Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, there are several instances where hypocrisy is shown. By including hypocrisy Harper Lee is showing the complexity of ignorance in the 1930’s. Many characters show hypocrisy, however Miss Gates, Scout, Mrs. Merriweather, and Lula show it freely. Hypocrisy is shown in one way by Miss Gates when Scout overhears Miss Gates talk at the courthouse. “...an’ then turn around and be ugly at folks right at home.”(page 331). Later, when…

Growing Up Scout, an immature six-year-old. Jem, a childish ten-year-old. They learn many valuable lessons in this book and mature while doing so. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird shows how the kids, especially Jem, grow and mature during the course of the whole novel by their childishness in the beginning, then seeing them grow over the three years in which this novel takes place, which leads to Jem protecting his sister in the fight and Scout learning that Boo isn’t as scary as he seemed.…

understand everything that’s going on. In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird innocence leads to misunderstandings, people getting hurt, and outbursts. Dill represents innocence in To Kill a Mockingbird. Dill shows his innocence when he cries while watching the trial. Dill cries because Mr. Gilmer is rude to Tom. He cares for other people’s feelings which shows how innocent he really. “That old Mr. Gilmer doin’ him thataway, talking so hateful to him-” (Lee 226). Dill is sad and hurt that…

Menacing a Mockingbird This novel is titled To Kill A Mockingbird because Lee suggests that killing something that only does good, and causes no harm, is prejudicial. To Kill a Mockingbird, by author Harper Lee, is a novel centered around a black man accused of raping a white woman. The narrator is a young girl named Scout who has a brother named Jem and her dad, Atticus, is a lawyer. In this novel, Harper Lee focuses on the meaning of the mockingbird: it is pleasing to us and does no harm.…

demonstrated throughout the works of Harper Lee. Lee, the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, uses characterization of the two children in the story, Scout and Jem, to display that empathy is necessary for truly knowing and understanding someone else. Lee uses characterization of Scout to portray that one can have a skewed view of someone else until they step into the other persons shoes. At the beginning of the story, Scout describes Boo as a “malevolent phantom” (Lee 8). A synonym of malevolent…

Why is it a sin to kill a mockingbird? In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, a mockingbird symbolizes innocence. According to Atticus, “It is a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Pg 119). Three examples of mockingbirds are, Mayella Ewell, Tom Robinson, and Boo Radley. Mayella Ewell would be a mocking bird because of innocence. For instance, Mayella’s childhood was taken and she had to become the woman of the house. Mayella didn’t know because she was uneducated and was put into the situation…

The novel, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ (1960), written by Harper Lee is told through the eyes of Scout Finch, whose father is defending a black man accused of raping a white girl in the town of Maycomb, Alabama. In a retrospective view, the narrator, Scout Finch further acquires knowledge from her childhood experiences, regarding the issues of prejudice and racial injustice explored, which allowed her to form a mature judgment of the society in the Southern United States during the 1930s. ‘To Kill a…

the white race. People used to judge each other based on their skin color, and race. The society used to turn a blind eye to the racial problems. Inspired by Jim Crow Laws, Scottsboro Trial, and African American Church Burning American novelist Harper Lee wrote her book To Kill a Mockingbird to portray the injustices and discrimination black people faced back in the 1900s. Jim Crow Laws were laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States, these laws meant that black people…

In “To Kill a Mockingbird” Harper Lee repetitively uses the term “if” as an association of Scout Finch’s depiction of her father Atticus. This repetition parallels and connects to the poem “If” by Rudyard Kipling. The stanzas of the poem can all be linked to different occasions in the novel and come together to create an impacting characterization of Atticus in the eyes of Scout. This characterization develops Atticus as a person who is, to everyone, filled with integrity and wisdom Atticus’…

The Use of the Mockingbird In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee she talks about a small family in alabama in the early 1930s during a time of extreme racism. Harper Lee uses three people in her book to symbolize mockingbirds, Boo Radley, Tom Robinson, and Atticus Finch. Boo Radley a mysterious figure through the majority of the book and only seen when Scout and Jem get attacked and Boo saved them. Boo would be considered a mockingbird because he saves Scout and Jem even though he…