surface‚ the Jim Crow South is more complicated than it is portrayed. Harper Lee explores these issues in her book‚ To Kill a Mockingbird. In the fictional town of Maycomb County‚ Alabama‚ Lee presents the theme of coexistence of black and white in all people and things‚ by illustrating Scout and Jem’s relationship with several characters‚ including Mrs. Dubose‚ Boo Radley‚ and Atticus‚ as they develop into maturity. Lee incorporates Mrs. Dubose’s‚ who was a spiteful person and a racist‚ ordeal of
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ONE idea that you thought was important in the text. Explain how the writer made you think the idea was important. An important idea in the novel “To kill a mockingbird” by Harper Lee is that prejudice in all its forms is wrong. The main prejudice Harper Lee tackles is the racism between Blacks and Whites as Harper Lee shows the reader the terrible consequences of racism through the trial of Tom Robinson‚ showing the importance of overcoming of prejudice to stop such tragedies happening today. Moreover
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To Kill a Mockingbird‚ a love story‚ by Harper Lee has a few very intriguing themes. However one of the most important aspects of the novel is the setting. Harper Lee‚ creates a realistic and original setting where the conflicts and issues of the plot are unique to its setting in Maycomb Alabama during the 1930’s. The tightly knit cast of characters and the town’s involvement and disapproval towards Atticus Finch only happens in a town such as Maycomb. As poverty‚ discrimination‚ and maturity characterize
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To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee Reading Notes Part 1: Theme: The most prominent theme from chapters 1 to 4 is “Silence”. This is a theme because the town that these four chapters are based in is a very taciturn town. Their main pastime was going to church. “They didn’t go to church‚ Maycomb’s principal recreation” (Lee 11). The dullness of this down was also very noticeable. “Maycomb was an old town‚ but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to
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To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee surreptitiously investigated ethnic and class-based problems that delved into gender responsibilities. First‚ Harper Lee chose the name Scout‚ which unquestionably transcends both boys and girls. Scout then metamorphoses‚ although symbolically‚ from being a girl to a boy and then returning to her female role. In doing so‚ she imbues the social-cultural strata of her society‚ leaving leaders gasping for more. Quintessentially‚ Harper Lee uses gender voids to explain
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To Kill a Mockingbird and Injustice In her novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee tells the story of Scout and her father Atticus who is a lawyer. Atticus is a southern caucasian lawyer in the 1930s trying to represent a wrongly accused African American Tom Robinson. While racism was quite common in the 30s‚ Harper uses the trial of Tom Robinson to demonstrate the unjust treatment of African Americans Atticus is a white lawyer who was assigned the case of an African American Tom Robinson
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during the 1930s depression‚ but events thrown at characters tend to spiral them into a struggle in which they must overcome. In To Kill A Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee conveys the theme that someone must have the willingness proceed spite of fear‚shows courage through her inspiring use of setting‚ conflicts and events as literary elements. Harper Lee conveys courage and the willingness to proceed spite of fear with her setting of To Kill A Mockingbird. Firstly‚ the time in which To Kill A Mockingbird takes
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In the classic novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ author Harper Lee explains the wickedness of social inequality during the 1950’s. Specifically differences in social status and the social hierarchy of Maycomb and the unfair inequality between the whites and the blacks. It also tells the story of an ethical lawyer named Atticus Finch and his family as he tries to defend a falsely accused black man in an important trial in high expectations of attempting to reach equality within the town of Maycomb. To
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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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