Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is an award winning novel that tells the story of the Finch family in 1930 Maycomb, Alabama. In their neighborhood there is a house at the end of their street, the Radley house. Rumor has it Mr. Arthur, also know as Boo Radley, is a monster and Scout and Jem Finch are curious to find out more. Meanwhile their white father, Atticus Finch, is defending an innocent black man, Tom Robinson, in the racist environment of the South. This book portrays many of…

Harper Lee uses many great techniques in the book To Kill A Mockingbird, to tell the story of an intelligent, curious girl named Jean Louise Finch, also known as Scout. Scout is the daughter of Atticus and the caring sister of Jem. She is a young girl who matures into a grown young woman over the course of the book. Scout goes through a lot in this book and realizes many things, one being how to step into someone else's shoes. Next Scout learns that everyone is equal and that we cannot judge…

Confucius once said: “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” (Goodreads). In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the children in the story obtain a lot of wisdom in these three ways. When their father is asked to defend an African American in their small prejudiced town in Alabama they learn many lessons. These lessons are heartbreaking and painful, but the…

How did Atticus Finch take care of his children, and was he good at it? To Kill a Mockingbird takes place during the Great Depression in the racially divided town of Maycomb, Alabama. Atticus Finch, a highly respected lawyer in the town of Maycomb, was the widowed father of two children, Jem and Scout. As both a father and a lawyer, Atticus had many responsibilities, one of which included raising his children responsibly. While Atticus took his job as a father very seriously, the methods he used…

Harper Lee designs Jem and Scout to learn from their father, Atticus in her historical novel To Kill a Mockingbird. She uses the conflict of growing up during the Great Depression in the south, a place full of prejudice, which Atticus is trying to steer the kids away from, as he calls prejudice Maycomb’s disease. At the beginning of the novel the kids have very childlike thinking, a good example is thinking whoever lived in the rundown Radley house was evil, they assumed this based on the very…

The short film follows the themes of ‘instant karma’, ‘retribution’ and ‘bullying’ but as we see at the end of the film, the big bird has the last hurrah as we see at the end of the short film how the little birds are faced with instant comeuppance. However, since it’s an animated short film it is not so much the moral of the story that causes the impact but rather the technicalities that went into to telling the big bird’s story. For the Birds is the story of, a bird that is different to the…

Courage is far more than bravery alone; it is the ability to persevere through any obstacle, it is a constant in our lives from learning to walk, to our first separation in school from our parents, to how we muster up the courage to ask for a raise at work and eventually even the courage to face our own mortality. The theme of the poem “Courage” by Anne Sexton is ultimately similar to the theme of courage found within To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee; as both handle how one copes with life…

Dakota Barnes Mrs. Karhliker Honors English I 15 January 2016 Challenge Everything In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, the author emphasises a theme of social justice by the character of Atticus Finch. Social justice is defined as: promoting a just society by challenging injustice and valuing diversity. Atticus resides in Maycomb, Alabama, a slowly progressing town. Maycomb is stuck in it’s ways. Atticus’ profession is one filled with triumph and downfall. He proves his bravery by…

Imagine a wagon with wooden wheels, helping a family move across a valley. The wheels have to endure all of the bumps, rocks, mud, and water, yet a family will not move anywhere unless the wheels are on the wagon. This is similar to the idea of empathy that Harper Lee is trying to emphasize through Atticus. In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, she keeps proving through Atticus that even though being truly empathetic toward someone less fortunate than you may bring them down in society,…

To Kill a Mockingbird - “Atticus said to Jem one day, “I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." This passage was a major part of the story because of the symbolism that has now been revealed. The Mockingbird is a harmless and pure hearted animal, which in this story symbolizes Boo Radley and Tom Robinson. I chose this passage because of the strong…