The book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is narrated by a little tomboy girl named Scout. The setting of the book is in the early 1930’s in southern Alabama. During these times, the Great Depression is going on and so is a lot of discrimination; especially against Negroes. Even though there is a lot of discrimination during this time, there is a lot of characters in the book who demonstrate and learn the necessity of empathy. Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another
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what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what,” stated Atticus. Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird takes place during 1930’s, a period known as the Great Depression. Harper Lee creates the setting in the little town of Maycomb, Alabama.One of the main conflicts that takes place revolves around a racial issue. Atticus, a father, and a lawyer
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“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” (Margaret Mead) To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a story told from the point of view of Scout Finch, a young tomboy. Her father, Atticus, is the judge for the trial of a young black man accused of raping a white girl. This trial reflects the Scottsboro Trials of the 1930s. Scout’s brother, Jem, grows up alongside her and is an influence on how she acts as she grows. Their Aunt, Alexandra, moves in to give their family a stronger “feminine
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to bury their own hurt. Throughout the book, To Kill A Mockingbird, readers see an array of many characters going through some very difficult times, thus resulting in conflict among them. During this time, of the Depression, people faced economic and social struggles. Segregation was a growing problem in the South during the 1930s. People are quick to judge, based on their appearance, without looking deeper, into their skin. In To Kill A Mockingbird, the Finch family does their best
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values. Mockingbirds are a species of birds that are emphasized for their positive values in To Kill A Mockingbird. Mockingbirds are symbolized as an example of peace and innocence in the story. “Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy”(90). There are multiple characters in the story that have committed no crime but are still questioned for their actions. Two of these characters would include Boo Radley and Tom Robinson. Boo Radley would be a good example of a mockingbird as he
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To Kill a Mockingbird indeed has many different themes that one can interpret from the extraordinary storytelling written by Harper Lee, but there is one that sticks out in particular. One of many themes that can be portrayed is that of empathy and perspective. Empathy is an act of kindness that can be seen in practically everyone, there is no one who is so emotionally jaded that they have never felt for another and felt empathy towards them. In the story of To Kill a Mockingbird, you can go from
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1 Brief summary of the book This book tells the story of two children, brother and sister (Jem and Scout) and what they encounter in their childhood. They live in Alabama, together with their father, who is a lawyer. And every summer Dill Harris comes around. The three are inseparable and one summer, they were wondering what happened with the Radley’s place and who lived there. They decide to try to communicate with the Radley’s, namely Boo Radley (Bogeyman) but Mr Nathan (his brother) put a
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live in. In To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, she explains just how the actions and the rivalries existed in the small county of Maycomb. The ideas of existence and representations of both good and evil grow up with Scout and Jem, making them recognize early on in their young lives that the world is never fully good or evil. Early on in the novel, good and/or good people are symbolized by mockingbirds. By telling of the innocence and the faultless qualities of the Mockingbird, that they “...don’t
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All of the characters in To Kill a Mockingbird have their own song that sings their personality and what they are feeling in life. We are mockingbirds too and we all have our own songs that we sing. No one song for a person is the same. As the book stats quite a few times, “It is a sin to kill a mockingbird.” This is because the only things that mockingbirds do is sing their hearts out and bring beauty into our lives. All humans are like mockingbirds in some ways. A few of the characters from the
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her father’s words. She repeats Atticus exact words ‘it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird’, and she repeats ‘mockingbirds don’t do one thing but…’. Miss Maudie explains to her that mockingbirds do not do anything harmful, but only ‘sing their hearts out for us’, so they are a symbol of innocence. The repetition of those words emphasise the innocence and purity of mockingbirds. This alludes to the novel’s title To Kill a Mockingbird, which foreshadows that harming an innocent is an injustice, as with
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