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    and the symbolism of the mockingbird connect with the story told because killing a mockingbird is represented and shows who in the story is a mockingbird. For example‚ the author‚ Harper Lee writes "Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens‚ don’t nest in corncribs‚ they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird." (Lee 94) This quote shows that mockingbirds are harmless and don’t do

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    Miss Maudie Atkinson Upon reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ I discovered that there are many different characters that require attention. While getting to know all about these characters‚ I began to try and relate myself to them. All the main ones‚ such as Atticus‚ Jem and Scout‚ are easier to relate to due to their huge part of this novel. There are many other characters that have a very large impact on this book that do not get enough praise as deserved. One of these people is Miss

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    The Outcast In To Kill a Mockingbird‚ society acted differently as a whole than how they do now. Thankfully‚ racial discrimination has dwindled and everyone now has equal rights‚ but they are still a problem just as they were in the past. Harper Lee expresses the idea of moral courage and the developing of no racism through a character‚ Mr. Dolphus Raymond‚ showing respect to his community‚ being brave enough to withstand his towns judgment‚ and having the ability to be just for this if the community

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    Atticus is the father figure for his kids‚ Jem and Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird. The Finch family lives in Maycomb‚ Alabama during the Great Depression. The kids spend much of their time playing with their gregarious neighbor‚ Dill‚ and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor Boo Radley. When their father‚ Atticus‚ who is a widowed man and a respected lawyer‚ defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges against a white girl‚ he is in/at a detriment. The trial

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    Innocence‚ or the loss of innocence‚ is a theme that permeates many great works of literature. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is no exception. The novel compares many of its characters to mockingbirds‚ a symbol of pure innocence. Two of the most prominent of the novel’s mockingbirds are Tom Robinson‚ a black man wrongly accused and convicted of rape‚ and Boo Radley‚ an outcast from society who spends his days like a hermit locked up in his house. Tom provides something beneficial to society

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    book To Kill a Mockingbird‚ written by Harper Lee‚ the main theme is that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird. This metaphor of not killing mockingbird is clearly portrayed throughout the course of this novel. This theme is so important to the plot of this novel that the author decided to entitle the book after this very metaphor. Mockingbirds are birds that do not do anything wrong and they just give us music. Atticus is the main character in the novel that really stressed why it is a sin to kill a mockingbird

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    the Civil Rights movement can be easily compared and contrasted‚ in spite of the time period being decades apart‚ grief towards the bigotry against African Americans is still as much as alike as it was before. Harper Lee’s well-known novel‚ To Kill A Mockingbird‚ displayed controversial themes of prejudice and segregation that occurred in the 1930s. The novel displays racial inequities still present today‚ these can be observable through occupations that are influenced through racial profiling‚ wrongful

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    spotlight in order to make a correct choice. Heroes will often feel the choice they made is correct. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harber Lee‚ many different characters show lots of heroism. The characters I feel that show the most heroism in the novel are Tom Robinson‚ Boo Radley‚ and Atticus Finch. Tom Robinson is portrayed as heroic in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird because he stands up for himself‚ especially in court. Tom Robinson shows he is a hero during the trial because he shows

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    The novel To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee contains few aspects about Maycomb black community. This links very well with one of the most important theme of the novel‚ racism. Harper Lee describe black community as poor‚ uneducated and unfairly treated people‚ but in the end Harper Lee tells us that black people are just like anyone else in Maycomb and they deserve to be treated equally. To begin‚ Harper Lee describes black community as extremely poor‚ uneducated group of people. Harper

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    In present day many movies have been adapted into books but this isn’t something new. During history‚ many ways of entertainment have been created. From the earliest days of cinema‚in nineteenth-century Europe‚ adaptations from such diverse resources has been an ubiquitous practice of film-making. This is called a film adaptation which is defined as the transfer of a written work in whole or part to a feature film. I’ve watched several movies related with books so by experience I’ve notice that even

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