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One of the main characters in “To Kill a Mockingbird,” by Harper Lee is Atticus Finch. He is a lawyer and the father of Jem and Scout. Soon after his nine-year-old daughter, Scout, was born, his wife died, so Atticus is a single parent in his late forties. In “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Atticus defends a man accused of rape, but the people of Maycomb don't approve that Atticus, “...aims to defend him,” (Lee 218). Atticus still does what's right despite what everyone else thinks. Atticus's parenting…

While reading both Judge Heath Till’s “Manners, Morals, Customs, and Public Perception”, and Harper Lee’s book To Kill a Mockingbird, they both show alike Southern civility. Both Till and Lee have related ideas on the topic such as what to call adults, how to say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’, the importance of family, and other manners and customs shown primarily South. Lee’s novel is set in the 1930s during the Great Depression, and many terms and phrases that Till uses in his essay are reflected…

In To Kill A Mockingbird, Arthur “Boo” Radley is a man who stayed at home all the time. Since he stayed at home, people made up rumors about him. Jem, for instance, told Scout and Dill that Boo is six-and-a-half feet tall, he would dine on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch. There is a long jagged scar that ran across his face; his white teeth turned into yellow and rotten. For the people in Maycomb, they made up rumors saying that when he was young, Boo and his friends was in the wrong…

The second novel was Enclave, written by Ann Aguirre. This novel follows Deuce, a teenager girl in the College enclave during “a post-apocalyptic future” (p. 0). It starts with her earning the right to a name and a job - her job being a huntress. As a huntress, her hunting partner was Fade - a “mysterious outsider” and an outcast of the enclave (p. 0). She and her partner are sent to investigate the Nassau enclave and just a couple of days after they returned, the elders exiled for “hoarding”.…

Scout’s ideas about who Boo Radley is and what he is like change throughout the novel as she gains experience. At the beginning of the novel Scout has the idea that Boo Radley is a bad man who has done terrible things. Jem and Scout are walking to school together and must pass the Radley house to get to school. They are talking to another kid who says ”Almost died first year I come to school and et them pecans-folks say he pizened ‘em over on the school side of the fence.” (Lee 31)Many kids…

The title to kill a mockingbird relates to tom Robinson and boo Radley because it is a sin to kill a mockingbird because their innocent and have done nothing wrong. Just like tom Robinson was innocent and did nothing wrong. And how boo Radley didn’t really do anything to anyone they both did good things for no real reason other than just to do it out of their own will. Hey both relate and represent a mocking bird n both ways tom Robinson was a victim and was also a witness that was not only…

The destruction of innocence is a huge topic in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the collage that I made portrays the book's theme immensely, while also showing the mistakes of small town civilians and the hushing of diversity within them. Courage is expressed by multiple characters in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. The photos that I have used in my collage show courage in such a powerful way, as Atticus facing the rabid dog. Although Atticus had a rifle, he's an elder guy, his…

In Toni Morrison's novel Beloved, Denver is seen as the hero. Her heroic activities depict that of a reluctant hero. A reluctant hero is characterized as a common individual with a few deficiencies or a beset past, and he/she is pulled reluctantly into gallant acts. Before the end of the novel Denver changes into a more complete individual because of the battles she perseveres. Denver meets the criteria of a reluctant hero because she requests assistance from her community to drive Beloved out…

I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, and I am on page 305. The story so far is about the trial of Tom Robinson and the questioning of the lawyers. In this journal, I will be characterizing Tom Robinson. While reading this book I can see that Tom Robinson has good characteristic traits but I am only going to talk about two of them. Tom Robinson is very kind and loving man. He helped Mayella by doing small jobs not expecting money from her. He helped her because he had such a big…

As history has proven time and time again, racism and fear have disastrous effects on the society in which it’s established. To Kill a Mockingbird is about a father with two children who must undergo the racism in their hometown of Maycomb, to win the trial of Tom Robinson, an innocent black man accused of rape. While the trial takes place, the discrimination starts to arise and the people of Maycomb are blinded by fear. In Harper Lee’s most famous book, To Kill a Mockingbird, she shows how…