Harper Lee

view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it” (Lee, 33). Atticus says this to Scout after she gets mad that Miss Caroline does not understand Maycomb’s ways. This theme can be seen all throughout To Kill a Mockingbird because the book includes real life examples of racism and hardships. Empathy is very important in this book because there is a lot of discrimination, especially against African Americans. Harper Lee uses events like the Jim Crow laws and instances of mob…

account she gave to the jury. At one point during his questioning he inquired to Mayella “you’ve testified that the defendant hit you, grabbed you around the neck, choked you…” (Lee 185) which Mayella confirmed, he then asked Tom Robinson to stand up and revealed that “his left arm was fully twelve inches shorter than his right” (Lee 186). Immediately it was clear that this man could…

The novel “To kill a mockingbird” was written by Harper Lee in 1960. The story started with a lawyer named “Atticus Finch” who was defending a black man called “Tom Robinson.” Tom was falsely accused raped a white girl. At the end, he was killed in the escape. The book was described by Atticus’ children Jean Louis Scout Finch and the whole process of this legal defense and end changes the Atticus’ children view of the whole word. The book is filled with racial ideology. It showed how cruel it…

Who are the Mockingbirds? In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, there are characters that metaphorically portray mockingbirds. Mockingbirds are innocent creatures that never cause harm to the world. The novel tells the story of the lives of Scout and her brother, Jem, while they are growing up in Maycomb, Alabama. Along with their friend, Dill, the children try to get a glimpse of the unseen neighbor, Boo Radley. Their father, Atticus, decides to defend Tom Robinson, a black man…

chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice” (Gore Vidal). In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee suggests that innocent people are so often misunderstood. Growing up in the small southern town of Maycomb County, young Scout learns through her father, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view… until you climb into their skin and walk around in it.” (Harper Lee 30). This is exemplified through the numerous victims of injustices…

To Kill A Mockingbird Summary To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is about a young girl named Scout who lives in Southern Alabama in the 1930s with her brother, Jem, and her father, Atticus. The main idea in this story is the loss of Scout’s innocence. This main idea uses symbolism, which is using something to represent something else. In this story, one of the symbolisms is the mockingbird as Scout’s innocence. The other symbolism is the loss of her innocence as the death of the mockingbird.…

Forty million is an unfathomably large number. Forty million also happens to be the approximate number of copies of Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird sold since its release. This novel contains fictional events with parallels to real life in order to draw readers into it and make them care. Not only is it an American classic, but it is also loved by current high school students across the nation. This novel should be kept in the IB English curriculum due to its high readability, important…

Throughout To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, multiple characters are treated extraordinarily unfair. Lee uses characters such as Jem and Scout to show the civil rights and racism in the south, which is very segregated during this time period. The story is told through the eyes of young child, Scout Finch. She is the daughter of lawyer, Atticus Finch. Atticus defends an innocent negro in his fight against an unjust rape trial. The novel takes place in the 1930’s. Because many characters were…

Mockingbird by Harper Lee, two kids face many difficult decisions and actions between the trial of Tom Robinson, having their black cook, and getting along at school. Jeremy Finch and Jean Louise Finch are average children. They grow up not really understanding the world and how things work. As the book develops, the kids learn how the world revolves and they eventually grow up. They learn how people think and why people act the way they are towards each other. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper…

Everything you think, feel, and act has to be perfect. In the passage from To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee explains how this little girl named Scout says thank you in her own way by sticking out her tongue to the African American servant named Calpurnia. The first element the author uses in this passage is Imagery. Lee tells you an Image of scout drifting into sleep, when Atticus came inside Jem and Scout’s room. For example she said “... When the memory of Atticus calmly folding his…