To Kill a Mockingbird

The novel To Kill a Mockingbird contains many different literary devices that the author, Harper Lee, portrays throughout the book. The most abundant of the literary devices is the author’s use of theme. Some themes are more thoroughly extended upon and made detectable by Harper Lee. Although some examples of theme throughout the novel are very subtle, the ones described in this paper are the most easily detected and have the most accounts in the novel. Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird the…

A mockingbird is a unique type of bird that should never be harmed because all it does is make beautiful music. This special bird is the very symbol of innocence. Throughout Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, there are many important individuals that represent a mockingbird. From the beginning to the end of the narrative we have characters that are the embodiment of the mockingbird because all they do is help others and they themselves get harmed in some way. However, there are some…

To Kill a Mockingbird Essay Influences can be good or bad. In to Kill a MockingBird, written by Harper Lee, it is the same way for Scout and Jem Finch . There are multiple influences that affect them in some way. Some are very indirect but the influences are still there. The people that help shape Jem and Scout are Atticus, Bob Ewell, and Tom Robinson. They play major roles on how the children react. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the townspeople of Maycomb county help shape the kind of…

Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ explores the concept of injustice in society and to achieve equity individuals must challenge the derisive views of society. The novel intertwines the social and racial segregation prevalent in the town of Maycomb. This discrimination is fortified through an honourable lawyer Atticus who defends a wrongfully accused black man. Atticus conveys moral fortitude and strength of his convictions of the prevailing views of society and disagrees with the ingrained…

death, Emily Webb learns that the living don’t realize how much life is worth. To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel about a little girl named Scout Finch, her brother Jem Finch, and their father Atticus Finch. Scout and Jem’s Father, Atticus takes a case where a white women was allegedly raped by Tom Robinson. Tom Robinson is a crippled black man. Atticus chose to defend the black man. Atticus knew…

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is a modern American classic that deals with race and gender. Mockingbird tells the story of an African American man on trial for the rape of a white girl in the depression-era deep south. The novel’s theme of prejudice can especially be applied to America’s tension-filled race and gender relations today. Although the law no longer discriminates against certain races and genders, prejudice still exists. To Kill a Mockingbird is still extremely relevant in…

heroine of your life, not the victim” is a statement that the female characters in To Kill a Mockingbird emulate through their actions (Ephron). This statement, written by a woman, urges other women to not stand by when difficult situations arise, but to have the strength to overcome those situations. This strength is hard to find, especially in a male-dominated world such as the setting in To Kill a Mockingbird. The setting takes place in the early 1930s. Common knowledge reveals that the…

The Importance of Gifts Giving gifts to one another is a great way to express your feelings. In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird many gifts were given both tangible and intangible. All of the gifts in the book are important to the story in some way. Many of the the gifts are given by either Boo Radley or Atticus Finch. They both play an important part in Scout and Jem’s childhood. The gifts that both Boo and Atticus give to the children help them to learn new things and grow. Even though the…

Similar to shooting a mockingbird, there were a multitude of innocent people that were persecuted in the novel for being different, At the beginning of the novel, when Atticus gave Jem and Scout air rifles, he explained to them why they could not shoot at mockingbirds. Evident from the previous quote, a mockingbird does nothing but valuable qualities and so there is no justification whatsoever for harming a mockingbird. In the novel, mockingbirds, in essence, represented the best part best part…

town in southern Alabama where mostly everyone knew each other. To Kill A Mockingbird, is a novel told by Scout. Scout and her brother Jem face some difficulties when their father, Atticus defends Tom Robinson a black man. Jem, Scout, and Dill try to find ways to get Arthur (Boo) Radley to come out. The whole novel explains the difficulties the face and it soon leads to how Jem got his arm broken. In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses racism to show how it can lead to inequality,…