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    The Character of Scout in To Kill A Mockingbird The narrator‚ Scout from the novel To Kill A Mockingbird‚ written by Harper Lee‚ is a grown woman telling the story through her eyes as a young girl. Most of the book’s charm is gathered from the ironicness of her perspective of growing up in the depression era in the South. As the novel progresses Scout becomes more courageous‚ intelligent‚ and mature which helps her develop into a better person. Scout is a very courageous young girl. In chapter two

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    In To Kill a Mockingbird‚ the author Harper Lee‚ uses different themes to bring a deeper level to each of the characters. Each person helps contributes to the themes through their personality traits. Harper Lee uses the themes of maturity‚ racism‚ and loss of innocence in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Many characters including Tom Robinson and Boo Radley‚ have lost their innocence to things that were out of their control. Stories and rumors are a main connection between the two characters

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    actual experience. This is an action that is often used today. Society comes up with opinions about people they have heard from someone’s personal experiences. They choose to judge people or things without knowing anything themselves. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird‚ Atticus Finch defends a black man‚ Tom Robinson‚ when he is wrongly accused of raping a white girl. When he takes this job the Maycomb community instantly criticized Atticus for helping Robinson. Atticus’ two children‚ Scout and Jem

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    great leveler. This is because people still get treated unfairly. Some examples are portrayed in real life cases such as the Scottsboro Trials. Also‚ they can be portrayed in novels such as To Kill A Mockingbird. The judicial system was not a “great leveler” during the time it was created. In the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”

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    Curiosity Kills the Cat While curiosity may not kill children‚ it can get them into some serious trouble with the older generation. Children have very few responsibilities outside of school and the athletic field‚ leaving them with good amounts of unstructured free time. Kids get themselves into trouble‚ it’s what their notorious for. Writing on the walls‚ bullying‚ taking a cookie before dinner‚ etc. “Oh‚ they’re just being kids.” A parents job prepares their kids for the real world and the responsibilities

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    To Kill A Mockingbird: Courage In the novel‚ "To Kill A Mockingbird"‚ we were presented with several displays of courage. Some of the courage in the novel were displays of physical courage. However‚ physical courage was not the only type displayed‚ we also saw examples of moral courage. I saw several examples of physical courage in this excellent novel. One example of courage however insignificant to me or you is Jem’s courage to run up to the Radley’s house‚ now to me or you that is nothing

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    To Kill A Mockingbird Essay It’s a sin to kill mockingbirds. That’s what Atticus told Jem when he acquired his first weapon. He told him it’s a sin to harm anything that doesn’t commit any wrong‚ a message the American South needed to hear desperately at the time Harper Lee was writing. In the book‚ the children have been relentlessly making fun of Boo Radley‚ but Jem soon realizes that Boo is not what their prejudices had caused them to make him out to be. He learns from this‚ and

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    me‚ and the reason it has always interested is because this movie portrays many breakdowns of a person’s nature and self-being. This movie brings out a persons quench for blood‚ vengeance‚ and closure for the death of her daughter. I chose the movie Kill Bill because I’m intrigued by how a psychopath’s brain is developed and how it functions. While doing this project I learned more about things I commonly already knew about psychopathy disorder and new things that have been studied and tested. Being

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    Mariano Marcos State University GRADUATE SCHOOL Laoag City Jamaica B. Vizcarra Prof. Ronald Candy Lasaten MAED-LL Student Professor TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD: THEME ANALYSIS To Kill a Mockingbird is a modern American literature written by Harper Lee which gained popularity and positive acclaims because of its authenticity and content. This novel is based on the life of the author when she was 10 years old and what transpired in her hometown during that time. Its great impact

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    To kill a mockingbird – By Harper Lee To kill a mockingbird is an American novel‚ written by Harper Lee. It is set in the early 20th century‚ and follows the story of prejudice and racism through the objective lens of an innocent 7 year old child‚ Jeanne ‘Scout’ Finch. The story is set in the fictional town of Maycomb‚ Alabama. In the first part of the story‚ Scout‚ her brother Jem‚ and their friend Dill spend their summer‚ about their strange neighbor‚ Arthur ‘Boo’ Radley. There are many

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