Jessi Machnik Ms.Madding English 9 Honors-1 15 February 2013 The Sins of Mayella Ewell “Shoot all the blue jays you want‚ if you can hit ‘em‚ but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” (119). It’s a sin because all mockingbirds do is sing and bring joy to the world. All Tom Robinson tried to do was help Mayella Ewell and bring a little joy to her life and she accused him of rape. Harper Lee’s novel tells the story of two children‚ Scout and Jem Finch‚ as they come-of-age in Depression-era
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mysterious. Lastly‚ Bob Ewell is inexplicably evil because he’s racist and rude. The Ewells are white‚ but very poor. First‚ Tom Robinson is a man who only has one arm and is being accused of rape because he’s a “colored man”. He’s being put on trial for it and Atticus is the lawyer who defends him. I know this because Reverend Sykes said‚ “Tom caught his hand in a cotton gin when he was a boy.”
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TITLE: To Kill a Mocking Bird AUTHOR: Harper Lee TYPE OF BOOK: Novel‚ Fiction‚ Social Drama The MAIN CHARACTER of the story is Jean Louise "Scout" Finch. Scout Finch is the narrator and protagonist of To Kill a Mockingbird. She often comments about how she didn’t understand something when she was younger‚ but now‚ having grown up‚ she does. From being sensitive‚ she became so senile. Scout is considered smart for her age‚ and loves to read. She remains naive and idealistic‚ despite an increased
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Book Review of: To Kill a Mockingbird Genre: Fiction/Realism First published in 1960 by William Heinemann Ltd. F Plot To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story of Scout Finch and her brother‚ Jem‚ in 1930’s Alabama. Through their neighbourhood walk-abouts and the example of their father‚ they grow to understand that the world isn’t always fair and that prejudice is a very real aspect of their world no matter how subtle it seems.
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In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ the title is appropriate because it gives the reader the idea that the book is about killing mockingbirds. The killing of the mockingbirds isn’t taken literally; instead it symbolizes the destroying of innocence in many characters throughout the novel. Miss Maudie (a minor character in the novel) said that “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
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Mockingbird: The mockingbird represents innocence. Like hunters who kill mockingbirds for sport‚ people kill innocence‚ or other people who are innocent‚ without thinking about what they are doing. Atticus stands firm in his defense of innocence and urges his children not to shoot mockingbirds both literally and figuratively. The mockingbird motif arises four times during To Kill a Mockingbird. First‚ when Atticus gives Jem and Scout air guns for Christmas and instructs them not to kill mockingbirds
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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD ESSAY The novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ explores a year told through the eyes of a ten old‚ in a town called Maycomb‚ it follows the story of an innocent African American man getting accused of raping a girl. This novel is both a story of hope and hopelessness‚ by showing the worst in the people from the town when they choose their sides in the court case of the raping. There are also good signs shown by some people in the novel‚ when citizens of the town believe
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title of To Kill a Mockingbird has very little literal connection to the plot‚ but it carries a great deal of symbolic weight in the book. In this story of innocents destroyed by evil‚ the “mockingbird” comes to represent the idea of innocence. Thus‚ to kill a mockingbird is to destroy innocence. Throughout the book‚ a number of characters including Jem‚ Tom Robinson and Boo Radley can be identified as mockingbirds – innocents that have been injured or destroyed through contact with evil. This connection
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Movement without Complacency One novel that teaches us that history does not turn a blind eye and shows us all the evils that exist in our world today is Harper Lee’s novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird. Atticus’ decision to defend Tom Robinson during his trial is indicative of how harmful human behavior can be towards one another. Prejudice‚ which is abundant in Maycomb and the south‚ is seen by children as confusing until they are old enough to grasp the concept. Lee portrays the children in the novel
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Choosing a good book can be very hard. There are so many different things that can effect whether a book is good or bad and with so many books out there determining whether they are good or bad is difficult. When you judge a book looking at just the story or plot isn’t really enough‚ the books literary elements must be taken into account. When looking at the literary elements personal opinion has to be left out. Two Famous classic books are “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “A Raisin in the Sun”. Both
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