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To Kill a Mockingbird Essay Influences can be good or bad. In to Kill a MockingBird, written by Harper Lee, it is the same way for Scout and Jem Finch . There are multiple influences that affect them in some way. Some are very indirect but the influences are still there. The people that help shape Jem and Scout are Atticus, Bob Ewell, and Tom Robinson. They play major roles on how the children react. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the townspeople of Maycomb county help shape the kind of…

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is an intriguing book that I read over the summer. The setting takes place in Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s. As slavery was abolished just about seventy years ago, it is certain that racism and prejudice against blacks would still be present at the time of this story. This story is fascinating considering that it is told through a child who is clearly clueless about what is happening; creating some form of dramatic irony. It demonstrates to the readers many…

There is one way in this country in which all men are created equal - there is one institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution ... is a court of law. A story told through the eyes of Scout Finch, you learn about her father Atticus Finch, an attorney who hopelessly strives to prove the innocence of a black man unjustly accused of rape; and about Boo Radley, a…

“To Kill a Mockingbird,” is a novel by Harper Lee. This story is told throughout the eyes of Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, a 6-year-old girl. The book is set in Maycomb County, Alabama during the Great Depression. Although most of the town is suffering, her family is doing well because of her father, Atticus, who is a well-known lawyer. Scout has an older brother named Jeremy “Jem” Finch, who is 10 years old. During the summer, they meet a boy named Charles “Dill” Harris, who they become friends…

The books To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou feature this endeavor in their own unique ways. A dominating message within both stories asserts that observing the discriminatory nature of humans is a key source in a child’s compilation of precepts. Each of the books, taking place in the early twentieth century, displayed many incidents involving racism and harsh judgement in which the children gleaned knowledge from. In To Kill a Mockingbird…

The novel To Kill a Mockingbird contains many different literary devices that the author, Harper Lee, portrays throughout the book. The most abundant of the literary devices is the author’s use of theme. Some themes are more thoroughly extended upon and made detectable by Harper Lee. Although some examples of theme throughout the novel are very subtle, the ones described in this paper are the most easily detected and have the most accounts in the novel. Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird the…

many different forms. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird authored by Harper Lee and in the four articles, Things We Do For Love, The bravest thing you have ever done, The power of real girls, and finally Runaway slave on the Wisconsin-Canada line, the novel and articles alike all explain that a hero doesn’t have to be an almighty super hero, but an average mom or even a slave in earlier times. Though these articles aren’t directly connected with the story To Kill A Mockingbird all of these…

The title of the book “To Kill a Mockingbird,” though not very obvious until told in the book, has a very large and powerful meaning behind it. It is a metaphor relating to the innocence of a mockingbird, and how innocence can be killed (like killing a mockingbird). There are many examples of this innocence, and some examples of how the innocence is killed as well. This is shown through characters like: Tom Robinson, Boo Radley, and Scout and Jem Finch. Tom Robinson is an example of killing the…

To Kill A Mockingbird, written in 1960 by Harper Lee, is a classic in modern American literature, and a Pulitzer prize winner in 1961. The novel explains the very complicated, but engaging life of Jean Louise Finch, or as her friends called her, Scout. To Kill A Mockingbird tells the story of a town called Maycomb from Scout’s point of view, and introduces the audience to Scout’s brother named Jem and their friend, Dill. Scout depicts everything in Maycomb from the haunted house of Boo Radley to…