Mrs. Mitchell English 9 CP November 24‚ 2012 A Powerful Theme The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a powerful story. The storyline of this book expresses‚ in many ways‚ morals and values. Many of the problems faced by the characters are still issues that this generation faces on a regular day-to-day basis. The story starts out by informing the reader that the two main characters‚ Scout and Jem Finch‚ only have one parent. Being a young child‚ as they both were‚ they feel the desolate
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What You See Is Not What You Read Life is full of lessons‚ the movie version of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is not! Harper Lee entwines these life lessons throughout her novel; however‚ the movie version fails to incorporate these lessons into its plot. Thus‚ the movie version must be deemed incomplete‚ as it is most certain that there are many important lessons that Jem and Scout learn throughout the novel. A few key characters who taught these lessons to the children and who
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Vie Mai Lander English‚ 2nd 16 December‚ 2013 To Kill a Mockingbird Expository Essay To be prejudice and to be bias is to judge a book by its cover; to judge a person by their appearance‚ by their skin color. To assume and to choose to believe false rumors about someone’s race‚ or ethnicity before you have met them. Prejudice has affected everyone’s life in one way or another. The novel To Kill a Mockingbird the author‚ Harper Lee‚ demonstrates various examples of prejudice shown by the folks
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What is the message of To Kill a Mockingbird? The message of To Kill a Mockingbird is that people often have prejudiced‚ incorrect opinions of people‚ which should be avoided by employing a method involving empathy and understanding. These discriminatory views are shown through several situations in the novel. One of these is the racism shown from the Anglo-Saxon people towards the African-Americans. This racism makes it difficult for the African-Americans to live in peace‚ as the Anglo-Saxons treat
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up to be like them as well as mature. An example in the novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ is when the narrator‚ Scout‚ faces pressure from her Aunt. “Aunt Alexandra was fanatical on the subject of my attire. I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches; when I said I could do nothing in a dress‚ she said I wasn’t supposed to do things that required pants.” (181) This quote demonstrates the pressure Scout is facing by her Aunt to be more lady-like. It shows that both a girl’s and boy’s view
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Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird was a novel that took place in a three year time span during the Great Depression. The main character in the novel is Scout Finch who lives with her older brother Jem and their father‚ Atticus‚ who is a lawyer. Scout and Jem befriend their neighbors nephew named Dill who visits his aunt every summer. The three become interested in the man who never leaves his house in their neighborhood‚ Boo Radley. They hear rumors about the man and in one summer they tell the
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in a good way and some take it in an awful way. Everyone is different and treated different. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ there are people that face life not being fair at times‚ like Scout‚ Tom Robinson and Calpurnia. Other people on the news and people in the book have also been stuck in situations where life isn’t always fair to them. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird‚ a majority of the characters faced life not being good for them at times. One character in the book that faced
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was a line quoted from Atticus during Tom Robinson’s court case in To Kill a Mockingbird. To Kill a Mockingbird took place in the early 1930’s in Maycomb County‚ Alabama‚ when many people were strongly prejudiced against blacks. Atticus said this line not only to save Tom Robinson‚ a black man‚ from the wrongful verdict of rape‚ but potentially even some of his town from the stifling grip of prejudice. In To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee demonstrated that prejudice causes lack of empathy and bias;
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ignorance‚ discrimination‚ cultural intolerance‚ judgement‚ or in To Kill a Mockingbird’s case: racism. Acts of marginalization‚ exclusion‚ and silence is evident all throughout the novel; of which is particularly seen towards the African-American community. Racism in the deep south extends far before our ancestors established means of discrimination in the 1930s‚ but shines ever so brightly during the Great Depression era. To Kill a Mockingbird‚ set in this time period of societal hierarchy‚ serves as a
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Racism is present throughout To Kill a Mockingbird. Racism has been around for many years and will probably never go away. There is many examples of racism throughout the entire book of To Kill a Mockingbird. After knowing all the examples it teaches the reader about many things that occurred throughout the 1900’s. Racism is not only rude‚ it also affects people’s lives and how people live. Racism is atrocious and it agonizes many people. First‚ Scout and Jem were walking around outside. Then
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