case. Tom is charged with raping Mayella Ewell. It turns out that Mayella's father Bob ewell raped her not Tom but Tom was accused because he was a black man. the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee uses characterization to show how the way children are…

Mockingbird”, Harper Lee incorporates many such coming of age themes. These include; it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird; life is unfair; it's polite to be ladylike; and never giving up. In the final chapters of the book, the theme: There is always more to a person when you see the world through their perspective, became more prevalent. By the end of the book, Scout and Jem find themselves in their longest journey together facing Bob Ewell. Scout and Jem were attacked by Bob Ewell because Bob…

others based on their appearance and actions. Harper Lee speaks out about this problem in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird, where she thematically discusses how to understand others and their perspective. Scout, the protagonist and nostalgic adult looking back on her childhood, recalls events that led up to her brother’s broken elbow. Throughout the novel, she looks back and “discuss[es] the events” that led up to the “accident.” As Scout matures, Harper Lee’s lesson of understanding perspective…

Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is during the great depression and takes place in Maycomb county, Alabama. It follows the lives of Scout, her brother Jem, and her father Atticus and the problems they faced during the rough time. They have to deal with a court case that stirs up racism in their small, pleasant town. The case affects their lives for the better and for the worse and helps guide who they will become when they grow up. The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee uses…

The antagonist, Bob Ewell, is a poor white man with a loud and highly expressed personality in the novel. He does not suffer at the hand of racism, and instead implants it in the town to degrade the black population. Tom, a black man, is accused of raping Bob Ewell’s daughter and in court explains what he swears to have happened the day and exposes his darkest side. When responding to his attorney he declares ““—I seen that black n***** yonder ruttin’ on my Mayella!” (Lee 173). Bob Ewell chose…

what we’re like without actually ever knowing who they actually are. In extreme situations these people could take the weight of another person's actions. Resulting in someone else paying the time for their crime. In the book To Kill the Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows that even the innocent will be judged and prosecuted by the guilty. Arthur Radley, or better known as Boo, was the first example of amiss depiction. Boo was a complete mystery, so people started making stories and spreading rumors.…

Mockingbird is about the experiences that the two main characters, both children, one girl and one boy, go through to learn what exactly their father means by “you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them (Lee 283). Harper Lee examines the qualities of human nature through a child’s perspective to develop the theme of virtue vs. immorality. The children’s encounters with virtuous people, their contacts with immoral people, and the effects of others on the…