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Throughout the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout Finch’s understanding of Boo Radley changed immensely. In the beginning of the novel, Boo was viewed as a monster. He was the subject of childhood horror stories, the myth that lived within the Radley house. By the end, he was viewed as a savior. He saved the lives of the Finch kids from the malicious Bob Ewell. Boo Radley started off the book as a monster, then Jem and Scout saw his true colors, and he was viewed as a savior. “Inside the house…

The film adaptation of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple is about the life of Celie Harris, who was a poor, black girl married against her will to an older black man. She was abused throughout her married life and somehow found a way to discover her own identity. In The Color Purple, the way power is distributed between men and women, specifically for black women, is very clear; mainly because black women are mistreated not only by members of other races, but by members of their own as well.…

Can innocence last forever? Throughout the novel Catcher in the Rye Holden is a character who is afraid of coming out of his childhood. Interestingly he has a younger sister Phoebe who is still in her childhood. Because she is young she is one of the few people Holden has almost nothing bad to say abou. Phoebe Caulfield is important to the story because she represents the few things Holden likes in an individual, she is an innocent child, a mature person to chew fat with and a character not too…

The reasons behind why I choose the items I did was because those items represent each part of the book. So, for example, the plot of the book "The dark is Rising" is that Will Stanton the youngest of the 10 children is going to celebrate his 11th birthday on midwinter day. Before that day and old man watches him. An old one the immortal being the protects the earth from taken over by the Dark. Farmer Dawson warns him about this threat of the walker and the rider and gives him one of 6 signs…

In this set of materials, the reading part discusses the ways and solutions that are represented for preventing injuries to birds from building that the glass is used in them. The listening section casts doubt on the information presented in the passage and argues that this three represented solutions are not effective suggestions and utilizing of them can't be useful and effective for preventing injuries to birds. Frist, the text posits that people can replace the regular glass with one-way…

One to Five times a week someone I don’t know that well will make some statement on my appearance, whether it's my hair, clothes, body shape or actions, so I smile and laugh and hide who I truly am so people don’t judge me. This happens to people every day and some don’t even realize their hiding to avoid judgement. Although people can choose how they dress and act, they usually don’t dress and act like they want to, because they don’t want to be judged. People dress and act differently around…

The vast majority of people in the world are good, but there are always some who are bad. There are people who make peace and there are people who break peace. Different people can be represented by different symbols or other things. The mockingbird in the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is used as a symbol that represents innocence and peace. Two characters from Lee’s book that the mockingbird would best represent are Boo(Arthur) Radley and Tom Robinson, for they are both innocent…

Although Capote strives to improve Perry’s story and defend him, he is obviously shown as a psychopath; therefore it is essential to understand even murders have humanizing characteristics. Capote uses litotes to achieve the affect of how others look at Perry at first before they truly know what he is capable of. When Perry is in the cell he is very quiet to Josie Meier the sheriff's wife, later when she gets home she tells her husband, “...and I decided- well he wasn’t the worst young man I…

In “To Kill A Mockingbird” the theme is the mockingbird itself. A few characters represent the mockingbird in this story. This paper will explain to the readers how each of the characters represent the mockingbird metaphor. In “To Kill A Mockingbird characters represent the theme of the mockingbird, Tom Robinson, Atticus Finch, and Arthur Radley. Tom Robinson could be the mockingbird for multiple reasons. First he never hurt anyone in his life. He was a gentle and innocent human being, he did…

Atticus Finch is a father of two children, Jeremey Atticus “Jem” Finch, and Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird. Jem is the oldest son and Scout is the youngest girl, Jem and Scout make a friend by the name of Charles Baker “Dill” Harris. The children know that Atticus loves them, but Atticus does not show it very well since his wife died. Atticus has certain rules that he wants his children to follow, but when they do not follow his rules they have consequences.…