conflicts have occurred involving race, class, and gender. People from all ages have fought and argued over the issue of equality. A person’s class, gender, or race can affect whether they are powerful or powerless. Harper Lee, the author To Kill a Mockingbird, discusses the idea of power primarily through the character Mayella Ewell. Mayella, a white woman, accuses a black man of raping her. While Mayella is white, she is not powerful because she is a low class female who must live with an abusive
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In Mary Oliver’s poem, “Some Questions You Might Ask”, Oliver discusses the common beliefs regarding souls, and analyzes them logically. The speaker utilizes rhetorical questions, as well as Juxtaposition to portray to the reader that souls are highly unknown, and they are likely not exclusive to only humans. The speaker begins the poem by juxtaposing strong rhetorical questions that force the reader to think about the concept of souls. The speaker asks, “Is the soul solid, like iron?/ Or is it tender
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We all know the old cliche to judge a book by it's cover you don't know the story in till you read it. You don't a person till you talk to them and get to know them. You can't judge a person by their appearance. In Harper lee novel To Kill a Mockingbird she drive this point home by using a racist courtroom to teach us not to judge people by the color of their skin. Harper lee uses the setting to show us racist em. She uses a small southern town, a all white jury, white lawyers and a white judge.
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Branching Out In Silence In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee’s use of the Radley's tree as a symbol shows the communication Boo Radley had with Maycomb county and its citizens. One way Lee symbolizes the communication Boo has with the coFunty is by the spreading of the trees’s roots. When Scout is describing the scenery she says, “Two live oaks stood at the edge of the Radley log; their roots reached out into the side-road and made it bumpy” (Lee 33). In this quotation when Scout says
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An outsider is someone who is distinct or different from everyone else, who takes a peculiar approach to life than others, whether it be good or bad. Someone could be an outsider even if they were an outstanding basketball player because they have something different from everyone else. An outsider is like the dog that doesn’t get picked by people because of how it looks, it is misjudged. Outsiders are not misunderstood, they are rather misjudged by society, like the dog. Outsiders are being misjudged
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is a famous writer that made the amazing novel To Kill a Mockingbird. In this great book she uses symbolism. Symbolism is when something has one meaning but it also has a different meaning. The Mockingbird in to Kill a Mockingbird stands for someone's innocence. This means someone who is a mockingbird is innocent. Harper Lee uses Tom Robinson, Atticus Finch, and Boo Radley as mockingbirds in her novel. First Lee uses Tom Robinson as a mockingbird. Tom Robinson is an African American male who was
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Mitsy and Alice show clearly that they cope better with change than Hart. Discuss The Divine Wind by Gary Disher explores that “people often resist to change because they focus on what they have to give up, instead of what they have to gain”. The author highlights the turning point in each of Mitsy, Hart and Alice’s lifetimes as they are forced to tackle the changes in which their circumstances challenges them. Each character undergo a series of mental, physical and psychological developments where
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“Cousin Simmons might be the nicest and most delicate writer in all the country…” (Fast 23). April Morning by Howard Fast takes place April 18th, 1775 near Lexington, Massachusetts on the verge of the American Revolution. Joseph Simmons, often referred to as Cousin Simmons, is the father of Ruth Simmons and the “neighbor and kin” (Fast 18) of the Coopers. He is also the blacksmith of Lexington. Joseph is a cautious and kind character, but throughout the book becomes tremendously brave as a leader
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Sabrina Rubin Erdely and Dexter Filkins both write about hate and how it is a common cause of unnecessary death whether it be murder or suicide. In Erdely’s “School of Hate” she discusses the hate of the gay community in schools, while in Filkins’s “Atonement he focuses on the military and how they are ordered to murder people (peaceful people) solely based on the fact that they look different than you and me. Collectively these essays provide the same point of view by joining many nonfiction elements
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Some Shepherdsons chasing a Grangerford and Buck, a 14 year old counterpart of Huck, start screaming, “Kill them, Kill them!” (Twain 124) showing how cruel people had become over a stupid feud that nobody even seems to remember. Michael J. Hoffman states that, “the feud’s main life force is self-perpetuation” (36). To savagely hunt and murder a defenseless 14
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