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    Questions of the Nevermore The black bird that haunts the night, slews towards its prey, and makes no obeisance to any living creature that walks on this earth. The bird of Plutonian shore is what many believe to be the raven. With the raven being a symbol of good and of evil in many different cultures it undoubtedly has its symbol of evil in Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven”. With the narrator, a man of grief for the loss of his wife Lenore, and the raven, a bird that speaks of the word nevermore.…

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    In River Hymns, specifically “Dirt Cakes” and “Southern Silence,” Tyree Daye depicts Youngsville as a small, rural, white majority with racial divisions -- racism. He has a place in the town amongst all of the problems, along with family and friends. The adults in the family have to let loose and forget what has happened throughout the week with drinking and dancing. This shows the backgrowling work that they are forced into and in a bad working environment. He writes in a way that is not happy…

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    It has been said that to achieve something, you have to experience it first. Throughout the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Scout and her brother Jem grow up in the south. During the story, they are presented with many challenges, such as the trial of Tom Robinson. They learn how to best overcome the obstacles, how it affects them, and others around them. Therefore, it could be argued that, throughout the story, real life gives more valuable lessons to Scout and Jem than their school…

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    In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the characterization of Atticus helps to reveal the theme. Jem and Scout have just met Mrs. Dubose, an elderly-racist woman with an ill temper, Jem believes she is a bad woman, and Atticus admires her for her battle with standing up against her morphine addiction. They have also just met their cousin Francis which irritates Scout and tells him things Scout abhors and doesn’t want to hear. Both of these characters have been calling Atticus a nigger-lover, a…

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    To Kill a MockingBird is one of the best novels ever written, but why? To Kill a Mockingbird ,a novel by Harper Lee, is one of the most well known books in the world. It set in a small southern town in Alabama during the Great Depression. It shows how bad of a problem racism was during that time. Narrated by a little girl name Scout, from her point of view, years after the story actually happened. The story has a poor yet cruel white family, a black man accused of rapeing a young white women, a…

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    Jem and Scout’s curiosity can get the best of them in some situations and cause them to become involved with conflicts.An example is, Jem and Scout wanted to find out what Boo Radley looked like because all they have heard is stories. They decide to sneak into the Radley’s backyard and look into the windows. During the middle of their adventure it was brought to a abrupt stop. Scout explained, “Halfway through the collards I tripped; as I tripped the roar of a shotgun shattered the…

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    Unlike all those Marvel stories, nobody is pure“evil” or “ good” in the real world. All the people in the world have done something evil or something good at least once. The one who judges people by a simple “good” or “evil” is the one who has never tried to walk in someone else's shoes. If you don’t understand why I think of that, here is an example. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, before anyone stepped into Boo Radley’s shoes, everybody thought that Boo Radley was just an evil person…

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    A mockingbird is a symbol of innocence, purity, and goodness. Arthur ‘Boo’ Radley is portrayed as one if many mockingbirds in this novel. In ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, Harper Lee uses symbolism, irony, and metaphor to characterize Boo Radley as misunderstood and innocent. Harper Lee metaphorically compares Boo Radley to a monster through Jem’s over exaggerated description of Boo at the beginning of the novel. Jem describes Boo as “about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks” (page…

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    To Kill a Mockingbird was a book with a consistent, and powerful theme throughout the whole story, which was courage and what that means. That theme is shown in some way through every character, be it in courage in excess or a lack of it. Throughout the story, the main characters grow and evolve as they begin to better see the world around them and their horizons expand, and that’s how they find their own courage, and learn to look for it in others. The plot of To Kill a Mockingbird is about…

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    As kids grow, they go through events that mature them over time. In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird there are two protagonists named Scout and Jem. The book starts off with the kids being interested in letting Boo Radley come out of the house, Boo Arthur Radley is a recluse who stays inside and he's rumored to have stabbed his dad in the leg with some scissors, this guy gives gifts to the kids through a tree and contributes to their childhood because of it. The rumors are what condemns Boo’s…

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