Harper Lee

Mockingbird, Harper Lee tells the story of a young white girl growing up in Maycomb, Alabama who is forced by circumstance to experience the racial injustice of her town. Throughout the novel, Scout struggles as a child in her situation with understanding prejudice and the good and evil in people. She begins the novel naive to the hatred and unfairness of the world, but by the end of the novel her childlike idealism is gone and she understands how the no situation is black or white. Lee uses the…

gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird”(Lee 119). In To Kill a Mockingbird, the mockingbird was Tom Robinson. The town of Maycomb committed the crime of killing the mockingbird when Tom was wrongfully accused of a crime he didn’t do. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee displays prejudice and injustice through the court case of Tom Robinson. Injustice and inequality play a huge role in Maycomb, it…

In Harper Lee’s, To Kill A Mockingbird Jem and Scout are negatively influenced by Dill, a dynamic character who represents childhood. As Dill comes over during the summer Jem and Scout are pressured to do childish things that exhibit immaturity and irresponsibility. The peer pressure from Dill effect Jem and Scout’s decision making process, and pushes them to commit rebellious acts that go against Atticus’, their father, moral values and teachings. To Kill A Mockingbird first starts with a…

have a huge impact on your life, just like courage. Fear can have a negative impact on your life but that fear drives courage. Bethany Hamilton was explaining how you need fear to get through life's scariest challenges. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows how one's courage can change the way they look at people and what they go through. Boo Radley has been a fear of Maycomb for a long time. Every citizen of Maycomb is scared of Boo so he stays locked inside his house all day. The…

Discrimination has been a problem throughout society for many years. As shown in the book To Kill A Mockingbird written by Harper Lee and the movie The Help directed by Tate Taylor, discrimination can affect people of all ages. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird the narrator, Scout, is a young girl that lives in Maycomb, Alabama during the 1930’s. Scout lives with her older brother Jem, her father Atticus and Calpurnia their maid. Maycomb is a small southern town surrounded with…

I am reading, “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee. We learn that Atticus, Scout’s father, is defending a black man in court, despite the towns disdain. Bit by bit we see how the case is slowly affecting the family and we get to know a bit more about other characters, including Alexandra, Calpurnia, and Mrs. Dubose. In this journal I will be characterizing Atticus and evaluating why I believe Cal is a good mother. Starting off, I will be characterizing Atticus. Ethical is a word I feel suits…

Throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the theme of Ignorance causing people to come up with false conclusions is revealed many times. When people let their ignorance control what they think of other people, that can cause them to be telling other people insulting comments based purely on what they think and know. They never truly express real emotion because they speak on what they know. An important event in the middle of the text that develops the theme is when Dill leaves…

what others think you are.” This quote, made by John Wooden, accurately describes what parents in our society would want to tell their children from a young age; the age at which a child’s mind can still be influenced. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee is trying to convey that parental discipline and support in a child’s life is crucial to a child’s identity. Atticus, teaches his children: Jem and Scout, valuable character traits throughout the novel which aid them with their personality…

Loss and suffering is inevitable. Loss of innocence is a natural part of life, especially when innocence is lost. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Maycomb County is home to several innocent characters who suffer from painful realities. Innocence according to Merriam Webster Dictionary means freedom from guilt or sin through being unacquainted with evil, freedom from legal guilt or a particular crime or offense, freedom from guile or cunning, lack of worldly experience or…

Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird is a novel that is bigger than solely entertainment value. Harper Lee brings you to a fictional town that's residents have very significant differences. The readers learn to meet and love Atticus Finch's two kids Jem and Scout. The also hears about the infamous Bob Ewell who is always trying to harm others for personal benefit. The kids learn many things over the course of the book from their father, Atticus, who us a very well respected man in Maycomb. Jem and…