In the story To Kill A Mockingbird one of the main characters Aticus who is the father of two is a very complex character. He is a very mature person. For example he defends Tom Robinson. He is a colored man and Aticus is going to be defending him as his lawyer and he feels it is his duty and the right thing to do for this man. People think badly of him and try to hurt Tom Robinson. Another reason Aticus is a mature character is that he does not lose his temper. He especially is very calm around
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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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My report is on To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee which is about a young girl from a sleepy town in Alabama where she finds friendship and her father showing heroic traits even though he’s struggling with his morals. Scout Finch‚ who is the narrator of the story‚ lives with her brother‚ Jem‚ and their widowed father‚ Atticus‚ in the small friendly town of Maycomb‚ Alabama circa 1930s with lots of old ladies baking cakes and town sheriffs saying homely things. Oh‚ and also morphine-addicted
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what real courage is‚ instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what"’(112).Words of Atticus‚ from Harper Lee’s‚ To Kill a Mockingbird. A story narrated by Scout‚ Atticus’ daughter‚ about the events that occurred in a small southern town during the great depression. The racism abounded in this town‚ like in every other at the time‚ but something unexpected happened
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In the novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Scout learns valuable lessons on the evil of prejudice present in her Southern town of Maycomb‚ on the true nature of courage‚ and on the dangers of judging others before "...climbing into their skin and walking around in it." Set in the mid 1930s‚ Scout Finch is a young girl living with her older brother‚ Jem‚ and her lawyer father. Being a kid‚ Scout has the simple duties of a minor‚ to have fun and to stay out of trouble. But along the way‚ she also learns
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Powerful characters have the ability to persuade and change their peers and their use of values and attitudes Introduction * Powerful characters have the ability to persuade and change their peers and their use of values and attitudes. Harper Lee’s novel ‘To kill a Mockingbird’ is a classic text which foregrounds the prejudice‚ in the form of social commentary. The novel engages the readers’ view using an episodic structure. The story is narrated through the eyes of a grown up Scout‚ representing
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I’d like to analyze the extract from a book which is entitled “To kill a mockingbird”. The author is Harper Lee‚ an American author known for her 1960-Pulitzer-Prize-winning and who is considered now by many to be a literary icon. Harper Lee was born in 1926 in the state of Alabama. In 1945-1949 she studied law at the University of Alabama. Her novel ‘To kill a mockingbird’ which deals with the issues of racism that were observed by the author as a child in her hometown was awarded the Pulitzer Prize
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The Older Jem “If there’s just one kinds of folks‚ why can’t they all get along with each other? If they’re all alike‚ why do they go out thier way to despise each other?” Jem has been the biggest character in the book that has changed‚ some reasons are when Jem snitches out Dill telling Atticus that Dill left home and came with him and Jem‚ another reasons is when Jem defends his sister from Bob Ewell’s attack on them. These reasons are strong to support my point saying that Jem has matured
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Comments Share FileEditViewInsertFormatToolsTableAdd-onsHelp A Caleb Swift 12-16-14 Essay #2 Mockingbirds‚ Symbolism‚ and To Kill A Mockingbird In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird ‚ killing a mockingbird is a sin. There are many “mockingbirds” in the story. The most important mockingbird in the story is Tom Robinson‚ an African American man who was falsely accused of rapeing a white woman. Boo Radley is a man who looked upon by the community
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up to this day. The women who stood up for their rights in the 1930s have significantly affected the rights and responsibilities that women have in modern times in the United States. The rights that women had in the 1930s are shown in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird by the prejudices and expectations of women in Maycomb‚ Alabama. In the 1930s and early 1940s‚ women were mostly only housewives and mothers‚ but this changed as women began to demand more rights. Their role at home and in society
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