Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction

It’s a Sin to Kill Innocence Mimus polyglottos which is also known as the mockingbird, it’s a songbird that is known for its beauty and music. The mockingbird is seen as an innocent creature that does no harm. The novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee is set in the 1930’s and deals with racism and social normalities that were unjust. One of the prominent ideas in the novel is innocence weather it would be child like or when being prosecuted innocence is a driving force for the moral…

The stories Saving Sourdi and A&P have two interesting main characters Nea and Sammy. Nea is a young Asian American girl that is from South Dakota and Sammy is a Nineteen year old boy from Massachusetts. In both of their stories they try and rescue people from situations that they make out to bigger than it is. Nea trying to save her sister and Sammy trying to save three girls that come into his store. They are both rescuers in their own sense but, they both ultimately end up falling short.…

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird contains a title that is very relevant to the plot of the story. The mockingbird is used as a symbol of innocence, and the “killing” of it represents characters like Scout, Jem, and Boo Radley losing their innocence. The story, as told through the eyes of Scout, shows her journey from an innocent six year old to a nine year old who no longer sees the world in such a pure way. This loss of childhood shows clearly how the title relates to the storyline. Similarly…

"Wife" is a poem written by Marra PL. Lanot and was published in 1998. The film of Director Jun Robles Lana "Barber's Tales (Mga Kuwentong Barbero)" is an entry for the 2013 Tokyo International Film Festival where Eugene Domingo won the Best Actress Award. The two literary works are both set in a society dominated by men, where women are confined and marginalized. Also, their main characters are both women who are pressured by the society's expectations of a wife. Poems and films convey their…

Imagine your child is growing up in a short span, being tainted by the evils of man and the hearts of the prejudice. In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout and Jem Finch are forced to age early when their father takes an unpopular side in the courtroom. His children learn the up and downs of being social outcasts who’s father is a ‘nigger-lover’. Although through the course of their unexpected summer, they absorb many aspects of life that even the adults are oblivious to. In Andrew…

Scout Finch, whose real name is Jean Louise Finch, is the main character and narrator in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird. Throughout the book, Scout grows from a small 6-year-old to a 9-year-old, but most of her character traits remain the same. She has so many different traits that make her so interesting to get to know as a narrator and a character. As you read the book, it’s very clear to see Scout is not an ordinary girl. She is a tomboy, who’s very stubborn and impulsive. She has a…

The book the Wringer written by Jerry Spinelli is about a young boy named Palmer, who is afraid of his 10 birthday. This all started when he was really young, because in his town every year his town has a family fest where at the end of the day the people who paid get to shoot pigeons in the soccer field. Which if you are 10 years old you are a wringer which means you run out on the field and break the necks of any pigeon that doesn’t die, And he had a bird hit him after it was shot and a kid…

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a story about two young siblings, Jeremy Atticus Finch, or Jem, and Jean Louise Finch who is mostly referred to as Scout and is the narrator of the story. To Kill A Mockingbird takes place in the deep south called Maycomb, Alabama. Jem and Scout are the major characters in the story, however, there are very important minor characters. Calpurnia, Dill, Heck Tate, and Walter Cunningham are all minor characters that have a significant impact. Minor characters…

The last hard copy piece of literature I read was the novel called “The Tiger’s Wife” by Téa Obreht. It is a 337 page literary fiction, involving magical realism, politics, and the supernatural. I read “The Tiger’s Wife” for english class and it took about one or two months to read the book. Although this is true, if I truly had time to read it without making annotations and journal entries, it would have taken only one day to read.The novel includes four important characters; Natalia,…

Children of all ages always try to ignore their parents, especially the advice and wisdom they give them, but some chose to take that advice and use it. To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, is a historical fiction book based in Maycomb, Alabama, in the 1930s. The book is told by Jean Louise “Scout” one of the main characters along with Jem, Scouts brother, and Atticus Finch, their father. The book tells the reader about their daily lives and what their small town is like, and how one…