Jem and Scout's Relationship in To Kill A Mockingbird Essay

Racism in To Kill a Mockingbird Racism has long been a problem in the United States of America. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Lee addressed the issue of racism in a time when others were too afraid to. This novel was written in 1960. Racism played a big part in the trial of Tom Robinson. Tom Robinson is a hard working black man. He would help Mayella Ewell with housework for free. In return for his work, she accused him of rape. Mayella forcefully kissed Tom Robinson. Her…

Harper Lee uses many great techniques in the book To Kill A Mockingbird, to tell the story of an intelligent, curious girl named Jean Louise Finch, also known as Scout. Scout is the daughter of Atticus and the caring sister of Jem. She is a young girl who matures into a grown young woman over the course of the book. Scout goes through a lot in this book and realizes many things, one being how to step into someone else's shoes. Next Scout learns that everyone is equal and that we cannot judge…

Accommodation Desmond Tutu says “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chose the side of the oppressor.” Scout, main character of the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and Skeeter, main character of the movie The Help by Tate Taylor, both demonstrate their agreement to this statement in different ways. To Kill A Mockingbird takes place in the 1930s during the Great Depression and Jim Crow laws. Discrimination and prejudice thrives in the small, Southern town in which…

of a persons true sense of self. One’s identity is not static, but rather constantly changing and developing. Many elements affect an individual's identity. This idea is displayed throughout the texts To Kill a Mockingbird, Witness and ‘We Are Going'. In Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the concept of how family contributes to one’s identity is explored. Another factor that shapes identity is the community around a person which is demonstrated in the film Witness, directed by Peter Weir…

Scout, the main character of To Kill A Mockingbird, is new to school and its atmosphere, as is Caroline Fisher, Scout’s first grade teacher. Ms. Caroline, however is not only new to school, but Maycomb County entirely. Ms. Caroline hails from Winston County which is widely known to be a place of different values and traditions that many in Maycomb hardly understand. When Ms. Caroline was in college she was taught a new way of teaching which she seeks to implement in public education. However…

affects society in her novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. The main character is a young girl named Scout, growing up in the 1930’s in Maycomb County, Alabama. Her father, Atticus is a lawyer, and tries to raise his kids to be unprejudiced. Having been raised this way, Scout and her brother Jem, struggle to understand the prejudiced ways of their society, sometimes showing their own prejudices themselves despite Atticus’ efforts. Through her novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee teaches us that…

TKAM Essay In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird Scout, the main character, has views on many different topics. As a first grader in Maycomb county, Jean Louise lived through a very tight and tense racial situation. Her view on black people versus white people changes throughout the course of the book. When Scout was little she lived in a community where black people were not accepted as much as whites in the United States and especially Southern states. Calpurnia was a housekeeper for the…

Maudie display deeper understanding of her character. In the novel, Miss Maudie has a special relationships with the kids, Scout described Mrs. Maudie, “‘She was not at all interested in our private lives. She was our friend. How so reasonable a creature could live in peril of everlasting torment was incomprehensible’” (45). Miss Maudie was a friend…

Dennis Pang Mrs. Marsella-Jensen English 10H, Period 1 January 5 2016 Go Set a Watchman ORB Report Plot Summary Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee is the sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird. The novel begins with Jean Louise “Scout” Finch returning home to visit her 72 year old father, Atticus Finch. She steps off the train at her destination, Maycomb, Alabama, and is surprised to see her boyfriend Henry “Hank” Clinton picking her up, instead of her father. She spends the next several days relaxing…

Symbolism The title, To Kill a Mockingbird, has little connection to the actual plot, yet it holds great symbolic weight in the book. The story is based off of innocents destroyed by evil, making the mockingbird the symbol for innocence. A number of characters can be represented by a mockingbird throughout the book, including Tom Robinson, Boo Radley, and the mad dog. The connection made between the title and the main theme of the novel is made explicit in the novel multiple times. After Tom…