Harper Lee

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, there are many times that Harper Lee shows compassion, sympathy, and tolerance through the characters of the novel. Lots of times in the novel Harper Lee shows compassion, sympathy, or tolerance through key events in the story including: Atticus has compassion when he defends Tom Robinson, who is a black man, to the best of his abilities. Atticus shows Tolerance when Bob Ewell spits in his face, by not doing anything back. Jem shows sympathy to…

boys worked for me eight years and I ain't had a speck of trouble out of him.” (Lee 195) This shows how Link thinks Tom is a good man, hard worker, and a trustworthy employee. Link being a white man, shows how Tom was respectful towards other races. Another example is how Tom is being described of how he changed after the trial, “They said he just broke into a blind raving charge at the fence and started climbing over.” (Lee 235) This suggests that Tom Robinson believed that running was his…

The Courthouse Symbol The symbol represented is the Maycomb County Courthouse. This courthouse is a symbol of social inequality and injustice because of the events that took place in it. For example, the Tom Robinson case. The Tom Robinson case was unfair because, as Mr. Underwood stated in the editorial, “Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed” (276). The case was unfair because Tom Robinson was black, and was not given a fair chance to explain himself.…

As the father of Scout and Jem Finch, Atticus teaches them how they should treat people. He helps the children understand that they should respect others and not judge them by the colour of their skin. He also tells them that “you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” Atticus also stands up for what he believes in and doesn’t let the thoughts of others stop him from attempting to serve justice.…

In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee addresses racial discrimination and injustice through its characters, their internal and external conflicts, events, and symbolism. For instance, after being sent to prison Tom Robinson was shot seventeen times when trying to escape, “To Maycomb, Tom’s death was typical. Typical of a nigger to cut and run. Typical of a nigger’s mentality to have no plan, no thought for the future, just run blind first chance he saw,” (Lee 322). In other words, the town…

workers for him because he wanted to get rich. The Jews, in Schindler 's List were being killed and tortured by the Nazis, over time Oskar Schindler changed. He began to want to help as many as possible. Both of the novels, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and Night by Elie Wiesel connect to Schindler’s List in this idea.To Kill a Mockingbird is a fictional story -which took place in the 1930’s- about a white lawyer who defends…

To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, has a strong and profound use of symbolism. The most recognizable and evident use of symbolism the recurring theme of birds. Like the title suggests, Mockingbirds are one of the birds, as well as Blue Jays and Finches. In the novel, the most apparent avifauna, or bird used is the mockingbird. In the plot, the mockingbird represents one by the name of Tom Robinson, an African-American man put on trial for a crime he was innocent. In real life a…

Topic Sentence - Harper Lee showed Jem’s growth and development as a character with the incident with Mrs. Dubose. Context - Mrs. Dubose is a morphine addict who suffers from withdrawals. As a result, she is rude to most 8n the neighborhood. She has a bad reputation, and Jen is afraid to even see her house. This is some time before the end of part one. Concrete Detail - “Mrs. Dubose lived two doors up the street from us; neighborhood opinion was unanimous that Mrs. Dubose was the meanest old…

Julia Rusak Mrs. Frechette English 11 H 11 September 2015 Summer Reading Assignment 1: To Kill A Mockingbird Chapters 1-5 My brother Jem and I were outside in our front yard enjoying the daytime before Atticus came home and it was time for dinner. As we were out and about I noticed how his left arm was slightly crooked and looked a little funny when he was standing up. When he was about thirteen he broke his arm at the elbow, but he was not concerned about it much as long as he could still play…

the day before Scout Finch’s daddy defended niggers. “You can just take that back, boy!”(Lee 85) This shows how Scout was very furious at Cecil for saying that and really wanted to hit him. In the book it also says, “I drew a bead on him, remembered what Atticus has said, then dropped my fist and walked away, “Scout’s a cow-ward!” ringing in my ears.It was the first time I ever walked away from a fight.” (Lee 87 and 88)This shows how Scout really wants to do something about it but she did the…