Pulitzer Prize for the Novel

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…

from Atticus and partly from herself. The first lesson that Scout learned is that you won’t understand someone until you “put yourself in their shoes.” In fact, I think it took her the longest time to fully understand this lesson. The first part of novel mostly showed that Scout totally get this wrong. For example, across the street that Scout lives is the Radley's house, and there is a man who lives there but never come out named Arthur Radley, children in Maycomb always pictured him as a scary…

Troublemaker Grows Up What would you expect from a troublemaker ? In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird written by Harper Lee the story focuses on the lives of brother and sister. Jem and Scout Finch, Jem is a Scout's older brother, who likes to cause trouble. This essay i am writing will tell you about the ups and downs of Jem's life, and how it helped him to grow up. In chapter 11, Jem and Mrs. Dubose have a person vs. person external conflict everytime him and Scout pass by her hous. Scout…

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…

are mistreated not only by members of other races, but by members of their own as well. Sisterhood in The Color Purple is one of the driving forces for good in this novel. It is through sisterhood and the solidarity between each woman that gives strength to each character involved. Through the bond of sisterhood, the women in this novel experience…

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…

In this set of materials, the reading part discusses the ways and solutions that are represented for preventing injuries to birds from building that the glass is used in them. The listening section casts doubt on the information presented in the passage and argues that this three represented solutions are not effective suggestions and utilizing of them can't be useful and effective for preventing injuries to birds. Frist, the text posits that people can replace the regular glass with one-way…

One to Five times a week someone I don’t know that well will make some statement on my appearance, whether it's my hair, clothes, body shape or actions, so I smile and laugh and hide who I truly am so people don’t judge me. This happens to people every day and some don’t even realize their hiding to avoid judgement. Although people can choose how they dress and act, they usually don’t dress and act like they want to, because they don’t want to be judged. People dress and act differently around…

The vast majority of people in the world are good, but there are always some who are bad. There are people who make peace and there are people who break peace. Different people can be represented by different symbols or other things. The mockingbird in the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is used as a symbol that represents innocence and peace. Two characters from Lee’s book that the mockingbird would best represent are Boo(Arthur) Radley and Tom Robinson, for they are both innocent…