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All humans are apt to become prejudiced, and parents play a major role in prejudice acquisition to their children; those children are inclined to look up to their parents. However, Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird portrays a more affirmative image for the development of children; Atticus, Scout’s father and mentor, gives her lessons to stay unprejudiced and make good decisions. Scout actualizes those lessons frequently in the future. She encounters various conflicts which allow her to grow…

You can never Judge a book by it’s cover, and that goes for people too, no matter what they do or say. Until you take the time to understand what’s going on in one's life, you don’t have the entitlement to judge them by their actions, and you don’t know what might be going on in their story. To kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a story about a small town called Maycomb, narrated by a young girl nicknamed Scout. Maycomb is a poor one street town, that consists of racially split, judgemental…

A vast majority of the population has felt functionally invisible at some point in their life. Being functionally invisible can make a person feel unimportant, unheard, and not cared about. Sometimes, in a family discussion, people feel as though their opinion is not recognized. Another situation where somebody feels functionally invisible is in the book, The Schwa was Here, where Old Man Crawley, Antsy, and Lexie feel functionally invisible. Some characters, such as Mr. Crawley, think that…

To kill a Mockingbird can cause courage when you do something or helping someone in need that almost cause your life. There are three characters that really shows courage, they’re Scout, Jem, and Boo. They can show many different way that can shows courage to help and protect. They’ve know that can do something about this story that just only about courage from To kill a mockingbird. Jem shows courage by standing up to Atticus with all of guys who trying to kill Tom Robinson. He tried to…

In the book Year Of No Rain by Alice Mead, Stephen and Wol have different points of view on planing on their futures. On page 19 Stephen was very surprised on how Wol told him what he wanted to leave a family before he went to battle because he said he wanted to get engaged and have a family. On the other hand Stephen was very surprised and doesn’t think about his own future. They are different because one is thinking about his future family before he goes and could lose his life, and Stephen is…

In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee characterizes Tom Robinson as a man who demonstrates the truth that harming something or someone who does no harm to society is wrong. Lee compares Robinson to a mockingbird in that both Tom and the the mockingbird both do no harm to society. Rather, these “mockingbirds” help people in whatever way they can. Whether it be busting up a chiffarobe or singing a beautiful song on a quiet Sunday afternoon, killing a so-called “mockingbird” is most definitely a…

Macomb, Alabama. It appears to be a dreary old town, but get to know it and its inhabitants and you will find that you can learn many valuable things from events and the unique citizens. These themes act as life lessons to Jem and Scout Finch as they mature. As we watch them grow older throughout the novel these themes have a large impact on the people they become. The most meaningful themes are that things are not always as they seem, life is not fair, and that the colour of someone's skin…

There are many people or objects all over the universe that symbolize different meanings; a rose symbolizes love; a chain can symbolize the connection of two objects. In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, people all over the town of Maycomb symbolize different meanings. An example of this would be Boo (Arthur) Radley, or Tom Robinson. These two characters are represented best by a Mockingbird; an animal who is peaceful, innocent, and makes graceful music. They are both citizens of…

Choices are well known due to their ability to affect lives. Choices are sometimes loved and other times, detested. Choice, however, always leads to two ideas. Those ideas are community and identity. Those ideas are even visible in the novel A Long Walk to Water, in which the real-life protagonist Salva walks away from the Sudan civil war and later founds Water for South Sudan. Children that walk to school, as shown in the film On the Way to School also understand these ideas. But how? Choices…

Luke Bryan has worked over the years to become the successful country artist he is today. He grew up working on a farm in Georgia for his father (Luke Bryan Biography 1). In his early teens, he had decided that he wanted to have a career in music (Luke Bryan Biography 1). Luke began writing songs with some help from others (Luke Bryan Biography 1). Many of his songs made it on the Billboard Hot 100, and a lot of his albums made it on the Billboard 200 (Demings Award Section). Although Luke Bryan…