"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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Mockingbirds are a big part of the story in Harper Lee’s classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Mockingbirds sing their hearts out, that’s just what they do. They don’t hurt others or damage any trees, they sing a beautiful tone for all to hear. As Mockingbirds sing, so do people, they have their own characteristics and ways that they express themselves in. Atticus says that it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird, and so it would be a sin to kill someone’s voice or the way they stand up for others. Three
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Depression was a period in the 1930’s where poverty had reached an all time high after the stock market crash in 1929 (McCabe). The novel To Kill a Mockingbird takes place during this time, and faces many challenges related to The Great Depression. Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, used inspiration from these real-life historical events to hook into her novel. Some of these significant historical events include the Jim Crow laws, mob mentality, and the Scottsboro trials in conjunction with racism
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between the Raven and Annabel Lee “The Raven” and “Annabel Lee” are the two famous poems they are both written by the author Edgar Allan Poe's. Poe's was best known “fiction works are Gothic (combination of both horror and romance), as this two poems are”. Poe’s themes and style of poems deals with questioning of death and lost love. He loved his wife “Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe”. The author’s wife Virginia died because of “tuberculosis”. In fact, both “The Raven” and “Annabel Lee” stories are about loss
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the clerk’s table” (Lee 254). Provided with the evidence that Tom Robinson’s left arm was useless due to an accident- it would be obvious that he did not beat up Mayella Ewell because her bruise was made by someone left-handed, but all the jurors ruled guilty. Harper Lee makes the jurors seem ignorant as they just ignored the fact that it was impossible for Tom to use his left arm/hand. It would not have ended this way if Tom Robinson’s race was Caucasian, which is why Harper Lee made Tom to be African
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Throughout Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird symbolism is present as a mockingbird, the multiple flowers mentioned, and a character himself, Boo Radley. Mockingbirds are a picture of innocence and beauty. The mockingbird is used as a symbol of innocence in the book. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus is telling Scout how it is a sin to kill a mockingbird. Scout later asks Miss Maudie and Miss Maudie agrees by saying “Your father’s right…Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy…but
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Boo Radley. who is he? what is he? what have the children done to him? what has he become through the children thoughts? In the novel To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the children disclose Boo Radley as a monster that withholds his life from the outer world. Jem received the information from Miss Stephanie saying the story of Boo Radley “Boo was sitting in the living-room cutting some items from the Maycomb Tribune to paste in his scrapbook. His father entered the room. As Mr. Radley passed
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To kill a mockingbird is a novel that that draws attention to the existence of social inequality. In to kill a mockingbird it tells a story about Scout Finch, her brother Jem and their father Atticus Finch in the town of Maycomb in Alabama, Maycomb is suffering through the great depression, atticus is a lawyer and his family is suitably better than the other families scattered across Maycomb, later in the novel atticus accepts the task to defend a black man named Tom robinson. During the trial tom
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a chilling historical fiction novel that centers around the trial of an innocent black man who is accused of raping a white woman. The novel is set in Alabama during the 1930s, and it follows an old lawyer and his family in the small town of Maycomb. Atticus Finch, the lawyer and father, is often called upon by the town for help due to his stature. He is level headed and focuses on the belief that everybody deserves to be treated equally. It is this belief
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“My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived and let me watch him do it.” - Clarence kelland To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a book about a small Alabama family in a small town called Maycomb county. It's about the adventure and trouble that Jem and scout Finch get into and about the struggle with racism in the south. Atticus is a hoest kind man and a great father because how he defends everyone and stick up for blacks even against angry racist white mob. There are many good examples
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