Lee Kun-hee

Child of God is a novel by Cormac McCarthy. The book is loosely based off of real life events. Child of God follows the story of Lester Ballard, an outsider in Sevier County, which is in Eastern Tennessee. The novel follows Lester's obsession with pedophilia as well as his decline into necrophilia and murder. The novel begins on Lester's family's property. There is an auction being held to sell his land. Lester breaks into the scene. He is very angry that the auction has started. He threatens to…

Kill A Mockingbird In the book, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus, the lawyer of Maycomb and father of Scout and Jem Finch, is a relatively complex character. He teaches the children life lessons and does not always conform to the thinking from the rest of the town. He tells Scout “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”(Lee 33). This is one of the first important lessons Atticus…

Countless literary works throughout history have been deemed ‘classics’, but what makes a story a classic? They all have universal appeal. People from all over the world can relate to the theme no matter what time period it is. Classic stories remain timeless because their messages stay constant in today’s society. One theme defined in literature is that love doesn’t always have to be perfect. In “Sonnet 130”, the main character says, “I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a…

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”(Lee 39). To Kill a Mockingbird shows its true meaning in every character. The novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, tells a story of two siblings, Jean Louise Finch (a.k.a Scout) and Jeremy Atticus Finch (a.k.a Jem), plus their friend, Charles Baker Harris (a.k.a Dill), during their summer adventures. In the novel, they make many…

Barack Obama once said, “The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope”. (“Barack Obama, Goodreads”) Shawn Grim and Rudy Ruettiger were both young men that wanted to prove someone or something in their life wrong. Shawn wanted to break the stereotype of the people in Appalachian Mountains. He also wanted to be the…

Was America A Dream For Everyone? Was America a dream for everyone? In two poems, “Let America Be America Again” by Langston Hughes and “ I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman, both describe two completely different worlds. Langston Hughes’ poem makes America seem like a nightmare that people have to survive in. Walt Whitman took a completely different bias by describing America as the perfect home where everyone wants to live. Both writers showed entirely different biases about America, so…

Boo Radley was an individual in To Kill a Mockingbird that was discriminated. He was an outsider of the community. Because of the rumors made about him, he never came outside, and grew up with social development issues. In this essay, i’m going to show you how Boo was discriminated. The first of many times he was discriminated was, being accused of biting off his mothers finger. “Boo bit off his mothers finger one night when he couldn’t find any cats or squirrels to eat it.” This rumor shows…

In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee suggests the prejudice attitudes of most citizens in Maycomb affect Atticus by motivating him to share and spread his substantive grip on reality in hopes to change the common man's…

Kill A Mockingbird, author Harper Lee portrays Southern Alabama life during the great depression. The great depression struck during the 1930s, many people lost jobs, were living in poverty and debt, and had no source of income. Many were affected during this time, especially farmers in the south. The characters lived in Maycomb County, Southern Alabama. During this time, people of color were separated and racism was a big issue. In the title To Kill A Mockingbird, Lee uses the mockingbird to…

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch teaches his children the importance of empathy before judging others. Atticus, a main protagonist in the novel, teaches his children, Jem and Scout, that looking at their perspective and never others is horrible. Scout, the main character of the novel struggles to understand the importance of empathy, making the story bias at times. In the first few chapters, Scout is told not to judge others, however she does not fully grasp the…