Truman Capote

Pill Bugs: An experiment Introduction Pill bugs are very small and can be found anywhere. Under rocks, in between cracks, in your science class; they are everywhere! However, it is common knowledge that pill bugs do not like to be in open spaces. There are just too many dangerous possibilities, and they don’t need to take the risks. In this experiment, we tested to see if light affected the decisions of where pill bugs like to stay. We thought if the light was dim in a single chamber, the pill…

Something that Ahmedi, Ben, and Aengus share is the want to succeed whether it is about finding love or just trying to survive in their situation. Ahmedi , from the excerpt “Other Side of The Sky” ,was a girl who wanted to escape Afghanistan before the conditions worsen and illnesses and death occur. Ben ,from the book Spy School was the new kid at Spy School who became a target of the mole on the first day. Aengus was an elderly man whose despair to find love drove him to live. Ahmedi was a…

Our whole lives we are taught don't steal, don't cheat, don’t lie, don’t be ungraceful, keep your promises, and don't judge, for this reason one of the most important themes of To Kill a Mockingbird is the book’s moral nature of human beings. Whether people are evil or good is based on the morals we were taught when we were young. Scout and Jem’s perspective is of childhood innocence, in which they predict that all people are good because evil has never affected them. If the story were told from…

I am convinced that the theme in the book Picking Cotton by Jennifer Thompson and Ronald Cotton is forgiveness. Both of the main characters; Ronald and Jennifer demonstrate forgiveness throughout the book. Ronald learns to forgive the people who put him in prison while Jennifer learns to forgive herself for her mistakes. Ronald spent eleven years in prison but he never once gave up. The one thing that got him through the most horrific days of his life was God. “I still prayed to God that I…

In a time of racial injustice, demonstrated in Harper Lee’s fictional novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch stands up for what he believes in. Atticus is a fifty-year-old widower who takes care of his two young kids while balancing a job as a successful lawyer. During a time of inequality and harsh racism, Atticus uses his job as a lawyer to educate his children about the harsh reality of the society around them. Furthermore, the Finch family lives in the 1930’s, when people consider white…

To Kill or Not to Kill In To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee writes about a family, and their hardships throughout the time of the Great Depression. The narrator, Scout Finch tells the story through her perspective. Scout is a young, innocent little girl, but through other people's eyes reality is completely different than what it seems to her. Jem, Scout's slightly older brother lives in Maycomb, Alabama; with her, Calpurnia (the help), and their father Atticus. Maycomb is a town where racism…

Prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird The definition of prejudice is preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. There is a lot of prejudice throughout the book To Kill a Mockingbird. The author of this book is Harper Lee. It was published in 1960 and was a book based around the Great depression. There are three main types of prejudice throughout the book. There is gender, class, and racial prejudice. An example of people that show prejudice are Jem, Bob Ewell, and the…

In Methland, Nick Reding vindicates that small towns in the United States are not what they seem to be. He suggests many people throughout the nation see small towns as quaint little towns with diligent people living and working in them. As Reding articulates throughout the book that this idea of quiet, hard-working small towns is all just ignorance and imagination, especially for towns like Oelwein, Iowa. This town when you first examine it seems to have a nasty meth problem that seems almost…

Every town has that one person of house that all the children are afraid of. These fears are formed by the thing the children see, but things are not always as they seem. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the main character Scout Finch learns throughout the book that the man she is afraid of is really a loving old man, not a scary monster. Scout Finch grew up in Maycomb County and she had never met or even seen Boo Radley; only ever heard stories. She always thought that Boo…

In Maycomb, two children named Jem and Scout experience a lot of, now resolved, issues. These two kids grew up in the 1930s during the Great Depression, in Alabama. Jem and Scout grew up with a father who is a lawyer who tries to raise his kids as well as he can, with the help of their cook Calpurnia and Aunt Alexandra who eventually moves in. Growing up with a father who is a lawyer, they experience the following: gender, the Maycomb disease of racism, and wealth. Throughout To Kill a…