Harper

Martin Luther King Jr once said “Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere.” This famous quote has a lot of significance in Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, a book written through the perspective of a child showing her view of the social injustices happening in her small town. When people are denied rights in their normal, everyday life, they are going to be denied equal rights everywhere else, even in court. Atticus, Tom Robinson’s lawyer’s, quote, “our courts are the…

understand Boo Radley. His isolation from society resulted in the total development of his character to come from outsiders until his appearance at the end of To Kill a Mockingbird. As a result, although not physically present for most of the novel, Harper Lee effectively involves his presence through mysterious and thrilling rumors fabricated by the townspeople. This leads to a stark contrast between the person the townspeople create Boo to…

town of Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s. There are many characters showing and even learning about courage. In To Kill a Mockingbird Jem, Scout, and Atticus show courage in childlike, and adult ways. There are many ways to define and show courage. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, she defines her own form of courage…

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…

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a “coming of age” novel. Throughout the novel, various themes become apparent. The importance of manners, overcoming various types of prejudice, and the necessity of developing empathy all emerge as important ideas for Jem and Scout to wrangle with as they grow into young adults. As Jem and Scout grow, they realize the importance of good manners. Scout understands manners are important, but she does not realize she needs to use them. After Jem invited…

In To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, the love story between Atticus Finch and Tom Robinson is obvious. This is evidenced when Atticus is confronted by Scout about his reason for defending Robinson if it caused disapproval of him and their family from many, “...if I didn’t I couldn’t hold up my head in town, I couldn’t represent this county in legislature, I couldn’t even tell you or Jem not to do something again”(Lee 76). First, this shows Atticus executing one aspect of agape—he…

In the 1960 novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” Harper Lee shines a spotlight on the best and the worst characteristics of society. Lee uses her characters to display different qualities of humanity, such as tolerance, morality, justice, innocence, and acceptance as well as hatred, hypocrisy, and ignorance. The text is written from the perspective of a child, an unbiased, untainted view of the world and its people. This allows the reader to really understand the story from all sides, and see how blind…

question such as “Where do you come from?” to get a basic understanding of the other’s personality. However, when being raised in a small town such as Maycomb in To Kill a Mockingbird, one could be easily be brought up into a hatred fueled life. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, the author utilizes the theme of maturation throughout the novel to show the “coming of age” in the characters Scout and Jem as a result of the situations and experiences they are involved in. Growing up in the…

Harper Lee wrote the famous, Award-winning novel, “to kill a mockingbird.” She wrote this novel using some of her childhood experiences. She had gotten a job small enough so that she could write this novel. She even had some tragedies when writing the novel. Once the novel was released there was another 55 years until her next novel before she died. Lee was born, April 28, 1926 1920 in monroeville, Alabama. She was the youngest child to Amasa Coleman lee and Frances Finch. Mr finch struggled…

The Status Quo With literature pieces such as “To Kill a Mocking Bird” by Harper Lee and “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost, they work together in showing how one thing that use to be accepted has changed due to time. These pieces challenged the status quo of the time period they are from along with today’s world with things still prevalent such as white supremacy riots and racial deviation. It might not be as bad as it once was, but we have a far way to come. “People generally see what…