Harper Lee's Description of Maycomb in To Kill a Mockingbird Essay

Author and founder of Teach For All, Wendy Kopp, once stated, “We must broaden the definition of who our neighbors are, and extend the boundaries of our interest and empathy.” By saying this, Kopp hopes that we, as the readers, will understand that in order for us to be able to empathize with our neighbors, we must become familiar with their situations. Doing so gives one the chance to think through events in their personal timeline, while learning of their neighbors problem, to see if they are…

Harper Lee’s classic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, depicts different themes and topics that are still important and relevant to today’s society. To Kill a Mockingbird has themes such as prejudice, growing up, and bravery and uses those topics to teach humanity a variety of lessons. Boo Radley and Tom Robinson both face extreme prejudice; one has been forced to be a shut in ever since he was young and another got sent to Death simply for his skin while Scout and Jem show their gradual loss of…

merely fluid prejudice.” This quote illustrates how the world's history is based upon prejudice. During the Great Depression, many people were discriminated against including women, blacks and people of different social classes. Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, many characters have to undergo the unjust treatment of gender, racial and social prejudice. For 3 years the story follows a small girl named Scout from Alabama. The novel is about Scout and her brother Jem discovering the many…

group, a race, or their supposed characteristics.” Based on the definition of prejudice that was recently stated in Harper Lee’s book, To Kill a Mockingbird, we see a variety of characters dealing with prejudice judgement and forms of discrimination. By taking a look at the treatment of the the sickly minded and the darker toned people in To Kill a Mockingbird’s own small town, Maycomb, we can see the victimization of them caused by the prejudice town members. The neighbor who the pesky kids…

In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, there was one character that Lee made sympathetic to the audience in a latent way. That character is Mayella Ewell. Mayella Ewell is the oldest daughter of Robert Lee Ewell. One of the ways Lee made Mayella Ewell sympathetic was by before introducing her in the storyline, Lee described Mayella's family situation in brief excerpts. As well as introducing one of her younger siblings that gave a clue on how the family’s behavior is like. So instead of…

Someone’s personal identity by can change a great deal over the course of a life. In the case of Harper Lee’s Scout Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout’s personal identity does exactly that, Scouts personal identity changes many times during this book in the beginning she was very gullible and believed anyone no matter what they said. In the middle of the book scout started to finally ask more questions from the source and she started to get her answers from the right people. Near the end of…

venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear or difficulty.” In Harper Lee’s To Kill a mockingbird, Scout Finch retells her nostalgic childhood in which her lawyer father decided to defend a black man during the great depression where racism was still very evident in the south. Courage was portrayed by multiple different characters throughout the story. Many unexpected characters show acts of courage in Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Courage was well portrayed by Atticus going to the jail to…

surface, while others shake their heads, their eyes too blinded by hate and fear to see the reality of the situation. In the critically-acclaimed novel To Kill a Mocking Bird, written by the masterful Harper Lee, one of the most prevalent themes incorporated within, is the concept of illusion versus reality. Set in a small town in southern Alabama, To Kill a Mocking Bird tells the enthralling tale of a moralistic lawyer named Atticus Finch and his decision to defend a Negro man being prosecuted…

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee tells the story of a trial of a black man named Tom Robinson in the Alabama town of Maycomb during the Great Depression. Tom Robinson, despite being innocent of the crime of which he is accused, is convicted. Lee uses this event as well as others to discuss the nature of prejudice and racism. Other forms of discrimination discussed in the novel are sexism and classism. Scout, the daughter of Tom Robinson’s lawyer, Atticus, is ridiculed for her…

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