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Symbolism The title, To Kill a Mockingbird, has little connection to the actual plot, yet it holds great symbolic weight in the book. The story is based off of innocents destroyed by evil, making the mockingbird the symbol for innocence. A number of characters can be represented by a mockingbird throughout the book, including Tom Robinson, Boo Radley, and the mad dog. The connection made between the title and the main theme of the novel is made explicit in the novel multiple times. After Tom…

In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, prejudice had a major impact in Maycomb County. Harper Lee brought the Finch family and other memorable characters to explore prejudice in the segregated Southern United States of the 1930s. Told through the eyes of Scout Finch, the reader learns about her father Atticus Finch, an attorney who hopelessly strives to prove the innocence of a black man unjustly accused of rape; the reader also learns about Boo Radley, a mysterious neighbor who saves Scout and…

Importance of Minor Characters Minor Characters have been overlooked and sometimes deemed unimportant in books, movies, and plays. Perhaps we are wrong maybe they are important to stories. Harper Lee the author of To Kill a Mockingbird makes the point that minor characters are possibly important to books. Looking at the three minor characters in To Kill a Mockingbird Mrs Dubose, Boo Radley, and Mr Underwood it is evident that Minor Characters in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird teach the main…

Often complying with morals is difficult when others seemingly have no problem choosing to ignore them. This statement is not true for Atticus Finch, whose moral compass leads him to always do the right thing. To Kill a Mockingbird focuses on the impact of morals on society and on an innocent man’s life. When an African American, Tom Robinson, is wrongly accused of raping Caucasian Mayella Ewell, Atticus Finch is assigned to defend him. Institutionalized racial bias is still common in the South…

Harper Lee’s classic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, follows the story of a young girl named Scout progressing from an immature, naïve mentality to a more mature one, brought upon by the cruel events which occur amidst the lazy Southern town in which she lives. Lee explores the idea of social conditioning contributing to the darkness that is so apparent in society, and commends those who fight against it. She acknowledges the bravery of individuals who overcome personal darkness, but also…

To kill a mockingbird a novel written by Harper Lee. Represents the characters linked with the mockingbird which sung without hurting anybody to illustrate how people were injustice and judgment of innocent people like Boo Radley and Tom Robinson, who mentioned in the novel. Scout Finch narrates her story as a child and what happened in Maycomb town, Alabama. Her point of view illustrates the prejudice of the people. Her story happened during the 1930s scout live with her father and her brother…

In the book “To kill a Mockingbird” Atticus is the father of both Scout and Jem. Now let’s talk about Atticus relationship with his kids, so far their bond is “okay”. Because since they treat each other equally as if their just people who know each other. Throughout the book not once had Jem or Scout call Atticus as dad or father, they just call him by his first name. So far Atticus has treated both his kids fairly and with respect. No matter what trouble his children are in, he still treats…

Throughout the book, Scout develops an understanding or her reclusive neighbor, Arthur Radley. Scout, the youngest child of Atticus and her deceased mother, spends her summers playing with her brother, Jem, and their neighbor. Their favorite and frequently played game is a play of their solitary neighbor’s life in which they act out his delinquent past. Scout describes their game, “[the children] had manufactured a small play upon which [they] rang changes every day.” (39) Every day, Scout…

No one can remember any more exactly how it came about that the black bear Wakini overpowered the strong gray grizzly Wakinu. The black bears say that Wakini was just feeding on the contents of an ant hill when Wakinu came up to him and quite rudely stuck his paw in as well.A great fight ensued, with gray and black hairs flying on every side. Wakini was, of course, in the right, for no animal may ever touch another's prey.Wakinu thus received a just punishment; but that was by no means all --…

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is set in the fictional southern town of Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression. The story began with Scout introducing the story of how her brother, Jem, break his arm. Two subplots are followed through the novel which are the mystery of Arthur “Boo” Radley and Atticus, Scout’s father, taking on the case of an African American allegedly raping a white woman. Throughout the novel, many themes become prevalent in the actions of the Maycomb people. One of…