Charles Lee

crashing down on her afterwards," (Lee 90). By clearly identifying the races of the two people involved in the case, Mayella being white and Tom Robinson being black, Atticus is illustrating the importance of race in Maycomb County Alabama. By including the clarification of "in our society", Lee identifies that Atticus does not agree with his own statement. If that phrase had been left out, it would have implied that the statement were true anywhere, but by specifying, Lee gives the sense of…

Prejudice In the Society of Maycomb County “Prejudice is a learned trait. You’re not born prejudiced; you’re taught it.” Charles R. Swindoll once said. This quote relates to the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, because we see how racism in society influences the kids. Jem, Scout, and even Dill realize how the people of Maycomb treat others who are different than them. The kids understand how prejudice impacts people’s everyday lives. Scout experiences some prejudice herself, and so…

last form of discrimination is against poor people like the Cunningham 's and even the Ewells who were viewed as less than human but more like dirty, wild animals and were not qualified to receive the town 's respect. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee reveals the many ways discriminated was used against the innocence in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama in the…

collage, we covered many of the characters in the story and show how they affected the story. The characters that we represented are Scout (Jean Louise Finch), Jem (Jeremy Atticus Finch), Atticus Finch, Arthur "Boo" Radley, Dill (Charles Baker Harris), Bob Ewell (Robert E. Lee Ewell), Calpurnia, Aunt Alexandra, Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose, and Tom Robinson. The Finch family is the most involved family of the novel. Scout is the main character, the narrator, and the protagonist of the novel.…

As Jean Finch or in other words Scout narrates the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, she creates a unique perspective on how she see’s everything. The book starts off when Jean is six in the 1930’s, yet her narration makes her seem like she embodies the wisdom of an adult. This is unusually since most of the kids in Jeans first grade class have been held back and still can’t read. Jean then starts off giving a little background information about her life and makes the reader conclude…

In class we are reading, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. It is a masterpiece of American literature, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1961. So far in the novel, we are introduced to a small number of families, one of whom is the Finch’s. In the Finch family, there are two children, Scout and Jem. Scout has just started school, at first not wanting to go back. After some convincing by Atticus, she reached a compromise to return to school. Atticus is the father of the two, widowed when his…

with a flashback of the event when Jem was thirteen and broke his arm, the narrator (Scout) and her brother Jem recall the series of events that lead to his broken arm. Jem who is older than Scout by four years said “It began the summer Dill came” (Lee 1). Dill…

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.” (Charles Darwin). To Kill A Mocking Bird depicts an innocent story of childhood curiosity. With the coming of age and the world changing around them their view on life alters. In the past Jem and Scout would play games together along with their friend Dill. But as they got older Jem begins to change while Scout stays her childish self. We…

'Courage ' is a word that should not be used carelessly. To show courage one must be bold. It is to stand firmly for what you believe in when everyone has turned against you. Courage is a rare trait that is not commonly found in many people. In Harper Lee 's novel, "To Kill A Mockingbird" it shows that a person can be courageous in many different forms in almost any situation. The characters who display this feature in the novel are Jeremy "Jem" Atticus Finch, Arthur "Boo" Radley and Atticus…

is usually seen as brave, but it actually suggests quite the opposite. As Charles Dickens remarks, it’s cowardly to avoid doing the right thing, and fighting with others definitely doesn’t count as right. Walking away from confrontation actually takes more courage than participating in conflict. Atticus and Scout, two characters from Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, realize that courage walks hand in hand with peace. Lee suggests that the most courageous people often win their battles…