change‚ maintaining patience‚ and learning how to see people past their roles in society. The clarity and connections of the plot tying into subplots through symbolism has made this novel a literary classic. Taking place in the fictional town of Maycomb‚ Alabama‚ readers get the idea of the true racism and ignorance throughout southern society during the 1930’s. Symbolism can be portrayed in nearly every important episode throughout the book. The story starts out with the narrator‚ Scout‚ introducing
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unfolds as an account of injustice to the most gracious yet unjustly accused citizens of the town of Maycomb. The kind hearted‚ but black Tom Robinson is unfairly put on trial for the rape of Mayella Ewell. Despite racial injustices‚ Boo Radley is victimized by the community’s inaccurate rumors‚ forcing him to live in banishment inside his house. Atticus Finch‚ although a strong figure in Maycomb‚ is ridiculed by people for being a decent human sticking to his morals in defending an innocent colored
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the Maycomb County there is a lot of whites‚ blacks and even some mixed. There are some that are wealthy and some that are not. Some get along and others do not. Even in a small town‚ they all live so differently. Throughout Harper lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird‚ hypocrisy‚ injustice and evil is envisioned in an adult society. Miss Gates and Lula contradict themselves. Atticus is harassed‚ Tom Robinson gets accused for a crime he did not commit. Bob Ewell tries to kill Scout and Jem and Maycomb is loaded
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and Jean Louise “Scout” Finch. Scout and Jem‚ are brother and sister who are living in the South during the Great Depression in Maycomb‚ Alabama. They both come to understand many things that are incredible for them to understand at their age‚ but Scout stands out. Scout starts off as her innocent self‚ but as time passes‚ she understands better about the folks in Maycomb and life. An example of Scout understanding is when Mrs. Maudie says for Scout to climb into Boo’s (Arthur Radley’s) skin and explains
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To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee (1960) is a Pulitzer Prize winning novel that offers a view of southern life in the 1930s through the eyes of a young girl named Scout‚ whose view of the adult world evolves as her family is exposed to its evils and injustices‚ changing from that of an innocent child to that of a near-grown up. Discrimination and prejudice are integral parts of the novel’s themes‚ and plays an important role in Scout’s development of a sympathetic‚ mature perspective.
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Between 1692 and 1693‚ twenty innocent citizens’ lost their lives in one community. These people were put on trial and given the choice to plead guilty or they die trying to prove their innocence. These trials were the Salem Witch Trials. Convicting those innocent citizens can be viewed as killing a mockingbird; mockingbirds are innocent and they don’t harm anyone. This is exactly what Harper Lee showed in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee uses characters that have had innocence stripped
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CALPURNIA Calpurnia enters into the story very early on in To Kill a Mockingbird‚ and is an integral part in the story. She works for the Finch family as their cook and mother figure. We get a very clear picture of Calpurnia in Chapter One. “She was all angles and bones.” This suggests the maybe she doesn’t have much money to buy food or that she is older. It also shows that she is older because “She had been with us ever since Jem was born‚ and I had felt her tyrannical presence for as long
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learning life lessons as a person grows up make them more mature? In the book‚ there is a family that lives in a little town called Maycomb. Atticus is Scout and Jem’s father‚ they do not have a mother‚ but they do have a nanny/housekeeper named Calpurnia who keeps them out of trouble. They are growing up during the depression‚ but are two of the happiest kids in Maycomb. They see many different things going on around town‚ some things they do and don’t understand. They grow up and mature throughout
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Robinson‚ Dolphus Raymond‚ and Arthur “Boo” Radley. Each of these mockingbirds is different in his own sense‚ however‚ each man is faulted in the eyes of society. Robinson is an upstanding‚ hardworking citizen‚ but he is colored‚ an automatic fault in Maycomb. He faces unfair treatment in the court because‚ despite the fact that he is innocent at heart‚ he is guilty due to the color of his skin. Raymond is also victim to judgmental abuse because he loves a black woman‚ an offense that people cannot understand
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Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ prejudice is demonstrated through racism‚ social status‚ and sexism to show the negative effects of stereotyping. Prejudice is greatly expressed through racism in many instances throughout the book. In the town of Maycomb‚ there is an indirect sense of discrimination. While no one outrightly says it‚ everyone looks down upon black people and wants nothing to do with them. Scout and Jem‚ being young‚ innocent kids‚ do not understand that
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