Cliff Lee

Harper Lee designs Jem and Scout to learn from their father, Atticus in her historical novel To Kill a Mockingbird. She uses the conflict of growing up during the Great Depression in the south, a place full of prejudice, which Atticus is trying to steer the kids away from, as he calls prejudice Maycomb’s disease. At the beginning of the novel the kids have very childlike thinking, a good example is thinking whoever lived in the rundown Radley house was evil, they assumed this based on the very…

Do rumors and gossip affect the judgement of other people? To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a book taught for many years that shows racial prejudice and follows Jean Louise Finch, known as Scout, as she learns things that influence her life. She hears tales about Boo (Arthur) Radley, who is supposedly a violent man who never leaves his house so she does not know if she should trust the stories or not. There are many events in the book that impact her understanding of Boo; from leaving the…

In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, It takes place in the depression area in a small town in Maycomb Alabama. In the time period, it was taken place in segregation was around still but the town had its own rules that allowed the coloreds to be unbothered only when a white man or woman needs help. The two characters that been seen changing throughout the story is Jem Finch, son of Atticus and brother of scout finch. His relationship with his family and others is a huge role in this…

The short film follows the themes of ‘instant karma’, ‘retribution’ and ‘bullying’ but as we see at the end of the film, the big bird has the last hurrah as we see at the end of the short film how the little birds are faced with instant comeuppance. However, since it’s an animated short film it is not so much the moral of the story that causes the impact but rather the technicalities that went into to telling the big bird’s story. For the Birds is the story of, a bird that is different to the…

Jerry Spinelli, the author of the audio biography Knots in my Yo-Yo String is very much like me. As a young child he has known as “perfect”. Though he learned that maybe all the time he doesn’t have to be perfect. I’ve been living with this same knot in my life for a very long time, probable since I was six. It all started when I wouldn’t color outside the lines of coloring pages, my room had to be my way, neat and tidy, and whatever I was doing it was my way. Throughout my life as I grow up…

Monsters in our Closets When we are young, our parents come into our room and tell us to calm down, there is no monster in our closet, nor is there one under our bed. But what they never told us is that we are actually living amongst the monsters. In the book “Island of Dr. Moreau”, we see many different types of monsters: a) the cliché monster, the monster little kids fear, and b) the monster that lives amongst us in society that we don’t notice until it’s too late, the monsters adults fear. In…

warmth and humor, despite dealing with serious issues of rape and racial inequality. To kill a mockingbird is unusual because it is both an examination of racism and a bildungsroman. Within the framework of a coming-of-age story, lee examines a very serious social problem. Lee seamlessly blends these two very different kinds of stories. It deals prejudice; civil rights; racism; defining bravery; maturity; feminine vs. masculine; women's roles in the south; effects of the mob mentality;…

While reading the article, “Andrew and Hannah”, by Pamela Colloff, the one thing I was kept thinking was that all this evidence was very circumstantial. Every piece of evidence they were holding against hannah made no sense, and they could not make scario that fit Hannah’s personality. I do firmly believe that Hannah is innocent meaning that she did not kill her son, but unfortunately she was found guilty by a judge and jury. This made me very upset and I feel deeply sorry that hannah had to go…

recluse in the town. He needs to be defended because he is anti-social, he stays inside his house and is mocked by everyone in Maycomb. Scout Louise Finch needs to be protected because she is young, a girl, and daughter of Atticus Finch, a lawyer. Harper Lee examines the importance of protecting the vulnerable members of society, as is shown through the characters of Tom Robinson, Arthur…

To be honest I was a little bit confused by this story. I assumed that because it was set on June 27th 1948 that the story would be about the Berlin Airlift, because that was the day that it opened. But it was really about a small town of around three hundred people on the day of the lottery. every man picks a slip of paper and the one with a black spot on it has to have their entire family draw from the papers, including that of the black spot. whoever has it get’s “stoned.” In the case of this…