Harper Lee

people will become easier. The novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is about Jean “Scout” Louise Finch growing up in the town of Maycomb and learning about the world through her father, Atticus’s lessons. Atticus teaches Scout and her brother, Jem, how to react in situations involving Boo Radley, an unseen neighbor, Tom Robinson, a black man going through a trial, and other social groups of Maycomb. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee uses Atticus and his children to show that a person…

Racism and prejudice have been around for centuries and never seem to go away, unfortunately. It can be observed in many shapes and forms, such as literature. Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird does an exceptional job of illustrating how atrocious human nature can be, as well as highlighting the more gracious aspects of it. The book’s setting is the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama during the mid-1930s. While generally being amicable, most of the inhabitants of Maycomb have a…

conscious about his injury. His left arm was somewhat shorter than his right; when he stood or walked, the back of his hand was at right angles to his body, his thumb parallel to his thigh. He couldn't have cared less, so as long as he could pass and punt (Lee 3). From the very first sentence…

innocent. Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the young protagonist Scout grows up with her brother Jem and her father Atticus. Scout and her family live in a small prejudice town called Maycomb, Alabama. She experiences many challenges in her life including, her brother who is growing up and not knowing how to handle him. But within the course of the book, she looses a lot of her innocents. The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Lee uses characterization to display that the…

a place that is populated with close-minded, ignorant people. These communities tend to be racially homogenous and include higher rates of poverty. The quintessential small town seems to lack modern progression and is stuck forever in the past. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird focuses around a small, southern community of old-fashioned values and stagnant life. The south in the 1930s was a very volatile place. The Civil War was still recent history…

How doe's Harper lee comments on the life in the south during the 1930’s through her novel To kill a Mockingbird. Harper lee explains in the novel what life was like in the 1930’s. There wasn’t any slavery in the 1930’s. The town Macomb was segregated. That means black and whites didn’t and couldn’t do the same things. There was not any equality in the town Macomb. Example, they couldn’t go to the same restrooms or they couldn’t enter the same restaurant doors, they had to enter from the back.…

Do you know what it's like going against when you have to do the right thing when everyone thinks it's wrong? Harper Lee best shows this in the book To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper shows this through many characters throughout the book. As you read through the book the struggle people had to go through during the 1930’s the struggle is going against all odds trying to do the right thing. This is best shown through a few of the main characters such as Atticus Finch, Jem Finch, Scout Finch, Tom…

It is hard to fully understand any story, especially the dramatic, yet deeply moving To Kill A Mockingbird. However, Harper Lee elucidates the story’s theme and plot line by letting a six year old become the narrator of the story. As Scout narrates the story, she not only explains the events, but also shows the impact of the events along with showing a child’s perspective of common prejudice in her hometown, Maycomb. As a result, as time passes, the reader can witness and understand the process…

In the novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, the Cunninghams are portrayed as poor but polite people while the Ewells are presented as immoral and greedy as a result of their poverty through each family’s actions and ethics. The Cunninghams are cordial people, despite their social status in the town of Maycomb. For example, on page 206, after scout mentions his son’s name, Walter Cunningham is swayed by her innocence and states, “‘I’ll tell him you said hey, little lady.’” Although…

with Harper Lee, winner of the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and many other accolades for her debut novel To Kill a Mockingbird, being no different. Harper Lee’s childhood and personal background had a great effect on her writing in that what she had experienced and witnessed over her lifetime inspired many of the most distinct aspects of To Kill a Mockingbird, such as the setting, one of the major characters in the novel, as well as one of the major events that takes place in the story. Firstly, Harper…