To Kill a Mockingbird The style in which any author writes their work can reflect or reveal their attitude towards a subject. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird‚ she expresses……(intro). Harper Lee uses characterization‚ motifs‚ and irony to show how she feels people should be treated. Harper Lee uses characterization to display her philosophy towards the treatment she feels people deserve.The story takes place during The Great Depression‚ meaning no one in the town of Maycomb has any money. So
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and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up” (Lee 173). This quote is made by Harper Lee’s most famous character‚ Atticus Finch‚ in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Atticus may be noble‚ but he is not naïve. He may believe that all people should get equal treatment in the court‚ but he knows that it won’t happen in Maycomb. Through the novel’s setting in a small town in the South and the trial of a black man by a white jury‚ Lee uses the character Atticus to show the frequent injustices
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Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird‚ the author Harper Lee publicized courage as a theme‚ allowing the reader to unquestionably see Atticus‚ Scout and Jem’s father‚ as the hero and moral voice in the book. Living in a quaint‚ small‚ and prejudice town Atticus faced many challenges that permitted him to show his courage and heroism. Atticus strived to understand people before he judged them‚ he stood up for Tom Robinson‚ and he taught his kids to fight the evil with their smarts rather than physical
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Maycomb is a miserable town to live in. Using the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ we get to see maycomb through the eyes of the protagonist Scout‚ learning more about the town itself and the people inhabiting it. Maycomb is a bad place to live because of how the towns folk won’t accept one another for being different‚ how dangerous Maycomb is and how townsfolk discriminate one another. To start of‚ Maycomb is not a good place to live because of how non-accepting the town is. One example
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This particular episode begins with Lee and the rest of the survivors as they begin their quest to find a safe place to prevent them from getting attacked by the walkers. Kenny and Lee are seen walking and searching for supplies in order to keep the other survivors alive. In this episode‚ I had to make an ethical decision and the only difference I noticed while making this decision it was earlier than expected. The first tough choice that I had to make was to leave the girl to be bitten by the zombies
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With reference to two specific instances in the novel‚ how does Lee use the child’s perspective to make a social point? The childish perspective is used throughout the novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee. Lee uses this to make satirical points about the community that Scout lives in and more general points about the society as a whole. Lee is able to make extremely powerful points and comments on the society of the time in the seemingly innocent and obvious way by speaking and observing
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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 suggest
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Walk a Mile In one of the best selling books of all time‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee challenges preconceived ideas of that time period. One of her main focuses in the book is the topic‚ not to judge someone without being in their shoes first. Lee does an excellent job conveying her thoughts about this topic into her writing. To Kill a Mockingbird proves how bad it is to judge other people‚ if you have never been in their shoes. Everyone has been lectured about bullying and judging people
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Mockingbird written by Harper Lee contains few aspects about Maycomb black community. This links very well with one of the most important theme of the novel‚ racism. Harper Lee describe black community as poor‚ uneducated and unfairly treated people‚ but in the end Harper Lee tells us that black people are just like anyone else in Maycomb and they deserve to be treated equally. To begin‚ Harper Lee describes black community as extremely poor‚ uneducated group of people. Harper Lee describe the First Purchase
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Bradley’s 5. What literary device is Lee using in the following quotation? “…some tinfoil was sticking in a knot hole just above my eye level‚ winking at me in the afternoon sun.” 6. What can the reader infer from the two Indian head pennies? 7. What character trait do Jem and Scout illustrate with their ambivalence about taking the pennies? Chapter 5 1. What emotion is Scout really displaying in the following passage? What does Lee show about Scout’s character through this
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