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...To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird is Harvey Lee’s only novel to this date, it was published in 1960 but set in the 1930s in America’s deep south. The novel won the famous Pulitzer Prize and was quickly made into a successful film. The popularity that the novel immediately attracted endures to modern times and it is still read among High School students. The story concerns the trial of an innocent black man -Tom Robinson has been accused of raping a white woman, Mayella Ewell. The novel also manages to weave another central drama into the story, which reveals the appalling nature of prejudice in many forms, not just that of color, as her ‘mocking birds’ which must not be harmed because they do none, suffer from the cruelty and ignorance of those around them. The story is told through the eyes of the child narrator, Scout, who lives along with her brother, Jem and with their father, Atticus, the town lawyer and destined to represent Tom Robinson. They also have a housekeeper named Calpurnia, to whom they have a very close relationship. In his attitude to Calpurnia, as to much in his life, Atticus challenges the contemporary view because though Calpurnia is black, she is treated as a member of the family, much to the annoyance of his sister, Alexandra. Atticus is in fact the means by which Lee examines much that is wrong with Maycomb society, from his lack of prejudice, to his defense of Mrs. Dubose and Boo Radley and his skillful means of challenging the education...
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...How To Kill MockingBird “Before I can live with other folks i’ve got live with other folks . I’ve got to live with myself.- Atticus Finch” In the book How To Kill A MockingBird is set in a small southern town of maycomb alabama , during the great depression. In the book one of the characters is defending a African american because he is getting accused of raping a white women. Although some might argue that atticus is wrong for defending a “negro”, because he was going to lose the case . However atticus is doing right because he believes in equality and he also believes in the golden rule . Atticus always sees the good in people . Atticus believes that everyone has a good side no matter what . He believes that tom is innocent. “You never...
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...Harper Lee used the critical race theory in To Kill a Mocking Bird as a framework to explain how racism has an effect on society. The novel, To kill a Mocking Bird, was written in the 1930’s. During this time period the United States was in the deepest and longest lasting depression in history of the Western world. It came to be known as the Great Depression. The depression was caused by the stock market crash of 1929, which wiped out millions of investors. At this time nearly half of the country’s banks had failed. It was not until 1939 that the economy began to fully turn around. The 1930’s was also a time of racial inequality. Although slavery no longer took place in the United States, African Americans were still treated differently. Examples of racial inequality is represented in Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mocking Bird. To kill a Mocking Bird, was an award winning novel. It took place in an Alabama town...
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...Patrick Murray Mrs. Crays English 9/10 27 April 2017 The Time Period of the Mocking Bird (from the book to kill a mocking bird): The Novel To Kill a Mocking Bird written by Harper Lee is a novel written in the 1980’s and is based off a little girl (herself) when she was younger during the time period of pre WWI and the early 1930’s. This books setting is in Alabama during the 1920’s and slavery is still a thing in America. Which this sets the setting for a little girl named “Scout” growing up in a time period of Great Depression and a family not being the richest but truly loving and being a real family. The book To Kill a Mocking Bird in its best scene the courthouse is a man who is named “Tom Robinson” who is accused of raping...
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...A timelss Classic When we think about what life is like today and how people are treated equally , the thought of discriminating against a person because their skin is a different color seems morally wrong. Well in 1930’s this was pretty much the normality in day to day life. To kill Mocking bird shows what is was like to live in a time when people were treated terribly because of the color of their skin. This novel also reflects the time at which it was written because in the 1960’s racism against African Americans was still a big problem. To Kill a Mocking bird is a timeless classic because it teaches readers what it was like to live in 1930’s and issues of racism, it relates to the time period it was written in , and it also still relates to issues that are present today. During the 1930’s racism was a very big issue in the south. African Americans were treated extremely un- fair and had little civil rights. They were persecuted and discriminated against because of the color of their skin and no other reason but that. Racist Americans seemed to really think that African Americans were less important and less human then white people because there skin was brown. “Despite the decline of organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan, racism was as strong as ever, especially in the Southern states” (Allen). To me this shows that the racist white American was ignorant and honestly stupid to think that a person was less important and less human because their skin...
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...Miss Maudie In novels there are characters that are hard to forget. In the novel To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee, the character Miss Maudie is a very earthy, independent, and motherly character. These qualities make her a memorable character because it is easy for the reader to relate and admire her. Miss Maudie spends most of her time in the outdoors; she believes time spent indoors is wasted time. Miss Maudie loves the outdoors and loves to garden:”She loved everything that grew in Gods earth, even the weeds.” (p.56) when Miss Maudie’s house burns down she does not get upset because she never liked being indoors anyway, and it would give her more garden space. Being earthy is not the only thing Miss Maudie’s only quality, she is also very independent. Miss Maudie does not care what others think of her or anything she believes in: “The handful of people in this town who say that fair play is not marked White Only; the handful of people who say a fair trial is for everybody, not just us; the handful of people with enough humility to think, when they look at a Negro, there but for the Lord's kindness am I."(p.316) Miss Maudie respects African Americans and is proud that she does not let Maycomb’s criticism affect her in anyway. Other than being earthy and independent, Miss Maudie is like a mother to the children. For example, Scout comes to her for advice or when she is lonely. In addition, Miss Maudie bakes treats for the kids. “Every time she baked she made...
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...TO Kill a Mocking Bird Essay In the novel "To Kill a Mocking Bird" courage is displayed by several characters in many different and unique ways. The characters I found most fascinating displaying an overwhelmingly strong amount of courage in significant ways include Jean Louise Finch (Scout), Jeremy Atticus Finch ( Jem), and Atticus Finch. These three characters are a family which displayed Courage in very unique ways which help amend themselves and others which possibly look up to them (changing opinions for the better). Firstly, Scout demonstrates courage in very momentous ways which include reading to Ms. Dubose, resisting fighting others, and confronting the mob outside of Maycomb jail. Despite the fact that Scout wasn't punished and forced to read to Ms. Dubose; she went there in want of helping her brother out who was punished and forced to read to her ( their thoughts of Ms. Dubose being mean and cruel change when they find out her true desire of dying drug free). Scout's resistance to fight after remembering Atticus's words shows very amazing courage because her favourite thing to do was get into fights with others and show her strength( I drew a bead on him, remembering what Atticus had said, then dropped my fists and walked away, "Scout's a cow- ward!" ringing in my ears. It was the first time I ever walked away from a fight). Another very momentous way scout demonstrates courage is when she stands up to the mob confronting Atticus at Maycomb jail ; despite being...
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...Movie Critic: To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mocking Bird is a novel that received raving reviews from critics like Chicago Tribune, Time Magazine and Life Magazine. With this being her only novel, author Harper Lee created the story in effort to tell a story of siblings Scout and Jem Finch and how an experience that changes their view on the town have they live in. Scout Finch, a young 5 year old girl is the protagonist and narrator in the story. Jem Finch, her 9 year old brother looks after her and is her constant playmate throughout the novel. Atticus is the father of the two, a lawyer in Maycomb, and acts as the “moral backbone” of the novel. When the novel To Kill a Mocking Bird became an immediate success, a picture film comes out in 1962 based off of that novel. Since the film received eight Academy Awards, it is automatically assumed that the film did a great job portraying the novel in live action. However, there were some differences as well as similarities when comparing the two. The largest similarity in the book was the main plot. Tom Robinson was convicted of raping Mayella Ewell and Atticus had to defend him, being willing to do so. Atticus feelings toward the matter did not change also; he still stood up for equality for all races, which caused him to be look down upon in Maycomb County during the trial. Another similarity of the novel is the ages and occupations of most of the characters. There were quite a few differences, however, that if you had read...
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...presented in the What was jim crow? Article? It suprised me how one race could segregate another race in many ways that was not necessary. Colored people had to face complications every time they were in public, such as talking to a white person or riding the bus and they even had to attend different schools, public restrooms, and churches. They were treated as if they were still slaves. As i was reading this i asked some questions to myself like why did the color of a person's skin matter to people back then and still some people today. Another question i had was how many states had these laws. The worst part of these laws was that colored people could not even resist them. They had to deal with external conflicts when they resisted the system, they risked losing everything, even their lives. 2.What are your thought about the novel in general?...
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...“To Kill a Mocking Bird”: Teaching Tolerance Through Empathy Mary Ellyn Fogarty December 8, 2012 America in the mid 1950’s and 1960’s was undergoing a profound social metamorphosis. Events such as, in 1954, the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, with the Supreme Court ruling public school segregation illegal, which many believe sparked the civil rights era, in 1956 Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white man, “precipitating the Montgomery bus boycott, led by Martin Luther King Jr.” (To Kill a Mockingbird: Civil Rights Era, 2012), in 1957 federal troops were sent to Little rock Arkansas to protect nine African American students who were going white high school, per the court ordered desegregation of school, were challenging and for some forcing the way in which Americans lived, their beliefs and their treatment of African Americans that had been indoctrinated into their consciousness from the time they were born and many did not understand why this treatment was inappropriate, prejudice and unconstitutional. For some these changes were viewed as not an intrusion or criticism of their way of life but as...
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...Courage in other words means bravery. For example , how Martin Luther king Jr stood up for his people, Moses for leading his people out of slavery , and how women fought for their rights. In the book "to kill a mocking bird " by Harper Lee the making of courage is shown through Atticus Finch, Boo Radley, and Mrs. Dubose, which demonstrates how courage is shown in different ways. The first person to show courage is Atticus Finch. "You rarely win but sometimes you don't" (Lee ,149) This points out that even though he knew he wasn't gonna win the case he took It anyway. He has the courage to stand in front of Maycomb and defend a black man even though in that society whites had a higher voice then blacks. As Atticus says "It's not okay to hate anyone" (Lee ,246) what this is saying about Atticus is that even if your white, black you should never hate anyone. This is showing Atticus he has courage because even if the blacks are the lowest he still believed Tom Robinson had a person to defend him in court. As Atticus has courage for standing in front of Maycomb defending a black man the next person to show courage is Boo Radley....
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...“A nigger-lover is just one of those terms that don't mean anything—like snot-nose. It's hard to explain—ignorant, trashy people use it when they think somebody's favouring Negroes over and above themselves. It's slipped into usage with some people like ourselves, when they want a common, ugly term to label somebody” .These words of wisdom are displayed in Harper lee’s famous 1960s book to kill A Mocking Bird. It was voted 4th most popular book in Australia. The book focuses on the observations of the author (scout) when a young African American man Tom Robinson is accused of rape by a white woman and is defend by white upper class man Atticus finch the father of scout in the fictional town of Maycomb. Even though Australia has made a big achievement in efforts to bring equality in our community racism still exists. Social teachings and behaviours from the early 1900s still resonate today in modern society as 1 in 5 children are racially abused every day and 1 in 5 people in Australia have experienced racism. Making To kill a mocking Bird relevant in today’s society as it mirrors the imperfections in our society....
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...Final Analysis on “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee Jackie Berry Colorado Technical University LITR 240 Prof. Peggy Huey May 9, 2011 Abstract When an author writes novels, short stories, or poems, most of their ideas come from life experiences. The author is trying to send a message that may mirror what the reader can understand. Many writings address conflicts, themes and symbolism. Harper Lee (2006) introduced many of these elements into her novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”. Harper Lee gives accounts of the story as if she was a young child and learns many life lessons that change her life forever. “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (2006), takes place a small populated town in Maycomb, Alabama. The author has taken us back when hatred and prejudice is very common in the 1930s. Atticus, Scout, and Jem Finch are frowned upon because Atticus is defending a black man of allegedly raping a white woman. Atticus uses this opportunity to teach Scout and Jem morals that we teach our children today. Atticus teaches Scout and Jem to not to be judgmental towards anyone, not be afraid to stand up for what is right, and violence does not solve anything. Jem and Scout will also learn the true symbolizing of why it is a sin to kill a mockingbird. Harper Lee described the town of Maycomb as being a very poor and run down. The community is very small and everyone knew each other. The blacks and whites are divided and some that...
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...Adam smith once said, “To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.” Even we, as people, have never seen this quote before I think we all believe in it one way or the other. That’s why books are always being challenged to be banned in order to protect human nature. We do not want to see the negative effects of the books being read by adolescences. That is why many people considered banning books to be a benevolent act rather than an act of hate. Often books that are banned are considered to have racial themes, too violent, or can be damaging to lifestyles. I’m sure that in your lifetime you have read a book or two with and extremely...
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