Northern Mockingbird

In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout, friend Dill, and brother Jem, must face friends and family turning on them, as father Atticus makes a life changing decision of defending a black man in court in the 1930’s, a time of racial injustice and segregation. Also the articles Lynching by Mark Twain, and Why I Joined the Klan, by Studs Terkel, corroborate the themes throughout To Kill a Mockingbird. The three most prominent themes in To Kill a Mockingbird and these articles are…

Independent Reading Essay The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the word innocence as, “freedom from guilt or sin through being unacquainted with evil.” One major component in being considered innocent is one’s age, as a whole; younger people and children are heavily portrayed as innocent. In Stephen King’s “Firestarter,” Andy and Charlie Mcgee are on the run from a secret government operation that has given them psychic abilities. This father daughter duo narrowly escape capture a couple of…

In Aravind Adiga’s White Tiger, the narrator Balram portrays himself as an anti-hero; while accepting his status as a murderer, Balram also fights against the systemic poverty and oppression the poor of India face due to the corruption and simple negligence of the wealthy and powerful of India. Balram compares the plight of the poor with the image of the Great Indian Rooster Coop, where hundreds of chickens stand immobilized in a slaughterhouse, knowing full well of their futures. Balram…

because I do not want to be conspicuous. In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, Atticus Finch takes on a case where he finds himself defending a colored man from the accusation that he raped a white woman. Moral Cowardice if found in 99.99% of the population were no one takes a stand to make a change. A person’s ignorance can lead them to a life they never wanted. The three most prominent themes in To Kill A Mockingbird is lost honor, dangers of ignorance, and the desire to escape.…

Maycomb’s ways. This theme can be seen all throughout To Kill a Mockingbird because the book includes real life examples of racism and hardships. Empathy is very important in this book because there is a lot of discrimination, especially against African Americans. Harper Lee uses events like the Jim Crow laws and instances of mob mentality as inspiration as she is writing this book. The first influence on Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is the Jim Crow laws. The Jim Crow laws were…

To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout, friend Dill, and brother Jem must face friends and family turning on them, as father Atticus makes a life changing decision of defending a black man in court in the 1930’s. They must learn how to deal with their situation in a calm way no matter the instigations. Also the articles Lynching by Mark Twain, and Why I Joined the Klan, by Studs Terkel, corroborate the themes throughout To Kill a Mockingbird. The three most prominent themes in To Kill a Mockingbird and…

Questions of the Nevermore The black bird that haunts the night, slews towards its prey, and makes no obeisance to any living creature that walks on this earth. The bird of Plutonian shore is what many believe to be the raven. With the raven being a symbol of good and of evil in many different cultures it undoubtedly has its symbol of evil in Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven”. With the narrator, a man of grief for the loss of his wife Lenore, and the raven, a bird that speaks of the word nevermore.…

“The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool,” (Stephen King). BJ in Tears of A Tiger and Maddie in Lucky In Love both try to find a greater good in other people and sometimes even themselves. BJ was trying to blame himself for Robs death but kept trying to find a way around it. He wanted to not feel guilty and to prove to himself that he was good, he wanted God to forgive him. Similarly, Maddie had recently won the lottery. More people had been coming up to her than usual and she…

It has been said that to achieve something, you have to experience it first. Throughout the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Scout and her brother Jem grow up in the south. During the story, they are presented with many challenges, such as the trial of Tom Robinson. They learn how to best overcome the obstacles, how it affects them, and others around them. Therefore, it could be argued that, throughout the story, real life gives more valuable lessons to Scout and Jem than their school…

To Kill a MockingBird is one of the best novels ever written, but why? To Kill a Mockingbird ,a novel by Harper Lee, is one of the most well known books in the world. It set in a small southern town in Alabama during the Great Depression. It shows how bad of a problem racism was during that time. Narrated by a little girl name Scout, from her point of view, years after the story actually happened. The story has a poor yet cruel white family, a black man accused of rapeing a young white women, a…