The Kill

“Scout.” In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout, friend Dill, and brother Jem, must face friends and family turning on them, as father Atticus makes a life changing decision of defending a black man in court in the 1930’s, a time of racial injustice and segregation. Also the articles Lynching by Mark Twain, and Why I Joined the Klan, by Studs Terkel, corroborate the themes throughout To Kill a Mockingbird. The three most prominent themes in To Kill a Mockingbird and these articles…

The mockingbird is but a solitary bird. It keeps to itself and does no harm unless attacked. In Harper Lee’s novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird”, she creates a metaphoric picture of innocence using a mockingbird. In a conversation with his son, Jem, Atticus Finch says, “Shoot all the blue jays you can, but it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird”. In this award winning classic, Harper Lee shows many examples of mockingbirds. Perhaps most prominent among these are Tom Robinson, Jem and Scout, and Arthur…

There are many motivators for Macbeth’s decision to kill Duncan, the king of Scotland. Macbeth, the Thane of Cawdor, desperately wants to become king, Lady Macbeth convinces Macbeth to continue any time his conviction falters, and the weird sisters tell Macbeth that he will be king in the future. Although all of these are influential, the most influential are the weird sisters. When the weird sisters tell Macbeth that he will become king, this creates a great desire for Macbeth to become king.…

Hamlet could have stricken. But he actually delays his revenge with his reasoning being: if he killed Claudius while he is appealing to God, Claudius would end up going to heaven. The text is rephrased as I better not send the same man who kills my father to heaven. But between the lines, exactly why does Hamlet delay? According to Jackson G. Barry, Hamlet delays the revenge to “build the suspense of the head-on conflict between Hamlet and Claudius by keeping the nature of Hamlet’s evidence…

Have you ever heard a mockingbird sing? Well, did you know it is a sin to Kill a Mockingbird? In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus says it is a sin. Atticus is a father to 2 children and has a maid named Calpurnia. Scout and Jem would always walk to school together, and they would pass an old scary looking house, that they would call the Radley Place where Boo Radley lived in, and would not come out. Dill comes along to hang out with Jem and Scout for the summers. When Tom Robinson, an…

and it was his family. Reputation from neighborhood is good and his reputation in school was also good too. However, he was killed his family members even if he did not kill his sister and brother…

When you kill a best friend, it’s not the easiest thing to do, but when it is for their best interest, it makes it easier to understand why. When George kills Lennie in the Salinas Valley, it is significant because this is where the book started and ended. Also, at this time, Lennie is feeling extremely lonely and feels like a burden to George. Lennie is saying how he just wants to let George live his life. George and Lennie were always thinking about their friendship, so when it came time for…

“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”(119) In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, a mockingbird is a representation of the innocence of a child that has yet to be corrupted by the evil, hypocrisy, and injustice in adult society. Growing up in Alabama in the 1930’s, Scout and Jem Finch and their friends Boo…

For this project, I decided to illustrate my interpretations of the mad dog scene in chapter 10 of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. With the many options I had to choose from, I wanted to draw because I am not creative enough to write something originally. I believed I would more inclined to feel less stressed and angry if I were to draw instead of write. I chose this scene to draw because I thought it was an important scene in the book, representing many aspects of racism and courage. The…

he never sinned. Innocence is basically the opposite of being guilty. Similarly In To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, the Symbol of a Mockingbird symbolizes innocence. Harper Lee, in her novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, uses the literary technique of symbolism of a mockingbird to show how the characters Tom Robinson, Scout and Boo Radley have innocence and are being compared to mockingbirds. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper…