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What makes singer-songwriters like Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, and Lorde so great? They have strong rhythms, melodies, and lyrics that all blend together perfectly, making a catchy and memorable song. When a song is made, the writers and producers use specific factors that help attract the people who are listening to it. They can generate a depressing or exuberant mood, and make the listener feel different emotions. Similarly, in writing, authors use certain craft moves in order to engage the…

“I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement”, Harper Lee told a radio interviewer in 1964 about her novel, which has since sold more than 40 million copies worldwide. It’s no wonder why many have been affected by the recent death of the “last centuries most beloved author”. Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama in 1926, the youngest of four children of lawyer Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham (Finch).…

In To Kill A Mockingbird , Scout possessed some similar childhood experiences nevertheless traits like the author,Harper Lee. The majority of the book displays Lee’s childhood into Scout’s childhood. The other roles in the book, see Scout differently than others.Atticus, Scout’s father , is well known for explaining situations to her when she doesn’t see them eye to eye.Calpurnia’s, the housemaid, analysis of Scout is naïve, little girl. Absorbing the judgements from other characters,Scout is…

Future Understanding The novel To Kill A Mockingbird is the representation of how life was during slavery for young white children involved with all the racism and living with black children. Harper Lee uses many literary elements throughout her novel. She uses symbolism when Tim Johnson, the dog symbolizes the mockingbird as well as racism. Characterization is shown by the familial disapproval when Scout and Jem don’t believe their father can shoot a gun, then how they find out he was once…

It’s been a month now since I have been here in the frontlines. It’s been hard but I’m doing just fine. I feel like my training is coming in handy now, but I honestly still don't feel prepared enough still. I am look for the little thing to keep my spirits up while I am here in the front lines.For one thing there is never a loss of company. there is always a ton of dog sized rats. They are quite ugly looking but have managed to live well in these trenches. Me and a few of the other men shoot a…

To Kill A Mockingbird Summary To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is about a young girl named Scout who lives in Southern Alabama in the 1930s with her brother, Jem, and her father, Atticus. The main idea in this story is the loss of Scout’s innocence. This main idea uses symbolism, which is using something to represent something else. In this story, one of the symbolisms is the mockingbird as Scout’s innocence. The other symbolism is the loss of her innocence as the death of the mockingbird.…

How Scout Grew Up Growing up is an important time in life where people begin to understand themselves, the world and others. To Kill A Mockingbird is a story of two children Jem and Scout Finch growing up; they start to understand themselves and the world in a more adult fashion. In the beginning of the book the young children don't understand the world is why the way it is. They look at a different point of view thanks to Atticus, through the Tom Robinson trial, and interactions with Mrs.…

One of the main characters in “To Kill a Mockingbird,” by Harper Lee is Atticus Finch. He is a lawyer and the father of Jem and Scout. Soon after his nine-year-old daughter, Scout, was born, his wife died, so Atticus is a single parent in his late forties. In “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Atticus defends a man accused of rape, but the people of Maycomb don't approve that Atticus, “...aims to defend him,” (Lee 218). Atticus still does what's right despite what everyone else thinks. Atticus's parenting…

While reading both Judge Heath Till’s “Manners, Morals, Customs, and Public Perception”, and Harper Lee’s book To Kill a Mockingbird, they both show alike Southern civility. Both Till and Lee have related ideas on the topic such as what to call adults, how to say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’, the importance of family, and other manners and customs shown primarily South. Lee’s novel is set in the 1930s during the Great Depression, and many terms and phrases that Till uses in his essay are reflected…

In To Kill A Mockingbird, Arthur “Boo” Radley is a man who stayed at home all the time. Since he stayed at home, people made up rumors about him. Jem, for instance, told Scout and Dill that Boo is six-and-a-half feet tall, he would dine on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch. There is a long jagged scar that ran across his face; his white teeth turned into yellow and rotten. For the people in Maycomb, they made up rumors saying that when he was young, Boo and his friends was in the wrong…