Harper Lee

the 1930’s? To Kill a Mockingbird is a book written by Harper Lee, it is about two kids, Jem and Scout growing up in a small southern town called Maycomb county. Jem and Scout grew up during the great depression with only their father raising them. They also have a very good friend who visits them in the summer, who is called Dill. In the book the setting also plays a big role in developing the characters. In To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee uses the setting along with certain characters to…

Southern town, Maycomb, Alabama, in the 1930s. A flashback is defined as a transition to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological order of the story. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee describes a small, Southern town in the midst of the Great Depression of the 1920s and 1930s. Lee specifies the fact that gender roles and ethnical stereotypes are major themes that are tied together during the story's time period in Maycomb, Alabama by painting vivid pictures of her…

isolates few. Prejudice negatively impacts and isolates generations of humans by letting fear of wealth, male dominance, and race influence. Throughout the novel, Harper Lee demonstrates the many forms of prejudice, the three most prominent forms were sexism, prejudice against status and racism. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee illustrates the cruel outcomes of prejudice through the characterization of the citizens in Maycomb…

In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, one of the main characters is found to be a little different than the others. Atticus Finch, father and exceptional lawyer with a soft side, gives huge impact on the storyline while giving life advice along the way. Atticus Finch is a widower and the father of two children. He is one of the more prominent people in Maycomb. Atticus, besides being a father, is one of Maycomb’s lawyers. Unlike other lawyers, Atticus is not affected by race; he agrees with…

In this novel, the author, Harper Lee, displays interesting literary devices to help contribute to the themes that she is trying to convey. Lee so beautifully uses these techniques to develop not only her storyline but also her broader message. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, the author uses literary devices such as motifs, symbolism, and characterization to convey the theme of racism during the scene at the jailhouse. The recurring motif of the mockingbird in this novel represents…

To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee, the book takes place in a Southern town in the twentieth century in the fictional town of Maycomb. In to Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses symbolism in order to convey the idea that doing harm to people who are helpless and innocent is a horrible thing and can lead to unwanted actions. As we all know mockingbirds represent a symbol of innocence, Lee makes Miss Maudie point out that "...[mockingbirds] don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for…

In to Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows how her character’s Jem and Scout go through changes in their lives. Harper Lee shows through Scout’s view how Jem changes and how each thing that the two of them went through influenced how they matured. Scouts view shows how the characters and people of Maycomb shaped them into who they were. What would Jem and Scout be without the people in Maycomb and what would they be without the events all around them? The people in Maycomb helped shape Scout…

Society’s disapproval is portrayed clearly through the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and the poem Still I rise by Maya Angelou, the poem uses the protagonist whose name is unknown to ask rhetorical questions which make the character seem as though he/she doesn’t care about what others think. Both To Kill a Mockingbird and Still I Rise convey a message of societies non acceptance. Although the perspective which connects the them is different, the protagonist as well as one secondary…

Life is an unfair thing, in the 1930’s Harper Lee does a great way to show it. Harper Lee used real-life events as inspiration for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird. In the novel, there are connections to the Jim Crow laws, and mob mentality. The first influence on Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird are the Jim Crow laws. Jim Crow laws were horrible for Blacks. “The Laws were an official effort to keep African Americans separate from Whites in the southern United States for many years” (“Jim Crow…

“There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.” That point being, coming of age, Harper Lee uses coming of age in the town of Maycomb through Jem and Scout. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses Jem and Scout’s coming of age to convey to her 1960s readers that even the young and innocent have the potential to do and be good contrary to the popular belief in a community,…