I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and I am on page 208. Book is about a family that lives in the country, this family is called the finch family their mother is somewhere in the book I’m not sure where but they have a mother like worker named Calpurnia, in this journal I will be the theme about Atticus basically the theme about him. One major theme in the book is that there is more to one person then first thought. Atticus a great father and a lawyer and fit this theme. As first
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Characterization of Atticus. Atticus is kind to people. He is fighting for Tom Robinson when no one else will. He says he wouldn’t be able to live with him self if he did not help Tom Robinson. Atticus’s own brothers, sisters and nephews say that he is destroying the family name by defending Tom Robinson. Atticus will look at something from someone else’s point of view before making a judgment or choice. He teaches scout to look from others people shoes and he tells her that you don’t really know
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Historical influences in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird In 1929 the stock market crashed and resulted in nationwide economic distress, called the Great Depression, and it was the setting for To Kill A Mockingbird. During the Great Depression about 1 in 4 people were unemployed in America. Millions of Americans were homeless and jobless (McCabe 12). There were multiple factual events that were significantly influential in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird. This novel references many historical
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Truth vs. Reality Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, tells a story of children learning that the “truth” does not always correlate with “reality”. Throughout To Kill A Mockingbird, many themes are discernible. Among those themes is Truth vs. Reality. Within this novel, what is "true" is constantly shifting to bring forth a new "reality". Tom’s guilt, the relationship between Tom and Mayella, and Mayella’s relationship with her father all showcase Truth vs. Reality during Tom Robinson’s
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The classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird has ended up on thousands of classic to read list, school’s required reading, some school even banning the book all together, only to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961, become a Academy Award-winning film, and is going to be talked about for hundreds of years. So what is it? This tale told by Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, a girl ageing between seven to nine, in Maycomb County a small town in Alabama, lives in a world she soon realizes is not perfect, and struggles
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affects people as we grow. In the novel, Scout who is a six-year-old child born and raised in 1930’s Maycomb County, Alabama. She grows up in a racist society were “colored people” are discriminated and learns about racism from society. In “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee the theme of racism is explored and it becomes clear that racism is something we learn from society. Scout starts to learn more about racism from society when she is talking to Francis. When Scout and her family go to Finch’s
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heads – they couldn’t be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s, the white man always wins. They’re ugly, but those are the facts of life.” (Lee 251). Tom Robinson is an important figure in To Kill a Mockingbird as he is shown prejudice through his skin color. He is accused of rape by Mayella Ewell when helping her with household chores, although we learn that he is not guilty of this accusation. The problem the Tom is faced in this story is everyone
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To Kill a Mockingbird was a great and unique novel about two children that were the main character and this essay is to explain why the point of view and the characters of To Kill a Mockingbird would affect the plot and overall structure of the novel. The point of view affects the characters in To Kill a Mockingbird because the characters are all different, they are of all ages, and the people of Maycomb all have different aspects of the Tom Robinson case. These two literary terms really effect the
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Different Read on ‘Mockingbird’” by Scott Martelle, the outdated teaching method and innacurate point of view in To Kill A Mockingbird, are give deep consideration. questioned. First, there are many other more accurate (Lee, grew up during this time, so it is still accurate, but maybe a bit bais) books that teach about the hardships of African Americans in the 1930’s. Secondly, the book is told from a very limited point of view. Some people argue that the lessons of To Kill A Mockingbird are timeless
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"People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for" (Lee). I interpret this quote to mean that you won’t be open to proof or opinions of something that you don’t want to be open to. This quote is part of chapter 17 of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. This quote was said by Judge Taylor and he meant that he cannot control what people see, hear, understand, or take away from what they witness that day at the trial. If anyone present at the trial was not open to an idea, they
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