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older brother, Byron Watson, before being sent to Alabama to his grandmother after the last straw. The novel The Watsons Go to Birmingham — 1963, written by Christopher Paul Curtis, is a historical fiction that tells the story of a Negro family, also known as the Weird Watsons by their neighbors, and their comical antics. However, the book doesn’t focus on the trip only but also, the circumstances that make the family travel to Birmingham, Alabama. The Watsons Go to Birmingham — 1963 is a must…

Everyone is prejudice, whether we admit it or not. Even though we may try not to, we judge based on appearance. We do this as humans. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, prejudice is very relevant. It is far worse than judging by appearance. Jim Crow laws were set in place and blacks were heavily discriminated against, sometimes to the point of death. Racism and discrimination are normal in the 1930’s, and are still occurring in our world today. A form of prejudice in To Kill A…

The Montgomery Bus Boycott was not as instantaneous as you may think. There were more people arrested, violent approach of the white people to stop the boycott, and much more. The Montgomery Bus Boycott didn’t start off with just Rosa Parks getting arrested, there were at least a dozen more before her, in Montgomery alone. Rosa Parks was not really the reason why the boycott was started. They chose Rosa, over the two arrested a week before her, becauseshe was a better candidate then they were.…

To Kill a Mockingbird taught us many lessons, one of the most evident lessons was “it’s a sin to kill a Mockingbird”. Mockingbirds aren’t just present in the novel, they appear in our everyday lives as well. The only question that remains is, how can we prevent mockingbirds from being killed? As previously stated, the most important lesson taught in To Kill a Mockingbird is how it is a sin to kill a mockingbird. This is shown in the book when the police officers killed Tom Robinson. Tom…

“The Mockingbird” In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee there are many lessons to learn and themes to follow. One theme that shows up throughout the novel is “The Mockingbird” When the Jem and Scout receive air guns for Christmas Atticus tells the children, “I’d rather you shoot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird (Lee 90).” The mockingbird represents the innocence of some of…

Two people that a mockingbird can symbolize are Arthur Radley better known as Boo Radley, and Tom Robinson. Starting off with Boo Radley. One reason why Boo is like a mockingbird is that he just sits inside all day. There is not anything he can do wrong by simply siting indoors. Also, he saved the children from being killed by Bob Ewell. Bob was following the kids in the woods at night to kill them to indirectly harm Attcus, but Boo was there to stop him. He also carried Jem back to their house…

said “Don’t judge my path if you haven’t walked my journey.” Scout has to think about this quote when learning about different characters in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. To Kill a Mockingbird was written about a little girl living in Maycomb Alabama in 1930. She and her brother are obsessed with Arthur Radley, a recluse living with his older brother Nathan Radley. Scout's father is a lawyer and has to defend a black man named Tom Robinson, accused of raping Mayella Ewell, Bob Ewell's…

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along,” said Eleanor Roosevelt, former first lady of the United States. Eleanor was a women’s rights activist. She encountered situations where if she didn’t have courage, she wouldn’t have gotten where she was today. Courage is observed in To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. Scout…

Most people define courage as a man with a gun. In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird we follow the characters Atticus Scout and Jem Finch. Through the book Jem figures it out the hard way and scout gets is kind of easy. Jem showed his courage by helping scout when ever she needed help. Scout shows courage by standing up for her dad when the kids in her school called him a nigger lover. Through the character of Atticus Harper Lee shows the reader what true courage is. Courage is doing some thing…

Abraham Lincoln once said “I am bound to live up to what light I have” and that is true of the characters in St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves and Sonny’s Blues. The girls in St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves were told to abandon their wolf nature and they embarked on the difficult task of changing everything they knew about the world. Sonny in Sonny’s Blues was a Harlem raised kid with a dim future who turned to heroin and had trouble deserting it, as most heroin addicts do.…