defining factor in the jury’s decision. Atticus fights against racism‚ and a few other townspeople are on his side‚ including Miss Maudie and Judge Taylor. Jem and Scout also believe in racial equality. When Atticus loses the trial‚ he tries to make his children understand that although he lost‚ he did help move along the cause of ending racism as evidenced by the jury’s lengthy discussion period. Usually such a trial would be decided immediately.
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TKAM notes Chapter 17-26 (pg 166-237) * Mr. Tate describes the event of Maya being raped and how he was the first one called By Mr.Ewell * He speaks about the bruises on her right eye and on the rest of her body * Atticus asked why they didn’t first call a doctor to attend Maya but no response came and he kept making sure that it was her right eye that was damaged * Scout describes how The Ewells’s are one of the most wretched people in the county and how dirty and filthy they
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The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is split into various themes. One of the numerous themes is the moral nature of people‚ good versus evil. In the novel‚ we find lots of righteous characters. Some of the righteous characters are in the black community. The black community keeps faith in God and practice their virtue every chance they get. The black community illustrates our school motto: to act justly‚ love tenderly and walk humbly with our God. In Maycomb the black community was treated
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Kalif Chew Mr. Spain APUSH 21 March 2014 To Kill a Mockingbird Book Report To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee takes place in Alabama in the early 1930s‚ during the beginning of FDR’s New Deal. FDR’s New Deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States during the Great Depression. The Great Depression was caused by industrial overproduction‚ stock market crashes‚ and thousands of bank failures. This put the United States at its lowest economic point of all time. Too many
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Realism in Jim Grimsley’s Winter Birds When thinking of a work of fiction‚ one would most likely consider the unrealistic story or the happy ending. Additionally‚ most wouldn’t think of “the harsh realities of everyday life” (Feldman‚ 485) like domestic violence and alcoholism. This is because nowadays‚ most books aren’t realist novels. A realist novel is a fictional book that focuses more on character analysis rather than plot‚ and describes things as they really are‚ with no excess details. One
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Both “The Lamp at Noon” and “To Kill a Mocking Bird” are texts. The former is a short story while the latter is a novel. One might think those two works are mostly dissimilar for they are very different stories. “The Lamp at Noon” is about Paul‚ Ellen and their baby‚ who live on the grass lands and suffer from dust storm. Actually Paul wants to stay while Ellen wants to move to town. On the other hand‚ “То Kill the Mocking Bird” says about Atticus and his kids who live in Maycomb. Atticus is a lawyer
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Psychoanalytic Critique of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds In the late nineteenth century‚ Sigmund Freud developed the first framework for psychoanalytic theory expressing that our unconscious mind is truly responsible for our thoughts‚ desires‚ and overall emotions. His theory establishes that childhood experiences are crucial in individual development and sexual or aggressive drives shape all of our basic needs and feelings (Summers‚ 2006). Of course humans do not directly recognize that their
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Project Life Cycle & Events: The main project construction of Birds Nest Stadium was started in December‚ 2003 and finished in June‚ 2008 with a break of one and half year in 2004 due to excessive construction cost (Wei‚ 2011). However‚ The Birds Nest Stadium‚ like all other projects‚ also had the common life cycle of- 1. Conceptualization- which include the primary target and technical description of this project. 2. Planning- where all the schedules‚ specifications and plans were developed. 3
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view in this narrative is Scouts. Scouts upbringing has been respectful to the African Americans in her society and she shows this with her relationship to her maid‚ Calpurnia. Other children her age have adopted their parents racial views‚ this causes her many problems. Atticus’s lawsuit seems to isolate his children and Scout is taunted with remarks in the playground. Her only retort is violence and Atticus‚ as a virtuous father‚ does not condone this behaviour "My fists were clenched I was ready
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Calpurnia Archetype Function He is the Mentor because he is an older wiser teacher‚ serving as a role model. He is one of the few residents of Maycomb who is not racist and believes in equality‚ which serves as an example for his children. He teaches scout how to see in other people’s perspective instead of only her own. She is the Hero of this novel. As the narrator and the protagonist she eventually develops a more mature point of view and learns how to see in other people’s
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