Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction

The main character scout is a little girl who grew up in a small town called Maycomb. Scout is not like the other little girls she has boy like qualities and is smart, she can read and wright unlike other girls her age. Scout is raised by her father Atticus with her brother Jem. Scout tends to act more like a boy by wearing overalls and doing activities that a girl would not do. In the beginning of the story scout is an innocent little girl who discovers the evil of man kind and is soon as the…

Living in the south during times of racism was difficult for the people of Maycomb county. Atticus Finch is a lawyer and has 2 children named Jem and Scout. They learn many lessons about family, life and love while their father has to defend Tom Robinson during the trial. There are many themes that the author develops throughout the story. Some of these themes include hypocrisy, innocence and racism. Atticus illustrates the characteristics of bravery in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird by…

Upon hearing about the trial, where Atticus chooses to defend Tom Robinson who is an African American, Jem witnesses the nature of people and the darkside of them. Atticus was courageous for doing something that is just and not necessary. But as a father, he wanted to show Jem a different kind of courage. Not like the type that it will take to pull out a gun. Atticus explains, “ I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hands”,…

Moving Character The lessons that will be focused on from the literature this year are all acts of character. From verses of the Bible to the reading of good wholesome books, this year’s literature reading has come with many lessons. In this paper only three will be focused on. The character these people have in the books and the Bible are truly inspiring and makes one desire to have such. Atticus’s colossal courage to stand morally right, a quality friend displaying faithfulness and Reuven’s…

In her novel, Harper Lee utilizes Boo Radley as a character who shows social inequality. Harper Lee vividly captures the effect She depicts Boo Radly as a monstrous and mysterious creature through the eyes of child, ‘Long jagged scar that ran across his face.’ Lee uses personification to describe Boo Radley through the imagination of Scout and Jem. Lee employs the word ‘ran across’ to reinforce the idea that Jem has imagined Boo to be a terrifying creature because Jem has not seen Boo come…

“My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem,” said Gwyneth Paltrow, actor said this quote about her father. I think the quote goes well with the character Atticus from the book To Kill A Mockingbird. Scout and Jem kids go to him with a lot of different question and for his opinions. Atticus is a wise father, a clever lawyer, and a brave man. The first example is shown in how Atticus is a wise father. He always taught the kids lessons about equality and courage…

When we were young, we were told that Santa Claus exists; that’s our belief, or truth. When we grow up, we come to realize that Santa Clause isn’t real, that’s reality. In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout and her brother Jem are exposed to many injustices of Maycomb. As the story progresses, perceptions and ideas that the characters, especially the children, once held to be “True” turn out to be false, thus producing a new reality. The two primary examples of that are Tom…

I am reading the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The first chapter is about a group of kids that are trying to make a virtually unseen man named Boo Radley, come of his house. In this journal I will be predicting and characterizing. I predict that the kids will not meet boo for many reasons. First, Boo is always locked up and is rarely seen. The Radley household is closed weekdays, as well as Sundays. Normal townsfolk would usually go to church, and after that, would talk and chat…

Similar to shooting a mockingbird, there were a multitude of innocent people that were persecuted in the novel for being different, At the beginning of the novel, when Atticus gave Jem and Scout air rifles, he explained to them why they could not shoot at mockingbirds. Evident from the previous quote, a mockingbird does nothing but valuable qualities and so there is no justification whatsoever for harming a mockingbird. In the novel, mockingbirds, in essence, represented the best part best part…

they get off at the dirty part of town and why they don't have a car. His grandmother answers him wonderfully and helps him see the good in everything that they have. - I would use this story to explain diversity and talk about materialistic vs non-materialistic items. A Ball for Daisy by: Chris Rashaka - Picture book - Caldecott- 2012 - This story is about a dog named Daisy and her favorite red ball. She took this ball everywhere and slept with it every night. One day,…