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In to Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows how her character’s Jem and Scout go through changes in their lives. Harper Lee shows through Scout’s view how Jem changes and how each thing that the two of them went through influenced how they matured. Scouts view shows how the characters and people of Maycomb shaped them into who they were. What would Jem and Scout be without the people in Maycomb and what would they be without the events all around them? The people in Maycomb helped shape Scout…

Maycomb. The storyline of the book takes place during the Great Depression, a time period also known as the Jim Crow Era in the South. Racial prejudice is present during the major occurences narrated by Scout Finch, the main character of the book. Harper Lee, the author, includes this hidden prejudice in her work to develop the society of her imaginary Alabama town and to show readers how racist Southern society was at the time. Racial slurs are made frequently by many characters in the novel.…

Society’s disapproval is portrayed clearly through the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and the poem Still I rise by Maya Angelou, the poem uses the protagonist whose name is unknown to ask rhetorical questions which make the character seem as though he/she doesn’t care about what others think. Both To Kill a Mockingbird and Still I Rise convey a message of societies non acceptance. Although the perspective which connects the them is different, the protagonist as well as one secondary…

The Real Atticus Finch In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, it contains a character whom has many different character traits. He’s a father of two and a lawyer in Maycomb County, and is a brave, wise, and admirable character. He goes by the name of Atticus Finch. Throughout the novel, Atticus proves to readers that he is a man of his words and will stand up for what he believes in. His son, Jem Finch, and daughter, Jean Louis Finch (Scout), both look up to him as he believes…

The novel To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee was an instant bestseller back in 1960 and it also won the Pulitzer Prize. To Kill a Mockingbird was formulated by Harper Lee’s creativity of constructing a storyline regarding her own personal observations about society and human nature. She achieves such depth and accuracy in her publication through her character analysis, plot, dialogue, and description. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird describes human nature through her story of the Tom…

According to French novelist George Sand, “There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” What Sand means by this is that loving others and being loved is what causes happiness in life. Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird explores this idea by weaving examples of love through a young girl named Scout’s life. The novel takes place in Maycomb, Alabama during the 1930s. Scout and her older brother Jem grow up in the midst of a racist community, where blacks are discriminated.…

is supported in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Atticus one of the main characters teaches his children that all men are created equal and not to be prejudice. Atticus represents the brave actions people take because he defended a black man in court while everyone was against him defending a man of color. In modern society ,children are influenced by what their parents believe , whether they are good or bad. Ihe idea of racism is a major role in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Racism…

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…

Innocence is the lack of experience with the world and the evils in life. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee suggest that innocence is an important factor in a child’s life that can easily be lost. Lee wrote a novel to talk about racial tensions as she tells the reader a story of the innocent Tom Robinson who is wrongly convicted of rape; her story is told through the eyes of the young and impressionable Scout Finch. The trial in the story shows how the most innocent people can be convicted of…

In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, an African American man by the name of Tom Robinson is forced to go on trial for the rape of a young woman in Maycomb, Alabama, a crime he didn’t commit. Most people knew Tom Robinson as a decent man; however, because he was African Americans, he faced unbelievable prejudices in court and was therefore convicted. Following his trial, Tom’s principled lawyer, Atticus Finch, states it plainly, "They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it…