Harper Lee

In the Novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses skin color, lifestyle, and jobs to symbolize judgment cast upon others. She talks about how you shouldn’t judge people you know nothing about. This is supported by the in the Article “Compassion and Understanding by George Marotous and Merren Ward where it states "In contrast to the evil and injustice depicted in the novel Harper Lee expounds the importance of compassion by providing many examples of compassion and understanding in the novel.…

During the morally challenging novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, by the incredibly creative Harper Lee, Charles Baker Harris (Dill) represents his place as the most important character through his repetitive instances of curiosity and how that influences the children to desire to interact with Arthur (Boo) Radley. To commence, Dill's curiosity first makes its appearance when Dill first discovered the Radley house. This is established early in the book when Scout and Jem, children in the neighborhood…

Throughout the book To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee describes Boo Radley in several ways. However, the three characteristics of being caring, protective, and afraid really stand out more than the others. This is due to specific events and quotes that happen throughout the book. Starting out with these characteristics we have the obvious one of Boo being afraid. Now throughout the novel were told that Boo is forced to stay inside, which supported by the fact that he is never seen outside of the…

Many people in the world tend to live a much finer life when they are taught valuable lessons by their family and friends. Written by Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird is set in the 1930’s, and focuses on the Finch family in a small fictional town of Maycomb County. Scout is a stand-out character in the main events of this story. A black father is convicted for an illegal act he did not commit, and the children continue grow up learning about the effects of racism and stereotyping. Many…

In the book, “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, Calpurnia is more of a motherly figure to Scout and Jem, while Aunt Alexandra doesn’t show her love for them as much by being so strict and austere. Towards the beginning of the story, Scout does not like Calpurnia because she doesn’t let her do anything. Scout soon realizes that Calpurnia was making decisions that were best for her and Jem. Calpurnia gives Scout a lesson when Walter Cunningham comes over for dinner. “... anybody sets foot in…

from his point of view.” Author Harper Lee clearly demonstrates the importance of perspective in this quote. She reminds us throughout her best-selling novel that a changed perspective and a loss of innocence fly side by side. In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee explores the idea of changing perspective through the staggering differences between the innocent views of a child, and the more cynical, realistic views of those close to adulthood. One way Lee explores the idea of…

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view,” (Lee 39). Growing up and finding yourself is always a challenge, especially for Scout Finch, a little girl who is growing up in Alabama during the Great Depression. Throughout her journey she learns morals and values from characters that shape who she is. By using characterization Harper Lee displays the theme that how parents raise their children affects who they become in life, in the American classic To…

A sin is an immoral act considered to be a transgression against divine law. In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, many sins are committed, but one sin stands out against all others. “...but remember it is a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Lee 119). A mockingbird is an innocent creature that only provides beautiful song for the world; a creature that deserves no hate or punishment. Scout recognizes Boo Radley as the mockingbird in her life, and she grows up with a strong curiosity to learn…

Breeze Boom TKM paper Title (INSERT ATTENTION GETTER HERE) The book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is inspired by authentic occurrences. There are relations to Jim Crow laws, mob mentality, and racism in the Scottsboro trials. One aspect of America’s history Lee uses in the book is Jim Crow. Jim Crow is a set of strange laws that made white people have more rights than African Americans. People believe that Jim Crow was needed because whites believed they were above blacks. They thought…

Harper Lee published her novel To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960. The characters in the novel are based on the behaviors of people that she knew growing up in Monroeville, Alabama. The novel is considered to be a bildungsroman, which is a novel where one or more of the characters is forced into adulthood throughout the story. The story takes place in Maycomb County, Alabama in the 1930s and it highlights the racial, social, and political issues of that time period. In the novel, Tom Robinson, an…