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    To Kill a Mockingbird Character Analysis ’ Calpurnia Calpurnia is a key character in To Kill a Mockingbird‚ she shows the children the true side of coloured people and that they shouldn’t believe everything they hear about her community. She comes off as a gruff character but throughout the novel‚ a kind hearted‚ caring character is revealed. Even though she tries very hard to show the children that black and white people are equal she acts differently when she is interacting with black or white

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    In the novel to kill a mockingbird they present Atticus Finch a character who seems Christ like centered. However Maycomb the small town where to kill a mockingbird takes place is racist we will see how Atticus acts upon this. Atticus is a Christ like centered character because he has many similar characteristics to Jesus. This essay talks about three traits; loving‚ compassionate‚ caring. Atticus is a Christ like character because he is loving to his kids‚ Jem and Scout. This is just like Jesus

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    The Scope’s Trial – or Monkey Trial‚ was an infamous event that shed light on a very dark area in one of the world’s most controversial issues. In the play‚ Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee‚ the authors attempt to fictionalize the court case to provide a very interesting view of the controversial event to their audience. Using certain rhetorical strategies such as appealing to their audience emotionally‚ along with many literary devices like diction‚ syntax‚ allusions‚ and subjectivity

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    but the characters are fictional. Realistic fiction can have a historical element to it such as in Harper Lee’s‚ To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee is an American author widely known for this dramatic‚ realistic fiction novel based on racial prejudice in the south many years ago. Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28‚ 1926‚ in Monroeville‚ Alabama. Her mother was Frances Lee‚ and her father was Amasa Coleman. Lee was named after her grandmother‚ Ellen‚ which is Nelle spelled backwards. Lee is a direct

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    race they are‚ and what class they live in. Some people can have more power than others‚ it all depends on your perception of it. In a lot of books‚ movies‚ and even in real life‚ your power matters to where you stand on a social status. In the novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ social power leaves a big impression in this novel. The character‚ Mayella‚ is a trashy white girl who lives with her dad and seven siblings. In this novel‚ Mayella does not have power. Mayella is a women in the south

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    At the time Harper Lee was writing To Kill A Mockingbird‚ there were many historical events taking place. At the heart of it all was the Civil Rights movement. “There was little opportunity for African Americans to advance themselves in the South. Schools were segregated between whites and blacks‚ who were not allowed to attend white high schools. Blacks were therefore effectively denied an education‚ since‚ in the early 1930s‚ there was not a single high school for black students in the South” ("To

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    “To Kill a Mockingbird” Jem and Scout reside in the quiet and small county of Maycomb‚ Mississippi. Like any other child‚ the two siblings enjoy playing outdoors. Over the course of time life experiences have big influences on the maturation of Jem and Scout mentally‚ emotionally as well as physically too. Jem changes from a young boy to a young man. Scout enters the story as an innocent young girl only to re-emerge as a young woman. Jem rapidly progresses from a child to a young adult.

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    To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee All new material ©2009 Enotes.com Inc. or its Licensors. All Rights Reserved. No portion may be reproduced without permission in writing from the publisher. For complete copyright information please see the online version of this text at http://www.enotes.com/mockingbird Table of Contents Introduction.........................................................................................................................................................1

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    first character‚ Atticus‚ shows empathy to many people throughout the story including Miss Caroline‚ Boo Radley‚ and Tom Robinson. Atticus first had empathy for Miss Caroline when Scout came home complaining about getting in trouble by her‚ “’ You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…until you climb into his skin and walk around in it’” (Lee 39). Atticus meant that in order to know what another person felt in a certain situation‚ she had to think how that

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    correctly identifies of how all men were created equal no matter of what race‚ gender‚ or color they are. In this book To Kill a Mockingbird‚ equality is not present .Tom Robinson‚ a black person was accused of raping a white woman named Mayella Ewell. Tom accusation immediately created tension between the White and black community. In To Kill a Mockingbird justice and equality can defeat prejudice; this occurs when Atticus defends Tom Robinson in the court of

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