Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction

Nature creates different types of organisms, and usually they have different living habits, such as in terms of how to spend the winter, and every creature can rely on their own unique way from the harsh climate to survive, and you can go to adapt to the changing environment. But, even if there is no relationship between the animal such as ground squirrels and Monarch butterfly that will also have the same point in winter on the way. The ground squirrels are members of the squirrel family of…

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee , there are many examples where the town acts in a prejudiced way. The town is set in the 1930s,where there are problems with racism, especially in Maycomb. Throughout the story Jean Louise Finch (Scout) , learns that not everybody views each other equally, mainly in the Tom Robinson trial. Scout is exposed to the comments and actions of prejudice by the townsfolk. Such examples are the description of Boo Radley , the town drunk Dolphous Raymond.…

Throughout chapters one to five, I began to have a new perspective on the characters from what I had judged before reading the book. Scout I feel like a major archetype for Scout is Loss of Innocence. The reason I think this is such a major archetype is because of the various tasks she is faced with throughout the chapters. The most evident example of this archetype was when Atticus explains to her that she should not judge people, but understand what they are going through. Atticus said to her…

To Kill A Mockingbird Essay Ursula K.Le Guin once said “There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.” That point being, coming of age, Harper Lee uses coming of age in the town of Maycomb through Jem and Scout. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses Jem and Scout’s coming of age to convey to her 1960s readers that even the young and innocent have the…

Songtai Spring Final Exam TKAM Essay Questions Essay (A) To kill a Mockingbird has always been widely considered as a growing up and coming of age story. The main character that is growing through the story is Scout Finch, who is about to turn six years old when the book begins and turned eight when the book ends. The book is about what she learns about the people and life over the course of two years. Scout learn three major lessons from the experience, she learns partly from Atticus and…

was apoplectic” (115). Scout is explaining to the readers how Mrs. Dubose reacted to Jem calling his father by his first name which is atticus. Compared to all of the other conflicts Jem has overcome this one was a walk in the park for him. The prize winning Novel takes place in the small southern town of Maycomb County, where Mrs. Dubose lived. Scout explains that Mrs. Dubose lives in Maycomb County with them “Mrs. Dubose lived alone except for a Negro girl in constant attendance, she lived…

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…