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“To be or not to be, to judge or not to judge, to fight or not to fight, to die or not to die, these are the questions of our generation”(Levi Jorgenson MVP of life).The experiences of two children in To Kill a Mockingbird really helps to bring these questions into focus. Scout and Jem are faced with extreme racism and have to decide exactly what they are going to do. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Lee uses Scout and Jem’s experiences in order to convey the idea that people should not…

Commitment Essay “She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.” -Atticus. The book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, was published in the year of 1960. Written beautifully about the pros and cons of racism with plot in-between, Harper Lee accepted the Pulitzer Prize. The Pulitzer Prize is an award that recognizes an achievement in either a magazine, newspaper, and or online journalism. Ever since publication, the book has become a classic…

The Unknown Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel filled with the persecution of innocent people represented as mockingbirds. The Author, Harper Lee, created a community of people who are persecuted, judged, and attacked despite their innocence. Lee uses the mockingbird as a symbol of innocence. In the book she says mockingbirds are innocent and commit no evil act. The birds only sing their songs for people to hear. The people of Maycomb are no exception, they live out their days…

Throughout history and still to this day, female oppression, patriarchal values, and standard gender roles of girls (and boys) have been very common in the United States, especially in the American South. Written by Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird is a classic tale of two kids, Jem and Scout, along with their father, Atticus, living in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama. Living in a town with prejudice and discrimination toward many different groups in particular females. This makes it…

Both Maya Angelou and Lawrence Ferlinghetti explore the idea of inequality in their poems ‘Caged Bird’ and ‘Two Scavengers in a Truck Two beautiful people in a Mercedes’ respectively. Angelou explores the inequality between black and white people by comparing and contrasting a free bird to a ‘caged bird’ while Ferlinghetti describes inequality between the rich and poor by comparing a wealthy couple with a couple of garbage men. ‘Caged Bird’ is written in response to the civil rights act, with…

In to Kill a Mocking Bird Harper Lee creates characters that grab our interest. In the 1900’s, the rural town of Maycomb, Alabama where the story takes place, Lee creates a feeling of freedom through the young characters that contrasts to our 21st century structure to life. The rural setting compels the reader to feel freeness that couldn’t be compared to a large city setting. Lee choices when writing the book make it feel like real life. In To Kill a mocking bird, Lee creates multiple…

Speakers Evoking Empathy Have you ever wondered how a speaker awakens feelings of empathy in the reader? Both the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and the Statement on the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. given by Robert F. Kennedy use rhetorical devices to reach out to their audience in a certain way. They have a goal. Harper Lee’s character Atticus and Robert F. Kennedy both evoke empathy in their audience to either generate understanding or inspire action with the use of logos…

“Just” best describes the environment and values Atticus is paving for his children—honest, righteous, virtuous, and principled. In Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mocking Bird,” justice is the ideal that is heavily expressed on because of its scarcity in the novel’s historical setting. However, injustice can manifest itself at any time, period, race and gender. Without a doubt, injustice is more prevalent in the current generation, indistinctness and subtleness are the only differences. Atticus Finch…

I believe the meaning of the title “To Kill a Mockingbird” is more like a title “To kill something innocent” with a mockingbird being an innocent person. I believe this is the meaning of the title because the theme of the book centers around innocence and unfairness in the world. Multiple scenes in this book focus on Scout Finch, who as a child, is still innocent and thinks and describes moments as unfair due to them being unfair. She is the only one that still clearly sees this due to her young…

The poem, “The Ballad of Birmingham” and the article, “When School Was Scary” Both share the same theme which is overcoming obstacles. Although they both share the same theme, they show it differently. “The Ballad of Birmingham” Is about a poor mother’s child that died in the bomb of Birmingham, and “When School Wa Scary” Is about an African American girl named Elizabeth going into a white school during segregation. In the article “When School Was Scary” the author shows the reader that…