Charles Lee

of this is how she address Jem, the 10 year old son of Atticus Finch. Calpurnia says, “Hush your mouth, sir! When you oughta be hangin' your head in shame you go along laughin'. If Mr. Finch doesn't wear you out, I will - get in that house, sir!" (Lee 211) She addresses Jem as “sir”, a term reserved for someone in a place of authority or respect. Another example that indicates Calpurnia’s position in the Finch family is that she sits in the backseat of Atticus’s car instead of the front…

Throughout the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, the worst parts of human nature is demonstrated. The lynch mob had gone to the jailhouse to punish Tom Robinson themselve. One member of the mob stated, “You know what we want. Get aside from the door, Mr.Finch” (Lee 202). They had wanted to kill Tom Robinson because they found him guilty of raping Mayella Ewell based on the colour of his skin. Also, Body 1: The worst parts of human nature are demonstrated throughout the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird,…

world. He’s holed up inside his house throughout virtually the entire story. He shows the effects of isolationism. “The doors of the Radley house were closed on weekdays as well as Sundays, and Mr. Radley’s boy was not seen again for fifteen years” (Lee 13). Boo made a small mistake with friends, and ended up being isolated for most of his later years. In isolation, he had to face rumors and ridicule about what he’s done and who he is. Scout, Jem, and even the adults of the town, treat him…

Cunningham Finch Lee (Flanchman). The main character’s family name of Finch is easy to spot, but several other characters claim their title from this, including Scout’s rotten cousin Francis and the Cunningham family. Lee followed a similar rule with Scout and Jem’s father, Atticus. Not only is his name very similar to her own father’s first name of Amasa, but his character corresponds with him as well. Amasa Lee and Atticus Finch are quite literally cut from the same cloth. Harper Lee…

may do this to sway someone else’s opinion. Additionally, to make an impression, one masks her true identity. The first impression is often the most trivial, which is why one feels as if she must change herself. In the novel, Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, Pip and his brother-in-law, Joe, prepare to visit Miss Havisham. Joe and Pip are both considered “common”, while Miss Havisham…

me.” While he was a college student, he played a part in the civil rights movement and went to campaigns for social justice. He often spoke and wrote about being against cultural oppression, racism, and sexism. Gould got married in 1965 to Deborah Lee. They met at Antioch College when they were both students. Together they had two sons, Jesse and Ethan. After their divorce he married Rhonda Roland Shearer in 1995. He became the stepfather to her two children, Jade and London Allen. Stephan was a…

In the fall of 1963, writer Stan Lee created a comic about a fictional team of superheroes with incredible powers known as the X-Men. Since the first comic appeared there have been ongoing spin-offs created, and to this day over 400 issues of X-Men comics exist each with an abundance of volumes. The first X-Men movie came out in the year 2000 and the worldwide franchise has not stopped growing. A total of seven movies have been released, the latest being X-Men: Days of Future Past, and X-Men:…

Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee, there is a lot of intolerance for a small, quiet town they live in and it’s very hard for the people in the town to defeat the it and the use of it. The town of Maycomb is a very old and very small, everyone knew everyone. The town is very discriminative, so when an African American man is charged with raping a white girl, the whole town turns against him. Even though the town hasn’t even heard his part of what really happened. Because Lee creating the pattern…

understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”(Lee 39). To Kill a Mockingbird shows its true meaning in every character. The novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, tells a story of two siblings, Jean Louise Finch (a.k.a Scout) and Jeremy Atticus Finch (a.k.a Jem), plus their friend, Charles Baker Harris (a.k.a Dill), during their summer adventures. In the novel, they make many assumptions about a strange,…

The ideas and subjects expressed in Edgar Allan Poe’s works are a reflection of his life and times. Poe, the widely known author of “Annabel Lee,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,” and “The Raven” married his wife Virginia in 1836 (Poe/Bio 1). He loved her very much, and it is said that he based some of his stories on their affection (Poe/Bio). Sadly, his wife died in 1847 of tuberculosis, and “Poe became increasingly depressed and erratic” though he still continued writing (Britannica 1). Many considered…