Harper Lee’s classic American novel To Kill A Mockingbird has been taught for decades‚ and this is because it does not shy away from the issues that have plagued humanity since its very beginning. Lee focuses on race‚ class‚ and morality in her novel‚ but the issue that always stood out to me is gender. While gender is definitely not the most prevalent issue in the book‚ it is the most prevalent issue for the main character‚ Scout. Scout’s perspective in this novel‚ along with other characters‚ developes
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Throughout To Kill A Mockingbird‚ gender‚ race‚ and class prejudice play a huge role in the way the citizens of Maycomb act. Gender prejudice plays a big role in this book because Aunt Alexandra is always telling Scout to wear a dress and be more like a girl. Just because she wears overalls and plays outside with the boys‚ Aunt Alexandra thinks that she acts more like a boy than a girl. Another gender prejudice is that women aren’t allowed to serve on the jury. When Jem asks Atticus why men and women
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Dill is a very imaginative friend of Scout’s. He is always making up imaginative stories and is fascinated with little things. I believe the reason that Dill is so imaginative is because he is modeled after Harper Lee’s real life friend Truman Capote. Truman Capote was also an imaginative person that played a large influence on much of Lee’s life. I believe that he is fascinated with Boo because of his childlike intuition. It also adds excitement to their lives and something to do each day. Since
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In To Kill a Mockingbird gender stereotypes are pressed upon girls and boys‚ forcing them to change how they act in order to fit in. They can still be seen being influenced to change who they are today. In To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee uses Scout and Dill to show how kids are forced to change. One place Harper Lee gives her message of the effect of sexism is when‚ after hearing Scout swear‚ Uncle Jack tells her to stop and “of course” she wants to be a lady (105). By saying this‚ Uncle Jack becomes
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The title of this novel is "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. The novel takes place between 1933-1935 during the great depression in Maycomb‚ Alabama. "To Kill A Mockingbird" is about a family growing up together and discovering new talents and different views in each other as they go through emotional and stressful events that occur in their early lives. Jem is the older brother of Scout (Jean-Louise)‚ being the older brother; he has a certain responsibility that teaches him about caring and
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Learning Morality Argument: To Kill a Mockingbird Prompt: What factors in our lives and communities can advance or inhibit our moral growth? What kind of experiences help us learn how to judge the difference between right and wrong? It goes without saying that understanding the type of moral development is one of the most important issues facing us today. According to Lawrence Kohlberg‚ moral development consists of three different stages in which the individual responds to. The three stages are
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Shannon Wester May 1‚ 2005 Mrs. Takehara To Kill A Mockingbird To Kill A Mocking Bird In my diorama I depicted the scene of Jem walking Scout home from the Halloween pageant‚ in full ham-suit‚ when they are attacked in the woods by Bob Ewell. He first attacks Jem‚ and then Scout‚ until someone pulls him off of her‚ and Scout assumes it was Jem. The man who saved Scout and Jem was Boo Radley‚ the Finch’s reclusive neighbor. He carries an unconscious Jem and scout back to their house‚ where
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on their perspective towards the issue. Over time‚ we all develop a sense of perspective and opinion towards people and things‚ however‚ these perspectives are prone to change as we grow up to be more mature and thoughtful. In the novel‚ To kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ the Finch’s family develops the idea that despite your rank in the social hierarchy‚ personal values and beliefs are determined by one’s personality. This idea was further developed
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to influence the way other people behave or act. To determine whether or not a person is powerful several factors have to be considered. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird the character of Mayella can be an example of a person who can or cannot have power depending on what kind of power is being taken into account. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee displays Mayella Ewell as a lonely white woman who lives in a miserable place and is abused by her father. In the novel Mayella has power according
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Harper Lee uses racism in‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ to show readers the bad outcomes of racist thoughts and ideas. The sentence of life in prison to Tom Robinson‚ Atticus defending Tom Robinson‚ and Jem’s thoughts on Black people’s blood are all examples of Harper Lee’s intentions. Racism is the hatred or intolerance of another race and is a theme that is ever present in Harper Lee’s book‚ To Kill a Mockingbird. Tom Robinson was being sentenced to life in prison for supposedly raping Mayella Ewell
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