the 1900’s segregation, racism, and the Great depression played a huge part in how people lived their lives. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee used real-life events to connect with the events that happened in the novel. She made connections with the Jim Crow laws, mob mentality, and the Scottsboro trials. The first connection made through To Kill a Mockingbird and real-life events in history are the Jim Crow laws. The Jim Crow laws were unfair laws that separate blacks from whites. Whites
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During the 1930’s there were an immense amount of unfair treatment to African Americans. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird, a character named Tom Robinson was falsely accused of rape. He testified truthfully. However, because the jury was all caucasian males, they convicted him. This is an example of how our court system fails. To this day our court system fail to deal with certain trials. The Tom Robinson case had so much evidence to prove he should have been acquitted. Mayella said that she called
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The literary classic To Kill a Mockingbird is the well known story of Jean Louise Finch as she grows up in the town of Maycomb, Alabama. Through a journey of self discovery and racism, the book follows the trial of Tom Robinson, an African American male, accused of rape by a woman named Mayella Ewell. Mayella Ewell is a young, poverty-stricken woman who is mainly controlled by her father. In a town divided by race, class and gender, Mayella does not have a large amount of power over her own life
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To Kill A MockingBird by Harper Lee is a story about Scout and Jem growing up in a small town. A small southern town. The character, Scout faces a wide variety of trials and experiences throughout the story that help her come of age. Scouts coming of age is developed at school, with the help of Miss Caroline, through conflict, setting, and theme. Scout begins as a girl who is quick to violence, and kind of rude towards her authority. Throughout the story, one would see that she has started to come
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One of the most significant themes in To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, is courage. Courage is the ability to do something that frightens one. Atticus, along with many other characters in this book show courage through their fearless actions. Courage is defined in this novel as standing up for what is right regardless of overwhelming opposition. Atticus shows his courage by helping Tom Robinson, a black man, who allegedly raped a woman. Atticus took a chance and tried to defend him knowing that
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Personal beliefs are shaped by perspective. In order to change a belief, a change in perspective has to occur. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Lee shows the change in Scout Finch’s beliefs as she matures and her perspective changes. We can see this when Scout evaluates Walter Cunningham’s way of life at her supper table, when she starts to witness the social inequalities in Maycomb, Alabama during Tom Robinson's trial, and when she learned the truth about her childhood monster,
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person just by what people say? This happens to many people. An example of such would be Arthur (Boo) Radley in the book To Kill A Mockingbird. Boo Radley is a secluded mysterious figure who never comes out of his house. Scout and Jem (who are young children) are fascinated with the stories and rumors of Boo radley and hope to meet him one day. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee represents the theme that rumors do not define a person through Arthur (Boo) Radley and his relationship with
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McKenzie Lynch College English Final Essay The novel “How to Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee has a view of how things were like in the South in the 1930’s. The book is written in the eyes of two characters Scout and Jem Finch. Scout is a young girl who is growing up around different races due to her father’s Atticus Finch’s defendant. Atticus Finch is helping a black man named Tom Robinson with the charge of raping a white girl. These two lives changed from the racism involved with their
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feverishly down at the platform. Some of them were yelling ‘kill em, kill em’”. The students became animals hungry for Jerry's blood. The thing that made it mental torture was the fact that the kids decided how the fight went. The raffle cards said who punched who and how they hit them. They became ravenous towards him. It solidified how much they hated him. They were ready to make him pay for going against the normal ways. The yelling “kill him” showed the extent of the hate from his classmates. This
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because he didn't know what was right or wrong. Also, throughout the dream we notice the use of symbolism through the Golden carp. “When the Golden Carp appeared cico struck with with his spear and the water ran blood red’(244). The Golden carp was a symbol in the novel of a false idol that cico truly believed was a native god. When cico stabbed the golden carp and killed it it was very important because it shows how everything antonio once believed in is dying and
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