Harper Lee

who cried upon hearing the verdict. No others had cried because everyone in Maycomb had grown accustomed to the prejudice and only children, with their vague understanding of good and evil react to such an occurrence. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, is a beautifully constructed novel, following the story of Scout Finch, a young girl growing up in a small Southern town inflicted by hatred and prejudice. As Scout and her brother,…

The Impact of Harper Lee Harper Lee is considered to be one of the most adept and brilliant writers of the 20th century because of her controversial novels that expose the American south for its dark reality and its prejudiced people. Go set a Watchman, continues a story from Lee’s first book --To Kill a Mockingbird -- and incorporates topics of race and class in society. The piece also continues the clashing ironic themes of great change and lack of change. Although the book created dissension…

Mockingbird is an adventurous novel written by Harper Lee. This Pulitzer prize winner takes place in Maycomb, Alabama, during the midst of the Great Depression. Maycomb is a small fictional town that’s full of different types of people, including the Finch Family. Scout and Jem Finch are raised by their nanny Calpurnia and their father Atticus. Atticus is a lawyer, who happens to be defending an accused rapist, Tom Robinson. In Many ways, Harper Lee connects the title of the novel, To Kill a…

In To Kill a Mockingbird, the author Harper Lee shows her astounding writing skills by using universal themes from which anybody can learn. Even more astounding, the themes she used in To Kill a Mockingbird can still be applied today. For example, one theme that still applies today is the problem with racism and how to deal with it. Even though it is not like it was in the 30s, people nowadays still deal with racism and even look down on others that are different. Another theme we can still…

Harper Lee was a white women who grew up in the South during the Great Depression. Growing up in the South exposed Lee tp large amounts of racism. Her father was a lawyer and verbally spoke against the Scottsboro Boys Trial. In the Scottsboro Boys Trial 9 colored boys were accused of raping 2 young white girls. Even with no evidence showing that the boys are guilty, they were found guilty. Some people believe that Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird is about her childhood. In Harper Lee’s novel To…

Maycomb, including his children. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee develops the idea that prejudicial thinking permeates Maycomb and leads to societal stratification and limits the freedom of all of the citizens’. Limiting the freedom of all citizens, Social stratification contributes to the underlying theme, because the stereotype makes poor people appear to be a worthless subset of what society deems “normal”. One of the many examples in Harper Lee’s novel is when Scout judges Walter…

Many authors choose to write what they know about. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, author, Nelle Harper Lee use her childhood life as a model for the book. To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in 1930s Maycomb Alabama. The narrator, Scout Finch, is a young tomboy who tells the story of a trial her father, Atticus, and how he chose to defend a black man, regardless of his. The characters and setting of the novel impact the plot in many ways. Lee’s childhood town and family affects the setting…

dare? Have you ever done anything selfish? Maybe you have done both of those, but have you ever stood up for somebody? Taken on a bully to protect your fellow students? Not many have. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee writes about courage’s three stages in life. Harper Lee claims that Courage starts from when people prove they are not a chicken, to courageous acts for selfish purposes, to finally performing activities that can or will hurt them, their reputation, or risk their life…

understand a person until you [...] climb into [their] skin and walk around in it” (Lee 39). In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout narrates her early life being six years old during the Great Depression in Alabama. She and her brother, Jem, watch their father, Atticus, lose a case defending a black man being falsely accused of rape because they live in Maycomb, a racist town. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee shows the destructive nature of racism in society and promotes…

of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” This quote is from the famous novel To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee. Lee creates a theme that illustrates the injustices of racism, ignorance, and quick judgement of others. The first half of the book you get the impression growing up in small town Alabama is sweet and perfect. After all Lee dismantles this sweet affectionate portrait town and reveals the town as a rotten, rural underside filled with social lies, and…