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    thought about trough numbers of vital lessons taught by different people. Boo Radley‚ a mysterious figure whom lives only a few yards but children can only know from the myths all around him spared all over the small town of Maycomb played an important role in their maturation of Jem‚ Scout and Dill. The children used their creative imagination which is a significant feature of child to interpret and make sense of Boo Radley. Although he only begins as a figure of ‘scary monster’ in the children’s

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    reason for the oppressed. Lee writes Atticus as being very unorthodox for his time‚ and as being the person who will help usher in moral change into the Maycomb society. Due to time of writing‚ it seems that Lee presents the character of Atticus in such a way to impress upon the public that‚ like the Maycomb community‚ they should also review their prejudiced views. Due to the very striking presentation of Atticus in the novel‚ he is one of literatures most well known characters‚ who has left his mark

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    represented through many characters in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird such as Tom Robinson and Boo Radley. In the novel killing a mockingbird is a symbol of loss of innocence. There are many “mockingbirds” in the story‚ which takes place in a town called Maycomb‚ Alabama during the Great Depression. One of the “mockingbirds” in the story is Tom Robinson‚ a African American man‚ accused of raping a white woman and falsely convicted for it. Another “mockingbird” in the story is Boo Radley‚ an outcast

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    In the book‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee uses a multitude of characters to assist Scout as she slowly matures to the likeness of Maycomb County. During the third chapter‚ Lee takes advantage of Atticus’s role as a father to drop a bit of advice for Scout’s future. The piece of moral advice Atticus passes down can be found in this specific quote‚ “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.” (pg.

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    up people’s gardens‚ don’t nest in corncribs‚ they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” said Miss Maudie to her six year old neighbor‚ Scout. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ killing a mockingbird is a symbol of the destruction of innocence. To Kill a Mockingbird is a memorable novel in American literature history. You may ask why this story is memorable. Because To Kill a Mockingbird is a story about human rights. Tom

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    less well-known heroes; they are Atticus and Boo of the gothic novel‚ To Kill A Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee. Atticus Finch is the unwavering moral compass that guides the reader and his children to the path of righteous while Boo Radley is the silent guardian; a dark knight. The dichotomy between imagination and reality is sometimes bent and inflected‚ resulting in the assumption of perception as actual reality. And this is the case for Boo Radley and Batman. In the beginning of the novel‚

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    Walter Lee Younger Character Analysis People’s intentions are sometimes very unclear. It seems like they are doing one thing but are really have some other intention in the end. Like when you ***. In Loraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun‚ Walter Lee Younger is very similar in that aspect. He comes off very money hungry right from the beginning and seems somewhat selfish wanting to use his father’s insurance check. We can also see Walter lee is a very ambitious character but in the end

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    Explore the ways Harper Lee presents conflict in ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ Conflict can be a disagreement or an argument between individuals or communities‚ for example different ideas or interests can result in conflict. Conflict can be used to describe physical combat or verbal opposition between people. To Kill A Mockingbird is set in 1930s South America; this was the time of the Great Depression after the American Stock Market collapsed in 1929. Times were hard and there is a lot of poverty in

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    interesting to know that she used some of her personal experiences to influence her stories. One of these is “To Kill a Mockingbird”. In this story you will find several parallels with her life to the life of the main character in the book‚ Scout. Amasa Coleman Lee was the father of Harper Lee. Not much is known about him‚ but around 1915 he became a lawyer. One specific case that he defended was that he once defended two black men‚ a father and son‚ who were accused of murdering a white store clerk

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    To kill a mockingbird: Analyze the childhood world of Jem‚ Scout‚ and Dill and their relationship with Boo Radley in Part One. The novel ’To kill a mockingbird’ is a story about the older Scout looking back at her childhood in Maycomb‚ Alabama‚ and how she had grown up from a world of complete innocence into a much more complex adult world containing lots of negative elements and some good that together form her idea about the world and the way she thinks reacts to different thing later on in the

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