Theme of Innocence and Morality in To Kill A Mockingbird

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is a memorable and life-changing novel that presents important concerns relevant to today’s society. Set during the Great Depression of the 1930’s, Lee examines the issues pertaining the existence of social inequality and the coexistence of good and evil in America’s Ddeep Ssouth through the eyes of a young girl, Scout Finch. The novel remains relevant and didactic to readers’ in present time, by challenging the reader’s perceptions of race, family structure,…

Authors Harper Lee and Mark Herman have utilised 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…

Prejudism in To Kill a Mockingbird Atticus Finch states in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his viewpoint...until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” There is so much wisdom and truth in this quote, words that everyone should live by. Unfortunately, people do not always abide by this, judging and discriminating others often without trying to understand another person’s experience. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper…

During the 1930’s in southern America the African Americans were still being mistreated by the opposite race. Numerous African Americans were thrown in jail with no evidence in doing the crime. The novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird” focuses on the prejudice surrounding the trial of Tom Robinson who was an innocent black man accused of raping and horrendously beating a white woman. Similar situations comparable to this trial were very common during the 1930’s due to the Jim Crow Laws being strongly…

To Kill A Mockingbird Alec Helgeland Block 4 December 1st, 2015 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a great story regarding the morality of people and the difference between right and wrong. Scout, a young girl that lives in a small Alabama town that is known for very old and outdated beliefs. She explores a spooky house that is owned by Nathan Radley who has a brother nicknamed “Boo” that has a reputation of never leaving the house. As they explore the property they are shot at and as…

achievements. Harper is nationally know for her fictional work To Kill a MockingBird, because of its great success she received a pulitzer prize in 1961. Go Set a Watchman…

If you were born and raised in the United States, there 's a pretty fair chance that you’ve read or at least heard of the incredibly famous novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee. The book is meticulously crafted from beginning to end, every sentence being very deliberate. This makes one particular line stand out quite a bit. During the final chapters of the book, the character Atticus Finch makes a comment about his son Jem Finch’s reaction to an act of harsh racism in his small town. In…

Published in 1960 by acclaimed author Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird obtained immediate success and received the prestigious Pulitzer Prize, an accolade for accomplishments made in the arts one year after the novel had been published. Told through the eyes of a young girl named Scout Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird follows the story of young children who grow up in the 1930s within the Southern United States who undergo inconceivable circumstances. As the story takes place over a three year…

Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird chronicles the childhood of Scout Finch, specifically, her father, Atticus Finch, and his involvement in Tom Robinson’s rape trial. Atticus Finch, virtually the moral compass of the novel, and his decision to seek justice for Tom despite the sensibility he has on what the outcome of the trial will be ultimately speaks not only to his character, but also frames the novel with the theme of balancing good and evil. Despite the eventual loss of the case, Atticus…

In To Kill a Mockingbird the trial is viewed as the climax of the whole story. As there are many themes, author Harper Lee refers directly to messages such as: racial prejudice, morality, injustice, and maturity. This is demonstrated in the trial of Tom Robinson as was a way of showing that racism was included in the society of Maycomb. This trial observed the citizen’s views of the evil racial prejudices of Maycomb just to destroy an African-American man. Atticus Finch is defending Tom Robinson…