Harper Lee

for everyone to hear. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, harmless characters are symbolized with a common songbird. This is demonstrated through Boo Radley and Tom Robinson. Tom Robinson represents a mockingbird through his innocence and selflessness. Tom states, during his trial over his accusation of rape, that he “only helped the girl to bust up a clothes dresser” and that he was “not paid for his services” because he refused to accept the payment she offered him (Lee 256). Tom was…

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…

’”(Lee 159). Within this quote, Scout explains to Calpurnia, though with some doubt, that Atticus will represent Frank with dignity and honesty, conveying that members of the town trust Atticus and go to him in time of need. However, being a Finch also grants some exemptions and freedoms as Hank explains later in the novel: “‘So you can parade around town in your dungarees with your shirttail out and barefooted if you want to. Maycomb says, “That’s the Finch in her, that’s just Her Way’”(Lee…

There’s Something About Empathy Since I was young I’d always fantasize about living in the 1900’s; growing up with milk shake shops, jukeboxes, and poodle skirts sounded fascinating. However, after having read Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, it made me realize some things aren’t always what they seem. I was forced to face the tragic reality of the 1900’s. A little girl named Scout shares her experiences from growing up during the 1920’s, in Maycomb County, Alabama. Scout and her family find…

“Then Christmas came and disaster struck” (102). Harper Lee in her book, To Kill a Mockingbird , creates suspense in the mind of readers through uncertainty. Lee fashions suspense countless times by using numerous techniques. To generate suspense, the author uses vivid imagery. Repetition is also often used to produce suspense. Applying imagery and repetition to her story, Harper Lee increases suspense. When reading vivid imagery, readers realize the powerful suspense that is created. During To…

and Harper Lee’s book To Kill a Mockingbird, they both show alike Southern civility. Both Till and Lee have related ideas on the topic such as what to call adults, how to say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’, the importance of family, and other manners and customs shown primarily South. Lee’s novel is set in the 1930s during the Great Depression, and many terms and phrases that Till uses in his essay are reflected throughout the book, especially due to the time period it is placed in. In Harper Lee’s…

To Kill A Mockingbird written by Harper Lee, tells the adventures of two siblings and the happenings throughout their small town in Alabama during the 1930’s. The novel is narrated by six year-old Jean Louise Finch, often referred to as Scout. In Harper Lee’s novel “To Kill A Mockingbird.” Scout is boisterous, amenable, and valiant. Throughout the novel, Scout is boisterous. She enjoys being loud and energetic. When she, her older brother Jem, along with their friend Dill, decide to push each…

racist maycomb can be. Furthermore in the novel To Kill the Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Jem have been growing up and he stop playing with Scout and Dill. As an example, Scout starts to notice…

never loved to read. One does not love breathing” (Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird). Harper Lee wrote her books and published To Kill a Mockingbird in the literary period known as Modernism. Modernism came to be as a result of people wanting to separate themselves from the past. They believed that their way of life, including their customs, traditions, and culture, was something that was more efficient and capable than that of any past civilization. Harper Lee was a critical author in this period.…

point of view at the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. Harper Lee used actual event in her life to fabricate the foundation of the novel. It expressed the views of racism concerning justices with a gothic mixed in the context. The novel was centered on a child seeing everything in black and white. Lee used characters to symbolize mockingbirds. The novel experienced character persona of good and evil. There were similarities between Harper Lee’s and Scout’s, character from the novel,…