To Kill a Mockingbird: a novel set in the Jim Crow south showing injustice and society through the eyes of a young girl‚ written by (Nelle) Harper Lee‚ and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Lee started writing started writing at the University of Alabama newspaper and then pursued writing in New york. After working odd jobs for about eight years‚ and with the help of Truman Capote‚ Lee published the bestseller “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Scout is the main character in this novel as the son of Atticus Finch
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novels to get across a message in an entertaining way. Harper lee‚ in To Kill a Mockingbird‚ uses the ordinary‚ everyday mockingbird to symbolise innocence. By the end of the novel‚ both Tom Robinson and Boo Radley become mockingbird symbols. A mockingbird literally is a good bird. Mockingbirds are considered a good animal because they do not disturb or annoy anyone. They just mind their own business and are harmless. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up
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Emily Akins Mrs. Green Freshman Honors 2 24 August 2012 To Kill a Mockingbird Questions Chapter 1: 1a- Pride in ancestry and tradition * “Tired old town”. Page 9 1b- Pride in conformity and distrust of those who are different * “Maycomb county had recently been told it had nothing to fear but fear itself”. Page 10 1c: Awareness of difference in social classes. * “Nothing to buy and no money to buy with it”. Page 10os 1d- Narrow span of interest and almost no interest
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In the book To Kill A Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee‚ people are treated differently based on who they are. This is a continuous problem in Maycomb‚ and not many are being treated the same. Some of the groups being treated differently are women‚ children‚ and black people. There is a difference between acting like a child and being a child. Children should not be told to grow faster. They just need to be kids. In Maycomb‚ children are treated as less equals and told that they need to grow up faster
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realized how a book and a movie be compared? Books and movies are both written. When watching a movie you can see and hear the details‚ where as when reading a book you are able to imagine them‚ and create the picture in your head. Novels and feature films both tell stories about characters. Adaptations will always include saving time situations in which some events in the book are not showed to make the film short. There are so many saving time examples shown in the movie. One of them is how you
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To Kill a Mockingbird Even though it appeared as though Mayella was guilty‚ the sympathy felt for her‚ caused some to believe she was innocent. During the Tom Robinson case‚ it was very evident that Mayella was lying‚ which made the audience believe she was guilty. Atticus questioned her‚ “’ Did you scream first at your father instead of at Tom Robinson? Was that it?’ No answer. ‘Who beat you up?‚ Tom Robinson or your father?’ No answer” (251). During this time of the trial Mayella realized that
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In part 1 of the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" there is a girl named Jean Finch‚ nicknamed Scout‚ and her brother Jem Finch live in Maycomb with their father Atticus Finch. Atticus is a lawyer who is loved by the whole city. Scout and Jem have a cook named Calpurnia who is like a mother figure in the house since the kid’s mom died when Scout was a young girl. Scout doesn’t remember her mother but Jem does. Jem gets sad when he thinks of their mother. A boy named Charles Harris‚ nicknamed Dill‚moves
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In "To Kill a Mockingbird"‚ innocence is portrayed through the character of Scout. Her childish innocence shown throughout the book projects enormous effect on people and the outcome of various situations. The innocence shown also develops as the book goes on. First‚ it was the conflict at school where she did not quite understand what was going on. Second‚ there was the gang encounter where she showed them that there is much more to life. Scout’s curiousity portrays her innocence‚ as she seeks to
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What does Scout learn at the end of the novel? Throughout the novel‚ The Kill A Mockingbird‚ the narrator‚ Scout‚ who is only three years old at the beginning‚ grows up to understand the evils of the society in the 1930s. Her mind is full of fun and excitement‚ but as important events unfold in Maycomb‚ she begins to discover themes such as racism and prejudice as she grows older that would have seemed meaningless to her during the beginning In the earlier stages of the book‚ Scout enjoyed the
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Mikayla Rex Trojeski Ms Emeline Briley English 8 June 2016 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Jem and scout are surrounded by people they have grown up with throughout their adolescent. People they believed are good and kind hearted people‚ but at the same time they are the people that question and or challenge an ugly system of oppression that makes it “okay” to despise people because of the colour of their skin. If there is one thing I have learned from Atticus is that he stands up for what
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