Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction

To Kill a Mockingbird is a book written by Harper Lee. Later adapted into a film of the same name, To Kill a Mockingbird follows our protagonist Jean “Scout” Finch and her small family, consisting of her father and her brother, as she grows up in a small town in Alabama during the 1930s. Using scenes from the film, I will be discussing Scouts personality, as showcased by her actions and through dialogue, and attempting to decipher and explain her personality traits using the behavioral/social…

Fear in To Kill A Mockingbird In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, Scout, the narrator, exemplifies fear throughout Maycomb by way of many different characters. Within in the first few pages of To Kill A Mockingbird, Scout, the narrator says “But it a time of vague optimism for some of the people: Maycomb county had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself.” (6) This is illustrated in many examples throughout the novel. To start, the people of Maycomb county quiver…

It is the tendency of adults to preserve the innocence of children as long as possible. This is true in both “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, and “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelo. In each of these novels, adults futilely attempt to protect the innocense of the children by shielding them from the adversities of society and this is evident in Scouts experience with Boo, Jem’s maturity, and when Maya was raped by Mr.Freeman. The first instance of the destruction of innocence…

Society doesn’t worry about people with disabilities. Mark Haddon’s novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, follows the theme of “sometimes people are born with disabilities, but it’s communities that handicap them.” Christopher is put in a school where he is not thought of to be as smart as some of the other students because of his disability. His dad disables him by telling him a bunch of big lies when he told Christopher to never lie. Mark Haddon disables Christopher just by…

The Color Purple is an epistolary novel written in1982 by Alice Walker. She was born to sharecropper parents in Eatonton, Georgia, in 1944. She is Pulitzer Prize-winning, African-American novelist and poet most famous for authoring The Color Purple. The Color Purple novel presents three black women who have struggles on their lives, and their society forces them to live like slaves and maids .They fight to achieve independency and freedom from men domination. Moreover, the novel creates a link…

A living person is identified as someone that is a living creature, that includes having a range of emotions that distinguish character traits. A book that showcases this successfully is “The Old Man and the Sea” a novel written by Ernest Hemingway that was published on September 1, 1952. It tells the story of a fisherman named Santiago that has had no luck in catching fish in 84 days. There is also a boy named Manolin, and together they help each other in many ways until one day Manolin leaves…

Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn is a great novel that gives us a look into the culture and actions of people in the pre-civil war south. Mark did it by including certain townspeople to show off a trait off the south. He uses the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons to show how violent and aggressive the south was. He also included the Duke and the King with how there was no trust and good law enforcement in the south. Lastly, he included Tom Sawyer's Aunt and Uncle. They show how the south wasn’t all…

Jem’s perspectives In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mocking Bird, Jem matures in many ways, one of these ways is his perspective of their neighbor Boo Radley. He starts out believing what most others believe going along with the fact that boo is a terrible monster. Jem is a young boy who wants to know everything and because of this throughout the start of the novel he will tell scout facts that he made up or tell rumors that he has heard, “he died years ago and they stuffed him up the chimney.” In…

A mockingbird does not harm anybody without reason; all they do is sing their hearts out for us. Harper lee uses the symbol of a mockingbird as two very similar characters to portray the meaning and significance of the symbol of innocence. Much like a Mockingbird, boo Radley stays in the quiet comfort of his house not bothering anyone. However, Boo Radley really emphasized the innocent protection part of a mockingbird in the scene where he saves Jem and Scout from being attacked by Bob Ewell, “.…

Baba Yaga is a mythological figure from Russian folktales. She lives in a house that moves around on the long legs of a chicken. There is a fence made of bones from children as well as their skulls on pikes. Finding this mysterious house could either mean death by cannibalism or wisdom and maybe a trinket to help on a journey or situation. Baba Yaga herself is an ugly witch that helps heroes, but with no moral code she does enjoy eating children classifying Baba Yaga as a trickster with her…