Pulitzer Prize for Drama

The Power of False Narratives Throughout literature, and even in our own lives, we are poisoned by the false narratives and stories that corrupt our minds and control our decisions. This is the driving force in Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Our protagonist, Scout Finch, makes decisions and forms opinions based on stories she hears that simply aren’t true. This is prevalent among various other major and minor characters in the novel as well. They are also extremely commonplace in…

Task 1 He was a calm and nice man. He codes have brutal political discussions but even after a hardpoliticaldebate,hewouldgivetheotherpoliticianaunifyinghandshake. Hefights the battle for black rights and even after 27 years in prison he was ready to go for the goal. Most people would come out and be hateful and want to take revenge on society after 27 years in prison, but not Mandela. When he came out he were filled whit courtly, humble and good- humoured. And all this courage and the way he…

“It is a sin to kill a mockingbird.” (119) Most of the foreshadowing in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, comes in the form of references. What are most often referenced, is Atticus talking to his children about how it is a sin to kill a mockingbird. Though many characters fit the characteristics of a mockingbird, the person this book revolves around is Tom Robinson, and how he was accused of something he did not do. Throughout the book To Kill a Mockingbird, multiple passages in the book,…

“I concluded to myself if I were the hunter, I would shoot the monkey so that it would no longer have the chance to put other hunters in the same predicament” (Beah 218) Ishmael said, thinking of his memories as a soldier. This quote is something that he has learned from being a soldier. In the memoir A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Beah, Ishmael was a normal kid living in Mattru Jong. The RUF rebels attacked his village and he was separated for his family. Ishmael spent long months of fleeing from…

In the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”, Sheriff Heck Tate is being used by Harper Lee as a proxy demonstrating the changing attitudes of Maycomb towards its disadvantaged members. Sheriff Heck Tate would have been elected into his position, which shows that he is aligned with their values. During the trial against Tom Robinson, many of the community members openly express their hate for Tom. Before the trial, they even go as far as trying to lynch Atticus, just for trying to defend him. Heck…

Who was your favorite character in The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe ? Was it Peter, the oldest brother? Was it one of the sisters? Or most unlikely, was it Edmund. After reading The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe, one question must be asked: how can Edmund see the bad side of everything? Even though his pessimism and untrusting behavior can be his downfall, Edmunds cunning nature gives a fresh breath of air from his siblings naivety - which Peter demonstrates perfectly, “Still- a robin, you…

Envision a house that “was once white” but now “darkened to the color of the slate-gray yard around it” with “rain-rotted shingles” and “oak trees that kept the sun away”(Lee, 10). This might not sound like a place that a generous and caring man would live in, but in To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, a mysterious and important character, Arthur “Boo” Radley, is the most significant source of pure kindness and endearment in the entire novel. Arthur Radley is the phantom of a small 1930 Alabama…

Life Lessons Learned By Scout Scout is a girl that doesn't think what she says but improves later on.She is a dynamic character and changes throughout the story.Therefore, she has many specific life lessons during “To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee” In addition, she learns that in life you will need to think before you judge a person and understand what courage is really all about. Scout is different from others she is pretty young to understand what is good to say and bad to say to a…

There are two children, Huck and Tom, as main characters who go through lots of adventures in this novel. When Huck and Tom were trying to escape from Jim’s surveillance, it is very clear the contrasting attitude of them dealing with the situation. While Huck wanted to escape from this situation as quick as possible, Tom wanted to take even more risk to move Jim’s hat because of his spirit of adventure. Also, when Tom have created the gang, Tom Saywer’s Gang, there are many words that children…

In Jacqueline Kelly’s book The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, the author quotes Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species at the beginning of each chapter. The quote above is from Chapter 14, “The Short Hoe.” In choosing this quote Kelly references Darwin’s pragmatic view of nature, in which animals or creatures likely do not care about what they look like, except to the extent that their form serves function or purpose. For example,, animals may look like their surroundings so that they are hard…