Monroeville, Alabama

Grace Miller Ms. Holcombe English 9 November 27, 2017 Atticus’ Fatherly Characteristics To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960 and written by Harper Lee. Lee grew up in Monroeville, Alabama. She was born in 1926 and passed away in 2016. The story is set starting in 1933 and ends around 1935. During this time in Harper Lee’s life she was 7-9 years old, the same age as Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, the narrator. She also lived in a nearby area at that time in her life. To Kill a Mockingbird is the story of Atticus raising Scout and Jem in what she thinks is the right way. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows Atticus as patient, honest, and comforting to express her ideal father figure. Atticus’ honesty proves to be an important characteristic of Lee’s ideal father figure. This helps the children trust him, as well as feel involved. They feel involved because they are aware of what is going on in their community. “‘Atticus, are we going to win it?’ ‘No, Honey.’ ‘Then why––’ ‘Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win,’ Atticus said.” (76). Atticus shares the logistics of Tom Robinson’s trial…

Harper Lee’s coming of age novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, takes place in Alabama during the Great Depression. In the book the main characters, Scout and Jem Finch, become interested in a mysterious man named Boo Radley. Boo lives in Scout and Jems’ neighborhood but never leaves his house. As the story progresses, the connection between Scout, Jem, and Boo becomes stronger and stronger. I think the reasons Scout and Jem connect so strongly to the idea of Boo are because of the stories they've…

In to Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee tells the story of Scout Finch and her older brother, Jem, in their adventure through 1930's Alabama. In the beginning, Scout, starts out as a very undeveloped child not knowing the prejudice times nearby, as the story progress she gains awareness of the harsh prejudice and racism in the south. Boo Radley remains an outsider who tries to stay away from the people of Maycomb. However, he stands for a powerful symbol of what means to be caring and innocence…

Tolerance is one’s ability to accept other people’s ideas or methods, especially those that they do not agree with. In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the character Scout is taught about tolerance as she is being introduced to an environment different than what she is used to. She has to learn how to control her actions as she matures, which leads to her having to adapt to changes in the way she acts around people. Atticus had to teach Scout how to tolerate people, even if she did not…

When children are brought into this world, the only thing that matters are food, family, and play. In the town of Maycomb, Harper Lee distinguished two young characters, Scout and Jem, as the primary example of innocence and youth. Jem is a growing person with a growing perspective on the world. In the story, Jem faces many situations that causes him to question the world. Jem demonstrates that experiencing racism and inequality causes the loss of a child’s innocence and the basic reasoning they…

Everything you think, feel, and act has to be perfect. In the passage from To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee explains how this little girl named Scout says thank you in her own way by sticking out her tongue to the African American servant named Calpurnia. The first element the author uses in this passage is Imagery. Lee tells you an Image of scout drifting into sleep, when Atticus came inside Jem and Scout’s room. For example she said “... When the memory of Atticus calmly folding his…

Opening Doors of Sickness Sickness plagues our world, whether someone is ailing, mentally ill, or morally disgusting. It is one of the more miserable aspects of being human, and we’ve all had to experience it. In Maycomb, a fictional town that serves as the setting and as a character in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, “closed doors meant sickness and cold weather only.” (Harper Lee, pg 11) This is so that the ill person could be in hiding from the rest of Maycomb. Doors are closed for all…

In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Jem and Scout Finch are exposed to two very different parenting styles. Although Atticus and Aunt Alexandra are siblings, they differ in every way. However, the most important difference on Jem and Scout are the parental views of Atticus and Aunt Alexandra. Atticus represents the new, modern, progressive style of parenting while Aunt Alexandra believes the old fashioned, traditional ways of the Old South. Atticus cares more about behavior than fitting…

Then that is different because you get a chance to see what the person is like based on them not on skin color, or money. Throughout “To Kill a Mockingbird” Scout is a naïve girl who would like to have all the information about something so that she can make her own perspective about it but in the beginning she made childish accusations. As the story progressed she was shown the true colors of people and understands how life is in Maycomb County, Alabama. Near the end she makes better…

The Positive Miss Maudie How can someone have such a positive outlook on life when they have been through so much? In to Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Miss Maudie is a neighbor to the Finches. Miss Maudie is a kind of mother figure to Jem and Scout. She helps them get through tough times in their life and is always there to give them advice. Miss Maudie is a caring, wise, and care-free woman who is usually socializing with her neighbors and positively affects the novel by…