Aunt Alexandra is definitely a control freak and she wants things to go her way and the Finchs’ movements to be under her control. As stated in the book‚ she thinks that Scout should be ladylike and proper. Are these lessons of conformity she is teaching correct or was this just the way she was raised and‚ acting like her snobby self‚ thinks her niece and nephew should act too? Aunt Alexandra always wanted Scout to be more of a lady and act proper. Alexandra shows that being how society says you
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Miss Maudie: • holds different views from those of the majority of townspeople; • she demonstrates courage when she is contrasted to others in the novel less tolerant than she‚ e.g. to the intolerant Mrs Dubose; to the empty-headed Miss Stephanie Crawford particulary in the matter of the children in the court; to the strict Baptists (she is condemned to hell) for loving her garden – “time spent indoors was time wasted”; • Scout appreciates Miss Maudie’s goodness which the latter maintains in
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Lee‚ the author of the story To Kill a Mockingbird‚ to demonstrate the values and costumes of families in Maycomb‚ Alabama. ‚To determine whether if a family is an ideal family or not‚ one must investigate what an ideal family‚ the Finches‚ is like. A good example of a quote that was shown in To Kill a Mockingbird‚ was on page 24 and 25‚ "Hush your mouth! Don ’t matter who they are‚ anybody… you can just set here and eat in the kitchen!" This quote was said by Calpurnia‚ a black cook of the Finches
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The novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee‚ tells the story of two children and their father who is defending an African-American man that is put on trial for rape in the 1930’s. One of the main characters is Scout‚ who is the narrator of the book‚ her brother Jem‚ and their father who is a lawyer named Atticus. Tom Robinson‚ a black man‚ is being put on trial for raping Mayella Ewell‚ a white women. The setting of the story is Maycomb County Alabama in the 1930’s. Atticus is the man defending
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To Kill a Mockingbird‚ the American classic which throughout the whole text exposed the several stereotypes that existed in our nation decades ago. To Kill a Mockingbird showed in depth stereotypes in the 1930s not only in fictional Maycomb‚ Alabama but throughout our whole nation at the time. The book emphasized on racial‚ class‚ gender‚ and even social stereotypes and how in many cases they were unfair and ridiculous in modern day opinion which is why it is a stunning piece of literature and was
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Atticus is the father figure for his kids‚ Jem and Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird. The Finch family lives in Maycomb‚ Alabama during the Great Depression. The kids spend much of their time playing with their gregarious neighbor‚ Dill‚ and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor Boo Radley. When their father‚ Atticus‚ who is a widowed man and a respected lawyer‚ defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges against a white girl‚ he is in/at a detriment. The trial
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Throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ many different prejudices are revealed. The most prominent being the racial prejudice between the white people and black people in Maycomb‚ Alabama during the 1930’s. However‚ there are many more subtle and discreet prejudices against other people in Maycomb‚ also. One of the first prejudices to become known is against the Cunninghams. The Cunninghams are a very poor farming family who were hit hard by the Great Depression. "...The Cunninghams never took
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the Civil Rights movement can be easily compared and contrasted‚ in spite of the time period being decades apart‚ grief towards the bigotry against African Americans is still as much as alike as it was before. Harper Lee’s well-known novel‚ To Kill A Mockingbird‚ displayed controversial themes of prejudice and segregation that occurred in the 1930s. The novel displays racial inequities still present today‚ these can be observable through occupations that are influenced through racial profiling‚ wrongful
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To Kill A Mockingbird Webquest Group 2: The Scottsboro Boys 1. Who were the Scottsboro Boys? How did they get into so much trouble? The Scottsboro Boys were a group of nine African-American teenagers who were tried for raping two white women in 1931. 2. Where and when did the Scottsboro Boys’ original trial take place? How do you think this affected the outcome of their trial? The Scottsboro Boys’ original trial took place in Northern Alabama in the year of 1931. The outcome of the trial was
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(Armengol 62). Such activities women would be expected to be involved in at the time would be tending to gardens‚ hosting parties‚ and cooking. All of these are done by the female characters in Lee’s novel. Jem even tells Scout‚ “ You know she’s [Aunt Alexandra] not used to girls’...’leastways‚ not girls like you. She’s trying to make you a lady. Can’t you take up sewin’ or something? (Lee 302) Scout also notes that in the 1930s “Ladies seemed to live in faint horror of men‚ seemed unwilling to approve
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