Mockingbird

How do you define power when it comes to race, class, and gender? Mayella has some power in To Kill A Mockingbird because she is a white female, however in class she is at the very bottom. The setting in the book, To Kill A Mockingbird, takes place in Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930’s. In the book, a man named Tom Robinson is accused of raping Mayella. They go to trial and Tom gets convicted because he is an African American. All families were just coming out of the Great Depression, everyone was…

Harper Lee’s To kill a Mockingbird and Satrapi’s Persepolis are sophisticated and multifaceted texts that contextualise how the external world can pose as an impact to an individual’s personal identity. Through depiction of the influence of parental figures and gender discrimination, the two books successfully acquaint the reader with the clash of the external world and an individual’s sense of self. Lee’s seminal novel Mockingbird explores aspects of parental influence and acts as a…

To Kill A Mockingbird To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee shows empathy in many different ways. Atticus shows empathy toward blacks and the town recluse. He upholds the law and looks out for his clients' best interests, even when it hurts his reputation. His willingness to put himself in others' shoes is most evident when he agrees to defend Tom, a black man falsely accused rape, without considering how his actions might affect others, including his family. Atticus identifies with…

twenty-four hours long but seemed longer. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County.” Selling over forty million copies, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird influenced society in a way that was least expected. For Jem and Scout’s aunt, Alexandra, did not have an active role from the movie whereas she was a significant character to the novel. However, the film did not fully display Calpurnia…

difficulties that one must endure throughout their life, a parent’s lessons often come in handy. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch guides his children, Jem and Scout, to greatness through the countless lessons he teaches them. Many of these lessons come through the traumas that both Scout and Jem occur in the course of the novel. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch teaches his children about the great values in every person and how to deal with…

RESEARCH ESSAY #5 This research essay is on the chapters 19-31 of To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. CHAPTERS 19-22 Chapters 19-22, It is finally Tom’s turn to testify. He explains to the people in the court that Mayella often asked him to help her and it was her who tried to seduce him that day in the house. Link Deas tries to defend Tom and is kicked out of the court room. The prosecutor is rude to Tom and this makes Dill very upset and he begins to cry, and the kids complain about the…

Many characters in To Kill A Mockingbird showed courage. The three I picked are Scout, Jem, and Atticus. They all showed courage in trying to help others or exploring places they have never been too. Scout shows courage a bunch throughout the entire story. Exploring “Boo” Radley's house, because it is said that he will come out and chase you down. She seems to know more than she is supposed to and speaks up in class the teacher gets angry and tells her to stand in the corner, because she…

To Kill a Mockingbird (TKAM) is a phenomenal book that teaches life lessons that will resonate with any reader for the rest of their life. It’s a book that has two main themes supported by almost every character that was worth noting. One main theme was walking in somebodies shoes, because of the poor times of the depression, it was hard to understand the ways somebody lived. The other main theme was Innocence, which a mockingbird represented. The main characters, Jem, Scout, and Dill, all have…

Harper Lee, the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, in an interview, described the acclaimed novel as a “simple love story.” Initially, I had strongly disagreed with this statement, because I presumed Harper Lee was referring to a romantic love. However, I shortly realized that Harper Lee was referring to a different type of love. What Harper Lee refers to is not the traditional romantic love typically associated with novels, but more of a selfless, benevolent love. This unconditional,…

Imagine you caught your child doing something considered taboo by all of society. Would you lie to cover up your shame, or would you face the rest of the world and own it? In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem and Scout are the children of lawyer Atticus Finch, but they are not the problem. Mayella Ewell is a 19 year old poor white woman who claims that Thomas Robinson, a black man, beat her then raped her. But, this might not be the case. As Atticus goes to work to prove Tom…