Truman Capote

In 1960, Harper Lee published “To Kill A Mockingbird”. After release, To Kill A Mockingbird was voted best fiction novel of the year and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 because of it. To Kill A Mockingbird discussed two main and interwoven themes, empathy and inequality. These themes were shown through the lens of Scout, a young child growing up at an extremely difficult time. To Kill A Mockingbird revolves around the struggles for equality, both in the eyes of the law and in the eyes of society.…

Historical events to support the theme of ignorance versus education are in both Pleasantville and To Kill a Mockingbird because in order for a society or a person to change and progress , they always have to be exposed to a new perspective. To begin, One of the protagonists in the movie Pleasantville is named Jen. In the beginning of the film Jen is a shallow teenager, who is self centered, dim witted, and appearance focused. After Jen travels into Pleasantville, a tv show set in the…

To be courageous and to be a coward are two completely opposite traits but the words work together to deliver a message. Children at a young age are taught through movies that the heroes are portrayed as brave while those who are suffering and weak are seen as cowards, not very often are cowards seen as courageous. In the Book Thief written by Markus Zusak, the idea of being courageous and a coward are combined together into one. Without cowardice man can’t see the courage of, without courage…

Racism is expressing discrimination and intolerance towards people of other races. This intense feeling of disregard towards humans of other races has surfaced as a prevalent issue for decades. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, an innocent colored man is convicted of rape and sentenced to death due to injustice and racism taking over the decisions of the jury. Often, when a person displays prejudice towards certain races than compared to others, he or she will make decisions that…

Martin Luther King Jr, one of the biggest impacts the world has ever had on racism said in one of his speeches, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” Martin Luther King Jr just wanted peace and equality in the world and by doing so he came up with these inspirational quotes that a lot of people live by today. In the story black and white by David Macaulay peace and equality isn't really the case when Marcus and Eddie, two…

In the short story, “The Killers” two of the main characters are Max and Al. They are both dressed in almost identical winter coats and they come in with attitude. They both are trying to order dinner when only breakfast was on the menu they continue to complain about the service. While they are inside of the diner they say some comment to George about how they are “Bright boys” they mean that as they are dumb and talk down to them because of their masculinity and power. Even though they are…

In the story “The lottery” by Shirley Jackson the point, moral and theme of the story is a dark and cruel because it says that the townspeople stoned her due to the fact that there is overpopulation and it was a brutal way to remove someone from the village which is the irony that this story has. The tone of the story in the beginning of the story seems to be nice and smooth, the mood feels calm and gentle with nothing to fear. For example, in the beginning of the story everybody is happy and…

Holden of Catcher in the Rye and Junior of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian are distinct personalities in terms of integrating with the society. Holden endeavors to isolate himself from the society; on the other hand, Junior wants to become a part of the society he is living with, while still isolating himself. However, Holden couldn’t achieve not confining himself, whereas Junior turns out to harmonize himself with the society he is a part of. There are various factors…

Rhinoceros, written 1958, and published 1959 is one of Ionesco’s most popularized plays. It opens on a usual Sunday in a town, where abruptly a rhinoceros is sighted twice by the townspeople. Initially some wonderment is expressed about the strangeness of this happening, but eventually a great deal of discussion is devoted to whether the two sightings were of the same rhino or of two different ones, and whether the rhino(s) belonged to the African or Asian species. Soon it becomes evident that…

Integrity is the ability to do the right thing even when it is hard. Mrs. Dubose is one of the characters in To Kill a Mockingbird that show integrity by beating her addiction. She chose to beat her addiction to morphine which reduces her pain instead of dying in peace. When Jem was force to read to Mrs.Dubose after cutting the tops off every camellia bush she owned. Mrs. Dubose was sick and decided that Jem would read to her for a whole month and when went to her house Jem noticed that she was…