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    other up to make the target feel smaller and weaker‚ but sometimes they can be easily defeated. In the book “To Kill a Mocking Bird” on example of a group of people is when Calpurnia took Jem and Scout to the First Purchase church.(The one for the black population.) When Jem and Scout got there‚ someone who was Lula told Calpurnia that she wasn’t supposed to bring white kids to the church and from even just her saying that it gave Jem and Scout a feeling from not belonging there. Jem suggested that

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    Jem and Scout Finch are brother and sister. Scout is six and Jem is ten. They live with their dad Atticus and a housekeeper named Calpurnia. Over the summer they meet a boy named Dill‚ who wants to marry Scout. Jem tells Dill about a scary house that the Radley family lives in. Throughout the summer they try to make Boo Radley come out. Jem and Scout start to find things in a tree near the Radley’s house. They find gum‚ pennies and soap dolls. Scout begins to become close friends with a

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    On page 125 there was a racist conversation between Jem‚ Scout and Calpurnia. Jem asked Calpurnia why she talked like the rest of the other colored people while in church. Calpurnia started to explain that it’s the right thing to do even though she knows how to talk like

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    eat at the Finch home‚ Scout always held a bit of contempt against him for his coarse manners‚ his poverty and his ignorance he had. Since he was demonstrating all these behaviors when he was invited to lunch‚ Scout made fun of him. Immediately Calpurnia got onto her and demanded that she treated Little Cunningham with the respect that is owed to a guest‚ and that Scout better not downgrade a person for their current position in life. Cal teaches Scout that the town of Maycomb is a very separated

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    A tragedy is a drama or literary work in which the protagonist is brought to ruin or suffers sorrow‚ especially as a consequence of tragic flaw or moral weakness. Where as‚ a comedy is a drama or literary work‚ that is light and often humorous or satirical in tone and it usually contains a happy resolution of the thematic conflict. Thus‚ a tragicomedy is a fictional work that blends aspects of the genres tragedy and comedy. In Shakespeare’s time a tragicomedy referred to a serious play with a happy

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    people of other religions. This is likely to apply nowadays too where "victims" of racism themselves begin to hate the other race. Therefore they cannot sincerely say that they are better people. The theme of racism also appears in the character of Portia‚ the otherwise seemingly innocent and flawless lady. She judges one of her suitors by their skin color before she has even met him. She considers him to have "the complexion of the devil" and so he does not even have a chance with her (disregarding

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    Yet along with the virtues of specification go the vaguer prompting of allegory. The symmetrical obsessions of Singer’s four admirers quickly make him a special case‚ more interesting as a catalyst than as a complex human being; and soon afterwards the admirers themselves take on generalized significance. Through the passion with which each constructs the god he needs‚ he bears ironical witness to the many and wayward forms of human mythmaking. Biff Brannon is introduced as a man with a rare

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    Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is not a codex worth throwing away. Judging a book by its cover is a fatal mistake. Within the confinements of the negligible town Maycomb‚ Lee demonstrates many of the world’s conflicting issues. The novel illustrates a society that is supremely‚ staggeringly unfair‚ especially in the 1930s where racism is part of the very fabric of society. Harper broadcasts many concealed controversies‚ such as racism and prejudice. All throughout the novel those constant themes

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    The Villain of The Merchant of Venice We all have a mind of our own and with that we can make the choice to do good or evil. So it is not our enemies that lure us to evil ways. It is our own minds that decide to do so. In the play‚ The Merchant of Venice‚ by William Shakespeare‚ Shylock is a villain because in the play Shylock uses deception and his knowledge of Antonio to exact his revenge‚ Shylock also shows that anger‚ revenge and hate has clouded his mind and so he chooses to show no forgiveness

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    showing racism. By examining the characters‚ the reader learns that mistreating or excluding someone can really affect them in many ways physically and mentally. Calpurnia is an African American woman that works as a maid for the Finch’s house. When Aunt Alexandra came to live with them for a while‚ she told Atticus to fire Calpurnia because she feels like having

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