Harper Lee

essence, banished into his own home. Scout tells readers at the beginning of the novel. There was no evidence showing that Boo deserved to be locked up in his house, nonetheless, that was how life was for Boo. Through the symbol of a mockingbird, Harper Lee was able to demonstrate her theme of innocence and how people, for one reason or another, just can't help themselves when they take "shots" at innocent…

sixteenth president of the United States of America, Abraham Lincoln, explained that "[w]hatever you are, be a good one." Lincoln was implying that no matter what skin color you are, you should be the best you can be and be fair to all. Unfortunately, in Harper Lee's To Kill Mockingbird, Tom Robinson, a black man, faces prejudice, because the white men in the jury cannot be their best selves and vote fairly. Though he did not rape Mayella Ewell, a poor white woman, the people of Maycomb county…

Coming of age of is a process that involves a deep understanding and compassion of conflict from others perspective. In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, Jem provides a clear example of this after learning the truth about Mrs Dubose and her situation. Harper Lee uses the literary elements of character, symbolism and point of view to show Jems coming of age after learning the circumstances surrounding Mrs. Dubose death. Jem’s tolerance of Mrs. Dubose character changes as he learns more about…

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one 's ignorance” -Confucius. In To kill a Mockingbird, penned by Harper Lee, ignorance is impossible to eradicate completely and can simply only be clouded by visions of a happier place. To even come close to eradicating ignorance we must follow the three steps; question the views of society, deny the existence of ignorance and recognize its harmful effects. Step one is to see how society feeds these thoughts through generations of racism and unequal…

People will always be judged regardless of race, gender or any other factor and the thing that can be done to change this is changing perspective. This is shown throughout the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, as Jem and Scout explore multiple perspectives to help them understand different people. They are forced to deal with mature topics at young ages as their father, Atticus, defends a negro man in a rape trial where he is accused by a white man. This is controversial in their…

To Kill a Mockingbird In 2009, the Sentencing Project discovered that two-thirds of the people in the U.S who have life sentences are non-white, showing that race has an affect on how a person is treated. In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Jem and Scout Finch are just starting to figure things out in Maycomb County. They are finding out that not everyone is the same, and that some people have different beliefs than others. Also Scout and Jem are seeing things like race have an…

Harper lee based her story on her life in Monroeville, Alabama. As a child she experienced good and evil. In this essay I’ll explain how this influenced her. I’ll also discuss how the ideas of justice and fairness were not shown in the book “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The book shows how life was back in the day, when racism was at its peak. My third topic is about the symbolism of the mockingbird in the novel. What it means to be considered a “mockingbird.” Nelle Harper Lee grew up in the south…

bully, trying something new, putting one’s life in danger to save another, standing up against prejudice, and facing a fear of public speaking. There are grand acts of courage, and then there are smaller courageous acts that can sometimes go unseen. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird explores different examples of courage through its characters. Mrs. Dubose, Atticus Finch, and Arthur Radley were all presented with opportunities to show courage. Whether these actions be big or small, these…

grow the most. Harper Lee points this out by showing that Coming of Age can be intolerable. This is seen when Jem and Scout meet Mrs. Dubose, a cranky old woman they soon come to dislike. She would constantly harass Jem and Scout whenever they walked by, but when Mrs. Dubose degraded Atticus in front of Jem, he couldn’t bear to not do something about it. In anger, Jem ruins Mrs. Dubose’s camellias and is then forced to read to her six days a week for a month as punishment. Harper Lee uses…

Among the major themes in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is the quest to comprehend the interactions between people and groups of people in other words the senses of Otherness. The Other varies from a person to another and from a generation to another, The first thing we have to do is to identify the Other by exploring it in Lee's novel, Claudia Durst Johnson states in her book In To Kill a Mockingbird: Threatening Boundaries that the work "invites the conclusion that we reach some sense of…