To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a timeless classic‚ about a young girl who narrates her life in Maycomb County‚ and the hardships that are in it. However‚ it is also about family‚ and her father‚ Atticus. Atticus is the father of Jem and Scout‚ and from the very beginning we see that they love him. He is not very prominent in the first act‚ but he’s still an important character. He is a great role model for the kids‚ although he has lost his wife and he has to raise the kids alone during
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To Kill A Mockingbird is a story about growing up in a world where racism is prevalent in all aspects of life. Placed in world’s greatest low point‚ The Great Depression‚ when blacks and whites were still separate‚ To Kill A Mockingbird revolves around the life a 6 year old girl and her slightly old brother‚ as their father takes part in a trial‚ defending a black man. The Great Depression‚ while definitely impacting Maycomb County‚ does not come up in the book very often. Jem knew that Tom was
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To Kill a Mockingbird 1. To Kill a Mockingbird is about Atticus Finch and his values. Discuss whether this is true and how Harper Lee has crafted Atticus as the main character. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird it is true that it has been crafted to be focused around Atticus Finch and his values. Atticus shows many values throughout the book‚ such as justice‚ respect‚ corage‚ equality between white and black people‚ and being a good father for Scout and Jem Finch‚ which comes under responsibility
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child’s life. Today a child may suffer from stress all the way to learning life lessons through a breakup. In “To Kill a Mockingbird”‚ two children‚ Scout and Jem had to deal with a less common stressor. They dealt with the trial and conviction of an innocent black man in their town and to make things worse‚ their own father Atticus was the appointed defense for Tom. Scout and Jem were six and ten at the beginning of the novel; throughout the next three years that it took place their maturity goes
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To Kill a Mockingbird: a novel set in the Jim Crow south showing injustice and society through the eyes of a young girl‚ written by (Nelle) Harper Lee‚ and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Lee started writing started writing at the University of Alabama newspaper and then pursued writing in New york. After working odd jobs for about eight years‚ and with the help of Truman Capote‚ Lee published the bestseller “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Scout is the main character in this novel as the son of Atticus Finch
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“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up gardens‚ don’t nest in corncribs‚ they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it is a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Lee 117). In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee‚ the mockingbird symbolizes innocence and the destruction of it. Throughout the book‚ many characters are representations of the bird as they are innocents who have fallen in the hands of injustice. Boo Radley is a harmless
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What is the Significance of Jem in the novel “To Kill A Mockingbird”? To Kill A Mockingbird‚ written in 1958-1960 by Harper Lee explores the irrationality of attitudes to race and class in the ‘Deep South’ in 1930s America. This bildungsroman presents in a stark reality the challenges facing civil rights activists‚ as Harper Lee sets out to bring racism and the fight against it clearly to the reality of a modern readership. Jem‚ the son of the lawyer Atticus Finch is caught up in this world
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somebody....You understand?” Atticus‚ the attorney father of Scout and Jem Finch‚ tells his children to think about others are experiencing life. This is one of the major lessons in the novel‚ To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. To Kill A Mockingbird is about courage‚ prejudice‚ innocence‚ and knowledge. The book takes place during the Great Depression‚ in the tired old town of Maycomb‚ Alabama. The book is told by a little girl named Scout Finch. Her father‚ Atticus Finch‚ is an attorney who happens
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23‚ 2010 English Period 3 To Kill A Mockingbird- Socialization of Scout Jean Louise “Scout” Finch‚ the narrator of To Kill A Mockingbird‚ is a very different six-year-old girl‚ in both her personality traits and in her social position. She can read before she enters school‚ she is unusually thoughtful‚ and she acts like a tomboy in her prim and proper Southern Maycomb. In To Kill A Mockingbird‚ various characters such as Alexandra‚ Atticus‚ and many others contribute to the socialization
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novel‚ To Kill A Mockingbird‚ many characters change their views of life. Undergoing obstacles changed the lives and perspectives of the characters in the novel. As times change in a person’s life so do their perspective of life. Jem‚ Scout‚ and Dill have various adventures that mature them‚ and allow them to understand how the world works in the mind of an adult. The children’s mind slowly transforms from understanding situations like an adult to having the mind of an adult. In effect‚ Jem begins
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