“ To kill a mockingbird” by Harper Lee and “Antigone” by Sophocles are both dramas having to do with justice, the main characters in both dramas are struggling to bring justice to a society or situation that was lacking. In Sophocles’ drama, Antigone was trying to bring justice by burying her brother Polyneices against the kings, Creon’s, orders. While in “To kill a mocking bird” Atticus is an attorney in a case where race is a major issue and he is trying to save Tom Robinson from being convicted
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To Kill a Mockingbird; Racism Then and Now Here in the 21st Century, some may think that maltreatment towards certain minorities are uncommon or not nonexistant compared to the 20th Century. However, this is not the case for either the present or the past. Harper Lee’s book To Kill a Mocking Bird argues against in-court racism set back in the 1930s, which is still found today. Lee’s usage of Scout as narrator helps readers see the social injustice of racism happening inside Maycomb. In the book
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Throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee, a lawyer and father of two takes a stand against the racism in his society to defend an African American in a court case involving the rape of the nineteen year old caucasian female, Mayella Ewell. Additionally, he struggles with the hardships that he and his children face as they are judged from every corner of Maycomb County. Though his young ones, still too far into their youth to understand these accusations about their father
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S cout Finch lives with her brother, Jem, and their widowed father, Atticus, in the sleepy Alabama town of Maycomb. Maycomb is suffering through the Great Depression, but Atticus is a prominent lawyer and the Finch family is reasonably well off in comparison to the rest of society. One summer, Jem and Scout befriend a boy named Dill, who has come to live in their neighborhood for the summer, and the trio acts out stories together. Eventually, Dill becomes fascinated with the spooky house on their
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This paper is about the debate whether the Finch kids ever did give back to Boo Radley like he gave to them through hollowed out tree hole. Scout was partially right with her statement that they never gave him anything in return. They never gave him any materialistic things but they did give Boo Radley attention like nobody else in Maycomb did. It wasn’t always good attention but sometimes it was. They also got other people on town to think about him, sense they were always asking questions
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In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, many characters represent mockingbirds, one symbolic mockingbird is Scout Finch.In this case, a symbolic mockingbird is a person or thing that has done nothing to be harmed, yet is harmed. This book takes place in the 1930’s when racism was a huge issue and women had certain standards from a young age. Scout’s father (Atticus) was an attorney appointed to cover Tom Robinson (an African American), who was convicted of rape, to insure he had a fair
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee The extract under analysis is taken from the Harper Lee’s first novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”. The book published in 1960 was very successful and won great critical acclaim, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for its author. The plot and the characters are slightly based on the author’s thoughts about his family, as well as on events that took place in her hometown. The narration is done from the first person by Jean Louse “Scout” Finch. The scene is
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I’d like to analyze the extract from a book which is entitled “To kill a mockingbird”. The author is Harper Lee, an American author known for her 1960-Pulitzer-Prize-winning and who is considered now by many to be a literary icon. Harper Lee was born in 1926 in the state of Alabama. In 1945-1949 she studied law at the University of Alabama. Her novel ‘To kill a mockingbird’ which deals with the issues of racism that were observed by the author as a child in her hometown was awarded the Pulitzer Prize
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The Diction of To Kill a Mockingbird Diction is used to great effect in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Diction is threaded abundantly throughout the novel to call attention to the separation of various cultural, ethnic, and socio-economic groups. Each individual group, from African Americans to “southern belles” has its own diction and each group uses its own personal diction to defend and represent their own way of life. Diction expresses each group’s tone and character and brings
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being published. As well good literature makes you think and feel strongly about the themes of the work. Good literature can be read over and over again each time receiving a new component which was not realized before. Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, is a novel that takes on the complex issues of racism within a community and the justice system. In this novel a white man, Atticus Finch, takes on the case of a black man, Tom Robinson, who has allegedly raped a white teenager, Mayella. In
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