Harper Lee

Prejudice Shown in To Kill a Mockingbird Michael Crichton stated “Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.” This is applied to To Kill a Mockingbird by: Harper Lee because the people in the city of Maycomb discriminate against others without knowing anything about them. This is a standard way of thinking in the small city of Maycomb, Alabama during the 1933 and the depression. Told through the eyes of Scout, the story follows the 3 characters Scout, Jem,…

Harper Lee’s Influences for To Kill a Mockingbird Born in Monroeville, Alabama, on April 28, 1926, Nelle Harper Lee was destined to become a legend. When Harper Lee published her first, and only novel To Kill a Mockingbird, she had no idea the impact it would have not only on her generation, but generations to come. Harper Lee grew up in the small town of Monroeville, Alabama, and from her experiences and relationships in the town she drew inspiration for what would come to be known as “One of…

In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee exploits the toxic nature of the South, the early 20th century. The destruction of innocence is evidently shown throughout the rampant bigotry, through the explicit phrase of ‘…it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.’ Hence, To Kill a Mockingbird is to kill innocence. In the tale, from the very beginning, a threat that is based on generational racism is posed to destroy a number of innocents. Ultimately, the ‘Mockingbird’ is killed in ways that are worse…

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is an award winning novel that tells the story of the Finch family in 1930 Maycomb, Alabama. In their neighborhood there is a house at the end of their street, the Radley house. Rumor has it Mr. Arthur, also know as Boo Radley, is a monster and Scout and Jem Finch are curious to find out more. Meanwhile their white father, Atticus Finch, is defending an innocent black man, Tom Robinson, in the racist environment of the South. This book portrays many of…

you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it,” said Atticus Finch In To Kill A Mockingbird. This is a story that tells about Scout Finch, his brother Jem, and his father Atticus. The author, Harper Lee’s purpose when writing this book was to show racism and prejudice in the south in the 1930s. One of the focuses of this book is the court case of Tom Robinson, which ended up with an innocent man dying because he was black. People in the…

courage is. Many think being courageous is just about doing something you are scared to, and of course, that is being courageous, but that’s not all it’s about. It may take some time, or even a whole book, like the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, to fully comprehend the meaning of courage. After understanding this, one may change their way of thinking about courage and courage in the world, just like Scout did. An event that Scout saw made her think twice about Atticus’s courage. She…

People and things in Harper Lee’s everyday life inspired her ideas. Lee’s book To Kill a Mockingbird has many similarities to her own past. These similarities ranged from names to some characters’ entire personalities. Harper used these influences from her life to write her novel. Harper Lee used many names of people she knew in To Kill a Mockingbird. Her mother’s name was Frances Cunningham Finch Lee, and according to “Harper Lee Biography”, “Lee gave all three of her mother's names to various…

The Strength in Relationships A relationship is not just one big thing… it is a billion tiny things all put together. In the story To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, character relationships are what holds the book together. There is a multitude of them throughout the story; however, Scouts relationship with Atticus stands out to be the strongest. Scouts grew up without her mother in her life because her mother passed away; however, her father stepped up and took the responsibility to…

The Power of False Narratives Throughout literature, and even in our own lives, we are poisoned by the false narratives and stories that corrupt our minds and control our decisions. This is the driving force in Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Our protagonist, Scout Finch, makes decisions and forms opinions based on stories she hears that simply aren’t true. This is prevalent among various other major and minor characters in the novel as well. They are also extremely commonplace in…

Mockingbird, Harper Lee tells the story of a young white girl growing up in Maycomb, Alabama who is forced by circumstance to experience the racial injustice of her town. Throughout the novel, Scout struggles as a child in her situation with understanding prejudice and the good and evil in people. She begins the novel naive to the hatred and unfairness of the world, but by the end of the novel her childlike idealism is gone and she understands how the no situation is black or white. Lee uses the…