To Kill a Mockingbird

Mockingbirds are harmless and good-hearted creatures that symbolizes innocence, however they are often misunderstood. Mockingbirds do not have intentions to harm anyone, however, they are harmed physically, mentally, or emotionally by the people around them. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy,” (90). The characters Boo Radley, Tom Robinson, and Dill Harris are examples of mockingbirds in the novel, for they symbolize kindness and innocence. These characters have all…

“It is a sin to kill a Mockingbird”. This means that is a sin to ruin something, or someone that is innocent, that does no harm, or just does there best to help everyone. This metaphor applies to everyone, and everywhere as in any community, anywhere there will be people and things uncorrupted by the world, and in most every case there innocence is lost in the process of life. This metaphor is used a lot in the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, By Harper Lee. Sometimes, it is meant literally in the…

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing” (Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird). Harper Lee wrote her books and published To Kill a Mockingbird in the literary period known as Modernism. Modernism came to be as a result of people wanting to separate themselves from the past. They believed that their way of life, including their customs, traditions, and culture, was something that was more efficient and capable than that of any past civilization. Harper Lee was a…

Mockingbirds- the title of the book is known as To Kill A Mockingbird. Mockingbirds are used throughout the story as a symbol of innocence and peace. To kill a mockingbird is considered a sin. Throughout the story, a majority of the characters symbolized mockingbirds such as Boo Radley and Tom Robinson. Tom was innocent and was accused of rape. He was later killed by prison guards when he tried to escape. In the end, Scout believed exposing or hurting Boo to the public is like shooting a…

“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.”(pp. 90) The book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the most inspiring books in our generation that teaches us many lessons about different topics. Racism is one of the main problems that conflicts the small town of Maycomb, Alabama. African Americans are…

Harper Lee arose to fame. She wrote one of the most pivotal, influential, successful novels known to date. To Kill a Mockingbird…

“To Kill a Mockingbird,” is a novel by Harper Lee. This story is told throughout the eyes of Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, a 6-year-old girl. The book is set in Maycomb County, Alabama during the Great Depression. Although most of the town is suffering, her family is doing well because of her father, Atticus, who is a well-known lawyer. Scout has an older brother named Jeremy “Jem” Finch, who is 10 years old. During the summer, they meet a boy named Charles “Dill” Harris, who they become friends…

Since To Kill A Mockingbird takes place in the 1930’s there are still signs of intense slavery, especially in the southern states. However, even though the woman, who was notably close to the bottom of the social ladder, it was still a substantial deal when it the town…

Whether it is a poem, novel, short story,picture book, or any other work of literature characters tend to be influenced and shaped by the setting, or time and place, in which he writing takes place. In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, the setting is in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930’s. In the novel, readers can interpret that Maycomb is a racist, slow moving, poverty stricken town from Lee’s writing style and the character’s emotions. The setting is significant because…

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee focuses mainly on innocence throughout the novel, the mockingbird came to represent the idea of innocence. Killing a mockingbird means a loss of innocence I the eyes of the reader. Throughout the book many of the characters can be identified as mockingbirds. Jem, Scout, Dill, and Boo all lost their innocence as they grew up in a town such as Maycomb. Tom Robinson is another example of a mockingbird in this book because of the injustices he faces being a…