clouds. Hopkins has a characteristic method in his poems. He uses double- barreled words‚ such as ‘rose-moles’‚ ‘couple-colour’‚ etc. These words seem to splendidly sum up what Hopkins is trying to say. For example‚ ‘fresh- firecoal chestnut falls: finches’ wings’ refers to autumn and ‘for rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim‚’ refer to the mole like spots on a trout. He uses words that would not be normally used in conversations (well maybe except for mine). Hopkins manages to bring our senses
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Edwin Rivas Yelton-Curtis English 4A Tuesday‚ April 2‚ 2013 To Kill a Mockingbird Theme There are many destructive and brute forces that demonize and demolish our humanity‚ beat down our beliefs‚ and wreak havoc upon our morals. Among these are greed‚ ire‚ and ignorance. These are major situations in today’s society‚ but none is as powerful or as dangerous as racism. It’s a major issue in today’s society as well as the society in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird. It
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Empathy Empathy is the ability to share in or understand other‘s emotions and feelings. It is the term of emotional understanding and a special skill for individuals. This skill requires people to look at things from other people’s views. Harper Lee shows the importance of empathy in “ To Kill A Mockingbird”. This spirit can been seen in Atticus’s ways of preventing prejudice and racism. It also has been displayed in children’s thoughts and their compassion to peers. The unique quality of empathy
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Prejudice and mis-justice in To Kill a Mockingbird The novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee takes place in the southern part of America in the 1930s. An innocent yet humorous point of view in the story is through the eyes of Scout Finch. Scout is a young girl who is growing up with the debate that surrounds her fathers lawsuit. Her father‚ Atticus Finch is a lawyer who is defending a black man‚ Tom Robinson‚ with the charge of raping a white woman. The lives of the characters are changed
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light-colored man and most light skinned people during this era were unfair to dark-colored people. Bob was a particular light-colored person that accused a dark-colored man‚ Tom Robinson‚ of raping his daughter: Mayella Ewell. Bob Ewell harassed the Finches‚ which was the family that defended Tom Robinson‚ as well as dark-colored people because he was a racist. Bob also abused his own eight children. At the end of the story‚ Bob Ewell was killed by a mysterious person and this could be seen of a "poetic
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this novel‚ especially through the character Atticus’s actions and words. Accordingly‚ Atticus believes that racism is wrong and despite what everyone else thinks‚ strives to see both races equally. For example‚ Aunt Alexandra moves in with the Finches because she strongly believes that Jem and Scout need a feminine mentor in their life but excludes Calpurnia‚ who is of the opposite race. She even attempts to change everything about how Atticus fathers his children and how he treats Calpurnia; including
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“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy that’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” This quote is from Miss Maudie explaining to the children within To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper E. Lee what Atticus their father has said. In this story‚ it is explain from a point of view of a child named Scout. She experiences many difficulties after the Great Depressing. Furthermore‚ her father is called to defend a colored person in a crime he didn’t committed in a town filled with racism
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The novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee is a simplistic view of life in the Deep South of America in the 1930s. An innocent but humorous stance in the story is through the eyes of Scout and Jem Finch. Scout is a young adolescent who is growing up with the controversy that surrounds her fathers lawsuit. Her father‚ Atticus Finch is a lawyer who is defending a black man‚ Tom Robinson‚ with the charge of raping a white girl. The lives of the characters are changed by racism and this is the force
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After reading To Kill a Mockingbird most people might represent Dill as a dejected character‚ but I deem Dill Harris presents himself confidently. To begin with‚ he has an eccentric imagination; therefore‚ he just makes up stories as he goes along. For instance‚ when Jem and Scout asked him about his father‚ Dill told them he had a beard. When Dill forgot his lie‚ and said his father did not have a beard‚ he was confronted by Scout and Jem. He fabricated an explanation instantly- his memory wasn’t
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only laid the groundwork for important plot points‚ but also carried with it deeper significance. The onset of a cold winter in the setting of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird portended a bitter cold front to come in the relationships between the Finches and the Maycomb townspeople. Snow had not come to Maycomb since 1885‚ last visiting the town decades before the Finch children were born. When it did arrive‚ the children experienced an entirely new side of the natural world surrounding them. Scout
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