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Many people, no matter their skin color, look down on others with different appearances. Racism ran rampant especially in the South until a few decades ago. In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, Scout, a young Southern girl during the 1940’s, tries to understand her world and the racism she sees in everyday life. She witnesses how adults speak to others concerning African Americans in the community of Maycomb. Scout’s father works as a lawyer and once defends a black man wrongly accused of rape…

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…

Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus shows the whole town of Maycomb that anyone can have compassion towards one another, even those who seem undeserving. It is hard to care about matters in hand especially when other don’t support your proposition like in part one of To Kill a Mockingbird but by showing sympathy and compassion towards one another, others will be willing to do the same which will make the world a better place. Atticus knew that defending Tom Robinson would be problematic. Harper…

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…

attack you if you do help them. Help people anyway. Give the world the best you have and you 'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.” This quote exemplifies the conflict surrounding goodness that is commonly present in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. This conflict is the variation between what is good and what is treated as such. It is when mockingbirds are aimed at. It is what leads to the death of Tom Robinson and the persecution of many other…

content of their character” (King). Equality was a huge movement during the 1960’s which is expressed in the academy award winning novel To Kill A Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee. Although the book was based in the 1920’s, during the great depression, it stays with it’s true theme of equality. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee elaborates on the importance on the importance of equality throughout the novel showing gaps in social classes, which reveals Atticus’ judgement on the matter of…

Scout, who is influenced daily by her environment. This includes her friends, family, and other members of society. Throughout the book, Scout overcomes popular belief in order to understand the world around her as well as her role in society. In Harper Lee’s, To Kill a Mockingbird, she demonstrates bildungsroman by looking through the eyes of a child as she matures for the duration of the book and comes to terms with discrimination. One obstacle that Scout must come to terms with are…

when a character was being described or judged before actually being introduced by another character, some good and bad. Either by how they are or what they look like, people are criticized for reasons that don’t fit at all or that aren’t even them. Harper Lee wants readers to dig deeper than just the surface of something or in this case somebody. The book, at one point in chapter 1, included the character Arthur “Boo” Radley, who lived at the Radley house that had many rumors. He was later…

world. According to African-Americans, even today, over 30 years after the civil rights movement, are oppressed in many ways, Abdul Malik Mujahid shares. In this book you will see the effects that racism has on communities. To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, is about Scout, who is a young girl facing difficult changes, her brother Jem and her father Atticus, who is a lawyer, living in the county of Maycomb, Alabama, where racism is a big problem. When Scout’s father gets appointed to be put…

People go through life criticizing their own selves, including each other. It is not certain why the public does this. It may be insecurity of themselves or being blinded by society’s stereotypes. The novel To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee explores this idea of judging others, before experiencing who they really are. Jean “Scout” Louis Finch narrates the story of how her brother Jeremy “Jem” Finch broke his arm. She goes through their childhood from the stories of rabid dogs and…