Northern pike

Someone once stated, “Courage is the ability to do something difficult even when there’s a risk.” Courage plays a large role in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Throughout the novel, courage was seen through the characters Jem Finch, Scout Finch, Boo Radley, and Atticus Finch. These characters all demonstrate excessive ideas of courage as the novel goes on. Through the characters minds there is fear involved, but was overcome by their courageous actions. To begin with, Jem and…

(A playful writing influenced by A. A. Milne’s ‘Winnie the Pooh and Beatrix Potter’ Stories) I gaze from my window to see a slight rustle in the conifers, picking up my binoculars with curiosity I notice a wood pigeon fluttering about; my imagination gets the better of me, thoughts rolled into a story. I don’t believe in happy endings; but I will try and write something with a good end to it and no better way can a story be brought to life than through the antics of wood pigeons. There was a…

The political context within Ireland itself remains an important element in the origins of the 1798 rebellion. An address from the United Irishmen to the English society, in 1792, describes the state with regard to the Catholics, declaring three million ‘are taxed without being represented, and bound by laws to which they have not given consent’. Political power in the hands of the Anglican landowners and aristocrats, excluded the majority of the population. The population of Ulster consisted…

The Irish Volunteers was a military force which was formed in 1913 by a group of Irish Nationalists in direct response to the formation of the Ulster Volunteer Force which was established a year previous. According to the Manifesto of the Irish Volunteers, the aim of the Irish Volunteers was to "secure and maintain the rights and liberties common to the whole people of Ireland". It is agreed by many historians including, Gerry White and Brendan O Shea that the Volunteers were made up of members…

The mockingbird was used as a very important symbol in this story. What exactly is a mockingbird? A mockingbird is a songbird that is mainly known for its mimicry of calls and songs. The mockingbird plays a significant role in the story as a symbol of innocence, and was even included in the title by Harper Lee. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Tom Robinson and Boo Radley were characters used by Lee to symbolize the loss of innocence. Although the mockingbird played an important role in…

To Kill a Mockingbird taught us many lessons, one of the most evident lessons was “it’s a sin to kill a Mockingbird”. Mockingbirds aren’t just present in the novel, they appear in our everyday lives as well. The only question that remains is, how can we prevent mockingbirds from being killed? As previously stated, the most important lesson taught in To Kill a Mockingbird is how it is a sin to kill a mockingbird. This is shown in the book when the police officers killed Tom Robinson. Tom…

A mockingbird is a unique type of bird that should never be harmed because all it does is make beautiful music. This special bird is the very symbol of innocence. Throughout Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, there are many important individuals that represent a mockingbird. From the beginning to the end of the narrative we have characters that are the embodiment of the mockingbird because all they do is help others and they themselves get harmed in some way. However, there are some…

Since To Kill a Mockingbird has unrealistic characters and its lack of useful life lessons prevents the story from being a timeless classic. One reason why the story is not a timeless classic is how the lessons it teaches are all simple, which is from what Atticus lectures his children. After Scout comes home from an awful first day of school, she tells Atticus what her teacher says to Walter Cunningham. Atticus comforts Scout and explains to her that “you never really understand a person until…

There are many pieces of evidence in the book “To Kill A Mockingbird”, but here are the ones that stand out the most throughout the book. For example, when Jem argues with Atticus about Mrs.dubose and how she is nothing like a proper lady should be, he says, “She had her own views about things, a lot different from mine, maybe...son, I told you that if you hadn’t lost your head I’d have you go read to her-I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man…

During the period that Maria Edgeworth wrote her short stories including the “The Purple Jar,” there was a lot of violence and political unrest in Ireland. Ireland had just lived through an uprising and were forced to live under the rule of the British Parliament, through the Act of the Union. One of the themes that are presented in “The Purple Jar” is the nature of growing up. The narrator highlights the importance between a mother and daughter relationship, as the daughter is growing up to be…