Trenton Lee Stewart

During the morally challenging novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, by the incredibly creative Harper Lee, Charles Baker Harris (Dill) represents his place as the most important character through his repetitive instances of curiosity and how that influences the children to desire to interact with Arthur (Boo) Radley. To commence, Dill's curiosity first makes its appearance when Dill first discovered the Radley house. This is established early in the book when Scout and Jem, children in the neighborhood…

innocent people do not realize how innocent they are until they lose their innocence. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee three innocent characters lose their innocent as young children. She brilliantly crafts her novel to keep the reader interested and make them feel like he or she is apart of the story itself. She uses this with imagery and her own personal experiences. Lee experienced a rape case within her hometown and uses that experiences to help her write how the characters feel. She…

Historical Appreciation Project: In the Heat of the Night Fifty years ago, as the Civil Rights Movement gained momentum, activists protested across the deep South, and tensions rose between black demonstrators and the police. During this time, John Ball wrote his first book. It was a murder mystery set in a small Carolina town. The crime-solving detective of Ball’s novel was Virgil Tibbs, an famed homicide detective from Pasadena, California, who happened to be passing through the area on the…

The classic, honored, and gothic genre author, Edgar Allan Poe is known for his famous works like The Raven, A Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher, Annabel Lee, and The Cask Amontillado. Some of these stories and poems style could have been influenced by Poe’s past. Before Poe even turned three both of his parents, two professional actors, died. From there he was taken in by Frances and John Allan in Richmond, Virginia. Thenceforth, he was sent to the best boarding schools and later…

A. Attention Getter: I know the majority of the class are thinking, “Oh no, is that a cricket ball? Anything, but that lame sport.” I bet everyone would rather watch the Cleveland Browns lose to a high school football team or even watch Donald Trump play golf for the whole day than watch a single boring cricket game. B. Reason to Listen: It has become a meme to insult the sport of cricket, and rightfully so. Cricket is not popular sport in America, and it will never be accepted as a major…

father in the novel To Kill a Mocking Bird. Throughout the novel, Atticus is shown as an exemplary father through his beliefs, teaching, affection and honesty. The author, Harper Lee is Scout Finch in this novel. The author wanted to show the audience how her father was. What I found significant in this novel is how Harper Lee shows her life through this novel. In the future, I will try to interpret my life in essays or short stories when…

In Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, discrimination is a big issue throughout the play. There is not only discrimination against African Americans, but also against cripples and the mentally disabled. Discrimination is one of the main causes of loneliness, which makes it an important aspect when it comes to the theme of this novel. At the ranch, they have a stable buck named Crooks. Crooks is a crippled African American man and he has been working on the ranch for many years. Since he’s…

Fences is a play about how African Americans survives in sheds and difficulties they face to find work. Troy Maxson, the protagonist of the play is the son of an unsatisfied sharecropper whose cruelty takes his wife’s and Troy away from him. Troy is taken to prison after he is involved in various crimes like killing and robbing others. During his stay in prison he learns to play baseball and loves it. As time passes he outshines in baseball. After he is out from prison’s discrimination in the…

The River Seen from a male perspective, protecting your manhood is very important. Because maintaining your manhood, also means maintaining your pride, which is a priced possession for a man. They like showing control and courage, so that you’ll never see them scared or in fear of something, especially in front of their own children. A father wants to be a role model to their children and really wants to learn being brave and courageous. To be better than they’ve ever been. Therefore, are the…

In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch risks and sacrifices his family’s safety and dignity to uphold justice for an African American man in 1930s Alabama. Finch takes the burden of defending a falsely accused man when no one else would dare, yet he compromises his standing in the community for his own moral convictions, solidifying his integrity and revealing the key purpose of the novel. The meaning of the work, is epitomized by Atticus Finch’s sacrifice in the face prejudices,…