Symbolism in To Kill a Mockingbird Essay

Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Injustice anywhere, is a threat to justice everywhere”. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, author Harper Lee, addresses the wicked society in which injustice is served based upon the withstanding prejudice and racism the town of Maycomb contains. Lee addresses this to the reader through the use of characters that symbolize the victims of the society's prejudice that lead them into injustice. Tom Robinson, Boo Radley and Atticus Finch are among those who have…

In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, which takes place during the great depression, Harper Lee uses symbolism, which is using a object to represent an idea, such as the mockingbird. The mockingbird stands for innocence and purity. In her novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses Arthur ‘Boo’ Radley, Tom Robinson, and Mayella Ewell as human “Mockingbirds” to contribute to the overall theme of innocence and purity. First, Lee uses Arthur ‘Boo’ Radley as a Mockingbird, Boo Radley’s a adult who…

the nature of innocence in children in order to expose cruelty and evil in the adult world through various techniques, ideas, and visions. Whilst the techniques of symbolism, irony, and narrative perspective are employed throughout both texts, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas also relies on music and sound effects. To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960 and has since become a classic of modern American literature. The novel’s plot and characters are loosely inspired by Harper Lee’s…

In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the characterization of Atticus helps to reveal the theme. Jem and Scout have just met Mrs. Dubose, an elderly-racist woman with an ill temper, Jem believes she is a bad woman, and Atticus admires her for her battle with standing up against her morphine addiction. They have also just met their cousin Francis which irritates Scout and tells him things Scout abhors and doesn’t want to hear. Both of these characters have been calling Atticus a nigger-lover, a…

When Mrs. Dubose comments to Scout and Jem as they pass by her porch, in this scene setting plays a crucial role. ¨To Kill a Mockingbird¨ takes place in a town called Maycomb in southern Alabama. Throughout the 1930s racism in the South was common and was seen normal to many white people in this time period. In this scene, Mr Dubose is seen unhappy because Atticus had chosen to defend Tom Robinson, she begins to show racism when she says ¨Your Father’s no better than the niggers and trash he…

In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill A Mockingbird there are many examples of symbolism with a mockingbird being one of the strongest and most prominent of these examples. A mockingbird represents innocence in this novel and can be related to several different characters and situations throughout the novel. Such as, Tom Robinson, Boo Radley and the Finch children, Jem and Scout. The mockingbird also represents innocence, the lack of innocence, and how innocence can be lost quickly in a place like…

To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee was born in 1926, she is very well known for her 1960 Pulitzer Prize winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird (). Her father was a lawyer in their hometown Monroeville Alabama. He defended two black men, a father and a son, who were accused of murdering a white store clerk, similar to Atticus in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird (). Lee’s mother was a home keeper, she suffered from a very rare illness so she rarely left their home and also may have had a bipolar…

of a struggle when no one would do what is truly the honorable thing to do. Moral courage is present in many stories. In To Kill a Mockingbird and The Sword in the Stone through symbolism and theme. The theme for both of these text are, always do the right thing even when you stand alone. In To Kill a Mockingbird the main symbol used through this book is the mockingbird and how it is gentle and kind and harming it in any way is a sin and wrong. Lee demonstrates this when we find out the Bob…

Lesson Learned In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus teaches the children and the reader that mockingbirds stand for innocence. Atticus is telling Jem and Scout not to shoot the birds to teach them they are harmless. This is a book like no other because it has many examples of symbolism, such as Scout and Boo. The mockingbird has both a literal and hidden meaning throughout the story. Atticus is telling his children not to shoot the mockingbirds for reasons he does not explain. When…

¨To Kill A Mockingbird¨ is an good example of both human morals and discrimination. Through symbolism, conflict and characterization Harper Lee illustrates that discriminating against people because they are different is unfair because you haven’t even given them a chance. People are prejudice although slaves were freed by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 by an act called the ¨Emancipation Proclamation¨ people still underestimated blacks and treated them as if they weren’t equal to whites. Harper Lee…