To Kill a Mockingbird is a story about the narrator’s childhood growing up in a vapid neighborhood in Maycomb County‚ Alabama. The narrator is Jean Louise Finch‚ Scout‚ and her brother Jem always enjoy playing with Dill‚ who comes from Mississippi to spend the summer with one of Jem and Scout’s neighbors. Scout’s dad is Atticus. His vocation was a lawyer and state legislator; he is very well respected throughout the county. One day while Scout was walking home after her easy first grade school day
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To Kill a Mockingbird is primarily a novel about growing up under extraordinary circumstances in the 1930s in the Southern United States. The story covers a span of three years‚ during which the main characters undergo significant changes. Scout Finch lives with her brother Jem and their father Atticus in the fictitious town of Maycomb‚ Alabama. Maycomb is a small‚ close-knit town‚ and every family has its social station depending on where they live‚ who their parents are‚ and how long their ancestors
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Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is not a codex worth throwing away. Judging a book by its cover is a fatal mistake. Within the confinements of the negligible town Maycomb‚ Lee demonstrates many of the world’s conflicting issues. The novel illustrates a society that is supremely‚ staggeringly unfair‚ especially in the 1930s where racism is part of the very fabric of society. Harper broadcasts many concealed controversies‚ such as racism and prejudice. All throughout the novel those constant themes
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Harper Lee and her Works Harper Lee knew first hand about the life in the south in the 1930’s. She was born in Monroeville‚ Alabama in 1926 (Castleman 2). Harper Lee was described by one of her friends as "Queen of the Tomboys" (Castleman 3). Scout Finch‚ the main character of Lee’s Novel‚ To Kill a Mockinbird‚ was also a tomboy. "Many aspects of To Kill a Mockingbird are autobiographical" (Castleman 3). Harper Lee’s parents were Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Finch Lee. She was the youngest
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In the book ‘ To Kill A Mockingbird’‚ there are two people who portray the mocking bird symbol. Those two people are Boo Radley or Tom Robinson. But who portrays the mockingbird symbol the most? Tom robinson is a African American man who is accused of raping a white girl and goes on trial. When he is on trial his lawyer‚ Atticus‚ has a good trial but that does not mean Tom Robinson wins. Tom Robinson does not have a fair trial because of his race. Boo Radley is a man who stays in the house and is
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Summer Assignment for Honors English One Questions for To Kill a Mockingbird 1. a. The geographical location of the story‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ is in the South. I know this because in the book it says‚ “Being Southerners‚ it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings.” page 3-4 b. The story‚ To Kill A Mockingbird‚ is taken place in Maycomb County‚ Alabama. I know this because in the novel it says‚ “When
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Racism is the belief in which ethnic groups account for differences in human character that a particular race is superior to others. In Harper Lee’s novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ the topic of racism is emphasized in the small town of Maycomb‚ where African Americans are misjudged. Although‚ this novel was published in the 1960’s when the American civil rights movement was underway‚ it was set during the period of the 1930’s. In the 1930’s in the small county of Maycomb‚ the mentality of most southern
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To Kill a Mockingbird Study Guide and Activities SHORT ANSWER STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS - To Kill A Mockingbird * Chapters 1-3: 1. Identify Atticus Finch‚ Jean Louise (Scout) Finch‚ Jem Finch‚ Maycomb‚ Calpurnia‚ Charles Baker (Dill) Harris‚ The Radley Place‚ Stephanie Crawford‚ Arthur (Boo) Radley‚ Miss Caroline Fisher‚ Walter Cunningham‚ and Burris Ewell. -Scout- Scout is the Narrator of the story. In the beginning she is going
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history‚ authors have used literary devices to depict characters exhibiting prejudice to a certain person or people group. Harper Lee shows that those who are affected by prejudice can decide to accept or stand against it. The character who best represents this in To Kill A Mockingbird is Tom Robinson‚ he is accused of rape and beating a white woman. This yet alone does not stop him from standing up against the fact that he is innocent. Also‚ due to many of the children being raised‚ that they are above
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At a weekly Scout meeting‚ a boy in my troop - around 12 years old - pointed out my shoes to me‚ desire in his eyes. For the next few weeks‚ he subtly mentioned them‚ and in a month he had his own pair - a birthday present. He wanted them because he looked up to me‚ and he hoped that those shoes alone could hide the challenges he was faced with. The boy’s family had become unable to care for him‚ so he was placed in foster care‚ at the mercy of an underfunded bureaucracy. The boy was gone a few weeks
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