The Kill

Then that is different because you get a chance to see what the person is like based on them not on skin color, or money. Throughout “To Kill a Mockingbird” Scout is a naïve girl who would like to have all the information about something so that she can make her own perspective about it but in the beginning she made childish accusations. As the story progressed she was shown the true colors of people and understands how life is in Maycomb County, Alabama. Near the end she makes better…

To Kill A Mockingbird connects to the reader in many ways one would not expect. In this book, Harper Lee shows many diverse themes such as empathy, loss of innocence, innocent victims, courage, and prejudice. Though the book does in fact show all of these themes, one of theme definitely shine throughout the entire book. The main theme, arguably, would be loss of innocence. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows loss of innocence through the rough experiences and mature events in…

mockingbird, Boo only hurt Bob in defense of the children. He quietly watched and saved the children in their time of need. In further evidence, when Boo Radley was at Scout and Jem’s house and Heck Tate came to the conclusion that Boo had been the one to kill Bob, they decided to cover up the incident This is where Scout realized that Boo was in fact a Mockingbird and says, “it’d be sorta like shootin a mockingbird...” in the case of if they brought action to this innocent person who did not…

significant symbol and was first mentioned in chapter ten when Atticus makes the statement, “Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” By this he suggests that mockingbirds are neither harmful nor destructive and only make music for people to enjoy so therefore would be a sin to kill one, as they have not done anything to deserve it. This is linked to Tom Robinson and less obviously to Boo Radley, as they were both innocent of what they…

cowardly to avoid doing the right thing, and fighting with others definitely doesn’t count as right. Walking away from confrontation actually takes more courage than participating in conflict. Atticus and Scout, two characters from Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, realize that courage walks hand in hand with peace. Lee suggests that the most courageous people often win their battles peacefully, while acting aggressively reveals cowardice.…

Both The Secret Garden and To Kill a Mocking Bird are Bildungsromane. They narrate the psychological and moral growth of two young girls, Mary Lennox and Jean Louise Finch (Scout). The Secret Garden adapts a third person omniscient point of view approach where the narrator scrutinizes the characters, and narrates the story in a way that shows the readers that she has more knowledge about characters than they have knowledge about themselves. To Kill a Mocking Bird, on the other hand, is written…

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…

The narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird exposes us to the diverse nature of her community. Discuss. In To Kill a Mockingbird we are shown a diverse community suffering from racial and social prejudice which is seen through the eyes of Scout Finch. Examples of the diversity of the community are seen in Atticus Finch, Bob Ewell, Tom Robinson and Boo Radley. These members of the community, as seen through Scout’s eyes, are very different in nature, values and status, which allow the reader to feel…

-Mark Twain. When doing the right thing, it may not seem right to all since not everyone shares the same beliefs. This does not mean that a right or wrong does not exist, but shows that its existence is not evident to everyone. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout learns that others’ perceptions of the right thing to do may not be so. She learns this as Atticus constantly tells Scout and Jem to place themselves in the shoes of others and to not join the rest of Maycomb in making bad…

Power has different meanings and stages in different places. To Kill A Mockingbird is an enticing tale, based in the 1930’s, of Jem and Scout Finch and their journeys through Maycomb County, Alabama. One of the biggest plots in this story is when their father, Atticus Finch, is called upon to defend a black man, Tom Robinson. He has been accused of raping a white woman, Mayella Ewell. Mayella is the oldest of the eight children of Bob Ewell. The Ewell family lives in an old “Negro cabin” by the…