(Atticus and Calpurnia‚ and Scout and Jem sitting with the African Americans during the trial are two examples.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIktHTbtn2o Tiptoe: Imagine Dragons- In Maycomb County‚ everyone always kind of sneaks around‚ never letting anyone really know what they’re up to‚ so in a way they’re always tiptoeing and never letting anyone know that they’re there. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajjj4pLnjz8 Little Bird: Ed Sheeran- A way this can Relate to "to kill a mockingbird"
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One of the main themes in To Kill a Mockingbird is discrimination. There are various forms of discrimination found throughout the novel: gender‚ financial and racial. The novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee takes place in the southern United States‚ Maycomb County Alabama‚ in the 1930’s‚ a period of racial‚ gender and financial inequality. Those that were different were not treated the same. Gender discrimination occurs many times throughout the novel; women are not treated equal to men
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Discuss the nature of prejudice in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ by studying the way in which Harper Lee presents the black characters and the social stratification of Maycomb society. ‘…that all men are created equal‚ that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights‚ that among these are Life‚ Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.’ – American Declaration of Independence‚ 1776. The American Declaration of Independence states that all men are created equal‚ meaning that all
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Scout is a great protagonist in To Kill A Mockingbird. Her character is well-developed and has many cheerful characteristics. She has all of the qualities of a good protagonist. But in every good story with a protagonist‚ there is an equally good antagonist. The many citizens of Maycomb are the great antagonists in this story. You could say that Aunt Alexandra is the antagonist of the story. She strongly dislikes Calpurnia and the other black people. She doesn’t think that black people should have
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Pub. Date: 1960 Genre: Fiction Setting: Maycomb County‚ Alabama 1930’s Pint of View: First person Plot Summary: The story is about two children‚ Scout and Jem Finch‚ and their father Atticus‚ a lawyer‚ as they live through three tough summers. They reside in Maycomb County‚ Alabama‚ a town that discriminates people based on what they look like and/or what their social status is. The children face many difficult situations where they have to decide what is right or wrong (Main situation
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better than other races‚ it destroys society and it lowers one’s freedom of speech‚ it was present in To Kill a Mockingbird from start to end. Most of the white community had a biased opinion about black people and their community‚you see that when Calpurnia takes Jem and Scout to the black church because their father Atticus was away‚ but when they tell him about that their visit aunt Alexandra was not happy about it that there is segregation. Tom Robinson (a young innocent black man) falsely accused
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To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in Maycomb County‚ Alabama‚ during the early 1930s. The Great Depression had taken over the town‚ leaving the people of Maycomb with little to no hope. The prejudice environment was typical for them. Scouts difficulty in growing up has to do with all the prejudice she is surrounded by. Her innocence is exposed to the hatred against people of other races such as Tom Robinson‚ an African American man accused of raping Mayella Ewell‚ a white woman. Seeing the juror’s
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The book To Kill a Mockingbird is based out of the town of Maycomb‚ Alabama. The residents in Maycomb are extremely racist and see minor inequalities as major differences and reasons to segregate. The families of Maycomb have their own hereditary social classes and are pretty much stuck in their class based on occupation and race. People in Maycomb are born into significance or are born into less fortunate situations. Many of the characters use these social classes to boost their self esteem. Due
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There are many different "mockingbird" characters in Harper Lee’s classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Early on in the novel‚ Atticus tells his children to "shoot all the blue jays that you want‚ but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird" (Lee 103). He says this because mockingbirds are known to be harmless creatures that do nothing but sing joyously. Lee cleverly uses this mockingbird imagery to title her classic novel and to describe characters that are kind‚ innocent people and have done nothing
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In the novel ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee‚ learning to “walk about in someone’s skin” is a main theme‚ particularly as two of the main protagonists Jem and Scout learn to do this as they grow up throughout the book along with the reader. Atticus‚ the children’s father‚ educates the children on how to treat and comprehend other people. As Jem and Scout grow older in the novel‚ they begin to understand this lesson and act upon it both knowingly and sub-consciously. Scout empathises with
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