To Kill a Mockingbird

the characters and the situations represented in the books they read for class. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is not one of those books. This book has relatable characters like Scout and Jem who go through situations that student can find themselves relating to. To Kill a Mockingbird is a wonderful book with life lessons that will always be relevant and important to people of all ages. To Kill a Mockingbird teaches students about walking in other people 's shoes, the innocence of the…

Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird and Their Eyes Were Watching God, the path to maturity is very significant. Jem Finch matures throughout the To Kill a Mockingbird and it helps the audience feel emotions about the events. Janie Crawford’s path to maturity, in Their Eyes Were Watching God, is quite different than Jem’s path. Janie matured in the aspect of love, where as Jem matured in the aspect of life. Jem and Janie’s paths to maturity are very significant to both novels and helps the audience…

Racism in To Kill a Mockingbird In 1955 Martin Luther King Jr took leadership of the American Civil Rights Movement. In 1960 Harper Lee published her book To Kill a Mockingbird. In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr gave his famous I have a dream speech. While we all see the impacts that Martin Luther King Jr’s movement, the effects of Harper Lee’s book get less praise. Lee’s book was turned into a movie in 1962 and released on Christmas day, which brought the amazing to story to more people. This book…

Breeze Boom TKM paper Title (INSERT ATTENTION GETTER HERE) The book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is inspired by authentic occurrences. There are relations to Jim Crow laws, mob mentality, and racism in the Scottsboro trials. One aspect of America’s history Lee uses in the book is Jim Crow. Jim Crow is a set of strange laws that made white people have more rights than African Americans. People believe that Jim Crow was needed because whites believed they were above blacks. They thought…

Harper Lee, the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, in an interview, described the acclaimed novel as a “simple love story.” Initially, I had strongly disagreed with this statement, because I presumed Harper Lee was referring to a romantic love. However, I shortly realized that Harper Lee was referring to a different type of love. What Harper Lee refers to is not the traditional romantic love typically associated with novels, but more of a selfless, benevolent love. This unconditional,…

even wrongfully worse. Throughout Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, characters’ lives are greatly affected in many ways by injustice. In the decision of his court case, Tom Robinson is accused and convicted of a crime he did not commit. Jem and Scout are attacked wrongfully by Bob Ewell, who tries to get back at Atticus. Rejected and hated by his “family”, Dill has lived a harsh life due to injustices in his life. In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Robinson, Jem and Scout, and Dill are…

giving them the strength to influence society, and even the world. In Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”, a southern family becomes involved in a highly controversial case which puts them all in danger. “We were nearly to the road when I felt Jem’s hand leave me, felt him jerk backwards on the ground...I ran in Jems direction and ran into a flabby man’s stomach” (Lee 262). This quote from “To Kill a Mockingbird” shows the violent circumstances that the main character, Scout, needed courage to…

pigmentation. Author of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, grew up in the Monroeville, Alabama during the 1930’s and observed discrimination during that time. During the 1930’s, there was a well publicized trial against nine young black males who had been accused of raping two white women. The nine black males were arrested and jailed in Scottsboro, Alabama and later became known as the Scottsboro Boys. Lee wrote the fiction novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, and the novel focused on a…

From what I have noticed from reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the theme of gender equality affects the way females are portrayed and even treated. After retrieving the tire from Boo Radley’s front yard, Jem, Scout’s older brother says, “I swear Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl it’s mortifyin’” (page 50). Jem implies that being a girl is portrayed as being an annoyance or even dead weight to him as well as not wanting to hang out with them at all. This correlates with how…

A. The major symbol of the novel is mockingbirds. B. Mockingbirds stand for innocence and those who only bring joy into the world. 13. A. To Kill a Mockingbird is to destroy an innocent soul. B. When Miss Maudie says “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy… That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” (Lee, 103), it means mockingbirds only bring good to the world. Therefore, there is no reason to kill an innocent soul. C. The…