Sweet Home Alabama

“The Mockingbird” In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee there are many lessons to learn and themes to follow. One theme that shows up throughout the novel is “The Mockingbird” When the Jem and Scout receive air guns for Christmas Atticus tells the children, “I’d rather you shoot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird (Lee 90).” The mockingbird represents the innocence of some of…

by Bob Ewell. Bob was following the kids in the woods at night to kill them to indirectly harm Attcus, but Boo was there to stop him. He also carried Jem back to their house because he was unconscious from Bob beating him. Not only did he bring him home, he stayed at their house to make sure he was going to be ok. A way they figuratively killed Boo is by making up multiple false stories about him. The only fact ever said…

was written about a little girl living in Maycomb Alabama in 1930. She and her brother are obsessed with Arthur Radley, a recluse living with his older brother Nathan Radley. Scout's father is a lawyer and has to defend a black man named Tom Robinson, accused of raping Mayella Ewell, Bob Ewell's daughter. The jury says Tom is guilty and he is thrown in jail then murdered. After the trial Scout has to participate in a play for Halloween, on her way home her and her brother gets attacked by Bob…

put a blanket on scout’s back to keep her warm. “Boo Radley. You were so busy looking at the fire you didn’t know it when he put the blanket around you.” (Lee, 72) Later on in this book, the children are attacked by Mr Ewell one night while walking home from the pageant. Boo brought up the courage to save the children even though the entire town gossiped about…

Most people define courage as a man with a gun. In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird we follow the characters Atticus Scout and Jem Finch. Through the book Jem figures it out the hard way and scout gets is kind of easy. Jem showed his courage by helping scout when ever she needed help. Scout shows courage by standing up for her dad when the kids in her school called him a nigger lover. Through the character of Atticus Harper Lee shows the reader what true courage is. Courage is doing some thing…

in St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves and Sonny’s Blues. The girls in St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves were told to abandon their wolf nature and they embarked on the difficult task of changing everything they knew about the world. Sonny in Sonny’s Blues was a Harlem raised kid with a dim future who turned to heroin and had trouble deserting it, as most heroin addicts do. These challenges stemmed from their childhood environments. The characters in St. Lucy’s Home for Girls…

Cleo and the Leopard Cleo and the Leopard lived in the same neighborhood, sometimes even in the same tree, but never at the same time, because they were not friends. But they understood each other’s speech and sometimes spoke to each other. As a baboon, Cleo spoke more than the Leopard. Words came to her readily because she was always talking with the other baboons. The Leopard was usually silent. When the Leopard tried to sneak up on some tasty little mongoose under Cleo’s tree, she and…

In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Lee gives many life themes that all are life lessons for the reader and Scout the main character. Throughout the book many themes are shown but two that really stick out to me were compassion and courage. These themes stick out because when reading about Scout growing up we see her develop into a more compassionate and courageous person in the way she acts and presents herself. Furthermore, these themes serve great life lessons for the reader and help them…

she needs it. He cuts up wood for her on his way home from working in the fields. The second mockingbird is Boo Radley. Boo loves seeing Jem and Scout play outside everyday and he cares about them. Boo leaves gifts for them in a tree trunk by his house. Mockingbirds leave us gifts, gifts of music. He saved Jem and Scouts life from Mr.Ewell. He was drunk one night and attacked them. Boo stabbed him in the ribs and he died. He then took Jem home and laid him in his bed.…

try to see the world from their perspective. In To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, there are a handful of characters who can’t be fully understood at a first glance. A few of these characters are Boo Radley, who keeps himself shut inside his own home, Tom Robinson, a young black man falsely accused of rape, and Mayella Ewell, the daughter of Bob Ewell who was supposedly raped by Tom Robinson. A few characters in To Kill a Mockingbird are misunderstood, and to understand them better you’d have…