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In the last eight chapters of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the book reveals two moral lessons Scout develops: to not pass judgement on someone without experiencing their dilemmas and also unfolds the awareness of coming of age. The narrator, Jean Louise Finch also known as “Scout” is an adventurous girl in a vast and complex world who begins to understand people and their lives. Scout not only develops moral beliefs through her own encounters but also due to her father who practiced…

Harper Lee’s classic and somewhat autobiographical novel, To Kill a Mockingbird has been extremely successful and wildly popular among people of all ages from the year it was first released. As a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the coming-of-age story was eventually adapted into a film which went on to win an Academy Award. The timeless story follows the childhood years of a young girl named Scout Finch, as she starts school, investigates a curious neighbor with her brother and best friend, and…

One of the studies done by (Nulty et al.2010) supports one of the points made in this paper; the song sparrows have various song types. Males have not one song but a song repertoire of 6–12 different songs (Nulty et al. 2010). There are other different types of songs used for sending particular messages, for instance When they give out the short phrases that have a sharp chip note, it indicates alarm or anxiety (Girard et al. 2012). Both the male and the female song sparrows make the sound when…

As the years progress societies views may change from being conservative to more liberal. Societies view on sexuality and a female’s role have changed throughout the years and this is evident in the movie industry. An example of this would be one of Disney’s classics Beauty and the Beast (1991) compared to their live-action version released in 2017. In the 1991 animated version, only heterosexual relationships were shown. Given the time it evident why this was. Homophobia was on a rise and…

As Jean Finch or in other words Scout narrates the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, she creates a unique perspective on how she see’s everything. The book starts off when Jean is six in the 1930’s, yet her narration makes her seem like she embodies the wisdom of an adult. This is unusually since most of the kids in Jeans first grade class have been held back and still can’t read. Jean then starts off giving a little background information about her life and makes the reader conclude…

Harper Lee uses an extensive amount of symbolism in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The story is set in the quaint, little town of Maycomb, Alabama in the nineteen thirties’. Lee uses many of the characters in her novel to symbolize the stigmatizes of that time. She uses a mockingbird to symbolize the destructions of innocence. The mockingbirds of the book can by represented by Boo Radley and Tom Robinson. Boo was corrupted by the prejudice of the townsfolk of Maycomb County, and Tom Robinson…

In the novel Beloved by Toni Morrison,the author develops the male figures through point of view, their names and internal conflicts to convey to the speaker that the past has a crippling affect on one’s actions and their present as a result. “Beloved” by Toni Morrison moves among many perspectives, closing in a multitude of characters: third person limited, third person omniscient and first person in every character’s perspectives. The novel also changes tense - past to present. This…

Destroying Innocence To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel about prejudice towards people of different races, female orientation, and lower class. In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee reveals that even selfless people can face prejudice from others as seen through the characters of Atticus Finch, Tom Robinson, and Boo Radley. Firstly, Atticus Finch is a kind soul who only wants to help others, but faces prejudice for going against what his community thinks is right. The white…

In 1987, Toni Morrison published her novel, Beloved, examining the consequence of collective trauma experienced by many African Americans due to the monstrosity of slavery. The novel is based on the true story of a black slave woman, named Margaret Garner, who escaped her plantation and killed her own child in order to prevent her from returning to enslavement. In the novel, Margaret Garnet is portrayed by Sethe, who lives at 124 Bluestone Road with her only remaining child, Denver. The house is…

Maycomb, a town that prides itself on southern hospitality and small town values, but it has a dark secret no one adresses. This is the fact that these "values" breed cruelty to those who live in poverty, born a different race, or practice an extreme religion. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird , Harper Lee displays cruelty through three different characters, all with different lifestyles. First, we are introduced to the Ewells. Bob Ewell, who is a notorious drunk, is bitter and outspoken. The…