Rocking on my porch, the gossip rolls by like dust in the air. Everyone on the street is whispering about something into others ears. Did a black named Tom Robinson rape a white women? As a white lady living in Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression, people see things differently. Sometime the doses of morphine I take affect my thinking. Maycomb is like a divided town right now. Some townsfolk I, Mrs. DuBose can be seen as a racist in some people's eyes. People view me as a mean old woman.
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To Kill a Mockingbird Essay The story To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in Maycomb Alabama in the 1930’s. The Great Depression was in effect so not a lot of people had any money. However, this was not the only thing they had to worry about. There was a lot of Racism, class prejudice, and sexism that all lead up to not only the kids, but also adults facing the destruction of innocence. One example, is the mockingbird. This represented innocence because Atticus stated it was a sin to kill
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"To kill a mockingbird is to destroy innocence". In Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout narrates the story in first person point of view. The novel shows how growing up in times of depression, racism, and poverty can change an individual or even a society. The story takes places in Maycomb County. The time is set in the early 1930s where poverty and racism plays a major roll in the United States. The tone of the story is very serious and shows the reader a piece of reality.
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Mockingbirds Make Mistakes Too In Harper Lee’s, “To Kill a Mockingbird”, the main character Scout portrays traits of a Mockingbird by calming those around her, not being bashful about being heard, and being harmless. An example would include when Scout disperses the Lynch Mob in front of the jail on a cool August night simply by appealing to the Lyncher’s sense of humanity. Scout states to Mr. Cunningham, “You brought us some hickory nuts one time, remember?” and, “I go to school with Walter, He’s
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In chapter eight of To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem makes a snowman out of dirt with snow surrounding the outside. He puts the snow only on the outside in order to make the snowman look correct while only using the small amount of snow that was on the ground. This is a symbol to show that black and white people should work together. If only they work together, they could accomplish so much more and make something extraordinary. This is the same as the dirt and snow working together towards the outcome
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Symbolism; This is when an author uses any type of object to stand for and Idea. In “To Kill a Mockingbird”, Harper Lee uses Boo Radley, Tom Robinson, and Jem Finch as human mockingbirds (The mockingbird is a symbol of innocence.) to contribute to the overall theme of innocence. First, Lee Uses Boo Radley as a mockingbird when he’s always accused of being crazy/creepy because he doesn’t come out of the house, also jem says “Boo Radley was about Six-and-A-Half feet tall, “Judging from his tracks”
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To kill a Mockingbird is said to be about Harper Lee’s life; however, she never did interviews so there is some evidence, but not enough to say for certain. With Harper Lee’s death in 2016 no one will ever know for sure. To Kill a Mockingbird is about Scout and her family going through Tom Robinson's trial and the family living through the Great Depression. Scout is six at the beginning of the story, but we watch her grow up through the book. Scout's older brother Jem is ten in the beginning of the
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The movie To Kill a Mockingbird is about a family that lives in a town called Maycomb, where the kids, Scout and Jem, attempt to figure out the mysterious story of their neighbor, Boo Radley. One day, their father, Atticus Finch, takes on a case involving a black man, Tom Robinson, who was falsely accused of raping a white woman. The Finch family dealt with an enormous amount of hatred from the other residents, because the movie took place during the time period of the Great Depression, where there
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Thebook To Kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee shows a constant theme of giving even when others can not. Giving happens when Scout beats up Walter, Jem and Scout give Walter a invite to come home with them to eat some of cal’s food.”Come home with us ...We’d be glad to have you”(pg.30 ) Scout and Jem know Walters family from atticus helping his father out. Scout knows Walters family does not have a lot of money also Scout knows walter does not have lots of friends.The small act of giving that
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Through Mayella Ewell’s race inequality, socioeconomic status, and the lack of education author Harper Lee develops the theme of inequality in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Mayella was a character that made the small town of Macomb think about racism in a different way. Mayella was so interesting that she showed that if you screamed rape in a small town it will affect everyone. She was discriminated against and never had a chance to be herself. Body Paragraph- Socioeconomic Mayella Ewell
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