Mockingbirds’ Moral Courage Harper Lee once wrote that “Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin‚ but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what”. Moral courage means doing the right thing. Anyone can have moral courage‚ no matter who you are. Many authors often use different literary elements to develop themes in their writings. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee uses the literary terms mood and imagery to teach her audience about doing the right thing or
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An Introduction to To Kill A Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird‚ written by Harper Lee in 1960‚ has become one of the most significant classic books in American Literature. The book starts with Scout being in adult‚ looking back to her life: her father‚ Atticus and his trial‚ her brother Jem‚ and her strange‚ mistaken neighbor‚ “Boo” Radley. To Kill a Mockingbird contains two plots that tie together at the end. The first plot is the story about her weird neighbor‚ Boo‚ who is believed to be bullied
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implementation in our schools. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee uses the precocious Scout Finch and her struggles with schooling to show flaws in our education system. The reader watches Scout struggle as she questions the educational system and its importance in her life. Lee is then able to use Scout’s negative experience to suggest that the education system is flawed because it does not meet the needs of all learners. Lee uses the negative characterization of the novel’s educators to
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things from others perspectives. This is a topic in a scene from Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Scout‚ the main character‚ talks to her father Atticus about her teacher‚ Miss Caroline‚ telling her about how Scout needs to stop reading at home. Harper Lee uses this scene to have Scout learn an important lesson which has to look at other people’s points of views in order to understand them. In To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee uses setting to show one of the major themes of the novel which
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In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee explores the issues of racism through the eyes of children. She demonstrates how children learn lessons from the characters and the events that go on in the book. Harper Lee explores the life lesson of the importance of protecting innocence. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee explores the life lesson of the importance of protecting innocence through Jem and Scout’s interactions with Atticus. For example‚ Atticus tells Jem that‚ ‘“ I’d rather
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of courage he shows is shooting the sick dog. “…Atticus’s hand yanked a ball-tipped lever as he brought the gun to his shoulders. The rifle cracked. Tim Johnson leaped‚ flopped over and crumpled on the sidewalk…. He did not know what hit him.” (Lee Harper p.96) Atticus proved how courageous he could be by shooting the dog. He thought he had forgotten how to shoot but he knew what had to be done and that everyone was counting on him to get the job done and to put this poor dog out of its misery. The
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Justice is “the quality of being just; righteousness‚ equitableness‚ or moral rightness: to uphold the justice of a cause”(Dictionary).Harper Lee uses the theme of Justice throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird to express her opinions on the injustices of America at the time and to advocate ways in which they can be changed. At the beginning of the novel‚ Lee uses Scouts child-like perspective to make points about the injustices caused by misunderstanding and innocence. This is especially noticeable
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Written by Harper Lee‚ To Kill a Mockingbird is set in a Southern Alabama county during the 1930s. During this time period‚ women did not have a significant influence on society but shared their voice in any possible way. Although readers of this novel may initially perceive women as innocent and kind-hearted‚ as the story develops‚ this point of view changes as the harsh nature of these women is revealed. As Miss Caroline Fischer enters her classroom full of eager students for the first time‚
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to a certain type of prejudice known as racism. Racism is also a main theme that Harper lee brings across in the novel because it is set in the south part of The United States in a time where white people were considered superior to black people. Prejudice can be defined as a preconceived opinion not based on reason or experience; therefore it is not limited to only racism. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee shows the awful effects that prejudice can have on people. She builds up the characters
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The Book To Kill A MockingBird Why I choose the book to kill a mockingbird is I was reading in in school and I like it because I can relate to scout and befor I read the book I was not that interested in the book and wean i started reading the book after the first two chapters it got more interesting and i got more introduced to the chatacters of the book and i got into the book a lot more until the last of the book becaus it started talking about race and they blamed it on the race of a man just
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