To Kill a Mockingbird

the difficulties that one must endure throughout their life, a parent’s lessons often come in handy. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch guides his children, Jem and Scout, to greatness through the countless lessons he teaches them. Many of these lessons come through the traumas that both Scout and Jem occur in the course of the novel. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch teaches his children about the great values in every person and how to deal with…

them? Some people judge by looks, and others judge by how a person talks.CD In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, there is a lot of stereotyping due to unimportant things such as skin color or socioeconomic status; however, some characters learn that appearance is not always important. Themes relating to lessons learned, family dynamics, and stereotypes play a very important part in To Kill A Mockingbird. As life lessons are experienced, one becomes more mature. In my first quote, Atticus…

In Katie Rose Guest Pryal’s article, she discusses the absence of cross-racial empathy in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, using different events in the book to prove her point. Initially she begins with a definition of empathy stating “the power of projecting one’s personality into (and so fully comprehending) the object of contemplation” (176). Then discussing the sparsity of black characters conveying their feelings of a white dominant society, Pryal states that the whites show little…

“In the black, there is some white. In the wrong, there is some right. In the dark,there is some light. In the blind there is some sight.” Abhinyana in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird multiple themes are demonstrated, such as courage and racism, mixing both created the belief of the yin yang. Lee shows this perfectly in the perspective of Scout, from being innocent to barley understanding the cruel town Scout lives in. Using Jem having to read to Mrs. Dubose who later dies, the case of Tom…

Martin Luther King Jr. Once said that “intelligence plus character is the goal of true education.” In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses a young girl named Scout Finch’s views on her schooling in Maycomb, Alabama in order to critique the education system. Scout is a bright young girl who is well above her peers in terms of maturity and intelligence. However, as Scout experiences backlash from her teacher for her advanced skills, she becomes bitter and hardened toward her schooling. Harper…

” 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 are…

thrown out; however, in To Kill a Mockingbird, trash is used to describe a person. According to dictionary.com, the definition of trash is “a worthless or disreputable person.” The connotation of the word trash is used to insult somebody as being useless and his or her opinion is discarded because they are not trustworthy or knowledgeable. Trash describes one who is untrustworthy, not well educated, and does not follow the expected social structure. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus uses the…

To Kill a Mockingbird Racism is a moral catastrophe, ~Cornel West, A provocative democratic intellectual. Blindness towards others views is the seed of racism, and ignorance is the water that helps it grow. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee,Maycomb, the setting, is suffering from the sproutlings of racism. Many people in the town of Maycomb have what Atticus, the protagonist calls, Maycombs Disease. Many people have the “disease”, but the Finch family appears to not be affected by this…

Believe it or not To Kill a Mockingbird is a love story in numerous ways. This novel shows love by the way characters treat each other and care for others. Atticus cares for his kids and treats them like a loving parent would. Jem, Dill, and Scout care about each other like best friends should, and they also care about others. Atticus's devotion to Tom Robinson's case is a great example of how To Kill a Mockingbird is a love story. To begin with, the way Atticus treats and cares for Scout…

Harper Lee published her novel To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960. The characters in the novel are based on the behaviors of people that she knew growing up in Monroeville, Alabama. The novel is considered to be a bildungsroman, which is a novel where one or more of the characters is forced into adulthood throughout the story. The story takes place in Maycomb County, Alabama in the 1930s and it highlights the racial, social, and political issues of that time period. In the novel, Tom Robinson, an…