Elizabeth Gaskell once said, “How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!” In Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mocking Bird”, the story is told through a young girl named Scout. Her and her family go through many adventures that teach them the ways of life and how to treat certain people. Eventually, Scout would soon see that not everyone was treated equally with her father saying, “You never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.”
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Flannery O’Conner was a great short story writer because of her original idea’s when it came to civil rights. O'Connor wrote to friends that her favorite story, among those she had written, was "The Artificial Nigger" and that it was "probably the best thing I'll ever write." This story has a lot of elements which wrap around the concept of race which Flannery O’Conner explained in every important detail she could throughout this story. From racism to God’s grace, she presents them all in an unusual
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Most of the characters in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men at one point admit to dreaming of a different life. One of the most important themes in the story is The American Dream is difficult to achieve. There are several examples of this theme, including George and Lennie, Curley's wife, Candy, and Crooks. One of the first examples of this theme can be seen in the chapter that is focused on Crooks the stable buck. In this chapter Crooks was at first shooting down Lennie’s idea that he and
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In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, many of her characters demonstrate courage. The acts of courage are small to large, and come from many different people. But there are three main characters who are proven to have stood out within their acts of courage. These three are Atticus Finch, Adolphus Raymond, and Boo Radley. Courage is the act of doing something that frightens one. Everyone of these characters displayed an act of courage that stands out above all else. Atticus Finch is a
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Reading To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, there are many scenes and events that show who symbolize the “mockingbird”. A mockingbird, according to Atticus Finch, is simply someone or something that is perfectly innocent and does no harm to anyone. Being a mockingbird is something very powerful in this era just because it is during the Great Depression and segregation. In the book, Atticus says “shoot all the bluejays you want if you can hit em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” (119)
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DANCE HALL OF THE DEAD Dance Hall of the Dead is the second novel to feature the Navajo lieutenant Joe Leaphorn. The novel, which deals with a Navajo boy impossibly trying to become a Zuni, highlights the vast differences between Native American cultures. Some characters from the novel are: Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn a protagonist is the central figure, or main character in a novel. Ernesto Cata is the twelve-year-old Zuñi murder victim; he was well-loved in his community and it was expected that
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I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and I am on page 43. This story is about a few kids trying to meet Boo Radley and get him to come out of his house. In this journal, I will be predicting and characterizing. I predict the kids will not meet Boo Radley. Boo has been locked away for so long what would make him come out now? The door to the Radley household has been shut for 15 years and counting. After they closed their door to the public, Boo has not been seen or heard of. Some people
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In Cold Blood - Syntax When the novel begins the sentences are long, complicated, and drawn-out, Creating an suspenseful tone and the sense of a calmness before a storm. By using compound-complex sentences Capote is able to give us more insight into characters like Dick, Nancy, and Kenyon. On page 38, Capote writes, “The furniture of the den, a cement-floored room that ran the length of the house, consisted almost entirely of examples of his carpentry (shelves, tables, stools, a ping-pong table)
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Imagery, not only is it used for creating a vivid picture for the reader, but to further understand the characters and get inside their minds. Through Capote’s writing he uses imagery to add feeling, or sometimes even veer from creating biased opinions. Capote expresses how he feels through the story and wants the reader to establish their own opinion, for his morals are not the exact same as any one person. When Capote is talking about the deaths caused by a shotgun it sounds as though he doesn’t
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The movie of To Kill a Mockingbird left out many details that were crucial to the novel and that made many events powerful and moving. An important part of To Kill a Mockingbird is the courtroom scene because the majority of the novel revolved around the trial of Tom Robinson. The courtroom scene in the movie was condensed and the director decided to leave out many points that made the courtroom scene influential and intriguing. For example, during Mayella statement in the movie, she was concise
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