Harper Lee

to stay inside” (Lee 304). As I read this, I was upset. In my opinion, Jem is too young to think that it’s better to be locked in your house instead of live because of the people in an environment. I feel people should be able to go outside and be happy with their surroundings. They should be happy with the way the people around them treat each other. I don’t think that there is just…

novel To Kill A Mockingbird, social injustice is a common idea .Growing up in the rural South during the 1930s could not have been easy. The enticing story of racism in America is told through the eyes of a young Scout Finch. Throughout the novel, Harper Lee develops the theme of coming of age and the loss of childhood innocence with two important characters, Scout and Jem. “Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom. People said he existed, but Jem and I had never seen him.”(9). At the…

Two people that a mockingbird can symbolize are Arthur Radley better known as Boo Radley, and Tom Robinson. Starting off with Boo Radley. One reason why Boo is like a mockingbird is that he just sits inside all day. There is not anything he can do wrong by simply siting indoors. Also, he saved the children from being killed by Bob Ewell. Bob was following the kids in the woods at night to kill them to indirectly harm Attcus, but Boo was there to stop him. He also carried Jem back to their house…

live the rest of her life with him but in reality, that is not always a possibility. Scout also has an issue with not seeing the difference between good and bad people when “[she] [breaks] away from Jem and [runs] as fast as [she] [can] to Atticus” (Lee 202). She thinks that the people Atticus is speaking to are gathered for a friendly chat when they are not. She does not comprehend that society has evil in its roots because her mind is clouded by the illusion of a perfect, peaceful community.…

To say someone is a mockingbird is like saying they are the perfect person. For someone to be a mockingbird they always find the good in people and they hurt nobody, yet they often have bad things happen to them. The book To Kill A Mockingbird shows how people are mockingbirds, yet they have bad things happen to them. Atticus Finch is a mockingbird, as is Boo Radley and Tom Robinson. All these men do good things, and they never harm anyone. These men did what they thought was right, and they…

The main character in “To Kill a Mockingbird,” is Jean Louise Finch, also known as Scout. She is a white female, who is approximately presumed by the reader to be between sex and eight years old throughout the story. Some of Scouts interests are reading, and we can predict this by her ability to ready early for her age. She always yearns for adventure and new experiences, especially with Jem, her older brother. From all her favorite thing to do is spend time with Jem. She is always yearning for…

Nelle Harper Lee was a novelist best known for To Kill a Mockingbird. She was from Monroeville Alabama. She was born on April 28, 1926. She passed away in her sleep on February 19, 2016. Nelle Harper Lee was the youngest of four children. She was a tomboy who lived in a small town. Her father was a lawyer, a member of the AL State Legislative and owned part of a newspaper. Her mother rarely left the house. Her mother was mentally ill and some have said to have been bi-polar. Nelle Harper Lee…

There is quite a bit a examples of racism in the book and the packets. Harper Lee wrote this book in the Great Depression time and when racism was going on. Harper Lee uses real life examples because she wrote about her childhood and her experiences. The connections between Jim Crow laws, Mob Mentality, and the Scottsboro boys. They are both black people accused of rape. All of them have no rights to live their life. Jim Crow is a set of laws that made black people not have many laws. People…

Themes Within The Novella Harper Lee displays many themes throughout the novel in To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee shows to teach not only the characters but, the people who are reading this book many life lessons. Harper Lee published this book in 1960, the setting of this book was in the 1930’s which was during the Great Depression when a huge discrimination scandal was going on as well. A lot was happening during the 1930’s, Harper Lee writes this book for social commentary; showing the…

Mockingbird was written by Harper Lee in the early 1960 's. The story takes place in the town of Maycomb, Alabama. All is normal in this southern town until a particular court case involving an African American man named Tom Robinson comes to the attention of the residents of Maycomb. The case has also come to the attention of Atticus Finch. Atticus is a small town defense lawyer who, unlike anyone else in the town, disagrees with the false accusation of rape againest Tom Robinson. Lee uses the…