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To me To Kill A MockingBird is about becoming understanding . The main character is a girl named Scout Finch and the book tell's it from her POV on how she see's her life and the people in it.This is a speical book I would recommend because I feel as though you can learn important values from it like I did.I learned 2 major lessons that stuck out to me.The first lesson that I learned was to never judge people by how they could act or their history.To me this was important because of the way…

When we were young, we were told that Santa Claus exists; that’s our belief, or truth. When we grow up, we come to realize that Santa Clause isn’t real, that’s reality. In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout and her brother Jem are exposed to many injustices of Maycomb. As the story progresses, perceptions and ideas that the characters, especially the children, once held to be “True” turn out to be false, thus producing a new reality. The two primary examples of that are Tom…

Similar to shooting a mockingbird, there were a multitude of innocent people that were persecuted in the novel for being different, At the beginning of the novel, when Atticus gave Jem and Scout air rifles, he explained to them why they could not shoot at mockingbirds. Evident from the previous quote, a mockingbird does nothing but valuable qualities and so there is no justification whatsoever for harming a mockingbird. In the novel, mockingbirds, in essence, represented the best part best part…

The Strength in Relationships A relationship is not just one big thing… it is a billion tiny things all put together. In the story To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, character relationships are what holds the book together. There is a multitude of them throughout the story; however, Scouts relationship with Atticus stands out to be the strongest. Scouts grew up without her mother in her life because her mother passed away; however, her father stepped up and took the responsibility to…

The Branches of Perspective “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.” Author Harper Lee clearly demonstrates the importance of perspective in this quote. She reminds us throughout her best-selling novel that a changed perspective and a loss of innocence fly side by side. In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee explores the idea of changing perspective through the staggering differences between the innocent views of a child, and the more…

The another character which author uses in her novel is dynamic and round character of Boo Radley, as his character modifies gradually throughout the novel. In the beginning of the novel the author portrays Radley Boo as an awful and terrible person. Author Lee describes Boo Radley as, “a thin leathery man with colorless eyes … [that] did not reflect light” (32).The Maycomb people spread a false rumors about him, as no one ever seen him due to the reason he never comes out from his house. Due to…

“First of all, if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (39). What Atticus is doing is trying to convince Scout that Miss Caroline is doing what she believes is right and if she could see that, then she would get along with Miss Caroline better. Atticus says this early on in the book to Scout after she…

Books teach us how to see things through other point of views. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee is labeled one of the most influential novels of all time. Perception is a thing a person can alter continuously throughout their lives. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee developed the theme of situation changed perception using the literary elements of characterization and conflicts. Harper Lee constructed her theme of situation molding perception through the literary device of…

“In all our lives, there is a fall from innocence. A time after which, we are never the same” Gordie LaChance. The more we scrutinize the actuality of the circumstances that surround us, one comes to realize that we are brimming with innocent points of view, understandings, and thoughts. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Lee uses anthropomorphism, tone, and character development to convey that understanding the reality of situations can result in a loss of innocence,…

Throughout the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” many themes are frequently introduced and expanded upon through characters and situations alike. In the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the connotation of “right” and “left” takes a subtle change as the story progresses. Annotated Bibliography In Laurie Champion’s analysis of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” she discusses the importance of the connotation of right and left throughout the novel. She brings up many major scenes where left and right is very…