“Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.” (Lee #323) In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird racism is an important theme in the book. The majority of Maycomb are racist by calling dark colored people “niggers” and even though Scout’s father is white, Atticus defends a African American named Tom Robinson. Scout doesn’t understand why people use the word “nigger” at first she says it because children at school use it, and its common. Throughout the story Scout starts
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To Kill A Mockingbird In the book “ To kill A Mockingbird” Author Harper Lee uses plenty of symbolism. Symbolism is a literary device where author uses an object to stand for an idea. The most famous symbol used in the book is “Mockingbird” the symbol of innocents. In her novel, “To KIll A Mockingbird” Harper Lee uses Tom Robinson , Boo Radley and Atticus Finch as human “Mockingbirds” to contribute the overall theme of innocents. First, Lee uses Tom Robinson as a mockingbird. Tom Robinson is
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, focuses around the idea of how good and bad coexist with each other. This book shows how cruel and merciless life is, and how it revolves around the Jim Crow Era, giving African-Americans their rights, though limited and allowing through laws a more segregated lifestyle in the south. It follows the character Scout, the narrator, through her journey of growing up in a small, racist town in Alabama with her father Atticus and brother Jem. She matures, and learns
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Jem and Scout are both children of the morally just lawyer, Atticus Finch, and they both go through the same life experiences yet they come to different conclusions about what lies at the heart of mankind. Throughout a period of over 3 years we the reader of To Kill a Mockingbird see how Jem and Scout mature and split ways in the nature of their thinking. Jem and scout are both morally fraught by the outcome of the Tom Robinson case. Jem and Scout go on to have a discussion about what kind of folks
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Jean Louise Finch, most commonly known as “Scout”, is the protagonist and narrator of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. At the beginning of the novel Scout is a happy innocent child who has yet to experience the evils in the world. Scout possesses a pugnacious attitude and an average faith in the goodness of humans. As the novel progresses this faith is tested. Scout is surrounded by prejudice, racism, and hostility. During the Robinson’s trial Scout is faced with an abundance of evil and as a reader
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Thomas jefferson once said all men are created equal within the harper Lee novel, to killing Mocking bird, the people focused to the not fair social equality in maycomb alabama with the narrator scout finch through the comparison character interactions in the novel and the influence of current events , it seems that the concept of social equality has changed since the 1930s when searching about social equality in the 1930s from the blacks and whites not being treated right ,the audience
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To Kill a Mockingbird is a classic novel written by Harper Lee, educating readers of the racial injustice in the small town of Maycomb. Set in the 1930’s and narrated by young Scout Finch, Lee has incorprated erudite language features and strutural elements to create a sense of suspense to evoke feelings of nervousness and empathy into the reader. Lee’s writing style emphasises the audience’s nervousness and continues to build a sense of suspense through language features and strutural elements
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In the book, To Kill A Mockingbird, there are many adults who influence the children, Jem and Scout, including Atticus Finch, Miss Maudie, and Calpurnia. These characters are the most influential role models in the everyday life of the children. Atticus Finch is a kind, wise lawyer who cares a lot about his children, Jem and Scout. Scout says “he liked Maycomb, he was Maycomb county born and bred; he knew his people, they knew him, and because of Simon Finch’s industry, Atticus was related by
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“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view … until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” These are the words that were spoken by Atticus Finch when he was talking to scout about people and perspectives. Atticus Finch is a very simplistic person in the story To Kill A MockingBird by, Harper Lee. Atticus is a very quite person and he expresses this by not being too brash and taking insults but also showing he's the bigger man by not fighting with
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In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee expresses the way in which children lose their innocence due to many adult conflicts that introduce them to the terrible, real world, forcing them to grow up. The author demonstrates growth and understanding of the impure society in comparison to that of a child's naive, unadulterated and perfect world. The harsh reality of Maycomb becomes more evident to minors as they encounter surprising occurrences in their neighborhood. After a child from school makes a
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