Lee Kun-hee

The book To Kill A Mockingbird revolves around one theme, which is courage. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird The story, told through the eyes of Scout portrays shows us life in Maycomb back in the 1930’s were racism was at it’s peak. When Tom Robinson was accused of raping a white woman named Mayella, causing a lot of events that required in which the several characters had to show courage in some shape or form in order to help the society become a whole. Atticus, Boo Radley and Jem are three…

Atticus Finch and His Beliefs The character I have chosen to analyze for this assignment is Jem and Scout’s father, Atticus Finch. I chose the title “Atticus Finch and His Beliefs” because Atticus strictly adheres to his beliefs in his everyday life, in his position as a member of the community and also as a father to Jem and Scout, which are used by the author to teach the reader lessons throughout the first part of the novel. Three traits that Atticus demonstrates during the first part of…

begin, but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.”-Atticus Finch Courage means many things to each individual, it can take form in many shapes and it can be either physical or moral courage. In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee, powerfully analyzes the theme of courage and its effects through the stories of several characters. According to the author, through courage, an individual has the ability to do what is right, overcome difficulties and help others. Based on…

Jem said "You all've gone crazy, he'll kill us!" when they were daring each other to go by the Radley house which was kid-like (Lee 75). They think the Radley house is a dangerous place since Dill made up lies about the house making it seem scary and the people that live there. They play games like daring each other to go near the house. Jem may be seeming to grow up, but does…

Southern Tomboy In Harper Lee`s To Kill a Mockingbird, the young Scout is one of the main and most important characters. Mostly caused by the influence of her older brother, she has become a tomboy. She does not go by her real name Jean Louise and prefers breeches over skirts. Everyone who cares about her wonders if she will ever mature into a young lady. That is due to her many rampages and getting in trouble. Besides being a tomboy, Scout displays spunky, outspoken, and…

Atticus happened to be reading when I crawled into his lap every night” (23). This is an example of Atticus showing his love for Scout because he takes the time to read to her every night, even though he is very busy with his work. Overall, Harper Lee did a great job of incorporating many gifts both tangible and intangible into her novel, To Kill A Mockingbird. Both Boo Radley and Atticus Finch gave many important gifts to Jem and Scout. These included the tangible gifts of gum and a blanket,…

In the schoolyard, Cecil Jacobs consistently taunts Scout with racist smears towards her father. “He had announced in the schoolyard the day before that Scout Finch's daddy defended niggers.” “..’s what everybody at school says” (Lee 99) In what way is this considered okay? If their parents make it okay. In the County of Maycomb they've been brainwashed by generations before them that people of the white race are superior to the people with color. This has been so engraved in their…

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.” (Charles Darwin). To Kill A Mocking Bird depicts an innocent story of childhood curiosity. With the coming of age and the world changing around them their view on life alters. In the past Jem and Scout would play games together along with their friend Dill. But as they got older Jem begins to change while Scout stays her childish self. We…

The setting, time and place, can have a significant effect on the characters of a novel. Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a novel that takes place in a small Colombian coastal town in 1950s. The story examines the murder of the protagonist Santiago Nasar, and the events leading up to it. Colombian culture has a heavy impact on the behaviours, character traits as well as the values of the characters in Chronicle of a Death Foretold. If the text had been written at the…

Hancock Superhero Film as the Storehouse of Black Stereotypes Hancock is an American superhero movie directed by Peter Berg in 2008 and starring Will Smith, Charlize Theron, and Jason Bateman. While in most of the contemporary superhero films, superheroes are loved and admired by the society, in this story, John Hancock (Smith) serves as a burden to Los Angeles citizens: his saving operations regularly cost the city millions of dollars. One day, Ray Embrey (Bateman), the head of a public…