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It is explained to readers that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird, for they only provide us with melodies, and cause no harm, unlike other pests, so the mockingbird is a creature that represents innocence, which is key to the message of this book. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee incorporates symbolism of the mockingbird concept to reveal innocence in two similar and alienated citizens of Maycomb. From the start, the character Boo Radley becomes an obsession to the Finch children. To the…

Menacing a Mockingbird This novel is titled To Kill A Mockingbird because Lee suggests that killing something that only does good, and causes no harm, is prejudicial. To Kill a Mockingbird, by author Harper Lee, is a novel centered around a black man accused of raping a white woman. The narrator is a young girl named Scout who has a brother named Jem and her dad, Atticus, is a lawyer. In this novel, Harper Lee focuses on the meaning of the mockingbird: it is pleasing to us and does no harm.…

Boo! The monster. In To Kill a Mockingbird Scout learns she shouldn’t judge people because they aren’t like what everyone thinks. Scout did a play making fun of Boo Radley and would go to his house and taunt him,but Boo saves Scout in the end. Scout would act out a play with her brother Jem. This play would act out the rumors about Boo and his family.”Scout, how’s he gonna know what we're doin’...He died years ago and they stuffed him up the chimney.” This quote allows the reader to see that…

You can never judge a book by its cover. Harper Lee uses a lot of figurative language and irony throughout the story in order to help readers and the characters, understand more about looking at a situation from other people's perspective. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee the author emphasises the prospect of climbing into someone else's skin by showing how Scout was able to see things through Boo Radley’s perspective, when Jem read to Ms.Dubose, and by making readers understand…

In the story To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee courage among many other things is a key theme in the story. There are two characters that comes to mind when I think of courage in the story and those people are Atticus Finch and Boo Radley. These two characters show tremendous courage throughout the story from saving the kids to defending Tom Robinson even though it puts their life and privacy at risk. The real courage here is putting the needs and wants of others in front of their own. A…

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…

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…

Want to know what the worst words you can ever here are? “Hey Alex, let’s go to the haunted house up in the mountains!” Of course, you substitute your name for my name because you’re not me and… anyway, the point of the story is that those words can really ruin a weekend. It was a typical Friday afternoon; Colin was backflipping out of a tree. To understand how Colin gets his ideas, you have to understand how monkeys decide to eat bananas. Which I don’t, so if you figure it out please tell me,…

Atticus Finch is a father of two children, Jeremey Atticus “Jem” Finch, and Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird. Jem is the oldest son and Scout is the youngest girl, Jem and Scout make a friend by the name of Charles Baker “Dill” Harris. The children know that Atticus loves them, but Atticus does not show it very well since his wife died. Atticus has certain rules that he wants his children to follow, but when they do not follow his rules they have consequences.…

Believe it or not To Kill a Mockingbird is a love story in numerous ways. This novel shows love by the way characters treat each other and care for others. Atticus cares for his kids and treats them like a loving parent would. Jem, Dill, and Scout care about each other like best friends should, and they also care about others. Atticus's devotion to Tom Robinson's case is a great example of how To Kill a Mockingbird is a love story. To begin with, the way Atticus treats and cares for Scout…