To Kill a Mockingbird Study guide answers Chapters 1-3 1. Atticus Finch is a lawyer and the father of Jean Louise (Scout) and Jem Finch. Scout Finch is the narrator of the story. Jem is the brother of Jean Louise. Maycomb is the city and county where the story takes place. Calpurnia is the maid and nanny of the Finch kids. Dill is the kid that comes to Maycomb every summer and plays with the Finches. The Radley place it the house where the Radleys live. Stephanie Crawford knows everything about
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believes courage to be in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird. Many characters show they have courage in the novel such as Jem‚ Atticus‚ and Tom Robinson. To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in the 1930s where uncourageous white people‚ such as Mayella and Bob Ewell‚ take advantage of their superiority over the black people. When someone mistakenly thought that they were courageous in the novel‚ their misery increased. Courageous people are brave enough to put others before themselves and only fear what
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Gilmer then proceeds to ask Mr. Ewell if he can write with both of his hands‚ making it seem as if it’s no big deal that he’s wrote with his left hand. When atticus asked Mr. Ewell to write his name‚ he wrote his name with his left hand . Mayella was hit on the right side of her face which mean she was most likely hit in the face by a left handed person. The jury can see the evidence pointing
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Discrimination can be embodied in a variety of ways. Any judgments made based on human differences and preferences that favor one group over another may be viewed as discrimination. Discrimination‚ itself‚ stems from ignorance‚ which occurs when unfocused hatred is spewed forth. In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird racism is not the only discrimination. There are many types of discrimination like discrimination against age‚ gender‚ and economic status. In the novel‚ Scout experiences discrimination
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Robinson was innocent of raping Mayella Ewell. In the story it talks about how Mayella got punched in the eye with the left hand but Tom couldn’t have done it because his left hand is crippled. Reverend Sykes said‚ “He got it caught in the cotton gin‚ caught it i Mr. Dolphus Raymond’s cotton gin when he was a boy...like to bled to death...tore all the muscles loose from his bones-”(186). This explains what happened to Tom’s hand and that he couldn’t have punched Mayella with his left hand because he
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defendant‚ Tom Robinson‚ during the time of extreme racism in Alabama. The case demonstrates how everyone has a little bit of villain within them‚ when this innocent man is accused of rape and framed for assault‚ by a father and daughter‚ Bob and Mayella‚ and as a result of people’s actions‚ it costs him his
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Throughout her testimony‚ Mayella seemed scared of all of people watching her‚ Atticus and Judge Taylor. Although the previous is true‚ Mayella was scared of one person in particular‚ her father. To no suprise Bob Ewell beats his children and he possibly sexually assaults Mayella. Bob’s behavior is a reflection of his chronic alcohol problem. Part of the reason the Ewells are so poor is because Bob spends the families earnining and welfare on alcohol. Mayella’s behavior is certainly impacted by what
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comes about due to a lack of empathy and understanding between people. This idea is explored by Harper Lee mainly through the characters of Tom Robinson‚ Mayella Ewell; depicted through the eyes of Scout and Jem Finch‚ two local children in the area‚ as well as their father Atticus Finch who is a lawyer‚ and the killer of the mockingbird Bob Ewell. It is all in the title‚ and the title sums it up where mockingbirds who are supposed to be protected‚ are just sadly shot‚ often disposed of for being
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Have you ever wondered how to use literary elements and wondered how they affect a passage of a story? Well today I chose a passage from the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ to help show the literary elements of the passage and what they look like‚ or in other words what were the character‚ conflict‚ and setting and how it develops the theme of the passage‚ A theme that I have made to help choose the literary elements‚ is that “Racism can occur anytime and anywhere in the world‚ even in
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“all things truly wicked start from innocence.” This quote applies to Mayella Ewell as she corrupted herself and her innocence throughout To Kill a Mockingbird. Though Mayella may seem wholesome‚ she is a wolf in sheep’s clothing due to her part in the death of a virtuous‚ innocent man and then her part in the tormenting of the dead man’s wife. In chapter twenty-five‚ Scout realizes that “Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed‚” (Lee 323) while she was pondering how
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