Truman Capote

The discriminatory opinions and prejudices of individuals and society can be challenged through the perspectives of the innocent. The innocent have the potential to alter antipathetic perceptions of society as they've not been corrupted by inherent prejudices. Harper Lee explores this concept in her novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, through the perspective of the protagonist 'Scout', a young girl growing up surrounded by bigotry. Harper Lee utilises symbolism in the naming of the young female…

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.” (Lee, 39). This is one of the key lessons everyone learns when they begin to grow up. As for Scout Finch, this has turned out to be one of the hardest. But soon enough, everyone learns the necessities they need in order to survive the world. For Scout, she showed signs of growing up when she first realized the flaws with her teacher, Miss Gates, when she was able to act like a lady for Alexandra, and when…

In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, not everybody is treated fairly. A lot of people are discriminated against and treated poorly due to things they can't change. For example, Tom Robinson is treated unfairly because of his skin color and Boo Radley is treated poorly because he did one bad thing. I think everyone in Maycomb needs to give everyone more chances and not discriminate anybody for their color. If everyone was treated fair Boo Radley wouldn't be hated and not want in the town. He would…

In both the novel, To kill a Mockingbird by Harper lee and the poem “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar, both Jem and the speaker of the poem struggle with understanding what courage is thus revealing a person has to keep going even if he is being judged by those around him because it will show courage. First, the speaker tries to tell his audience that courage is when you do not put a mask on. We can not keep our mind set on one thing instead view all other possibilities. The speaker of…

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, her brother Jem and their friend Dill overlook a rape case where an African American man in Maycomb County, Alabama was wrongfully arrested and tried for committing sexual assault on a Cauca-sian woman named Mayella Ewell. The story takes place in the mid 1930’s and at this time in American history, African Americans in the South got very little, if any, respect they deserve. As a result, almost all of Maycomb County…

In S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, Ponyboy is a member of the greasers, a low level clan that dwells on the east side of Tulsa, Oklahoma who have endured conflict with the Socs, who reign on the opposite side of town in riches. Every day that goes by for Ponyboy is another day he must live in fear of the Socs because they physically berate greasers for pleasure. A lack of judgement on his walk from the movie theatre leads to experiencing firsthand the relentless brutality of the Socs. Ponyboy…

In her novel The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton explores the theme that stereotypes are unfair and that therefore, one cannot judge an entire group of people based on these prejudices. A person is more than just a product of their community or circumstances, which is seen to be true in the characters of Johnny and Ponyboy. The Outsiders has two types of people, there are Greasers and Socs. The Greasers were the middle class unlike the soc who are more rich and Greasers are more wilder. The Socs are…

In the story “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, Mayella, a white southern teen that lives in a dump with her abusive father, is in fact in control of Tom Robinson’s fate. Mayella is sexualy assaulted by her father, which causes her to file a false court case against Tom Robinson (a black male) in which he is convicted. During the court case the evidence points to Bob Ewell, Mayella’s father and a man known to have a drunken abusive history. Power being the amount of control one has over…

True courage, as describe by Atticus Finch is, “It’s knowing you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what” (Lee 112). Helmuth Hübener knew what true courage is, and he possessed that trait with every fiber of his being. A teenage resistance leader, Hübener wrote and distributed, with help from his friends, sixty different pamphlets about the crimes of the Nazi regime. After about a year of working in secret, Hübener and friends were caught, tried,…

Ms. Jean Louise Finch, also known as Scout Finch, narrates the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. It takes place in Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s. There are two parts in To Kill a Mockingbird; part one is Scout when she was a child and her thoughts as a kid. Part two is Scout as a mature young lady and how she reflects on what had happened in her childhood, such as the Tom Robinson case where Tom was accused of raping Mayella Ewell. Mayella Ewell is the daughter of an abusive and…