Edgar Lee Masters

Murder on a Sunday Morning is a documentary that shows the problem in our judicial system concerning the juvenile being accused of a crime. This documentary follows the trial of 15-year-old Brendon Butler from Defense attorney Patrick McGuinness’s and Ann Finnell point of view as he works to prove Butler innocence. This case became America most misleading Cassie's because of its lack of evidence on Mr Butler Butler. This accident took place on May 17, 2000, out of Jacksonville Florida many…

My kids thought that I was useless. I couldn’t do anything. I wasn’t as cool as the other dads around town. I knew that I was old. I knew that my kids thought I couldn’t do anything and I had no special talents. I knew. “He was much older than the parents of our school contemporaries, and there was nothing Jem and I could say about him when our classmates said, ‘My father-’,” said Scout. My children said that I didn’t do anything. I worked in the office and not in the drugstore. I didn’t drive…

siblings, Alexandra and Jeremy (Lee 5). Atticus Finch is an excellent lawyer. Scout says he “went to Montgomery to read law” (Lee 5) at the beginning of the 1900s. He then marries and has two children, Scout and Jem. Unfortunately, his wife “died from a sudden heart attack” (Lee 7), and he raises Scout and Jem by himself. Scout always compliments Atticus for being an excellent father.…

In the To Kill A Mockingbird novel, it appoints white and colored issues from that time through the whole book. One of the problems in the novel was in trails, colored people do not receive fair treatment. Even if the person is truly guilty and they do not exactly have any way to show otherwise, if they are colored, the verdict is guilty. Tom Robinson was not guilty, but because of his color, he stood no chance of winning the trial. White people thought that all blacks were terrible and less…

During the morally challenging novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, by the incredibly creative Harper Lee, Charles Baker Harris (Dill) represents his place as the most important character through his repetitive instances of curiosity and how that influences the children to desire to interact with Arthur (Boo) Radley. To commence, Dill's curiosity first makes its appearance when Dill first discovered the Radley house. This is established early in the book when Scout and Jem, children in the neighborhood…

innocent people do not realize how innocent they are until they lose their innocence. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee three innocent characters lose their innocent as young children. She brilliantly crafts her novel to keep the reader interested and make them feel like he or she is apart of the story itself. She uses this with imagery and her own personal experiences. Lee experienced a rape case within her hometown and uses that experiences to help her write how the characters feel. She…

Historical Appreciation Project: In the Heat of the Night Fifty years ago, as the Civil Rights Movement gained momentum, activists protested across the deep South, and tensions rose between black demonstrators and the police. During this time, John Ball wrote his first book. It was a murder mystery set in a small Carolina town. The crime-solving detective of Ball’s novel was Virgil Tibbs, an famed homicide detective from Pasadena, California, who happened to be passing through the area on the…

A. Attention Getter: I know the majority of the class are thinking, “Oh no, is that a cricket ball? Anything, but that lame sport.” I bet everyone would rather watch the Cleveland Browns lose to a high school football team or even watch Donald Trump play golf for the whole day than watch a single boring cricket game. B. Reason to Listen: It has become a meme to insult the sport of cricket, and rightfully so. Cricket is not popular sport in America, and it will never be accepted as a major…

father in the novel To Kill a Mocking Bird. Throughout the novel, Atticus is shown as an exemplary father through his beliefs, teaching, affection and honesty. The author, Harper Lee is Scout Finch in this novel. The author wanted to show the audience how her father was. What I found significant in this novel is how Harper Lee shows her life through this novel. In the future, I will try to interpret my life in essays or short stories when…

In Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, discrimination is a big issue throughout the play. There is not only discrimination against African Americans, but also against cripples and the mentally disabled. Discrimination is one of the main causes of loneliness, which makes it an important aspect when it comes to the theme of this novel. At the ranch, they have a stable buck named Crooks. Crooks is a crippled African American man and he has been working on the ranch for many years. Since he’s…