Harper Lee

and written by Harper Lee. Lee grew up in Monroeville, Alabama. She was born in 1926 and passed away in 2016. The story is set starting in 1933 and ends around 1935. During this time in Harper Lee’s life she was 7-9 years old, the same age as Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, the narrator. She also lived in a nearby area at that time in her life. To Kill a Mockingbird is the story of Atticus raising Scout and Jem in what she thinks is the right way. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows…

novelist Harper Lee once wrote “instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.” (112) When composing her book “To Kill a Mockingbird” in it Lee expresses the coming of age of the main protagonist Scout through instances of corruption and moral courage that took place amidst the Great Depression during the chaotic 1930’s in Maycomb Alabama. In the novel, Harper…

Overcoming Obstacles Wayne Gretzky, a former professional hockey player, once said, “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, emphasizes how important it is to overcome the many obstacles life throws. The novel mainly revolves around Jean “Scout” Louis Finch. Throughout the novel, the young girl faces an abundant amount obstacles and challenges. She has a neighbor named Arthur “Boo” Radley. The novel is set in the 1930’s in Maycomb, Alabama, during the…

In the 1960 novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” Harper Lee shines a spotlight on the best and the worst characteristics of society. Lee uses her characters to display different qualities of humanity, such as tolerance, morality, justice, innocence, and acceptance as well as hatred, hypocrisy, and ignorance. The text is written from the perspective of a child, an unbiased, untainted view of the world and its people. This allows the reader to really understand the story from all sides, and see how blind…

Harper Lee is a well known and acclaimed author for her very popular work, To Kill A Mockingbird. This story incorporates some very deep subjects in with its plot. One of those is racism, a routine problem exercised in the novel. Through her book, Harper Lee addresses the matter of racism through and by the characters in To Kill A Mockingbird. She does this first by the example of Tom Robinson, a character in this story. Tom was a humble black man who would never even dream of harming a…

distinguish one another between genders. Harper Lee’s, To Kill A Mockingbird manifest conflicts on segregation and ideal images based on what is already perceived. Scout’s character in To Kill A Mockingbird is seen as unfeminine, causing the people of Maycomb to want to make Scout more ladylike. As the novel progresses, Scout starts to realize the gender role set up in Maycomb County and the role that is required of Scout. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee focuses on Scout’s point of view…

morally disgusting. It is one of the more miserable aspects of being human, and we’ve all had to experience it. In Maycomb, a fictional town that serves as the setting and as a character in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, “closed doors meant sickness and cold weather only.” (Harper Lee, pg 11) This is so that the ill person could be in hiding from the rest of Maycomb. Doors are closed for all kinds of diseases, but opening one leads to empathy and understanding. Mrs. Dubose presents…

prison and back to his family. Once the shroud of sadness left, I sat down and thought about Tom Robinson and why I thought Harper Lee decided to kill him off instead of allowing him to have the appeal Atticus had talked about. I came to the conclusion that there really was no reason to kill Tom Robinson other than to cut that story off and give it an acceptable end so Harper Lee could…

Mockingbird Harper Lee uses her words to add a depth to the story. She uses types of imagery to add layers to the book which when the reader peals those layers back will reveal a deeper meaning to the story. In this novel Lee uses personification in her writing. She wrote “The house died” (13). This gives the house a human like quality making it more relatable to the reader which in return makes the reader more immersed into the story . Simile is also used in this story to compare two things.…

Most people define courage as a man with a gun. In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird we follow the characters Atticus Scout and Jem Finch. Through the book Jem figures it out the hard way and scout gets is kind of easy. Jem showed his courage by helping scout when ever she needed help. Scout shows courage by standing up for her dad when the kids in her school called him a nigger lover. Through the character of Atticus Harper Lee shows the reader what true courage is. Courage is doing some thing…